epilepsy

English

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Etymology

Since 16th century; from Old French epilepsie, from Latin epilēpsia, from Ancient Greek ἐπιληψία (epilēpsia), from ἐπιλαμβάνω (epilambanō, “I seize”), from ἐπί (epi, “upon”) + λαμβάνω (lambanō, “I take”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛpɪlɛpsi/

Noun

epilepsy (plural epilepsies)

1. (pathology) A medical condition in which the sufferer experiences seizures (or convulsions) and blackouts.

Derived terms

• epileptic
• epileptiform

Translations

medical condition

• Arabic: صرع m (ṣarʿ)
• Asturian: epilepsia f
• Bengali: মৃগীরোগ
• Catalan: epilèpsia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 羊癲瘋, 羊癫疯 (yángdiānfēng), 癲癇, 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 f
• Greek: επιληψία (el) f (epilipsía)
• Hindi: अपस्मार (apasmār), मिर्गी (mirgī)
• Hungarian: epilepszia (hu)
• Icelandic: flogaveiki (is) f, flog (is) n, niðurfallssýki f
• Igbo: ájụ̀
• Italian: epilessia (it) f

• Japanese: 癲癇 (てんかん, tenkan)
• Jèrriais: épilepsie f
• Latin: epilēpsia f
• Malay: epilepsi, gila babi, sawan
• Maori: hukihuki, hūkiki
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: epilepsi m

  Nynorsk: epilepsi m

• Oriya: ଅପସ୍ମାର (or)
• Persian: صرع (fa) (sar)
• Polish: padaczka (pl) f, epilepsja (pl) f
• Portuguese: epilepsia (pt) f
• Russian: эпиле́псия (ru) f (epilépsija), паду́чая (ru) f (padúčaja) (obsolete)
• Sanskrit: अपस्मार (apa-smāra)
• Scottish Gaelic: tuiteamas m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: епилепсија f, падавица f

  Roman: epilepsija f, padavica f

• Spanish: epilepsia (es) f
• Swedish: epilepsi (sv) c
• Turkish: sara (tr), epilepsi (tr)
• Vietnamese: động kinh
• Volapük: peiläp (vo)

See also

• falling sickness
• grand mal
• petit mal