dysentery

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French dissenterie, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin dysenteria, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek δυσεντερία (dusentería), from δυσ- (dus-, “bad”) + ἔντερα (éntera, “bowels”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɪsənˌtɛɹi/
• IPA^(key): /ˈdɪsəntəɹi/, /ˈdɪsəntɹi/

Noun

dysentery (countable and uncountable, plural dysenteries)

1. (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 of 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.

2. Diarrhea

Derived terms

• amebic dysentery
• amoebic dysentery
• antidysentery
• dysenteric

 

Translations

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: дызентэрыя f (dyzjenteryja)
• Bengali: আমাশয় (amaśoẏ)
• Breton: fluz-gwad m
• Bulgarian: дизентерия f (dizenterija)
• Catalan: disenteria f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 痢疾 (lei⁶ zat⁶)

  Mandarin: 痢疾 (zh) (lìji), 白痢 (zh) (báilì), 赤痢 (zh) (chìlì) (with blood)

  Min Nan: 痢疾 (lī-chi̍t)

• 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 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)
• Hungarian: vérhas (hu), dizentéria (hu)
• Icelandic: iðrakreppa f, blóðkreppusótt f, blóðfallssótt n, blóðsótt n
• Ido: disenterio (io)
• Ilocano: sika
• Indonesian: disentri (id)
• Irish: dinnireacht f, flosc fola m, rith fola m
• Italian: dissenteria (it) f
• Jamaican Creole: disnchri
• Japanese: 赤痢 (せきり, sekiri)
• Kabiyé: anɩza kʊdɔŋ
• Kalmyk: туулвр (tuulvr)
• Kazakh: дизентерия (dizenteriä)
• Khmer: មួល (km) (muəl)
• Korean: 이질 (ko) (ichil)
• Kurdish:
• Kyrgyz: дизентерия (dizenteriya)
• Latin: dysenteria f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Latvian: dizentērija f
• Lingala: mokungúlu, mwǎzákónga
• Lithuanian: dizenterija f
• Luxembourgish: Dysenterie f
• Macedonian: дизентерија f (dizenterija)
• Malagasy: nivalan-dra
• Malay: disentri
• 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)
• Portuguese: disenteria (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਡਾਇਨੇਟੇਰੀ (ḍāineṭerī)
• Quechua: yawar q'icha
• Romanian: dizenterie (ro) f
• Russian: дизентери́я (ru) f (dizenteríja)
• Sanskrit: अन्नगन्धिः (sa) (annagandhiḥ)
• 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: 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

See also

• shigellosis