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
Noun
leper (plural lepers)
- A person who has leprosy.
- A person who is shunned; a pariah.
Derived terms
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
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person who is shunned; a pariah
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