common cold

English

Noun

common cold (plural common colds)

1. (pathology) A very common, mild viral infection of the nose and throat, whose symptoms include sneezing, sniffling, a running or blocked nose, a sore throat, coughing and a headache.

Synonyms

• acute viral nasopharyngitis
• acute coryza
• pose

Translations

mild infection

• Arabic: زُكَام (zukām)
• Armenian: մրսածություն (mrsacutʻyun), հարբուխ (hy) (harbux)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 感冒 (gam² mou⁶)

  Mandarin: 普通感冒 (pǔtōng gǎnmào), 感冒 (zh) (gǎnmào), 傷風／伤风 (zh) (shāngfēng), 伤风 (zh) (shāngfēng)

• Czech: nachlazení (cs) n
• Danish: forkølelse (da)
• Esperanto: malvarmumo (eo)
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Faroese: krím n
• Finnish: flunssa (fi), nuhakuume (fi), vilustuminen (fi)
• French: rhume (fr)
• German: Erkältung (de) f
• Hindi: सर्दी (hi) (sardī), ज़ुकाम (hi) m (zukām), जुकाम (hi) m (jukām), प्रतिश्याय (hi) m (pratiśyāy)
• Hungarian: nátha (hu)
• Indonesian: pilek (id)
• Japanese: 風邪 (ja) (かぜ, kaze), 細菌性の風邪 (さいきんせいのかぜ, saikinsei no kaze)
• Khmer: គ្រុនផ្ដាសាយធម្មតា (krun pdaahsaay tʰoammea’daa)
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• Korean: 감기 (ko) (gamgi)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Marathi: सर्दी (sardī)
• Mongolian: хамрын ханиад (xamryn xaniad), ханиад (mn) (xaniad)
• Nepali: रुगा (rugā)
• Polish: przeziębienie (pl) n
• Portuguese: resfriado (pt) m
• Romanian: gripă (ro) f, răceală (ro) f
• Russian: просту́да (ru) f (prostúda), на́сморк (ru) m (násmork), ОРВИ (ru) f (ORVI) (abbr.)
• Sanskrit: प्रतिश्याय (sa) m (pratiśyāya)
• Spanish: resfriado común m, resfrío (es) m
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: หวัด (th) (wàt)
• Tibetan: ཆམས་པ (chams pa)
• Turkish: soğuk algınlığı (tr)
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: sự cảm lạnh

See also

• feed a cold, starve a fever
• nasopharyngitis
• rhinitis
• sinusitis