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hungry ghost en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. (qualifier:Chinese folk religion) A type of supernatural being, condemned to desire more than it can consume; often depicted with large belly and tiny mouth.
   • Across Taiwan, households prepared offerings of food, alcohol, candles, flowers, washbowls and towels, in prayer for their ancestors and gods, and to placate the hungry ghosts. The streets filled will smoke as they burned paper money – gold for the gods and silver for the ghosts – in small metal drums. 2021 August 30, Helen Davidson, Chi-hui Lin, “‘Not open for humans’: Covid changes east Asia’s Ghost Month but free spirits remain”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

Forms

Relateds

ghost money

Synonyms

preta

Translations (16)

ms hantu lapar (in Buddhism, a type of supernatural being) · sa प्रेत (in Buddhism, a type of supernatural being) · pt espírito faminto (in Buddhism, a type of supernatural being) · de Hungergeist (in Buddhism, a type of supernatural being) · txb prete (in Buddhism, a type of supernatural being) · vi ma đói (in Buddhism, a type of supernatural being) · bo ཡི་དྭགས (in Buddhism, a type of supernatural being) · cmn 餓鬼 /饿鬼 (in Buddhism, a type of supernatural being) · ja 餓鬼 (in Buddhism, a type of supernatural being) · vi ngạ quỷ (in Buddhism, a type of supernatural being) · th เปรต (in Buddhism, a type of supernatural being) · fi nälkäinen haamu (in Buddhism, a type of supernatural being) · my ပြိတ္တာ (in Buddhism, a type of supernatural being) · mn бирд (in Buddhism, a type of supernatural being) · ko 아귀 (in Buddhism, a type of supernatural being) · ru преты (in Buddhism, a type of supernatural being)