hemorrhoid

English

Alternative forms

• haemorrhoid (UK)
• hæmorrhoid (UK, obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English emerowdes, emeroides, emeroydez, from Old French emorroides, from Latin haemorrhoidae, from Ancient Greek αἱμορροΐς (haimorrhoḯs), a feminine adjective from αἱμόρροος (haimórrhoos, “flowing with blood”), from αἷμα (haîma, “blood”) and the root of ῥέω (rhéō, “flow”). Doublet of emerod.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɛməɹɔɪd/, /ˈhɛmɹɔɪd/

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Noun

hemorrhoid (plural hemorrhoids)

1. (pathology, often in the plural) An engorged, dilated and easily broken varicosity in the perianal area, often accompanied by intense itching and throbbing pain: piles.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• external hemorrhoid
• hemorrhoidal
• hemorrhoidectomy
• internal hemorrhoid

Translations

perianal varicosity

• Adyghe: please add this translation if you can
• Afrikaans: aambei (af)
• Arabic: بَاسُور m (bāsūr)
• Armenian: թութք (hy) (tʻutʻkʻ)
• Azerbaijani: babasil
• Belarusian: гемаро́й m (hjemarój)
• Bulgarian: хеморои́д (bg) m (hemoroíd)
• Burmese: လိပ်ခေါင်း (my) (liphkaung:), လိပ်ခေါင်းရောဂါ (my) (liphkaung:rau:ga)
• Catalan: hemorroide (ca) f, morena (ca) f
• Cebuano: almoranas
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 痔瘡／痔疮 (zi⁶ cong¹)

  Hokkien: 痔瘡／痔疮 (zh-min-nan) (tī-chhng), 起背仔 (khí-pèr-á)

  Mandarin: 痔瘡／痔疮 (zh) (zhìchuāng), 痔 (zh) (zhì)

• Czech: hemoroid m
• Danish: hæmoride (da) c, hæmorroide c
• Dutch: aambei (nl) f
• Esperanto: hemoroido
• Finnish: peräpukama (fi)
• French: hémorroïde (fr) f
• Galician: hemorroide f, almorrá f sg
• German: Hämorrhoide (de) f
• Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
• Hebrew: טחורים (he) (tkhorím)
• Hiligaynon: almoranas
• Hindi: बवासीर (hi) f (bavāsīr), अर्श (hi) m (arś)
• Hungarian: aranyér (hu)
• Icelandic: gyllinæð f, raufaræðahnútur m
• Indonesian: ambeien (id), wasir (id), hemoroid (id), bawasir (id)
• Ingrian: peräpykämä, pykämä
• Japanese: 疣痔 (いぼじ, iboji), 痔核 (ja) (じかく, jikaku)
• Kazakh: көтеу (köteu)
• Korean: 치질(痔疾) (ko) (chijil)
• Kyrgyz: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: хемороид m (hemoroid)
• Maori: tero puta
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hemoroide m

  Nynorsk: hemoroide m

• Old English: fīcādl
• Persian: بواسیر (fa) (bavâsir)
• Polish: hemoroid m
• Portuguese: hemorroida (pt) f, almorroida (pt) f, almorreima f
• Romanian: hemoroid m
• Russian: геморро́й (ru) m (gemorrój), геморроида́льный у́зел m (gemorroidálʹnyj úzel)
• Sanskrit: मूलव्याधि (sa) m (mūlavyādhi), अर्श (sa) m (arśa), अर्शस् (sa) n (arśas)
• Scottish Gaelic: neasgaid fala f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хеморо̀ӣд m pl

  Latin: hemoròīd m pl

• Sicilian: mùrriti f pl
• Slovak: hemoroid m
• Spanish: hemorroide (es) f, almorrana (es) f
• Swedish: hemorrojd c
• Tagalog: almoranas
• Thai: ริดสีดวงทวาร (th) (rít-sǐi-duuang-tá-waan)
• Turkish: basur (tr), hemoroit (tr)
• Ukrainian: геморо́й m (hemorój)
• Vietnamese: trĩ (vi) (痔 (vi)), bệnh trĩ (病痔)
• Yoruba: please add this translation if you can