obese

See also: obèse

English

Etymology

From Latin obēsus, derived from obedō (“I devour, eat away”), from ob (“away”) + edō (“I eat”). Displaced native Old English oferfǣtt (literally “overfat”).

Pronunciation

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

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• Rhymes: (General American) -is, (UK) -iːs

Adjective

obese (comparative more obese, superlative most obese or obesest)

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.
   • 2020 October 3, Peter Bowes, “Trump spends first night in hospital after Covid-19 diagnosis”, in BBC:

     The president, being 74, a man and someone categorised as obese, is in a higher-risk category for Covid-19.

   • 2020, Christia Marie Ramos, “Teacher behind exam material body-shaming Angel Locsin undergoing admin probe — DepEd”, in Philippine Daily Inquirer:

     But it can be recalled that Locsin earlier called out DepEd for seemingly being “unaffected” by the actions of a teacher who body-shamed her by describing her ^[sic] “an obese person” in a Physical Education (PE) educational material after the agency issued an apology.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:obese

Derived terms

• clinically obese
• morbidly obese
• obesity

 

Translations

extremely overweight

• Arabic:

  Egyptian: تخين‎ (tiḵīn), سمين‎ (samīn)

• Armenian: չաղ (hy) (čʿał)
• Bashkir: һимеҙ (himeð)
• Bulgarian: прекалено дебел (prekaleno debel)
• Catalan: obès (ca)
• Cherokee: ᎦᎵᏦᎯᏓ (galitsohida)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 肥胖 (zh) (féipàng)

• Czech: obézní (cs)
• Danish: fed
• Dutch: obees (nl), vetzuchtig, diklijvig
• Finnish: liikalihava, obeesi (fi)
• French: obèse (fr)
• Galician: obeso
• 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
• Jamaican Creole: mampy
• Japanese: 肥満 (ja) (ひまん, himan)
• Korean: 뚱뚱한 (ttungttunghan)
• Latin: obēsus, corpulentus
• Macedonian: дебел m (debel), угоен m (ugoen), згоен m (zgoen)

• Malayalam: പൊണ്ണത്തടിയുള്ള (poṇṇattaṭiyuḷḷa), അമിതവണ്ണമുള്ള (amitavaṇṇamuḷḷa)
• Norwegian: korpulent (no)
• Old English: oferfǣtt
• 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 (ūbakāyaṁ, ūba oḷḷu, sthūlakāyaṁ), లావు (te) (lāvu), లావైన (te) (lāvaina)
• Tocharian B: kraupalñetstse
• 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 (sq), ^{(please verify)} trashë (sq), ^{(please verify)} dhjamosur

See also

• fat

Anagrams

• Boese

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Interlingua

Adjective

obese (not comparable)

1. obese

Related terms

• obesitate

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oˈbe.ze/, (traditional) /oˈbɛ.ze/
• Rhymes: -eze, (traditional) -ɛze
• Hyphenation: o‧bé‧se, (traditional) o‧bè‧se

Adjective

obese

1. feminine plural of obeso

Noun

obese f pl

1. feminine plural of obeso

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Latin

Participle

obēse

1. vocative masculine singular of obēsus