rabies

See also: rabiés and ràbies

English

A dog infected with the rabies

Etymology

From Latin rabiēs (“rage, madness, fury”), from rabiō (“I am angry, I am mad, I rave”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹeɪ.biz/
• Rhymes: -eɪbiz

Noun

rabies (uncountable)

1. (pathology) A infectious disease caused by species of that causes acute encephalitis in warm-blooded animals and people, characterised by abnormal behaviour such as excitement, aggressiveness, and dementia, followed by paralysis and death.

Synonyms

• hydrophobia

Derived terms

• rabid
• rabietic

Translations

viral disease

• Arabic: كَلَب (ar) m (kalab), دَاء اَلْكَلَب m (dāʔ al-kalab)

  Egyptian Arabic: سعر m (sáʿar)

  Moroccan Arabic: سعر m (saʕr)

• Azerbaijani: quduzluq
• Bulgarian: бяс (bg) m (bjas)
• Catalan: ràbia (ca) f
• Cebuano: rabis
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 狂犬病 (zh) (kuángquǎnbìng)

• Czech: vzteklina (cs) f
• Danish: hundegalskab (da) c, rabies (da) c
• Dutch: hondsdolheid (nl) f
• Estonian: marutaud
• Finnish: vesikauhu (fi), raivotauti (fi)
• French: rage (fr) f
• Galician: rabia f
• Georgian: ცოფი (copi)
• German: Tollwut (de) f
• Greek: λύσσα (el) f (lýssa)
• Hebrew: כַּלֶּבֶת (he) f (kallevet)
• Hungarian: veszettség (hu) f
• Ido: ranio
• Irish: confadh
• Italian: rabbia (it) f
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• Japanese: 狂犬病 (ja) (きょうけんびょう, kyōkenbyō)
• Korean: 광견병 (ko) (gwanggyeonbyeong)
• Kurdish:
• Lao: ວໍ້ (wǭ)
• Malay: penyakit anjing gila, gila anjing, rabies
• Mongolian: галзуу өвчин (galzuu övčin)
• Norman: rage f (Jersey)
• Norwegian: hundegalskap n, rabies m
• Polish: wścieklizna (pl) f
• Portuguese: raiva (pt) f
• Romanian: turbare (ro) f, rabie (ro) f
• Russian: бе́шенство (ru) n (béšenstvo)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бѐснило n, бесноћа f

  Roman: bèsnilo (sh) n, besnoća (sh) f

• Slovene: steklina (sl) f
• Spanish: rabia (es) f
• Swedish: rabies (sv) c
• Tagalog: rabis
• Thai: พิษสุนัขบ้า (pít-sù-nák-bâa)
• Turkish: kuduz (tr)
• Vietnamese: dại (vi), bệnh dại
• Walloon: må d' araedje (wa) m, araedje (wa) f, raedje f

Further reading

• “rabies”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “rabies”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• Baiers, Serbia, braies, braise, rebias

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Danish

Noun

rabies c (singular definite rabiesen, not used in plural form)

1. rabies

Declension

Declension of rabies

common gender	Singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	rabies	rabiesen
genitive	rabies'	rabiesens

Synonyms

• hundegalskab

References

• “rabies” in Den Danske Ordbog

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Latin

Etymology

From rabiō +‎ -iēs.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈra.bi.eːs/, [ˈräbieːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈra.bi.es/, [ˈräːbies]

Noun

rabiēs f (genitive rabiēī); fifth declension

1. rage
2. madness

Declension

• The genitive singular appears as rabiēs in Lucretius. The nominative, accusative and ablative singular are the only attested forms in Classical Latin.

Fifth-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	rabiēs	rabiēs
Genitive	rabiēī	rabiērum
Dative	rabiēī	rabiēbus
Accusative	rabiem	rabiēs
Ablative	rabiē	rabiēbus
Vocative	rabiēs	rabiēs

Derived terms

• rabidus

Descendants

• English: rabies, rage
• French: rage
• Italian: rabbia
• Portuguese: raiva
• Spanish: rabia

References

• “rabies”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “rabies”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• rabies in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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Spanish

Verb

rabies

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) negative imperative form of rabiar.
2. Informal second-person singular (tú) present subjunctive form of rabiar.