disabled

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): [dɪsˈeɪbəɫd]

Adjective

disabled (comparative more disabled, superlative most disabled)

1. Made incapable of use or action.
2. Having a disability, especially physical.
3. (law) Legally disqualified.

Synonyms

• incapacitated
• invalid

Antonyms

• enabled

Derived terms

Terms derived from disabled

• antidisabled
• disabledness
• disabled sports

• learning-disabled
• multidisabled
• nondisabled

• print-disabled
• print disabled
• undisabled

Translations

made incapable of use or action

• Bulgarian: изключен (izključen)
• Catalan: invàlid
• Dutch: onklaar (nl)
• Finnish: toimintakyvytön, käyttökelvoton
• Italian: disabilitato (it)

• Portuguese: incapacitado
• Romanian: dezactivat m
• Russian: отклю́ченный (otkljúčennyj), деактиви́рованный (deaktivírovannyj)
• Swedish: deaktiverad, avaktiverad, avstängd (sv)

having a physical disability

• Armenian: հաշմանդամ (hy) (hašmandam)
• Bulgarian: недъгав (bg) (nedǎgav), инвалиден (invaliden)
• Catalan: minusvàlid, discapacitat (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 殘疾 (zh), 残疾 (zh) (cánjí)

• Czech: postižený m
• Dutch: gehandicapt (nl), invalide (nl), mindervalide (nl)
• Finnish: vammainen (fi)
• French: handicapé (fr), invalide (fr)
• Georgian: ინვალიდი (invalidi), შეზღუდული შესაძლებლობების მქონე პირი (šezɣuduli šesaʒleblobebis mkone ṗiri)
• German: behindert (de)
• Greek: ανάπηρος (el) (anápiros)

• Italian: disabile (it)
• Macedonian: инвалид m (invalíd), хендикепирано лице n (hendikepírano líce)
• Maori: hauā
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ufør, funksjonshemmet

  Nynorsk: ufør

• Persian: معلول‎ (fa) (ma'lul)
• Portuguese: inválido (pt)
• Russian: инвали́д (ru) m (invalíd) (noun), нетрудоспосо́бный (ru) (netrudosposóbnyj), неработоспосо́бный (ru) (nerabotosposóbnyj)
• Spanish: discapacitado (es), minusválido
• Swedish: funktionshindrad, handikappad (sv), invalid (sv) (dated)

for the use of people with physical disabilities

• Bulgarian: инвалиден (invaliden)
• Catalan: minusvàlid
• Italian: per i disabili

• Russian: инвали́дный (ru) (invalídnyj)
• Spanish: discapacitado (es) m

legally disqualified

• Finnish: pätemätön (fi)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• French: ^{(please verify)} handicapé (fr)

• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} minusválido

Noun

disabled (usually uncountable, plural disableds)

1. One who is disabled (often used collectively as the disabled, but sometimes also singular).

Translations

The people who are disabled, regarded as a group

• Bulgarian: инвалид (bg) m (invalid)
• Dutch: invaliden (nl), (no indefinite article) gehandicapten (nl)
• Finnish: invalidit pl, vammaiset pl
• Italian: disabile (it) m, f

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: (de) uføre

  Nynorsk: (dei) uføre

• Russian: инвали́д (ru) m (invalíd), инвали́дка (ru) f (invalídka)

Verb

disabled

1. simple past tense and past participle of disable