pneumonia

See also: pneumònia

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πνευμονία (pneumonía, “lung disease”), from πνεύμων (pneúmōn, “lung”) + -ία (-ía).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /njuˈməʊniə/

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• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /nuˈmoʊniə/, /nəˈmoʊniə/

Noun

pneumonia (usually uncountable, plural pneumonias or pneumoniæ)

1. An acute or chronic inflammation of the lungs caused by viruses, bacteria or other microorganisms, or sometimes by physical or chemical irritants.
   • 1922, Michael Arlen, “2/9/1”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days‎^[1]:

     He had always been remarkably immune from such little ailments, and had only once in his life been ill, of a vicious pneumonia long ago at school.

Derived terms

• atypical pneumonia
• bronchopneumonia
• double pneumonia
• lobar pneumonia
• peripneumonia
• pleuropneumonia
• pneumococcal pneumonia
• pneumocystis pneumonia
• pneumoniac
• pneumonialike
• single pneumonia
• typhopneumonia
• walking pneumonia

 

Translations

inflammation of the lungs

• Albanian: pneumoni (sq) f
• Arabic: ذَات اَلرِّئَة‎ m (ḏāt ar-riʾa)
• Arikara: naniítuʾ
• Armenian: թոքաբորբ (hy) (tʿokʿaborb), թոքերի բորբոքում (tʿokʿeri borbokʿum)
• Assiniboine: caǧú bóbi, caǧú nadàboǧą
• Azerbaijani: ağciyər iltihabı, sətəlcəm, pnevmoniya
• Belarusian: пнеўмані́я f (pnjeŭmaníja), запале́нне лёгкіх n (zapaljénnje ljóhkix)
• Burmese: အဆုတ်ရောင်ရောဂါ (my) (a.hcutraung-rau:ga)
• Catalan: pneumònia (ca) f, pulmonia (ca) f
• Cherokee: ᎪᎳ ᎡᎯ ᎤᏗᎴᎬᏍᎬ (gola ehi udilegvsgv), ᎪᎴᎯ (golehi)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 肺炎 (fai³ jim⁴)

  Hakka: 肺炎 (fi-yàm, hi-yàm)

  Mandarin: 肺炎 (zh) (fèiyán)

  Min Nan: 肺炎 (zh-min-nan) (hì-iām)

• Classical Nahuatl: ōpōchehēcatl
• Czech: zápal plic (cs) m, pneumonie (cs) f
• Danish: lungebetændelse (da) c
• Dhivehi: ނިއުމޯނިޔާ‎ (niumōniyā)
• Dutch: longontsteking (nl)
• Esperanto: pneŭmonito
• Estonian: kopsupõletik (et), pneumoonia
• Finnish: keuhkokuume (fi), pneumonia (fi)
• French: pneumonie (fr) f
• Galician: pneumonía f
• Georgian: პნევმონია (ṗnevmonia), ფილტვების ანთება (pilṭvebis anteba)
• German: Lungenentzündung (de) f; Pneumonie (de) f (scientific)
• Greek: πνευμονία (el) f (pnevmonía)
• Hindi: न्यूमोनिया f (nyūmoniyā)
• Hungarian: tüdőgyulladás (hu)
• Icelandic: lungnabólga (is) f
• Ido: pulmonito (io)
• Indonesian: pneumonia (id)
• Inuktitut: ᐳᕝᕕᕆᓂᖅ (puvviriniq)
• Irish: aicíd na scamhóg f, niúmóine
• Italian: polmonite (it) f
• Japanese: 肺炎 (ja) (はいえん, haien),
• Kazakh: өкпе қабынуы (ökpe qabınwı)
• Khmer: ជម្ងឺរលាកទងសួត (cumŋɨɨ rɔliek tɔɔŋ suǝt), រោគរលាកសួត (rook rɔliek suǝt)
• Korean: 폐렴(肺炎) (ko) (pyeryeom)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: سِیەسۆ‎ (siyeso)

• Ladin: pontes f pl
• Lao: ປອດບວມ (pǭt būam)
• Latvian: pneimonija f, plaušu karsonis m
• Lithuanian: plaučių uždegimas m, pneumonija f
• Macedonian: пнеумонија f (pneumonija)
• Malay: paru-paru berair
• Malecite-Passamaquoddy: numuniyewine
• Maori: mate pūkahu kakā, mate niumōnia, niumōnia
• Navajo: dikos ntsaaígíí
• Norman: enfliammâtion d'ponmons f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: lungebetennelse m

