gonorrhea

English

Alternative forms

• gonorrhoea, gonorrhœa (British)

Etymology

From New Latin, from Late Latin gonorrhoea, from Ancient Greek γονόρροια (gonórrhoia), from γόνος (gónos, “sperm, seed, offspring”) + ῥοία (rhoía, “flow”) (ca. 1526). By surface analysis, gono- +‎ -rrhea.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌɡɒn.əˈɹiː.ə/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌɡɑn.əˈɹi.ə/
• Rhymes: -iːə

• Audio (Northern California):

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Noun

gonorrhea (countable and uncountable, plural gonorrheas)

A skin lesion caused by gonorrhea.

1. (American spelling) A sexually transmitted infection caused by Neisseria gonorrhoeae, a species of bacteria (the gonococcus) that affects the mucous membrane of the genital and urinary tracts.

Synonyms

• the clap

Derived terms

• super gonorrhea

 

Related terms

• diarrhea/diarrhoea
• galactorrhea/galactorrhoea
• logorrhea/logorrhoea
• pyorrhea/pyorrhoea

Translations

STD

• Afrikaans: gonorree
• Arabic: سَيَلَان m (sayalān)
• Arikara: karahkotkaáhux
• Armenian: սուսանակ (hy) (susanak), գոնոռեա (gonoṙea)
• Assamese: গনৰিয়া (gonoria)
• Assiniboine: cé otùyąbi
• Asturian: gonorrea
• Azerbaijani: süzənək, qonoreya
• Basque: gonorrea (eu)
• Belarusian: ганарэ́я f (hanaréja)
• Bulgarian: гоноре́я f (gonoréja), три́пер m (tríper)
• Burmese: ညောင်းကျရောဂါ (nyaung:kya.rau:ga), ဆီးပူညောင်းကျ (my) (hci:pu-nyaung:kya.)
• Catalan: gonocòccia f
• Central Franconian: Tripper, Gonorrhoe
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 淋病 (lam⁴beng⁶)

  Mandarin: 淋病 (zh) (lìnbìng, línbìng)

  Wu: 淋病 (lin³bin³)

• Chuvash: гонорея (gonoreja), триппер (tripper)
• Czech: kapavka (cs) f
• Dagbani: kpaɣipiɛliga
• Danish: gonoré
• Dhivehi: ކިހުނުވުން (kihunuvun̊)
• Dinka: biyuu, nyagino
• Dutch: gonorroe (nl), druiper (nl)
• Esperanto: gonoreo
• Estonian: gonorröa
• Faroese: dryppari m
• Finnish: tippuri (fi), gonorrea (fi)
• French: gonorrhée (fr) f, blennorragie (fr) f
• Galician: gonorrea, blenorraxia, blenorrea, gonococia
• Georgian: გონორეა (gonorea)
• German: Gonorrhoe (de) f, Tripper (de) m
• Greek: βλεννόρροια (el) f (vlennórroia)

  Ancient: γονόρροια f (gonórrhoia)

• Haitian Creole: gonore
• Hausa: ciwon sanyi
• Hebrew: זִיבָה (he) f (zivá)
• Hindi: प्रमेह (hi) (prameh), गोनोरिया (gonoriyā)
• Hungarian: kankó (hu), tripper (hu)
• Icelandic: lekandi
• Ido: gonoreo (io)
• Indonesian: kencing nanah (id), gonore (id)
• Irish: gónairith
• Italian: gonorrea (it) f
• Jamaican Creole: ganariya
• Japanese: 淋病 (ja) (りんびょう, rinbyō)
• Kannada: ಗೊನೊರಿಯಾ (gonoriyā)
• Kashubian: tripel
• Kazakh: соз (soz), жіңішке (kk) (jıñışke)
• Khmer: ប្រមេះទឹកបាយ (km) (prɑɑmihtɨkbaay)
• Korean: 임질 (淋疾) (imjil)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: سووزەنەک (sûzenek)

  Northern Kurdish: sûsenek (ku)

• Kyrgyz: сүзөк (ky) (süzök), гонорея (gonoreya)
• Latin: gonorrhoea f
• Latvian: gonoreja, triperis
• Limburgish: druper, gonorroe
• Lithuanian: gonorėja
• Low German: drüpper

  German Low German: Gonorrhö, Drüpper

• Macedonian: гонореја (gonoreja), трипер (triper), калавец (kalavec)
• Malagasy: angatra (mg)
• Malay: gonorea
• Malayalam: ഗൊണോറിയ (ml) (goṇōṟiya)
• Maori: pakiwhara
• Mingrelian: გონორეა (gonorea), ტრიპერი (ṭriṗeri)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: заг (mn) (zag)

  Mongolian: ᠵᠠᠭ (ǰag)

• N'Ko: ߞߙߐ߬ߛߌ߬ߣߍ߲ (krɔsinɛn)
• Nandi: kipnonog
• Neapolitan: scarfatura f
• Nepali: धातुमेह (dhātumeha)
• Norman: gôrre f, vétheule honteuse f
• Norwegian: gonoré
• Odia: ଗନରିଆ (or) (gônôria)
• Pashto: سوزاک (ps) (suzâk)
• Persian: سوزاک (fa) (suzâk), گنوره (gonore)
• Polish: rzeżączka (pl) f, wiewiór (pl), tryper (pl)
• Portuguese: gonorreia (pt) f
• Romanian: gonoree (ro) f, blenoragie (ro)
• Russian: гоноре́я (ru) f (gonoréja), пари́жский на́сморк m (parížskij násmork) (slang, "Parisian cold"), три́ппер (ru) m (trípper), три́пер (ru) m (tríper), перело́й (ru) (perelój)
• Sami:

  Inari Sami: tippur, gonorrea

• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гонореја f

  Roman: gonoreja (sh) f, kapavac (sh) m

• Shona: chizonono, chinzonono
• Sinhalese: සුදු බිංදුම (sudu biṁduma), ගොනෝරියාව (gonōriyāwa)
• Slovak: kvapavka (sk) f, gonorea (sk) f, gonokoková infekcia
• Slovene: gonoreja (sl) f, kapavica (sl)
• Spanish: gonorrea (es) f
• Sundanese: gonore, gonoré
• Swahili: kisonono (sw), kisalisali
• Swedish: gonorré (sv), dröppel (sv)
• Tagalog: tulas, gonoreya, gonoria, gonorea
• Tajik: сӯзок (süzok), пармев (parmev), гонорея (gonoreya), триппер (tripper)
• Tamil: கொணோறியா (koṇōṟiyā)
• Tatar: гонорея (ğonoreya)
• Telugu: సెగవ్యాధి (segavyādhi), గనేరియా (ganēriyā)
• Thai: หนองใน
• Tibetan: གྲང་གཞི (grang gzhi), གྲང་བ (grang ba)
• Turkish: belsoğukluğu (tr), gonore
• Ukrainian: гоноре́я f (honoréja), трипер (tryper), чєрвєница (čjervjenyca), наконе́шник (nakonéšnyk)
• Urdu: جریان (jryān)
• Vietnamese: lậu mủ, lậu (vi)
• Waray-Waray: gonorea
• Yakut: бүлтүрэй (bültürey), һонорейа (honoreya)
• Yurok: mechomee'
• Zhuang: nyouhin

See also

• urethritis

References

• gonorrhea on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Neisseria gonorrhoeae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• “gonorrhea”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.