obese

English

Etymology

Latin obesus, derived from obedere (“to devour, eat away”), from ob (“away”) + edere (“to eat”)

Pronunciation

• (GenAm) IPA: /oʊˈbis/, X-SAMPA: /oU"bis/
• (US) IPA: /oːˈbis/, X-SAMPA: /o:"bis/
• (UK) IPA: /əʊˈbis/, /əˈbis/, X-SAMPA: /@U"bis/, /@"bis/

Adjective

obese (comparative more obese, superlative most obese)

1. Extremely overweight, especially: weighing more than 20% (for men) or 25% (for women) over their ideal weight determined by height and build; or, having a body mass index over 30 kg/m2.

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:obese

Derived terms

• obesity
• obeses

Phrases

• morbidly obese
• super obese

Translations

extremely overweight

• Armenian: չաղ (hy) (čaġ)
• Catalan: obès (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 肥胖 (cmn) (féipàng)

• Czech: obézní (cs)
• Danish: fed (da)
• Dutch: obees (nl), vetzuchtig (nl), diklijvig (nl)
• Finnish: liikalihava (fi)
• French: obèse (fr)
• German: fettleibig (de), fettsüchtig (de), korpulent (de)
• Greek: παχύσαρκος (el) (pachýsarkos)
• Hungarian: túlsúlyos (hu), elhízott (hu)
• Italian: obeso (it) corpulento (it) m
• Japanese: 肥満 (ja) (ひまん, himan)
• Korean: 뚱뚱한 (ko) (ttungttunghan)

• Latin: obēsus (la)
• Macedonian: дебел (mk) (débel) m, угоен (mk) (úgoen) m, згоен (mk) (zgóen) m
• Malayalam: പൊണ്ണത്തടിയുള്ള (ml) (ponnaththadiyulla), അമിതവണ്ണമുള്ള (ml) (amithavannamulla)
• Norwegian: korpulent (no)
• Polish: otyły (pl) m
• Portuguese: obeso (pt)
• Romanian: obez (ro)
• Russian: толстый (ru) (tólstyj), полный (ru) (pólnyj), тучный (ru) (túčnyj), (impolite) жирный (ru) (žírnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: gȍjāzan (sh), prètio (sh)
• Spanish: obeso (es)
• Telugu: ఊబ (te) (ooba) (ఊబకాయం, ఊబ ఒళ్ళు, స్థూలకాయం), లావు (te) (laavu), లావైన (te) (laavaina)
• Uzbek: semiz (uz)

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• Albanian: ngjallur, trashë, dhjamosur

See also

• fat

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Italian

Adjective

obese pl

1. feminine plural of obeso

Noun

obese f

1. Plural form of obesa

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Latin

Participle

obēse

1. vocative masculine singular of obēsus