Rye was called the grain of poverty.
Source: tatoeba (1533)
Poverty
//ˈpɒvəti//
Synonyms for "poverty" (70 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (14)
Strong matches (21)
Related words (35)
Related word relations
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More general
5 entriesMore specific
2 entriesAntonyms
2 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
9 entriesat location
1 entriescapable of
1 entriescauses desire
3 entriesderived
26 entriesShowing 16 of 26 words.
distinct from
1 entriesetymologically related_to
2 entrieshas property
1 entriesis a
3 entriesrelated to
15 entriesTranslations
214 translations across 109 languages.
Afrikaans
2 entries- armoede noun (quality or state of being poor)
- armoede noun (deficiency of elements)
Albanian
1 entries- varfëri noun (quality or state of being poor)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- πενία noun (quality or state of being poor)
Arabic
3 entries- فقر noun (quality or state of being poor)
- فقر noun (quality or state of being poor)
- فَقْر noun (quality or state of being poor)
Armenian
1 entries- աղքատություն noun (quality or state of being poor)
Asturian
2 entries- probedá noun (quality or state of being poor)
- probeza noun (quality or state of being poor)
Azerbaijani
3 entries- kasıblıq noun (quality or state of being poor)
- səfalət noun (quality or state of being poor)
- yoxsulluq noun (quality or state of being poor)
Bashkir
2 entries- фәҡирлек noun (quality or state of being poor)
- ярлылыҡ noun (quality or state of being poor)
Belarusian
4 entries- бе́днасць noun (quality or state of being poor)
- бедната́ noun (quality or state of being poor)
- бядно́та noun (quality or state of being poor)
- бядо́та noun (quality or state of being poor)
Bengali
1 entries- দারিদ্র্য noun (quality or state of being poor)
Bulgarian
4 entries- бе́дност noun (quality or state of being poor)
- липса noun (deficiency of elements)
- мизе́рия noun (quality or state of being poor)
- недостиг noun (deficiency of elements)
Burmese
1 entries- ဆင်းရဲခြင်း noun (quality or state of being poor)
Catalan
2 entries- pobresa noun (quality or state of being poor)
- pobresa noun (deficiency of elements)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- ھەژاری noun (quality or state of being poor)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 貧窮 /贫穷 noun (quality or state of being poor)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 缺乏 noun (deficiency of elements)
- 貧困 /贫困 noun (quality or state of being poor)
- 貧窮 /贫穷 noun (quality or state of being poor)
Classical Nahuatl
3 entries- icnōpillōtl noun (quality or state of being poor)
- icnōtlācayōtl noun (quality or state of being poor)
- icnōyōtl noun (quality or state of being poor)
Corsican
2 entries- puvartà noun (quality or state of being poor)
- puvertà noun (quality or state of being poor)
Czech
2 entries- chudoba noun (quality or state of being poor)
- nedostatek noun (deficiency of elements)
Danish
2 entries- armod noun (quality or state of being poor)
- fattigdom noun (quality or state of being poor)
Dutch
1 entries- armoede noun (quality or state of being poor)
Esperanto
1 entries- malriĉeco noun (quality or state of being poor)
Estonian
1 entries- vaesus noun (quality or state of being poor)
Finnish
4 entries- köyhyys noun (quality or state of being poor)
- köyhyys noun (deficiency of elements)
- puute noun (quality or state of being poor)
- puute noun (deficiency of elements)
Franco-Provençal
1 entries- pouvretât noun (quality or state of being poor)
French
1 entries- pauvreté noun (quality or state of being poor)
Friulian
1 entries- puaretât noun (quality or state of being poor)
Galician
1 entries- pobreza noun (quality or state of being poor)
Georgian
3 entries- სიდუხჭირე noun (quality or state of being poor)
- სიღარიბე noun (quality or state of being poor)
- სიღატაკე noun (quality or state of being poor)
German
1 entries- Armut noun (quality or state of being poor)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐌿𐌽𐌻𐌴𐌳𐌹 noun (quality or state of being poor)
Greek
2 entries- αδεκαρία noun (quality or state of being poor)
- φτώχια noun (quality or state of being poor)
Gujarati
2 entries- ગરીબાઈ noun (quality or state of being poor)
