seasickness

See also: sea-sickness

English

Alternative forms

• sea-sickness, sea sickness

Etymology

From seasick +‎ -ness or sea +‎ sickness. Compare Middle English seknesse of the see (“seasickness”, literally “sickness of the sea”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsiːsɪk.nəs/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

seasickness (usually uncountable, plural seasicknesses)

1. Nausea, dizziness, etc. caused by the motion of a ship; a form of motion sickness.

   Synonyms: naupathia, sea-sickening

   Hypernym: motion sickness

   Coordinate terms: airsickness, carsickness, trainsickness

Translations

a feeling of nausea caused by the motion of a ship

• Arabic: دُوَار اَلْبَحْر m (duwār al-baḥr), مَيْد m (mayd)
• Armenian: ծովախտ (hy) (covaxt)
• Belarusian: марская хвароба f (marskaja xvaróba)
• Bulgarian: морска болест f (morska bolest)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 暈船 / 晕船 (zh) (yùnchuán)

• Czech: mořská nemoc (cs) f
• Danish: søsyge (da) c
• Esperanto: marmalsano (eo)
• Faroese: sjóverkur m
• Finnish: merisairaus (fi)
• French: mal de mer (fr) m, naupathie (fr) f
• German: Seekrankheit (de) f, Naupathie f
• Greek: ναυτία (el) f (naftía)

  Ancient Greek: ναυσία f (nausía), ναυτία f (nautía)

• Hebrew: מחלת ים \ מַחֲלַת יָם (he) f (makhalát yam)
• Hungarian: tengeribetegség (hu)
• Icelandic: sjóveiki (is) f
• Irish: tinneas farraige m
• Italian: mal di mare (it) m, naupatia f
• Japanese: 船酔い (ja) (ふなよい, funayoi)
• Korean: 뱃멀미 (baenmeolmi)
• Latvian: jūras slimība f
• Malay: mabuk laut (ms)
• Māori: mate moana
• Norman: ma d'la mé m (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sjøsyke m, sjøsjuke m

  Nynorsk: sjøsjuke m or f

• Occitan: mau de mar m
• Plautdietsch: Seekrankheit f
• Polish: choroba morska (pl) f
• Portuguese: enjoo marítimo m
• Romanian: rău de mare (ro) n
• Russian: морска́я боле́знь (ru) f (morskája boléznʹ), кинето́з m (kinetóz)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: морска бо̏ле̄ст f, кинето́за f

  Latin: morska bȍlēst f, kinetóza (sh) f

• Slovak: morská choroba (sk) f
• Spanish: mareo (es) m
• Swedish: sjösjuka (sv) c
• Tagalog: lula, pagkalula, sawan
• Turkish: deniz tutması
• Ukrainian: морська хвороба f (morsʹka xvoroba)
• Volapük: melamaläd
• Welsh: salwch môr m, sâl môr m
• Yiddish: ים־קראַנקײַט f (yam-krankayt)