glanders

See also: Glanders

English

Etymology

From Middle English glandres, glaundres, from Old French glandres, plural of Old French glandre, from Latin glandula. Doublet of glandule.

Pronunciation

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Noun

glanders (uncountable)

1. An infectious disease of horses, mules, and donkeys caused by the bacterium Burkholderia, one species of which may be transmitted to humans.
   • 2016, “Glanders” (45:01 from the start), in The Americans, season 4, episode 1:

     Elizabeth Jennings (Keri Russell): What is it? / William Crandall (Dylan Baker): It's Burkholderia mallei. Causes a disease called glanders. / Phillip Jennings (Matthew Rhys): The innoculation we got was against a kind of meningitis. / William: This is to meningitis what bubonic plague is to a runny nose.

Synonyms

• leprosy (obs.)

Derived terms

• glandered
• pseudoglanders

Translations

disease

• Arabic: رُعَام (ruʕām)
• Bulgarian: сап (bg) m (sap)
• Catalan: borm m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 馬鼻疽 / 马鼻疽 (zh)

• Czech: vozhřivka f
• Finnish: räkätauti (fi)
• French: morve (fr) f
• Galician: mormo m
• German: Rotz (de) m
• Greek: μάλις f (mális)
• Hungarian: takonykór (hu)
• Ingrian: räkätauti
• Irish: boilg fola m pl, fothach m
• Italian: morva f
• Latin: malleus (la) m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: snive m or f

• Old Galician-Portuguese: mormo m
• Persian: مشمشه (fa) (mešmeše)
• Polish: nosacizna (pl) f
• Portuguese: mormo (pt) m
• Romanian: morvă (ro) f
• Russian: сап (ru) m (sap)
• Scots: mortercheyn
• Sicilian: morvu (scn) m
• Slovak: sopľavka f
• Spanish: muermo (es) m
• Swedish: rots (sv) c, snip (sv) c
• Turkish: sakağı (tr), mankafa (tr), ruam (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: صقاغی (sakağı), مانقفا (mankafa), رعام (ruʿam)

• Ukrainian: сап m (sap)
• Welsh: ysgyfaint (cy) f

Anagrams

• Danglers, Legrands, danglers