EXPLORE FILIPINO WORDS IN DEPTH
EXPLORE FILIPINO WORDS IN DEPTH
hungry...
tea (gossip)...
That's the tea; That's the gossip....
Pang-uri
Perpekto, tama, o walang anumang pagkakamali.
/GU-tom/
FIL: Ang kalagayan ng pagkakaroon ng pangangailangan o pagnanais na kumain.
EN: hungry
The national feeling of the Philippines right before lunch break. It's the monster in your stomach that growls during a quiet meeting. It's the reason "Tara, kain!" is a more powerful greeting than "Hello." The phrase "gutom na gutom" is its final evolution, where you're so hungry you could eat a whole lechon by yourself. Being 'gutom' is a temporary problem; being 'patay-gutom' (desperately poor/hungry) is a whole different social issue.
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qutem 'hunger'.
Can be an adjective ("Gutom ako") or a noun ("Ang gutom sa Africa"). 'Gutom na gutom' is a common intensifier meaning 'very hungry' or 'starving'.
🇵🇭 Gutom na ako, saan tayo kakain?
🇺🇸 I'm hungry, where are we going to eat?
🇵🇭 Ang kahirapan ay nagdudulot ng malawakang gutom (noun form).
🇺🇸 Poverty causes widespread hunger (noun form).
🇵🇭 Pagkauwi niya galing eskwela, gutom na gutom ang bata.
🇺🇸 When he got home from school, the child was starving.
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Pang-uri
Perpekto, tama, o walang anumang pagkakamali.