indigestion

See also: indigestión

English

Etymology

From Middle English indigestioun, from Old French indigestion, from Late Latin indigestio, by surface analysis, in- +‎ digestion.

Pronunciation

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Noun

indigestion (usually uncountable, plural indigestions)

1. A condition of heartburn, nausea, or other stomach-related pain, sometimes caused by eating too quickly.

Derived terms

• acid indigestion

Translations

condition caused by eating too quickly

• Afrikaans: spysvertering
• Albanian: dispepsi
• Arabic: عُسْر الهَضَم (ʕusr al-haḍam)
• Azerbaijani: həzmsizlik
• Basque: indigestioak
• Belarusian: нястраўнасць (njastraŭnascʹ)
• Bengali: বদহজম (bn) (bod'hojom)
• Bulgarian: лошо храносмилане (lošo hranosmilane)
• Burmese: အစာမကွေခွငျး (a.cama.kwehkwa.ngya:)
• Catalan: indigestió
• Chichewa: kudzimbidwa
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 消化不良 (zh) (xiāohuà bùliáng)

• Corsican: indigestione
• Czech: špatné trávení, zažívací potíže
• Dutch: indigestie (nl)
• Esperanto: dispepsio, misdigesto
• Estonian: seedehäired, seedehäire
• Finnish: ruoansulatusvaivat pl, ruoansulatushäiriö
• French: indigestion (fr) f
• Galician: indixestión, empacho m
• Georgian: საჭმლის მონელების დარღვევა (sač̣mlis monelebis darɣveva)
• German: Verdauungsstörung (de) f
• Greek: δυσπεψία (el) f (dyspepsía), βαρυστομαχιά (el) f (varystomachiá)

  Ancient: ἀπεψία f (apepsía)

• Gujarati: અપચો (apaco)
• Haitian Creole: gonfleman
• Hindi: अनपच (hi) (anpac), बदहज़मी f (badhazmī), अजीर्ण (hi) m (ajīrṇ)
• Hungarian: gyomorrontás (hu)
• Icelandic: meltingartruflanir
• Indonesian: gangguan pencernaan
• Irish: mí-dhíleá m, tinneas bhéal an ghoile m
• Italian: indigestione (it) f
• Japanese: 消化不良 (shōka furyō)
• Kannada: ಅಜೀರ್ಣ (kn) (ajīrṇa)
• Khmer: ការរំលាយអាហារ (kaa rumliəy ʼaahaa)
• Korean: 소화 불량 (sohwa bullyang)
• Kyrgyz: ашказан бузулуу (aşkazan buzuluu), зилинин (zilinin)
• Latin: cruditatem, cruditas, cruditates
• Latvian: gremošanas traucējumi
• Lithuanian: nevirškinimas
• Malay: ketakcernaan
• Malayalam: ദഹനക്കേട് (ml) (dahanakkēṭŭ)
• Maltese: indiġestjoni
• Maori: taratarawai, kunāwhea
• Marathi: अपचन (apcan)
• Nepali: अपच (ne) (apac)
• Norwegian: fordøyelsesproblemer pl, fordøyelsesbesvær n
• Persian: سوءِ هاضمه (su'-e hâzeme)
• Polish: niestrawność (pl) f, dyspepsja (pl) f
• Portuguese: indigestão (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਬਦਹਜ਼ਮੀ (badhazamī)
• Romanian: indigestie (ro) f
• Russian: несваре́ние желу́дка f (nesvarénije želúdka), диспепси́я (ru) f (dispepsíja)
• Sanskrit: अजीर्ण (sa) n (ajīrṇa)
• Scottish Gaelic: cion-meirbhidh m, dì-chnàmhadh m
• Serbo-Croatian: пробавне сметње, probavne smetnje
• Sinhalese: අජීර්ණය (ajīrṇaya)
• Spanish: indigestión
• Swedish: indigestion (sv)
• Tagalog: disatunaw
• Telugu: అజీర్ణము (te) (ajīrṇamu), అజీర్తి (te) (ajīrti)

See also

• acid reflux
• gastric reflux
• GERD
• GORD
• heartburn
• constipation
• bubble guts

Anagrams

• indigotines

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Late Latin indigestiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.di.ʒɛs.tjɔ̃/

• Audio:

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Noun

indigestion f (plural indigestions)

1. indigestion
2. (figuratively) overdose of, surfeit of something

Related terms

• digestion
• indigeste

See also

• intoxication alimentaire

Further reading

• “indigestion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.