- દળદર noun (quality or state of being poor)
Hebrew
2 entries- דַּלּוּת noun (quality or state of being poor)
- עוני \ עֹנִי \ עֳנִי noun (quality or state of being poor)
Hindi
4 entries- कंगाली noun (quality or state of being poor)
- ग़रीबी noun (quality or state of being poor)
- दरिद्रता noun (quality or state of being poor)
- निर्धनता noun (quality or state of being poor)
Hungarian
4 entries- hiány noun (deficiency of elements)
- nincstelenség noun (quality or state of being poor)
- nyomorúság noun (quality or state of being poor)
- szegénység noun (quality or state of being poor)
Hunsrik
1 entries- Aarmut noun (quality or state of being poor)
Icelandic
1 entries- fátækt noun (quality or state of being poor)
Ido
1 entries- povreso noun (quality or state of being poor)
Indonesian
2 entries- kekurangan noun (deficiency of elements)
- kemiskinan noun (quality or state of being poor)
Interlingua
1 entries- povressa noun (quality or state of being poor)
Irish
1 entries- bochtaineacht noun (quality or state of being poor)
Italian
1 entries- povertà noun (quality or state of being poor)
Japanese
3 entries- 欠乏 noun (deficiency of elements)
- 貧乏 noun (quality or state of being poor)
- 貧困 noun (quality or state of being poor)
Kannada
1 entries- ಬಡತನ noun (quality or state of being poor)
Kazakh
2 entries- жарлылық noun (quality or state of being poor)
- кедейлік noun (quality or state of being poor)
Khmer
1 entries- ភាពក្រ noun (quality or state of being poor)
Korean
3 entries- 가난 noun (quality or state of being poor)
- 결핍 noun (deficiency of elements)
- 빈곤 noun (quality or state of being poor)
Kyrgyz
2 entries- жакырчылык noun (quality or state of being poor)
- кедейлик noun (quality or state of being poor)
Ladino
1 entries- provedad noun (quality or state of being poor)
Lao
1 entries- ຄວາມທຸກຍາກ noun (quality or state of being poor)
Latin
2 entries- pauperiēs noun (quality or state of being poor)
- paupertās noun (quality or state of being poor)
Latvian
1 entries- nabadzība noun (quality or state of being poor)
Lithuanian
1 entries- skurdas noun (quality or state of being poor)
Lower Sorbian
1 entries- chudoba noun (quality or state of being poor)
Macedonian
1 entries- сиромаштија noun (quality or state of being poor)
Malay
1 entries- kemiskinan noun (quality or state of being poor)
Malayalam
1 entries- ദാരിദ്ര്യം noun (quality or state of being poor)
Maltese
1 entries- faqar noun (quality or state of being poor)
Maore Comorian
1 entries- usikini noun (quality or state of being poor)
Mongolian
2 entries- ядуурал noun (quality or state of being poor)
- ᠶᠠᠳᠠᠭᠤᠷᠠᠯ noun (quality or state of being poor)
Māori
4 entries- hahoretanga noun (quality or state of being poor)
- hahoretanga noun (deficiency of elements)
- hāhoretanga noun (quality or state of being poor)
- pōharatanga noun (quality or state of being poor)
Navajo
3 entries- téʼéʼį́ noun (quality or state of being poor)
- téʼéʼį́ noun (deficiency of elements)
- téʼéʼį́į́h noun (deficiency of elements)
Ndzwani Comorian
1 entries- shizaya noun (quality or state of being poor)
Ngazidja Comorian
1 entries- umasikini noun (quality or state of being poor)
Norman
1 entries- pouôrreté noun (quality or state of being poor)
Northern Kurdish
3 entries- feqîrî noun (quality or state of being poor)
- hejarî noun (quality or state of being poor)
- xizanî noun (quality or state of being poor)
Norwegian
1 entries- armod noun (quality or state of being poor)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- fattigdom noun (quality or state of being poor)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- fattigdom noun (quality or state of being poor)
Occitan
1 entries- pauretat noun (quality or state of being poor)
Old Czech
1 entries- bědstvie noun (quality or state of being poor)
Old English
1 entries- iermþu noun (quality or state of being poor)
Oromo
1 entries- hiyyummaa noun (quality or state of being poor)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- یوقسوللق noun (quality or state of being poor)
Pashto
2 entries- فقر noun (quality or state of being poor)
- فقيري noun (quality or state of being poor)
Persian
1 entries- فقر noun (quality or state of being poor)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Oamoot noun (quality or state of being poor)
