leper

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English lepre, leprosy, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin leprae, lepra, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek λέπρα (lépra).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛpə(r)

Noun

leper (plural lepers)

1. A person who has leprosy.
2. A person who is shunned; a pariah.

Derived terms

• leper colony

Translations

person who has leprosy

• Bikol Central: kagitsion
• Danish: spedalsk
• Dutch: melaatse (nl) m or f, leproos (nl) m
• Esperanto: leprulo
• Finnish: spitaalinen (fi)
• French: léprosé m, lépreux (fr)
• Galician: leproso m, gafo (gl) m, malato m
• Georgian: კეთროვანი (ḳetrovani)
• German: (especially historical, biblical) Aussätziger (de) m; (medicine now usually) Leprakranker (de) m
• Greek: λεπρός (el) m (leprós)

  Ancient Greek: λεπρός m (leprós)

• Greenlandic: pupissoq
• Hebrew: מצרע (m"tzorah)
• Hungarian: leprás (hu)
• Italian: lebbroso (it) m, lebbrosa (it) f
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• Japanese: 癩病患者 (らいびょうかんじゃ, raibyōkanja)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: گول (gul)

• Luxembourgish: Aussätzeger m
• Persian: جذامی (fa)
• Polish: trędowaty (pl) m
• Portuguese: leproso (pt) m, leprosa f
• Russian: прокажённый (ru) (prokažónnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: gubavac (sh) m, gubavica (sh) f
• Spanish: leproso (es) m, leprosa (es) f
• Swedish: spetälsk (sv) c
• Tagalog: ketongin
• Turkish: cüzzamlı (tr)
• Volapük: (♂♀) lepradan, (♂) hilepradan, (♀) jilepradan

person who is shunned; a pariah

• Finnish: hyljeksitty henkilö
• German: Ausgestoßener m; Aussätziger (de) m
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• Polish: trędowaty (pl) m

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “leper”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
• “leper”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Epler, repel