constipation

See also: constipâtion

English

Etymology

From Latin constīpātiō.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

constipation (countable and uncountable, plural constipations)

1. Act of crowding anything into a lesser compass, or the state of being crowded or pressed together; condensation.
2. A state of the bowels in which the evacuations are infrequent and difficult, or the intestines become filled with hardened faeces; costiveness.

Translations

state of bowels

• Arabic: إِمْسَاك‏‎ m (ʾimsāk)
• Bulgarian: запек m (zapek)
• Catalan: restrenyiment m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 便秘 (zh) (biànmì)

• Czech: zácpa (cs) f
• Danish: forstoppelse (da) c
• Dutch: constipatie (nl) f
• Esperanto: konstipo
• Finnish: ummetus (fi)
• French: constipation (fr) f
• Georgian: ყაბზობა (q̇abzoba)
• German: Obstipation f, Verstopfung (de) f
• Greek: δυσκοιλιότητα (el) f (dyskoiliótita)
• Hindi: कब्ज (hi) (kabj)
• Hungarian: székrekedés (hu)
• Indonesian: sembelit (id)
• Irish: iatacht f
• Italian: stipsi f, stitichezza (it) f
• Japanese: 便秘 (ja) (べんぴ, benpi)
• Korean: 변비 (ko) (byeonbi), 便秘 (ko)
• Ladino:

  Roman: durera f

• Macedonian: запек m (zapek)
• Maori: mate kōroke
• Norman: constipâtion f (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: forstoppelse m, obstipasjon m

  Nynorsk: forstopping f, obstipasjon m

• Persian: یبوست‏‎ (fa) (yobusat)
• Polish: zaparcie (pl) f
• Portuguese: prisão de ventre (pt) f
• Romanian: constipație (ro) f
• Russian: запо́р (ru) m (zapór), констипа́ция f (konstipácija)
• Scottish Gaelic: teanntachd-cuim f
• Spanish: estreñimiento (es) m
• Swahili: vimbizi (sw)
• Swedish: förstoppning c
• Tagalog: tibi
• Tamil: மலச்சிக்கல் (ta) (malaccikkal)
• Turkish: kabızlık (tr)
• Vietnamese: táo bón (vi)
• Welsh: rhwymedd m

See also

• Constipation in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.

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French

Etymology

From Latin constīpātiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃s.ti.pa.sjɔ̃/

Noun

constipation f (plural constipations)

1. constipation

Related terms

• constiper

Further reading

• “constipation” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).