palpitation

English

Etymology

From Middle French palpitation, from Latin palpitatio

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

palpitation (countable and uncountable, plural palpitations)

1. An abnormal beating of the heart that may be perceived by the patient, a result of excitement, exertion, or illness.
   • 1818, [Mary Shelley], chapter IV, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. In Three Volumes, volume I, London: Printed [by Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, OCLC 830979744, pages 101–102:

     Sometimes my pulse beat so quickly and hardly, that I felt the palpitation of every artery; at others, I nearly sank to the ground through languor and extreme weakness.

Translations

abnormal beating of the heart

• Armenian: սրտխփոց (hy) (srtxpʿocʿ)
• Catalan: palpitació f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 心悸 (zh) (xīnjì)

• Czech: palpitace (cs) f
• Finnish: sydämentykytys
• French: palpitation (fr) f
• Georgian: პალპიტაცია (ka) (ṗalṗiṭacia)
• German: Herzklopfen (de) n, Palpitation (de) f
• Greek: παλμός (el) m (palmós), καρδιοχτύπι (el) n (kardiochtýpi)

  Ancient: ἄραδος m (árados)

• Japanese: 動悸 (ja) (どうき, dōki)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: palpitasjon m, hjertebank m

  Nynorsk: palpitasjon m, hjartebank m or n

• Persian: تپش قلب‎
• Polish: palpitacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: palpitação (pt) f
• Russian: си́льное сердцебие́ние n (sílʹnoje serdcebijénije), пальпита́ция (ru) f (palʹpitácija)
• Scottish Gaelic: plosg m, plosgadh m
• Serbo-Croatian: palpitacija (sh) f
• Spanish: palpitación f
• Swedish: hjärtklappning c
• Tagalog: tahip, sikdo
• Ukrainian: пальпіта́ція f (palʹpitácija)

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French

Noun

palpitation f (plural palpitations)

1. palpitation