nausea

See also: náusea and nàusea

English

Etymology

From Middle English nausea, a borrowing from Latin nausea, from Ancient Greek ναυσία (nausía, “sea-sickness”), from ναῦς (naûs, “ship”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh₂-. Displaced native Old English wlǣtta.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈnɔːzɪə/, /ˈnɔːsɪə/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈnɔzi.ə/, /ˈnɔsi.ə/, /ˈnɔʒə/, /ˈnɔʃə/
• (US, cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈnɑzi.ə/, /ˈnɑsi.ə/, /ˈnɑʒə/, /ˈnɑʃə/
• Rhymes: -ɔːziə
• Hyphenation: nau‧sea

Noun

nausea (countable and uncountable, plural nauseas or nauseae or nauseæ)

1. A feeling of illness or discomfort in the digestive system, usually characterized by a strong urge to vomit.
2. Strong dislike or disgust.
3. Motion sickness.

Derived terms

• nauseate
• nauseous

Related terms

• ad nauseam
• nautical

Translations

feeling of physical unwellness, usually with the desire to vomit

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: غَثْيَان‎ m (ḡaṯyān)
• Armenian: սրտխառնուկ (srtxaṙnuk)
• Bulgarian: гадене (bg) n (gadene), повдигане (bg) (povdigane)
• Catalan: nàusea (ca) f
• Chamicuro: upa'saknanisti
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 惡心／恶心 (zh) (èxīn) or 噁心／𫫇心 (zh), 恶心 (zh) (ěxīn)

• Czech: nevolnost (cs) f, mdlo (cs) f
• Danish: kvalme (da)
• Dutch: misselijkheid (nl) f
• Esperanto: naŭzo
• Finnish: pahoinvointi (fi)
• French: nausée (fr) f
• Georgian: გულისრევა (gulisreva), გულძმარვა (ka) (gulʒmarva)
• German: Übelkeit (de) f
• Greek: ναυτία (el) f (naftía)

  Ancient: ναυσία f (nausía), ναυτία f (nautía), βδελυγμία f (bdelugmía)

• Hebrew: בְּחִילָה‎ (he) f (bḥilá)
• Hungarian: hányinger (hu), émelygés (hu)
• Indonesian: mual (id)
• Irish: masmas m, adhascaid f
• Italian: nausea (it) f
• Japanese: 吐き気 (ja) (はきけ, hakike), 酔い (ja) (よい, yoi) (intoxication), 悪心 (ja) (おしん, oshin)
• Khmer: ដំណើរ​ចង់​ក្អួត (dɑmnaə-cɑng-kʼuət)
• Korean: 구역질 (ko) (guyeokjil)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ھێلنج‎ (hêlnic)

• Ladino: enguyo m
• Latvian: nelabums m, sliktums m
• Lithuanian: šleikštulys m, pykinimas m
• Macedonian: гадење m (gadenje)
• Manx: jiooldaght f
• Maori: paipairuaki, whakapairua, whakapairuaki
• Marathi: मळमळ f (maḷmaḷ)
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kvalme (no) m

  Nynorsk: kvalme m

• Old English: wlǣtta m, wlǣtung
• Oromo: loca
• Persian: تهوع‎ (fa)
• Plautdietsch: Äakjel n
• Polish: mdłości (pl) pl, nudności (pl) pl
• Portuguese: náusea (pt) f, enjoo (pt)
• Romanian: greață (ro) f, nausea (ro) f
• Russian: тошнота́ (ru) f (tošnotá)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мучнѝна f, наузѐја f

  Roman: mučnìna (sh) f, nauzèja (sh) f

• Spanish: náusea (es) f
• Swahili: kichefuchefu (sw)
• Swedish: illamående (sv) n
• Tagalog: alibadbad (tl), dimarim
• Thai: คลื่นไส้ (th) (klʉ̂ʉn-sâi)
• Turkish: mide bulantısı
• Vietnamese: buồn nôn
• West Frisian: mier
• Yiddish: ניטגוטקײַט‎ f (nitgutkayt)

strong dislike or disgust

• Armenian: զզվանք (hy) (zzvankʿ)
• Bulgarian: отвращение (bg) n (otvraštenie)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 厭惡／厌恶 (zh) (yànwù), 嫌惡／嫌恶 (zh) (xiánwù)

• Esperanto: naŭzo
• Finnish: etominen (fi)
• French: nausée (fr) f, dégoût (fr) m
• German: Ekel (de) m
• Greek: αηδία (el) f (aïdía), ναυτία (el) f (naftía), σιχασιά (el) f (sichasiá), αναγούλα (el) f (anagoúla)
• Hungarian: megcsömörlés (hu), undorodás (hu), undor (hu), csömör (hu)
• Irish: déistin f
• Italian: nausea (it) f
• Japanese: 吐き気 (ja) (はきけ, hakike), 嫌悪 (ja) (けんお, ken'o)
• Polish: obrzydzenie (pl) n, wstręt (pl) m
• Portuguese: desgosto (pt) m, asco (pt) m, repulsão (pt) f
• Romanian: dezgust (ro) n
• Russian: отвраще́ние (ru) n (otvraščénije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мучнѝна f, наузѐја f

  Roman: mučnìna (sh) f, nauzèja (sh) f

• Spanish: repulsión (es) f, asco (es) m
• Swahili: kichefuchefu (sw)
• Thai: คลื่นไส้ (th) (klʉ̂ʉn-sâi)
• Turkish: iğrenmek (tr)

motion sickness — see motion sickness

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} mual (id)
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} náuseas (es) f pl
• Telugu: ^{(please verify)} వికారం (te) (vikāraṁ), ^{(please verify)} కడుపులో తిప్పుట (kaḍupulō tippuṭa)

Further reading

• nausea on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnaw.ze.a/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -awzea
• Hyphenation: nàu‧se‧a

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin nausea, nausia, from Ancient Greek ναυσία (nausía, “seasickness”), from ναῦς (naûs, “ship”).

Noun

nausea f (plural nausee)

1. nausea

Derived terms

• nausea mattutina
• nauseabondo / nauseante
• nauseare
• nauseato

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

nausea

1. inflection of nauseare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Latin

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek ναυσία (nausía).

Alternative forms

• nausia

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈnau̯.se.a/, [ˈnäu̯s̠eä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈnau̯.se.a/, [ˈnäːu̯seä]

Noun

nausea f (genitive nauseae); first declension

1. nausea
2. seasickness

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	nausea	nauseae
Genitive	nauseae	nauseārum
Dative	nauseae	nauseīs
Accusative	nauseam	nauseās
Ablative	nauseā	nauseīs
Vocative	nausea	nauseae

Descendants

• → English: nausea
• → French: nausée, noise
• → Italian: nausea
• → Portuguese: náusea
• → Spanish: náusea
• → Catalan: nàusea

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

nauseā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of nauseō

References

• “nausea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “nausea”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• nausea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette