mumps

See also: MUMPS

English

Wikipedia

Noun

mumps (plural only)

1. (pathology) A contagious disease caused by a virus of the genus Rubulavirus, mostly occurring in childhood, which causes swelling of glands in the face and neck.

Usage notes

• More frequently used with a singular verb.

Translations

contagious disease

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 腮腺炎 (zh) (sāixiànyán)

• Czech: příušnice (cs) f pl
• Dutch: bof (nl)
• Estonian: mumps (et)
• Finnish: sikotauti (fi)
• French: oreillons (fr)
• German: Mumps (de) m
• Greek: παρωτίτιδα (el) (parotítida), μαγουλάδες (el) f pl (magouládes)
• Hausa: hàngum m
• Hungarian: mumpsz
• 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)
• Neapolitan: recchiune
• Norwegian: kusma (no)
• Polish: świnka (pl) f
• Portuguese: caxumba (pt) m
• Russian: заушница (ru) f (zaúšnica), свинка (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