From Middle English dissenterie, from Old French dissenterie, from Latin dysenteria, from Ancient Greek δυσεντερία (dusentería), from δυσ- (dus-, “bad”) + ἔντερα (éntera, “bowels”).
dysentery (countable and uncountable, plural dysenteries)
- (pathology) A disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines, especially the colon (large intestine), accompanied by pus (white blood cells) in the feces, fever, pain in the abdomen, high-volume diarrhea, and possible blood in the feces.
1959, “In Old Mexico”, Tom Lehrer (music):We ate, we drank, and we were merry / and we got typhoid and dysentery.
- Diarrhea.
disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
- Afrikaans: disenterie
- Albanian: dizenteri (sq) f
- Arabic: زُحَار m (zuḥār)
- Armenian: դիզենտերիա (hy) (dizenteria), թանչ (hy) (tʻančʻ)
- Old Armenian: թանչ (tʻančʻ)
- Asturian: disentería f
- Azerbaijani: dizenteriya
- Bashkir: дизентерия (dizenteriya)
- Basque: disenteria
- Belarusian: дызентэры́я f (dyzjenterýja)
- Bengali: আমাশয় (bn) (amaśoẏ)
- Breton: fluz-gwad m
- Bulgarian: дизентерия f (dizenterija)
- Catalan: disenteria f
- Cebuano: disenteriya
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 痢疾 (lei6 zat6)
- Hokkien: 痢疾 (lī-chi̍t)
- Mandarin: 痢疾 (zh) (lìji), 白痢 (zh) (báilì), 赤痢 (zh) (chìlì) (with blood)
- Czech: úplavice (cs) f, dyzentérie f
- Danish: dysenteri c
- Dutch: dysenterie (nl) f
- Esperanto: disenterio
- Estonian: düsenteeria
- Faroese: blóðsótt n
- Finnish: punatauti (fi), shigelloosi, dysenteria
- French: dysenterie (fr) f
- Galician: disentería f
- Georgian: დიზენტერია (dizenṭeria)
- German: Dysenterie (de) f, Ruhr (de) f (dated)
- Greek: δυσεντερία (el) f (dysentería)
- Ancient Greek: δυσεντερία f (dusentería)
- Haitian Creole: disantri
- Hebrew: דִּיזֶנְטֶרְיָה (he) f (dizenterya)
- Hiligaynon: balaód
- Hindi: अतिसार (hi) m (atisār), पेचिश (hi) f (peciś), अमाशय m (amāśay), ग्रहणी (hi) m (grahṇī), अन्नगंधि (hi) m (annagandhi), दस्त (hi) m (dast), प्रवाहिका (hi) (pravāhikā)
- Hungarian: vérhas (hu), dizentéria (hu)
- Icelandic: iðrakreppa f, blóðkreppusótt f, blóðfallssótt n, blóðsótt n
- Ido: disenterio (io)
- Ilocano: sika
- Indonesian: disentri (id)
- Ingrian: punatauti
- Irish: dinnireacht f, flosc fola m, rith fola m
- Italian: dissenteria (it) f
- Jamaican Creole: disnchri
- Japanese: 赤痢 (ja) (せきり, sekiri)
- Kabiyé: anɩza kʊdɔŋ
- Kalmyk: туулвр (tuulvr)
- Kazakh: дизентерия (dizenteriä)
- Khmer: មួល (km) (muəl)
- Korean: 이질 (ko) (ijil)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: dîzanterî f
- Kyrgyz: дизентерия (dizenteriya)
- Lao: please add this translation if you can
- Latin: dysenteria f
- Latvian: dizentērija f
- Lingala: mokungúlu, mwǎzákónga
- Lithuanian: dizenterija f
- Luxembourgish: Dysenterie f
- Macedonian: дизентерија f (dizenterija)
- Malagasy: nivalan-dra
- Malay: disenteri
- Malayalam: വയറുകടി (vayaṟukaṭi)
- Maltese: diżinterija f
- Maori: kōea, mate kōea
- Mongolian: улаан суулга (ulaan suulga), дизентери (mn) (dizenteri), цусан суулга (cusan suulga), жүсэр (mn) (žüser)
- Navajo: chąądił
- Norman: dysenterie f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: dysenteri m
- Nynorsk: dysenteri m
- Occitan: dessentèri m
- Old Occitan: dissenteria f
- Old Norse: blóðsótt n
- Palantla Chinantec: dsag³ jmø²
- Persian: دیسانتری (fa)
- Polish: dyzenteria (pl) f, czerwonka (pl) f
- Portuguese: disenteria (pt) f
- Punjabi: ਡਾਇਨੇਟੇਰੀ (ḍāineṭerī)
- Quechua: yawar q'icha
- Romanian: dizenterie (ro) f
- Russian: дизентери́я (ru) f (dizenteríja)
- Sanskrit: अन्नगन्धि (sa) (annagandhi)
- Scottish Gaelic: buinnteachd f, bronn-sgaoileadh f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: дизентѐрија f, срдо̀боља f (archaic)
- Roman: dizentèrija (sh) f, srdòbolja (sh) f (archaic)
- Sicilian: dissintirìa f
- Sinhalese: අතීසාරය (atīsāraya)
- Slovak: úplavica f, dyzentéria f
- Slovene: griža (sl) f
- Spanish: disentería (es) f
- Swedish: dysenteri (sv) c
- Tagalog: disenteriya, daragis, iti, pag-iiti, balaod
- Tajik: дизентерия (tg) (dizenteriya)
- Tamil: இரத்தக்கழிசல் (irattakkaḻical), சீதபேதி (ta) (cītapēti)
- Tatar: дизентерия (dizenteriyä)
- Telugu: నీళ్ల విరేచనాలు (nīḷla virēcanālu), గ్రహణి (te) (grahaṇi)
- Thai: โรคบิด (rôok-bìt)
- Turkish: dizanteri (tr)
- Ukrainian: дизентері́я f (dyzenteríja)
- Uzbek:
- Cyrillic: дизентерия (uz) (dizenteriya)
- Roman: dizenteriya (uz)
- Vietnamese: kiết lị, lị (vi), kiết (vi)
- Welsh: dysentri
- Zhuang: bingh'okleih
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