SARS

See also: sårs, sars, and Sars

English

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Noun

SARS (uncountable)

1. (medicine) Acronym of severe acute respiratory syndrome; also Sars.
   • 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 182:

     SARS set off a panic about global spread and contagion.

Derived terms

• SARS mask

 

Descendants

• Translingual: SARS-CoV, SARS-CoV-1, SARS-CoV-2, SARSr-CoV
• → Chinese: SARS
• → Finnish: SARS
• → German: SARS
• → Portuguese: SARS

Translations

severe acute respiratory syndrome

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 沙士 (saa¹ si^6-2)

  Mandarin: 非典 (zh) (fēidiǎn), SARS

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: SARS (nl) f or n
• Finnish: SARS (fi)
• French: SRAS (fr) m
• German: SARS (de)
• Hungarian: súlyos akut légzőszervi szindróma (hu)
• Japanese: サーズ (sāzu)
• Korean: 사스 (saseu), 싸스 (ssaseu)
• Portuguese: SARS (pt) f
• Spanish: SRAS m

Proper noun

SARS

1. (Nigeria, law enforcement) Initialism of Special Anti-Robbery Squad, a Nigerian police unit known for police brutality and corruption
2. (South Africa) Initialism of South African Revenue Service.

See also

• MERS
• COVID-19

Anagrams

• ASSR, RSAs

Chinese

Etymology

From English SARS.

Noun

SARS

1. (medicine, pathology, virology) SARS (“severe acute respiratory syndrome”) (a disease)
2. (medicine, pathology, virology, informal) SARS-CoV-1 (the virus that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome, SARS)
3. (medicine, pathology, virology, informal) SARSr-CoV (the virus species that contains the SARS virus)

Synonyms

• Cantonese: 沙士 (saa¹ si^6-2)
• Mandarin: 非典 (fēidiǎn)

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from English SARS.

Noun

SARS

1. (medicine, pathology, virology) SARS: severe acute respiratory syndrome

Usage notes

The "severe acute respiratory syndrome" translates into Finnish as äkillinen vakava hengitystieoireyhtymä, but the term is seldom used. Usually the English initialism SARS is used as the Finnish name of this illness. An individual occurrence of SARS may be referred to as SARS-tapaus.

Declension

Inflection of SARS (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		SARS	—
genitive		SARSin	—
partitive		SARSia	—
illative		SARSiin	—
		singular	plural
nominative		SARS	—
accusative	nom.	SARS	—
	gen.	SARSin
genitive		SARSin	—
partitive		SARSia	—
inessive		SARSissa	—
elative		SARSista	—
illative		SARSiin	—
adessive		SARSilla	—
ablative		SARSilta	—
allative		SARSille	—
essive		SARSina	—
translative		SARSiksi	—
abessive		SARSitta	—
instructive		—	—
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

Possessive forms of SARS (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative SARSini — accusative nom. SARSini — gen. SARSini genitive SARSini — partitive SARSiani — inessive SARSissani — elative SARSistani — illative SARSiini — adessive SARSillani — ablative SARSiltani — allative SARSilleni — essive SARSinani — translative SARSikseni — abessive SARSittani — instructive — — comitative — — second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative SARSisi — accusative nom. SARSisi — gen. SARSisi genitive SARSisi — partitive SARSiasi — inessive SARSissasi — elative SARSistasi — illative SARSiisi — adessive SARSillasi — ablative SARSiltasi — allative SARSillesi — essive SARSinasi — translative SARSiksesi — abessive SARSittasi — instructive — — comitative — — first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative SARSimme — accusative nom. SARSimme — gen. SARSimme genitive SARSimme — partitive SARSiamme — inessive SARSissamme — elative SARSistamme — illative SARSiimme — adessive SARSillamme — ablative SARSiltamme — allative SARSillemme — essive SARSinamme — translative SARSiksemme — abessive SARSittamme — instructive — — comitative — — second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative SARSinne — accusative nom. SARSinne — gen. SARSinne genitive SARSinne — partitive SARSianne — inessive SARSissanne — elative SARSistanne — illative SARSiinne — adessive SARSillanne — ablative SARSiltanne — allative SARSillenne — essive SARSinanne — translative SARSiksenne — abessive SARSittanne — instructive — — comitative — — third-person possessor singular plural nominative SARSinsa — accusative nom. SARSinsa — gen. SARSinsa genitive SARSinsa — partitive SARSiaan SARSiansa — inessive SARSissaan SARSissansa — elative SARSistaan SARSistansa — illative SARSiinsa — adessive SARSillaan SARSillansa — ablative SARSiltaan SARSiltansa — allative SARSilleen SARSillensa — essive SARSinaan SARSinansa — translative SARSikseen SARSiksensa — abessive SARSittaan SARSittansa — instructive — — comitative — —

Synonyms

• SARS-keuhkokuume