  Nynorsk: lungebetennelse m

• Pawnee: raritukskucuʾ (South Band)
• Persian: ذات‌الریه‎ (zât-or-riye)
• Polish: zapalenie płuc (pl) n
• Portuguese: pneumonia (pt) f
• Romanian: pneumonie (ro) f
• Russian: пневмони́я (ru) f (pnevmoníja), воспале́ние лёгких (ru) n (vospalénije ljóxkix)
• Scottish Gaelic: am fiabhras-clèibhe m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пнеумо̀нија f, упала плућа f

  Roman: pneumònija (sh) f, upala pluća f

• Slovak: zápal pľúc m, pneumónia (sk) f
• Slovene: pljučnica (sl) f
• Southern East Cree: ᐹᒋᐦᐸᓀᐸᔨᐙᔅᐱᓀᐎᓐ (paacihpanepayiwaaspinewin)
• Spanish: pulmonía (es) f, neumonía (es) f
• Swedish: lunginflammation (sv) c
• Tagalog: magambaga, magandahumbaga, pulmunya
• Tamil: நுரையீரல் அழற்சி (nuraiyīral aḻaṟci)
• Thai: ปอดบวม (bpɔ̀ɔt-buuam)
• Tlingit: k'inashóo
• Turkish: zatürre (tr), pnömoni (tr)
• Ukrainian: пневмоні́я f (pnevmoníja), запа́лення леге́нів n (zapálennja lehéniv)
• Uzbek: zotiljam (uz), pnevmoniya (uz)
• Vietnamese: viêm phổi (炎𦟊), sưng phổi (vi), phế viêm (vi) (dated)
• Volapük: luegaflamat
• Zhuang: feiyenz, binghfeiyenz

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Finnish

Etymology

Internationalism (see English pneumonia), ultimately from Ancient Greek πνευμονία (pneumonía).

Noun

pneumonia

1. (pathology) pneumonia

Declension

Inflection of pneumonia (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
nominative		pneumonia	pneumoniat
genitive		pneumonian	pneumonioiden pneumonioitten
partitive		pneumoniaa	pneumonioita
illative		pneumoniaan	pneumonioihin
		singular	plural
nominative		pneumonia	pneumoniat
accusative	nom.	pneumonia	pneumoniat
	gen.	pneumonian
genitive		pneumonian	pneumonioiden pneumonioitten pneumoniainrare
partitive		pneumoniaa	pneumonioita
inessive		pneumoniassa	pneumonioissa
elative		pneumoniasta	pneumonioista
illative		pneumoniaan	pneumonioihin
adessive		pneumonialla	pneumonioilla
ablative		pneumonialta	pneumonioilta
allative		pneumonialle	pneumonioille
essive		pneumoniana	pneumonioina
translative		pneumoniaksi	pneumonioiksi
instructive		—	pneumonioin
abessive		pneumoniatta	pneumonioitta
comitative		—	pneumonioineen

Possessive forms of pneumonia (type kulkija)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	pneumoniani	pneumoniamme
2nd person	pneumoniasi	pneumonianne
3rd person	pneumoniansa

Synonyms

• (pneumonia): keuhkokuume

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πνευμονία (pneumonía, “lung disease”), from πνεύμων (pneúmōn, “lung”) + -ία (-ía). Compare to Dutch pneumonie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (standard) [(p)neuˈmonia̯], (Dutch-influenced) [(p)neuˈmoni]
• Hyphenation: pné‧u‧mo‧nia

Noun

pnéumonia (first-person possessive pneumoniaku, second-person possessive pneumoniamu, third-person possessive pneumonianya)

1. (pathology) pneumonia: an acute or chronic inflammation of the lungs caused by viruses, bacteria or other microorganisms, or sometimes by physical or chemical irritants.

Alternative forms

• pneumoni

Further reading

• “pneumonia” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

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Interlingua

Noun

pneumonia (plural pneumonias)

1. pneumonia

Related terms

• pneumonic

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin pneumonia, from Ancient Greek πνευμονία (pneumonía).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌpnew.mo.ˈni.ɐ/, /pi.ˌnew.mo.ˈni.ɐ/

Noun

pneumonia f (plural pneumonias)

1. (pathology) pneumonia (inflammation of the lungs)

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:pneumonia.