angurria
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From estangurria, from Old Spanish estrangurria, itself borrowed from Latin stranguria, which is in itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek στραγγουρία (strangouría).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]angurria f (plural angurrias)
- (Latin America) famishing hunger
- (Latin America) great anxiety
- 2016 December 11, “La sigilosa mano de Máximo”, in Clarin[1]:
- Estos responsabilizan al Frente Renovador por una angurria insostenible para el nivel de déficit fiscal presente.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “angurria”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28
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