epilepsy

English

Etymology

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛpɪlɛpsi/

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• Hyphenation: ep‧i‧lep‧sy

Noun

epilepsy (countable and uncountable, plural epilepsies)

1. (pathology) A medical condition in which the sufferer experiences seizures (or convulsions) and blackouts.
   • (Can we date this quote by Jeremy Taylor and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     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.

Derived terms

• epileptic
• epileptiform

Translations

medical condition

• Arabic: صَرْع‎ m (ṣarʿ)
• Armenian: ընկնավորություն (hy) (ənknavorutʿyun)
• Assamese: আঁৱৰি (ãori)
• Asturian: epilepsia f
• Bengali: মৃগীরোগ (mrigīrog)
• 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, gota (gl) f
• German: Epilepsie (de) f; (archaic) Fallsucht (de) f
• Greek: επιληψία (el) f (epilipsía)

  Ancient: ἐπιληψία f (epilēpsía)

• Hindi: अपस्मार (hi) m (apasmār), मिर्गी (hi) f (mirgī)
• Hungarian: epilepszia (hu)
• Icelandic: flogaveiki (is) f, flog (is) n, niðurfallssýki f
• Ido: epilepsio (io)
• 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)
• Javanese: ꦲꦪꦤ꧀ (jv) (ayan)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: فێ‎ (fê)

• Latin: epilēpsia f
• Malay: epilepsi, gila babi, sawan
• Maori: hukihuki, hūkiki, mate hukihuki
• Nogai: талма (talma)
• Norman: épilepsie f (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: epilepsi m

  Nynorsk: epilepsi m

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

  Cyrillic: епилѐпсија f, па̏давица f

  Roman: epilèpsija (sh) f, pȁdavica (sh) f

• Spanish: epilepsia (es) f
• Swahili: kifafa (sw)
• Swedish: epilepsi (sv) c
• Tagalog: kisay, gotakural
• Thai: ลมชัก (lom-chák), ลมบ้าหมู (lom-bâa-mǔu)
• Turkish: sara (tr), epilepsi (tr)
• Vietnamese: động kinh
• Volapük: peiläp (vo)
• Westrobothnian: bratfall n

See also

• falling sickness
• grand mal
• petit mal