obese

See also: obèse

English

Etymology

From Latin obēsus, derived from obedō (“I devour, eat away”), from ob (“away”) + edō (“I eat”)

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /oʊˈbis/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /əʊˈbiːs/, /əˈbiːs/

Adjective

obese (comparative more obese, superlative most obese)

1. Extremely overweight, especially: weighing more than 20% (for men) or 25% (for women) over their ideal weight determined by height and build; or, having a body mass index over 30 kg/m².

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:obese

Derived terms

Terms derived from obese

• morbidly obese

• obesity

Translations

extremely overweight

• Armenian: չաղ (hy) (čʿał)
• Bashkir: һимеҙ (himeð)
• Catalan: obès (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 肥胖 (zh) (féipàng)

• Czech: obézní (cs)
• Danish: fed
• Dutch: obees, vetzuchtig, diklijvig
• Finnish: liikalihava, obeesi
• French: obèse (fr)
• Georgian: მსუქანი (msukani)
• German: fettleibig (de), fettsüchtig (de), korpulent (de)
• Greek: παχύσαρκος (el) (pachýsarkos)
• Hungarian: túlsúlyos (hu), elhízott (hu)
• Italian: obeso (it) corpulento (it) m
• Japanese: 肥満 (ja) (ひまん, himan)
• Korean: 뚱뚱한 (ttungttunghan)

• Latin: obēsus
• Macedonian: дебел m (debel), угоен m (ugoen), згоен m (zgoen)
• Malayalam: പൊണ്ണത്തടിയുള്ള (poṇṇattaṭiyuḷḷa), അമിതവണ്ണമുള്ള (amitavaṇṇamuḷḷa)
• Norwegian: korpulent (no)
• Persian: چاق‏‎ (fa) (čâq)
• Polish: otyły (pl) m
• Portuguese: obeso (pt)
• Romanian: obez (ro)
• Russian: то́лстый (ru) (tólstyj), по́лный (ru) (pólnyj), ту́чный (ru) (túčnyj), (impolite) жи́рный (ru) (žírnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: gȍjāzan (sh), prètio (sh)

• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: syty

• Spanish: obeso (es)
• Telugu: ఊబ (te) (ūba), ^{(please verify)} ఊబకాయం, ఊబ ఒళ్ళు, స్థూలకాయం (ūbakāyaṃ, ūba oḷḷu, sthūlakāyaṃ), లావు (te) (lāvu), లావైన (te) (lāvaina)
• Turkish: obez (tr)
• Uzbek: semiz (uz)
• Welsh: corffol, gordew, corffog

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Albanian: ^{(please verify)} ngjallur, ^{(please verify)} trashë, ^{(please verify)} dhjamosur

See also

• fat

Anagrams

• Boese

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Italian

Adjective

obese

1. feminine plural of obeso

Noun

obese f

1. plural of obesa

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Latin

Participle

obēse

1. vocative masculine singular of obēsus