A child with chicken pox From chicken pox hen-pox swinepox
chicken pox usually uncountable , plural chicken poxes
( now rare , pathology ) blisters formed by the varicella zoster virus (VZV ).
Synonym: chicken pock ( pathology ) highly contagious airborne disease caused by initial infection with varicella zoster virus , typically causing a skin rash that forms small itchy blisters .
Synonym: varicella 2009 May 7, New York Times , page A12 :Chickenpox parties, at which children gather so they can all be infected by a child who has the pox, are often held by parents who distrust chickenpox vaccine or want their children to have the stronger immunity that surviving a full-blown infection affords.
( inexact, sometimes proscribed , pathology ) Any disease causing similar symptoms .disease
Albanian: li e bardhë f li e dushkut f li e mirë f li e pyllit f
Arabic: جُدَرِيّ المَاء m ( judariyy al-māʔ ) , عَنْقَز m ( ʕanqaz )
Hijazi Arabic: عَنْقَز m ( ʕangaz )
Moroccan Arabic: بوشويكة f ( bušwīka )
Armenian: ջրծաղիկ (hy) ( ǰrcaġik )
Assamese: মাজু আই ( mazu ai )
Azerbaijani: toyuqçiçəyi
Belarusian: ветрана́я во́спа f ( vjetranája vóspa ) , ветра́нка f ( vjetránka ) , ахва́т m ( axvát )
Bikol Central: utos (bcl)
Bulgarian: варицела f ( varicela )
Burmese: ကျောက်ရောဂါ ( kyauk-rau:ga ) , ပဲသီတာ (my) ( pai:sita )
Catalan: varicel·la f
Cebuano: hangga
Cherokee: ᏣᏔᎦ ᎤᏃᏔᏩᎸᏍᎩ ( tsataga unotawalvsgi )
Chinese:
Cantonese: 水痘 ( seoi2 dau6-2 )
Hokkien: 水珠 (zh-min-nan) ( chúi-chu )
Mandarin: 水痘 (zh) ( shuǐdòu )
Czech: plané neštovice (cs) f pl
Danish: skoldkopper
Dutch: waterpokken (nl) , wijnpokken (nl) , windpokken (nl) , varicella (nl)
Erzya: варма ливкст pl ( varma ľivkst )
Esperanto: varioleto
Faroese: skáldkoppar m pl
Finnish: vesirokko (fi)
French: varicelle (fr) f
Galician: bolercas f boas (gl) f lambercas f
German: Windpocken (de) f pl
Greek: ανεμοβλογιά (el) f ( anemovlogiá )
Gujarati: અછબડા ( achabḍā )
Hebrew: אבעבועות רוח f pl ( ava'abu'ot ruakh )
Hindi: छोटी माता ( choṭī mātā )
Hungarian: bárányhimlő (hu)
Ilocano: tuko
Irish: deilgneach f
Italian: varicella (it) f
Japanese: 水痘 (ja) ( すいとう, suitō ) , 水疱瘡 (ja) ( みずぼうそう, mizubōsō )
Kikuyu: mũthandũkũ class 3
Korean: 수두(水痘) (ko) ( sudu )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: مێکوتە ( mêkute )
Lao: ໝາກສຸກ ໝາກໃສ ( māk suk māk sai )
Luxembourgish: Waasserpouken (lb) pl
Malayalam: ചിക്കൻപോക്സ് (ml) ( cikkaṉpōksŭ )
Maltese: ġidri r-riħ m
Maori: koroputa hei
Marathi: कांजिण्या ( kāñjiṇyā )
Nandi: kâpimperu
Neapolitan: ìsciola f
Norman: vétheule volante f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: vannkopper (no) pl
Plautdietsch: Wintpock f
Polish: ospa (pl) f ospa wietrzna (pl) f wiatrówka (pl) f wietrzyca f
Portuguese: varicela (pt) f catapora (pt) f
Punjabi: ਛੋਟੀ ਮਾਤਾ ( choṭī mātā )
Quechua: hawaqlla muru unquy
Romanian: vărsat de vânt (ro) n
Russian: ветряна́я о́спа (ru) f ( vetrjanája óspa ) , ветря́нка (ru) f ( vetrjánka )
Sassarese: rosa f baglioru basthardhu m
Sinhalese: පැපොල ( pæpola )
Somali: busbus
Spanish: varicela (es) f ( Cuba ) china (es) f ( Venezuela ) lechina (es) f ( Chile ) peste cristal f
Sundanese: ᮎᮎᮁ ( cacar )
Swahili: tetekuwanga
Swedish: vattkoppor (sv)
Tagalog: bulutung-tubig bulutong-tubig
Tamil: சின்னம்மை (ta) ( ciṉṉammai ) , பயற்றம்மை (ta) ( payaṟṟammai )
Thai: อีสุกอีใส (th) ( ii-sùk-ii-sǎi ) , สุกใส (th)
Turkish: su çiçeği (tr)
Ukrainian: вітряна́ ві́спа f ( vitrjaná víspa ) , вітря́нка f ( vitrjánka )
Vietnamese: thủy đậu (vi)
Waigali: jagara
Walloon: ploketes d' aiwe (wa) f pl
Waray-Waray: hangga
Welsh: brech yr ieir f
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