flu

See also: 'flu

English

Alternative forms

• 'flu (dated), floo (dated)

Etymology

Clipping of influenza

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fluː/
• IPA^(key): /flʉː/

• Audio (US):

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• Homophones: flew, flue

Noun

flu (usually uncountable, plural flus)

1. Influenza.
2. (informal) Stomach flu.

Synonyms

• (influenza): grippe, grip

Derived terms

Terms derived from flu

• avian flu
• bird flu
• blue flu
• cocktail flu
• diplomatic flu
• Spanish flu
• stomach flu
• swine flu

Translations

influenza

• Afrikaans: griep
• Albanian: grip (sq) m
• Arabic: إِنْفْلُوِنْزَا f (ʔinfluwinzā)
• Armenian: գրիպ (hy) (grip)
• Azerbaijani: qrip (az)
• Belarusian: грып m (hryp)
• Bengali: ইনফ্লুয়েঞ্জা (inphluyeñja)
• Bulgarian: грип (bg) m (grip), инфлуе́нца f (influénca)
• Burmese: တုတ်ကွေးရောဂါ (tutkwe:rau:ga)
• Chamicuro: e'tes̈huli
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 流行性感冒 (zh) (liúxíngxìnggǎnmào), 流感 (zh) (liúgǎn)

• Czech: chřipka (cs) f
• Danish: influenza (da) c
• Dutch: griep (nl) f
• Esperanto: gripo
• Estonian: gripp
• Finnish: influenssa (fi)
• French: grippe (fr) f
• Georgian: ინფლუენცია (inpluencia), გრიპი (griṗi)
• German: Grippe (de) f
• Greek: γρίπη (el) f (grípi)
• Hebrew: שפעת f (shapa'at)
• Hindi: इनफ़्लुएंज़ा (influenzā)
• Hungarian: influenza (hu)
• Icelandic: flensa (is) f, inflúensa (is) f
• Indonesian: influenza (id)
• Italian: influenza (it) f
• Japanese: (general) インフルエンザ (ja) (infuruenza); (abbr) インフル (ja) (infuru); (medical) 流行性感冒 (ja) (ryūkōsē-kanbō)
• Kannada: ಇನ್ಫ್ಲುಯೆನ್ಜ (inphluyenja)
• Kazakh: тұмау (kk) (tūmau)
• Khmer: ជំងឺគ្រុនផ្ដាសាយ (cumŋɨɨ krun pdaahsaay), គ្រុនផ្ដាសាយ (krun pdaahsaay)
• Korean: 인플루엔자 (ko) (inpeulluenja)
• Kyrgyz: грипп (ky) (gripp), тумоо (ky) (tumoo)
• Lao: ໄຂ້ຫວັດໃຫຍ່ (khai wat nyai)
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• Latin: influentia f
• Latvian: gripa f
• Lithuanian: gripas m
• Luxembourgish: Gripp f
• Macedonian: грип m (grip)
• Malay: influenza
• Malayalam: ഇൻഫ്ലുവെൻസ (iṉphluveṉsa)
• Mongolian: томуу (mn) (tomuu), ханиад (mn) (xaniad)
• Navajo: tahoniigááh
• Norman: grippe f
• Persian: انفلوانزا (fa) (anfuluânzâ)
• Polish: grypa (pl) f
• Portuguese: gripe (pt) f
• Romanian: gripă (ro)
• Russian: грипп (ru) m (gripp), инфлюэ́нца (ru) f (infljuénca)
• Scottish Gaelic: cnatan mòr m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: грип m, инфлуенца f

  Roman: grip m, influenca (sh) f

• Slovak: chrípka (sk) f
• Slovene: gripa (sl) f
• Spanish: gripe (es) f, gripa (es) f (Colombia, Mexico)
• Swedish: influensa (sv) c, flunsa (sv) c
• Tagalog: trangkaso
• Tajik: грипп (gripp)
• Tamil: இன்ஃபுளுவென்சா (iṉfuḷuveṉcā)
• Tatar: грипп (gripp)
• Telugu: ఫ్లూ (phlū)
• Thai: ไข้หวัดใหญ่ (kâi wàt yài)
• Tibetan: ཚད་རིམས། (tshad rims)
• Turkish: grip (tr)
• Turkmen: grip
• Ukrainian: грип m (hryp)
• Uzbek: gripp (uz)
• Vietnamese: bệnh cúm, cúm (vi)
• Yiddish: גריפּע f (gripe)
• Zulu: imfuluwenza class 9

See also

• catarrh

Anagrams

• -ful, ULF

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French

Etymology

From English flu (“influenza”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flu/

Noun

flu m (uncountable)

1. (Quebec) diarrhoea

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Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French flou.

Adjective

flu

1. fuzzy
2. (photography) blurred, out of focus