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.

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.
2. (dated) A gloomy or sullen silence.

Usage notes

• Usually used with a singular verb.

Translations

contagious disease

• Afrikaans: pampoentjies
• Asturian: parotidis
• Basque: hazizurri
• Bikol Central: bayokô
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 腮腺炎 (zh) (sāixiànyán)

• Czech: příušnice (cs) f pl
• Dutch: bof (nl)
• Esperanto: mumpso
• Estonian: mumps (et)
• Finnish: sikotauti (fi)
• French: oreillons (fr)
• German: Mumps (de) m
• Greek: παρωτίτιδα (el) f (parotítida), μαγουλάδες (el) f pl (magouládes)
• Hausa: hàngum m
• Hungarian: mumpsz (hu)
• 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)
• Macedonian: заушки pl (záuški)
• Maori: mate pupuhi repe
• Navajo: ayaayááh niichaad
• Neapolitan: recchiune
• Norwegian: kusma (no)
• Persian: اوریون‎ (oreyon)
• Polish: świnka (pl) f
• Portuguese: caxumba (pt) f
• Russian: зау́шница (ru) f (zaúšnica), сви́нка (ru) f (svínka)
• Scottish Gaelic: a' phluc f, a'phloic
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: заушке f

  Roman: zauške f

• Spanish: paperas, parotiditis f
• Swedish: parotit c, påssjuka (sv) c
• Turkish: kabakulak (tr)
• Welsh: clwy'r pennau, y dwymyn doben

Verb

mumps

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mump

Noun

mumps

1. plural of mump

References

“mumps” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.