Polish
3 entries- bieda noun (quality or state of being poor)
- niedostatek noun (quality or state of being poor)
- ubóstwo noun (quality or state of being poor)
Portuguese
2 entries- pobreza noun (quality or state of being poor)
- pobreza noun (deficiency of elements)
Quechua
2 entries- muchuy noun (quality or state of being poor)
- usuy noun (quality or state of being poor)
Romanian
3 entries- mizerie noun (quality or state of being poor)
- paupertate noun (quality or state of being poor)
- sărăcie noun (quality or state of being poor)
Russian
4 entries- бе́дность noun (quality or state of being poor)
- беднота́ noun (quality or state of being poor)
- недоста́ток noun (deficiency of elements)
- нехва́тка noun (deficiency of elements)
Scots
1 entries- puirtith noun (quality or state of being poor)
Scottish Gaelic
3 entries- airc noun (deficiency of elements)
- bochdainn noun (quality or state of being poor)
- truaighe noun (quality or state of being poor)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- neimáština noun (quality or state of being poor)
- siromáštvo noun (quality or state of being poor)
- siromáštvo noun (deficiency of elements)
- òskudica noun (deficiency of elements)
Sicilian
2 entries- puvirtati noun (quality or state of being poor)
- puvirtà noun (quality or state of being poor)
Sinhalese
1 entries- දිළිඳුබව noun (quality or state of being poor)
Slovak
3 entries- bieda noun (quality or state of being poor)
- chudoba noun (quality or state of being poor)
- nedostatok noun (deficiency of elements)
Slovene
1 entries- revščina noun (quality or state of being poor)
Spanish
4 entries- egestad noun (quality or state of being poor)
- mishiadura noun (quality or state of being poor)
- pauperismo noun (quality or state of being poor)
- pobreza noun (quality or state of being poor)
Swahili
3 entries- ufukara noun (quality or state of being poor)
- ufukara noun (deficiency of elements)
- umaskini noun (quality or state of being poor)
Swedish
1 entries- fattigdom noun (quality or state of being poor)
Tagalog
2 entries- karukhaan noun (quality or state of being poor)
- karukhaan noun (deficiency of elements)
Tajik
3 entries- камбағалӣ noun (quality or state of being poor)
- факирӣ noun (quality or state of being poor)
- фақр noun (quality or state of being poor)
Tamil
1 entries- வறுமை noun (quality or state of being poor)
Tatar
2 entries- фәкыйрьлек noun (quality or state of being poor)
- ярлылык noun (quality or state of being poor)
Telugu
2 entries- పేదరికం noun (quality or state of being poor)
- బీదరికం noun (quality or state of being poor)
Thai
2 entries- ความจน noun (quality or state of being poor)
- ความยากจน noun (quality or state of being poor)
Turkish
2 entries- fakirlik noun (quality or state of being poor)
- yoksulluk noun (quality or state of being poor)
Turkmen
1 entries- garyplyk noun (quality or state of being poor)
Ukrainian
4 entries- бі́дність noun (quality or state of being poor)
- біднота́ noun (quality or state of being poor)
- зли́дні noun (quality or state of being poor)
- мізе́рність noun (quality or state of being poor)
Upper Sorbian
1 entries- chudoba noun (quality or state of being poor)
Urdu
3 entries- غَرِیبی noun (quality or state of being poor)
- غُرْبَت noun (quality or state of being poor)
- ناداری noun (quality or state of being poor)
Uyghur
2 entries- نامراتلىق noun (quality or state of being poor)
- يوقسۇللۇق noun (quality or state of being poor)
Uzbek
3 entries- faqirlik noun (quality or state of being poor)
- kambagʻallik noun (quality or state of being poor)
- qashshoqlik noun (quality or state of being poor)
Vietnamese
1 entries- sự nghèo nàn noun (quality or state of being poor)
Yiddish
2 entries- אָרעמקייט noun (quality or state of being poor)
- דלות noun (quality or state of being poor)
Yoruba
1 entries- ipò òṣì noun (quality or state of being poor)
Sample sentences
18 total sentences available.
Girls are more likely than boys to be malnourished, suffer poverty, face violence and be refused an education, according to a new report.
Source: tatoeba (2267)
We want freedom from poverty.
Source: tatoeba (22682)
No poverty can catch up with industry.
Source: tatoeba (23772)
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