malnutrition

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malnutrition

A 1922 photograph by Fridtjof Nansen of two boys suffering from malnutrition

Etymology

From mal- +‎ nutrition.

Noun

malnutrition (usually uncountable, plural malnutritions)

A lack of adequate nourishment.
Hyponyms: undernutrition, overnutrition

Derived terms

muesli belt malnutrition

Translations

lack of adequate nourishment

Arabic: سُوء تَغْذِيَة (sūʔ taḡḏiya)
Armenian: թերասնում (hy) (tʻerasnum)
Bulgarian: недохранване (bg) n (nedohranvane)
Burmese: အာဟာရချို့တဲ့ခြင်း (ahara.hkyui.tai.hkrang:)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 營養不良／营养不良 (zh) (yíngyǎng bùliáng)
Czech: podvýživa (cs) f
Danish: fejlernæring c, underernæring c
Dutch: ondervoeding (nl)
Finnish: aliravitsemus (fi), virheravitsemus
French: malnutrition (fr) f
Georgian: კვების უკმარისობა (ḳvebis uḳmarisoba)
German: Unterernährung (de) f, Mangelernährung (de) f
Greek: υποσιτισμός (el) m (ypositismós)
Hungarian: alultápláltság (hu)
Italian: denutrizione (it) f
Japanese: 栄養失調 (ja) (えいようしっちょう, eiyō shitchō)
Korean: 영양실조 (yeong'yangsiljo)
Malagasy: tsifanjariantsakafo (mg)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: underernæring m or f, feilernæring (no) m or f

Nynorsk: underernæring f
Polish: niedożywienie (pl) n
Portuguese: desnutrição (pt) f
Russian: недоеда́ние (ru) n (nedojedánije)
Spanish: desnutrición (es) f, malnutrición (es) f
Swedish: undernäring (sv) c
Turkish: yetersiz beslenme (tr)
Ukrainian: недоїда́ння n (nedojidánnja)

French

Etymology

From mal- +‎ nutrition.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mal.ny.tʁi.sjɔ̃/
Audio: (file)

Noun

malnutrition f (plural malnutritions)

malnutrition

Further reading

“malnutrition”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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