mumps

See also: MUMPS and Mumps

English

Etymology

Circa 1600, from mump (“grimace”, noun), compare mump (verb), most likely referring to the painful difficulty in swallowing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mʌmps/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ʌmps

Noun

mumps pl (plural only)

1. (pathology) A contagious disease caused by the Mumps virus of the genus Rubulavirus, mostly occurring in childhood, which causes swelling of glands in the face and neck.
   • 2002 February 10, Sarah Lyall, “Britain Tries to Quell Fear Over Vaccine for Children”, in The New York Times‎^[1], archived from the original on 14 February 2021:

     At issue is the so-called MMR vaccine, which immunizes children against measles, mumps and rubella, three potentially deadly diseases that were once common and have been mostly wiped out.

2. (dated) A gloomy or sullen silence.

Usage notes

• Usually used with a singular verb.

Hypernyms

• parotitis

Derived terms

• antimumps
• mumpish

Translations

contagious disease

• Afrikaans: pampoentjies
• Albanian: shyta (sq) f
• Arabic: نُكَاف m (nukāf)
• Asturian: parotidis
• Basque: hazizurri
• Bikol:

  Central Bikol: bayuko (bcl)

• Bulgarian: заушка f (zauška)
• Cebuano: bayuok
• Cherokee: ᎠᏓᏴᏦᏗᏍᎩ (adayvtsodisgi)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 腮腺炎 (zh) (sāixiànyán)

• Czech: příušnice (cs) f pl
• Dutch: bof (nl) m
• Esperanto: mumpso
• Estonian: mumps (et)
• Finnish: sikotauti (fi)
• French: oreillons (fr)
• Georgian: ყბაყურა (q̇baq̇ura)
• German: Mumps (de) m, Ziegenpeter (de) m, Mumpf m
• Greek: παρωτίτιδα (el) f (parotítida), μαγουλάδες (el) f pl (magouládes)
• Hausa: hàngum m
• Hebrew: חַזֶּרֶת (he) f (khazéret)
• Hungarian: mumpsz (hu)
• Hunsrik: Kaschumbe pl
• Ido: oreliono (io)
• Indonesian: beguk (id)
• Italian: parotite epidemica f, orecchioni (it)
• Japanese: 流行性耳下腺炎 (りゅうこうせいじかせんえん, ryūkōsei jikasen'en), おたふく 風邪 (otafuku kaze)
• Kapampangan: bayki, buklaw
• Khmer: ស្រឡទែន (srɑɑlɑɑtɛɛn), សាលាទែន (saaliətɛɛn)
• Korean: 볼거리 (ko) (bolgeori)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: binguhik

• Lithuanian: kiaulytė f
• Macedonian: за́ушки pl (záuški)
• Malayalam: മുണ്ടിനീര് (ml) (muṇṭinīrŭ)
• Māori: mate pupuhi repe, repe hūware pupuhi
• Navajo: ayaayááh niichaad
• Neapolitan: recchiune
• Norwegian: kusma (no)
• Persian: اوریون (oreyon)
• Plautdietsch: Mumps f
• Polish: świnka (pl) f
• Portuguese: parotidite epidémica f, papeira (pt) f, caxumba (pt) f
• Romanian: oreion (ro) n
• Russian: зау́шница (ru) f (zaúšnica), сви́нка (ru) f (svínka)
• Scottish Gaelic: a' phluc f, a' phloic
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: заушке f

  Latin: zauške f

• Slovak: mumps m
• Spanish: paperas (es), parotiditis f
• Sundanese: gondongeun (su)
• Swedish: parotit c, påssjuka (sv) c
• Tagalog: beke, buklaw
• Turkish: kabakulak (tr)
• Ukrainian: сви́нка f (svýnka), заву́шниця f (zavúšnycja)
• Vietnamese: quai bị (vi), chàm bàm
• Waray-Waray: bikag
• Welsh: clwy'r pennau, twymyn doben

Verb

mumps

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of mump

Noun

mumps

1. plural of mump

References

Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “mumps”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Anagrams

• PMMUs