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köyhä — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • beggar noun A person who lives by asking others for money or food.
  • deprived adj Lacking the basic necessities or comforts most people have; disadvantaged.
  • destitute adjective Completely without money or the basic means to live; extremely poor.
  • indigent adj Very poor; lacking the basic resources needed to live.
  • needy adj Lacking basic necessities; poor.
  • poor adj Having little money or few possessions.

Senses

köyhä is used for these senses in English:

  • beggar A person suffering from extreme poverty.
  • deprived Subject to deprivation; poor.
  • destitute Lacking money, poor, impoverished; especially, extremely so.
  • indigent Poor; destitute; in need.
  • indigent A person in need, or in poverty.
  • needy In need; poor.
  • poor Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.
  • poor (with the) The poor people of a society or the world collectively, the poor class of a society.

beggar — full definition

  1. noun A person who lives by asking others for money or food.
  2. verb To reduce someone to poverty, or to go far beyond what words or resources can describe or provide.

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