allergy

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Allergie. Coined by Austrian pediatrician Clemens von Pirquet in 1906 from Ancient Greek ἄλλος (állos, “other”) + ἔργον (érgon, “work, activity”), on the model of Energie.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ălʹ-ər-ji, IPA^(key): /ˈæl.əɹ.dʒi/
  • IPA^(key): [ˈæl.ə.dʒi]
  • IPA^(key): [ˈæl.ɚ.dʒi]
• Hyphenation: al‧ler‧gy

Noun

allergy (plural allergies)

1. (pathology, immunology) A disorder of the immune system causing adverse reactions to substances (allergens) not harmful to most and marked by the body's production of histamines and associated with atopy, anaphylaxis, and asthma.
2. (pathology) Any condition of hypersensitivity to a substance.
3. Altered susceptibility to a first treatment as exhibited in reaction to a subsequent one.
4. (informal) An antipathy, as toward a person or activity.

   He has an allergy to reality TV.

Synonyms

• (disorder of the immune system): type 1 hypersensitivity
• (hypersensitivity): intolerance

Hypernyms

• (disorder of the immune system): hypersensitivity

Derived terms

• aeroallergy
• allergen
• allergic
• allergologist
• allergology
• allergylike
• allergy salute
• antiallergy
• autoallergy
• cold allergy
• food allergy
• nonallergy
• photoallergy
• pseudoallergy
• total allergy syndrome

 

Descendants

• → Cebuano: alerdyi

Translations

disorder of the immune system

• Albanian: alergji (sq) f
• Arabic: أَرَجِيَّة f (ʔarajiyya), حَسَّاسِيَّة f (ḥassāsiyya)
• Armenian: ալերգիա (hy) (alergia)
• Asturian: alerxa f
• Azerbaijani: allergiya
• Belarusian: алергі́я f (aljerhíja)
• Bengali: এলার্জি (elarji)
• Bulgarian: алергия (bg) f (alergija)
• Burmese: မတဲ့ဘူး (ma.tai.bhu:)
• Catalan: al·lèrgia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 過敏／过敏 (zh) (guòmǐn), 过敏 (zh) (guòmǐn)

• Czech: alergie (cs) f
• Danish: allergi (da) c
• Dutch: allergie (nl) f
• Esperanto: alergio
• Estonian: allergia
• Faroese: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: allergia (fi)
• French: allergie (fr) f
• Galician: alerxia (gl) f
• Georgian: ალერგია (alergia)
• Greek: αλλεργία (el) f (allergía)
• Greenlandic: please add this translation if you can
• Hebrew: אַלֶרגִיָה (he) f (alergiya)
• Hindi: एलर्जी f (elarjī)
• Hungarian: allergia (hu)
• Icelandic: ofnæmi (is) n
• Ido: alergio (io)
• Indonesian: alergi (id)
• Irish: ailléirge f
• Japanese: アレルギー (ja) (arerugī)
• Kazakh: аллергия (allergiä)
• Khmer: អាឡែរហ្សី (ʼaalaezəy)
• Korean: 알레르기 (ko) (allereugi)
• Kyrgyz: аллергия (ky) (allergiya)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Latvian: alerģija f
• Lithuanian: alergija f
• Macedonian: алергија f (alergija)
• Malay: alahan, alergi
• Manx: allerjee
• Maori: mate pāwera
• Mongolian: харшил (mn) (xaršil)
• Navajo: hojoołáhígíí
• Northern Sami: allergiija
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: allergi (no) m

  Nynorsk: allergi m

• Persian: آلرژی (fa) (âlerži), حساسیت (fa) (hassâsiyat)
• Polish: uczulenie (pl) n, alergia (pl) f
• Portuguese: alergia (pt) f
• Romanian: alergie (ro) f
• Russian: аллерги́я (ru) f (allergíja)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: алѐргија f

  Roman: alèrgija f

• Slovak: alergia (sk) f
• Slovene: alergija (sl) f
• Spanish: alergia (es) f
• Swedish: allergi (sv) c
• Tagalog: taluramdam, taluhiyang
• Tajik: аллергиа (allergia)
• Tamil: ஒவ்வாமை (ta) (ovvāmai)
• Thai: ภูมิแพ้ (th) (puum-pɛ́ɛ)
• Tibetan: ཆམས་ཚི (chams tshi)
• Turkish: alerji (tr)
• Turkmen: allergiýa
• Ukrainian: алергі́я (uk) f (alerhíja)
• Urdu: الرجی f (elarjī)
• Uzbek: allergiya (uz)
• Vietnamese: dị ứng
• Yiddish: אַלערגיע (alergye)

hypersensitivity

• Arabic: أَرَجِيَّة f (ʔarajiyya), حَسَّاسِيَّة f (ḥassāsiyya)
• Armenian: ալերգիա (hy) (alergia)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 過敏／过敏 (zh) (guòmǐn), 过敏 (zh) (guòmǐn)

• Dutch: allergie (nl) f
• Finnish: allergia (fi)
• French: allergie (fr) f
• Galician: alerxia (gl) f
• German: Allergie (de) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Ido: alergio (io)
• Irish: ailléirge f
• Japanese: アレルギー (ja) (arerugī)
• Korean: 알레르기 (ko) (allereugi)
• Persian: آلرژی (fa) (âlerži), حساسیت (fa) (hassâsiyat)
• Portuguese: alergia (pt) f
• Romanian: alergie (ro) f
• Russian: аллерги́я (ru) f (allergíja)
• Spanish: alergia (es) f

altered susceptibility

• Armenian: ալերգիա (hy) (alergia)
• Finnish: allergia (fi)
• Japanese: アレルギー (ja) (arerugī)
• Korean: 알레르기 (ko) (allereugi)
• Macedonian: але́ргија f (alérgija)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: аллерги́я (ru) (allergíja)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: алѐргија f

  Roman: alèrgija f

• Swedish: allergi (sv) c

antipathy

• Armenian: ալերգիա (hy) (alergia)
• Catalan: al·lèrgia (ca) f
• Czech: alergie (cs) f
• Dutch: allergie (nl) f
• Finnish: allergia (fi)
• French: allergie (fr) f
• Hungarian: allergia (hu)
• Macedonian: але́ргија f (alérgija)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Polish: alergia (pl) f
• Portuguese: alergia (pt) f, ojeriza (pt) f, antipatia (pt) f
• Russian: аллерги́я (ru) (allergíja)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: алѐргија f

  Roman: alèrgija f

• Swedish: allergi (sv) c

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} trosentemo
• German: ^{(please verify)} Allergie (de) f
• Japanese: ^{(please verify)} アレルギー (ja) (arerugī)
• Macedonian: ^{(please verify)} але́ргија f (alérgija)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ^{(please verify)} алѐргија f

  Roman: ^{(please verify)} alèrgija f

• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} allergi (sv) c, ^{(please verify)} överkänslighet c

See also

• allergy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Hypersensitivity on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

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