measles

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmiːzəlz/

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Etymology 1

Plural of Middle English mesel, masel, probably from Middle Dutch masel (“blemish”) due to confusion with measle. Cognate with Middle Low German masele, māsel.

Noun

1. Rubeola, an acute highly contagious disease, often of childhood, caused by Measles virus, of genus Morbillivirus, featuring a spreading red skin rash, fever, runny nose, cough and red eyes
2. Any of several other similar diseases, such as German measles.
3. A disease of pigs and cattle, caused by larval tapeworms.
4. A disease of trees, in which the leaves are covered in spots.

Usage notes

• Plural in form, but usually used with a singular verb.

Synonyms

• (disease): morbilli, rubeola, red measles, 7-day measles, 10-day measles, hard measles

Derived terms

• 3-day measles
• blue measles
• false measles
• French measles
• German measles
• measly
• three-day measles

 

Translations

acute highly contagious viral disease

• Afrikaans: masels pl
• Arabic: حَصْبَة f (ḥaṣba)

  Moroccan Arabic: بوحمرون m (buḥamrūn)

• Armenian: կարմրուկ (hy) (karmruk)
• Assamese: সৰু আই (xoru ai)
• Bashkir: ҡыҙылса (qıźılsa)
• Basque: elgorri (eu)
• Belarusian: адзёр m (adzjór)
• Catalan: xarampió (ca) m
• Cherokee: ᎤᏁᏲᏘᏍᎩ (uneyotisgi)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 麻疹 (zh) (mázhěn)

• Czech: spalničky (cs) f pl
• Danish: mæslinger c pl
• Dargwa: аринж (arinž)
• Dutch: mazelen (nl) pl, morbilli
• Esperanto: morbilo (eo)
• Estonian: leetrid pl, leetrid
• Finnish: tuhkarokko (fi)
• French: rougeole (fr) f
• Galician: sarampelo m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Masern (de) f pl
• Greek: ιλαρά (el) f (ilará)
• Guinea-Bissau Creole: sarampa
• Hebrew: חצבת (he) f (ḥatsevet)
• Hindi: खसरा (hi) (khasrā)
• Hungarian: kanyaró (hu)
• Irish: bruitíneach f
• Italian: morbillo (it)
• Japanese: 麻疹 (ja) (ましん, mashin, はしか, hashika)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Korean: 홍역 (ko) (hong'yeok) (紅疫 (ko))
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: سوورێژە (sûrêje)

• Latvian: masalas f pl
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Luxembourgish: Riedelen pl
• Maltese: ħosba f
• Maori: mate karawaka, mītera, mītara
• Norman: rouogeule f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: meslinger (no) m pl

  Nynorsk: meslingar m pl

• Occitan: sarrampiu (oc) m, senepiu (oc) m
• Persian: سرخک (fa) (sorxak)
• Polish: odra (pl) f
• Portuguese: sarampo (pt) m
• Romanian: rujeolă (ro) f
• Russian: корь (ru) f (korʹ)
• Slovak: osýpky (sk)
• Spanish: sarampión (es) m
• Swahili: surua (sw), ukambi
• Swedish: mässling (sv)
• Tagalog: tigdas
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: หัด (hàt)
• Turkish: kızamık (tr)
• Ukrainian: кір (uk) m (kir)
• Vietnamese: sởi (vi)
• Volapük: morbil
• Walloon: rovioûles (wa) pl, rodjetes (wa) pl
• Welsh: y frech goch f
• Zazaki: surıc, surani

any of similar contagious diseases

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: rokko (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Spanish: sarampión (es) m
• Zazaki: surani

Etymology 2

See measle

Noun

measles

1. (obsolete) plural of measle
2. (obsolete) Leprosy.

Anagrams

• Saleems, almesse