English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Since 16th century; borrowed from Old French epilepsie, from Latin epilēpsia, from Ancient Greek ἐπιληψία (epilēpsía), from ἐπιλαμβάνω (epilambánō, “I seize”), from ἐπί (epí, “upon”) + λαμβάνω (lambánō, “I take”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /ˈɛpɪlɛpsi/
- Hyphenation: ep‧i‧lep‧sy
epilepsy (countable and uncountable, plural epilepsies)
- (pathology) A medical condition in which the sufferer experiences seizures (or convulsions) and blackouts.
- Jeremy Taylor
- Epilepsies, or fallings and reelings, and beastly vomitings. The least of these, even when the tongue begins to be untied, is a degree of drunkenness.
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Translations[edit]
medical condition
- Arabic: صَرْع m (ṣarʿ)
- Asturian: epilepsia f
- Bengali: মৃগীরোগ (mrigirog)
- Catalan: epilèpsia (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 羊癲瘋, 羊癫疯 (yángdiānfēng), 癲癇 (zh), 癫痫 (zh) (diānxián), 癲癇癥, 癫痫症 (diānxiánzhèng), 羊癇, 羊痫 (yángxián), 羊癇瘋, 羊痫疯 (yángxiánfēng), 羊角風 (zh), 羊角风 (zh) (yángjiǎofēng)
- Czech: epilepsie (cs) f
- Danish: epilepsi c
- Esperanto: epilepsio
- Estonian: epilepsia (et), langetõbi (et)
- Finnish: epilepsia (fi)
- French: épilepsie (fr) f
- Galician: epilepsia f
- German: Epilepsie (de) f, Fallsucht (de) f
- Greek: επιληψία (el) f (epilipsía)
- Hindi: अपस्मार (hi) (apasmār), मिर्गी (hi) (mirgī)
- Hungarian: epilepszia (hu)
- Icelandic: flogaveiki (is) f, flog (is) n, niðurfallssýki f
- Igbo: ájụ̀
- Irish: titimeas m, an bhreoiteacht mhór f, galar titimeach m, galar Póil m, galar talmhaí m, an tinneas beannaithe m, an tinneas mór m, tinneas Póil m, tinneas talún m
- Italian: epilessia (it) f
- Japanese: 癲癇 (てんかん, tenkan)
- Latin: epilēpsia f
- Malay: epilepsi, gila babi, sawan
- Maori: hukihuki, hūkiki, mate hukihuki
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