ringworm

English

Etymology

From ring +‎ worm, being descriptive of what it looks like.

Noun

ringworm (usually uncountable, plural ringworms)

1. A contagious fungal infection of the skin, characterised by ring-shaped discoloured patches, covered by vesicles or scales.

   In superficial mycoses infection is localised to the skin, the hair, and the nails. An example is ringworm or tinea, an infection of the skin by a dermatophyte.

   • 1848 December, “Pacific Ocean: The Island of Bornabi”, in The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle, volume 17, number 12, page 647:

     Many of these natives, especially the lower classes, and fishermen, have their skins disfigured in a singular manner, by a sort of scurfy disease, similar to the ring-worm, or rather to a person whose skin was peeling off from the effects of the sun.

Synonyms

• dermatophytosis
• tinea

Hyponyms

• athlete’s foot
• barber’s itch
• jock itch

Translations

contagious fungal affliction of the skin

• Albanian: qere (sq) f
• Arabic:

  Moroccan Arabic: قرع m (qraʿ), ڭوب m (gub)

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: tinya (ca) f
• Chichewa: chipere, chiwengo
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 癬／癣 (zh) (xuǎn), 癣 (zh) (xuǎn), 癬疥／癣疥 (zh) (xuǎnjiè), 癣疥 (zh) (xuǎnjiè)

• Dutch: ringworm (nl) m
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: silsa (fi)
• French: teigne (fr) f, roue de Sainte-Catherine (fr) f, rogne (fr) f
• Galician: tiña (gl) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Ringelflechte f, Flechtengrind m; (bovines) Glatzflechte f
• Hausa: màkērṑ m
• Hindi: दाद (hi) (dād)
• Indonesian: kurap (id)
• Interlingue: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: tigna (it) f
• Japanese: 白癬 (はくせん, hakusen)
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• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 버짐 (beojim)
• Malay: kurap
• Malayalam: വട്ടച്ചൊറി (vaṭṭaccoṟi)
• Maori: muna
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Nepali: दाद (dād)
• Norman: tangne f
• Polish: parch (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: tinha (pt) f, porrigem f
• Russian: стригу́щий лиша́й m (strigúščij lišáj)
• Spanish: tiña (es) f, tinea f
• Swedish: ringorm c, revorm (sv) c
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Telugu: తామర (te) (tāmara)
• Thai: กลาก (th) (glàak)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Unami: mishhwe
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
• Walloon: tigne (wa) f (man, hair, diffuse), diele f (man and animals, round), rowe Sinte-Catrene (wa) f (man, round)
• Welsh: tarwden f, gwreinyn m, gwreinen f

See also

• dermatomycosis

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Dutch

Etymology

Compound of ring +‎ worm.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɪŋ.ʋɔrm/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: ring‧worm

Noun

ringworm m (plural ringwormen)

1. annelid, worm of the phylum Annelida
2. ringworm, infectious fungal disease