• IPA: /ˈpɛnjʊɹi/, /ˈpɛnjəɹi/

penury (uncountable)

1. Extreme want; poverty; destitution.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Proverbs 14:23 ↗:

     In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.

2. A lack of something; a dearth.

   Synonyms: barrenness, insufficiency

   • 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, XI:

     No! penury, inertness and grimace, / In some strange sort, were the land's portion. […]

• Russian: нищета́
• Spanish: pauperismo, pobrisimo, pobreza

• French: pénurie
• Russian: , недоста́ток