gonorrhea

English

Alternative forms

• gonorrhoea, gonorrhœa (British)

Etymology

From New Latin, from Late Latin gonorrhoea, from Ancient Greek γονόρροια (gonórrhoia), from γόνος (gónos, “sperm, seed, offspring”) + ῥοία (rhoía, “flow”) (ca. 1526); surface analysis, gono- +‎ -rrhea.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌɡɒn.əˈɹiː.ə/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌɡɑn.əˈɹi.ə/
• Rhymes: -iːə

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Noun

gonorrhea (countable and uncountable, plural gonorrheas)

1. (American spelling) A sexually transmitted infection caused by Neisseria gonorrhoeae, a species of bacteria (the gonococcus) that affects the mucous membrane of the genital and urinary tracts.

Synonyms

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Related terms

• diarrhea/diarrhoea
• galactorrhea/galactorrhoea
• logorrhea/logorrhoea
• pyorrhea/pyorrhoea

Translations

STD

• Arabic: سَيَلَان‎ m (sayalān)
• Arikara: karahkotkaáhux
• Armenian: սուսանակ (hy) (susanak), գոնոռեա (gonoṙea)
• Assiniboine: cé otùyąbi
• Azerbaijani: süzənək, qonoreya
• Basque: gonorrea (eu)
• Belarusian: ганарэ́я f (hanaréja)
• Bulgarian: гоноре́я f (gonoréja), три́пер m (tríper)
• Burmese: ညောင်းကျရောဂါ (nyaung:kya.rau:ga), ဆီးပူညောင်းကျ (my) (hci:pu-nyaung:kya.)
• Catalan: gonocòccia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 淋病 (zh) (lìnbìng, línbìng)

• Czech: kapavka (cs) f
• Danish: gonoré
• Dhivehi: ކިހުނުވުން‎ (kihunuvun̊)
• Dutch: gonorroe (nl)
• Esperanto: gonoreo
• Estonian: gonorröa
• Faroese: dryppari m
• Finnish: tippuri (fi)
• French: gonorrhée (fr) f, blennorragie (fr) f
• German: Gonorrhoe (de) f, Tripper (de) m
• Greek: βλεννόρροια (el) f (vlennórroia)

  Ancient: γονόρροια f (gonórrhoia)

• Hebrew: זִיבָה‎ (he) f (zivá)
• Hindi: प्रमेह (hi) (prameh), गोनोरिया (gonoriyā)
• Hungarian: kankó (hu), tripper (hu)
• Indonesian: kencing nanah (id), gonore (id)
• Italian: gonorrea (it) f
• Japanese: 淋病 (りんびょう, rinbyō)
• Kazakh: соз (soz)
• Khmer: ប្រមេះទឹកបាយ (km) (prɑɑmihtɨkbaay)
• Korean: 임질 (imjil)
• Latin: gonorrhoea f
• Lithuanian: gonorėja
• Low German: drüpper
• Malay: gonorea
• Maori: pakiwhara
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Nandi: kipnonog
• Neapolitan: scarfatura f
• Nepali: धातुमेह (dhātumeha)
• Norman: gôrre f, vétheule honteuse f
• Norwegian: gonoré
• Persian: سوزاک‎ (fa) (suzâk), گنوره‎ (gonore)
• Polish: rzeżączka (pl) f
• Portuguese: gonorreia (pt) f
• Romanian: gonoree (ro) f
• Russian: гоноре́я (ru) f (gonoréja), пари́жский на́сморк m (parížskij násmork) (slang, "Parisian cold"), три́ппер (ru) m (trípper), три́пер (ru) m (tríper)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гонореја f

  Roman: gonoreja (sh) f, kapavac (sh) m

• Slovak: kvapavka (sk) f, gonorea (sk) f
• Slovene: gonoreja (sl) f
• Spanish: gonorrea (es) f
• Swahili: kisonono (sw), kisalisali
• Swedish: gonorré (sv)
• Tagalog: tulas, gonoreya
• Tamil: கொணோறியா (koṇōṟiyā)
• Telugu: సెగవ్యాధి (segavyādhi)
• Thai: หนองใน
• Tibetan: གྲང་གཞི (grang gzhi), གྲང་བ (grang ba)
• Turkish: belsoğukluğu (tr), gonore
• Ukrainian: гоноре́я f (honoréja)
• Vietnamese: lậu mủ
• Yurok: mechomee'

See also

• urethritis

References

• gonorrhea on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Neisseria gonorrhoeae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• gonorrhea at OneLook Dictionary Search