obese

English

Etymology

Latin obesus, derived from obedere (“to devour, eat away”), from ob (“away”) + edere (“to 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

• obesity
• obeses

Phrases

• morbidly obese
• super obese

Translations

extremely overweight

• Armenian: չաղ (čʿał)
• Catalan: obès
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 肥胖 (zh) (féipàng)

• Czech: obézní (cs)
• Danish: fed
• Dutch: obees, vetzuchtig, diklijvig
• Finnish: liikalihava, obeesi
• French: obèse (fr)
• Georgian: მსუქანი (msuk’ani)
• 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)
• 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: gȍjāzan, prètio
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: syty

• Spanish: obeso
• Telugu: ఊబ (ūba) (ఊబకాయం, ఊబ ఒళ్ళు, స్థూలకాయం), లావు (te) (lāvu), లావైన (lāvaina)
• Turkish: obez (tr)
• Uzbek: semiz (uz)
• Welsh: corffol, gordew, corffog

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

See also

• fat

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Italian

Adjective

obese

1. feminine plural of obeso

Noun

obese f

1. plural form of obesa

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Latin

Participle

obēse

1. vocative masculine singular of obēsus