nosebleed

See also: nose bleed

English

Alternative forms

• nose bleed

Etymology

From nose +‎ bleed.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈnəʊzˌbliːd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈnoʊzˌblid/

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Noun

nosebleed (plural nosebleeds)

1. A haemorrhage from the nose; usually, blood flow exiting the nostrils that originates from the nasal cavity.
2. (US obsolete slang) A nerd or geek; a dork.
3. (Philippines, figurative, slang) mental overload (usually attained as a result of having to comprehend new and/or complex concepts or languages that one is not particularly skilled with).
4. Short for nosebleed seat.

Synonyms

• epistaxis, blood nose (Australia), bloody nose

Derived terms

• nosebleed plant
• nosebleed seat
• nosebleed section

Translations

haemorrhage from the nose

• Arabic: رُعَاف m (ruʕāf)

  Egyptian Arabic: نزيف m (neziif)

  Hijazi Arabic: نزيف m (nazīf)

• Bulgarian: кръвотечение от носа n (krǎvotečenie ot nosa)
• Cherokee: ᏓᏴᏍᏉᎢ (dayvsquoi)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鼻血 (zh) (bíxuè, bíxiě), 鼻出血 (zh) (bíchūxuè, bíchūxiě), 鼻衄 (zh) (bínǜ)

• Danish: næseblod (da)
• Dutch: bloedneus (nl) m
• Esperanto: epistakso
• Finnish: nenäverenvuoto (fi)
• French: saignement de nez (fr) m
• German: Nasenbluten (de) n
• Greek: ρινορραγία (el) f (rinorragía), ἐπιστάζω m (epistázō)
• Hausa: haɓṑ m
• Hindi: नकसीर (hi) f (naksīr)
• Hungarian: orrvérzés (hu)
• Icelandic: blóðnasir (is) f pl
• Indonesian: mimisan (id)
• Irish: fuil shróine f
• Italian: perdita di sangue dal naso, epistassi (it) f
• Japanese: 鼻血 (ja) (はなぢ, hanaji)
• Khmer: ការឈាមច្រមុះ (kaa cʰiem crɑmoh)
• Korean: 코피 (ko) (kopi)
• Navajo: néʼédił yistał
• Norwegian:

  Nynorsk: naseblod n

• Persian: خون‌دماغ (xun-damâğ)
• Polish: krwawienie z nosa n
• Portuguese: sangramento de nariz m, epistaxe (pt) f
• Romanian: hemoragie nazală (ro) f
• Russian: носово́е кровотече́ние n (nosovóje krovotečénije)
• Spanish: hemorragia nasal f, epistaxis (es)
• Swedish: näsblod (sv)
• Tagalog: balinguyngoy (tl)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Tibetan: སྣ་ཁྲག (sna khrag), ཤངས་ཁྲག (shangs khrag) (honorific)
• Ukrainian: носова́ кровоте́ча f (nosová krovotéča)
• Urdu: نَکْسِیْر f (naksīr)
• Vietnamese: máu cam (vi)

See also

• noseblood
• pseudoepistaxis

Cebuano

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English nosebleed.

Adjective

nosebleed

1. (nonstandard, informal) (of an idea or argument) highly intellectual for one's own capabilities

Verb

nosebleed

1. (nonstandard, informal) to struggle with English or to struggle to keep up conversation with an English speaker
2. (nonstandard, informal) to tackle an idea or argument that is viewed too intellectual for one's own capabilities

Tagalog

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English nosebleed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnowsblid/, [ˈnoʊ̯s.blɪd]
• Hyphenation: nose‧bleed

Noun

nosebleed (Baybayin spelling ᜈᜓᜏ᜔ᜐ᜔ᜊ᜔ᜎᜒᜇ᜔)

1. nosebleed
2. (colloquial, figurative) A mental overload (usually attained as a result of having to comprehend new and/or complex concepts or languages that one is not particularly skilled with).

   Nosebleed ang pagmememoriya ng sangkatutak na mga formula sa isang gabi.

   Memorizing a whole bunch of formulas in one night is a nosebleed.

Derived terms

• ma-nosebleed
• pagka-nosebleed
• pagkaka-nosebleed