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Severe form of smallpox.
From small + pox , in contrast to greatpox ( “ syphilis ” ) .
smallpox (usually uncountable , plural smallpoxes )
( pathology ) An acute , highly infectious often fatal disease caused by Variola virus of the family Poxviridae . It was completely eradicated in the 1970s, but still exists in laboratories. Those who survived were left with pockmarks .
Synonym: variola
The Europeans brought new diseases such as smallpox , measles, dysentery, influenza, syphilis and leprosy.
1973 , Alfred W. Crosby , The Columbian Exchange , Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, →ISBN , page 42 :We know that the most deadly of the early epidemics in America were those of the eruptive fevers—smallpox , measles, typhus, and so on. The first to arrive and the deadliest, said contemporaries, was smallpox .
1998 February 15, David X. Cohen , “Das Bus ”, in The Simpsons , season 9, episode 14 , spoken by Homer:Can't make it in today, Mr. Smithers; I have smallpox . Well it wasn't wiped out in my house!
disease
Albanian: li e madhe f
Arabic: جُدَرِيّ m ( judariyy )
Arikara: nasačiraánuʾ , sawárus , sačiraánuʾ
Armenian: ծաղիկ (hy) ( caġik )
Assamese: বৰ আই ( bor ai ) , বসন্ত ৰোগ ( boxonto rüg )
Assiniboine: wįcáȟniȟni
Asturian: belleya f
Aymara: chuqu usu
Azerbaijani: çiçək (az)
Bashkir: сәсәк ( səsək ) , ҡара сәсәк ( qara səsək )
Belarusian: во́спа f ( vóspa )
Bengali: গুটিবসন্ত (bn) ( guṭibśonto )
Bikol Central: poko
Bulgarian: едра шарка f ( edra šarka ) , вариола f ( variola )
Burmese: ကျောက်ကြီး (my) ( kyaukkri: )
Catalan: verola (ca) f , pigota (ca) f
Cebuano: buti
Cherokee: ᎤᏃᏔᏩᎸᏯᎩ ( unotawalvyagi ) , ᎤᏅᏔᏆᎵ ( unvtaquali )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 天花 (zh) ( tiānhuā )
Classical Nahuatl: (please verify ) huēi zahuatl , huēyi zahuatl , mātlālzahuatl
Cree: ᒥᓯ ᐅᒥᑮᐏᐣ ( misi omikiiwin )
Czech: neštovice (cs) f pl
Danish: kopper (da) pl
Dharug: galgala
Dhivehi: ކަށި ވިދުރި ( kaṣi viduri )
Dutch: pokken (nl) c
Esperanto: variolo
Estonian: rõuged
Faroese: pokur
Finnish: isorokko (fi)
French: variole (fr) f , petite vérole (fr) f
Galician: varíola (gl) f , boas (gl) f pl , vexigas f pl
German: Pocken (de) f pl , ( dated ) Blattern (de) f pl
Greek: ευλογιά (el) f ( evlogiá )
Guaraní: mbiru'a
Gujarati: શીતળા ( śītaḷā ) , શીળી ( śīḷī )
Hiligaynon: hangga , buti
Hindi: चेचक (hi) f ( cecak ) , शीतला (hi) ( śītlā ) , माता (hi) ( mātā ) , बड़ी माता ( baṛī mātā ) , आतशक (hi) f ( ātśak )
Hungarian: fekete himlő (hu)
Icelandic: bólusótt (is) f
Ilocano: burtong
Irish: bolgach f , bolgach Dé f
Italian: vaiolo (it) m , vaiuolo m
Japanese: 天然痘 (ja) ( てんねんとう , tennentō) , 疱瘡 (ja) ( ほうそう , hōsō) , 痘瘡 (ja) ( とうそう , tōsō) , 疱瘡 (ja) ( mogasa ) , 疱瘡 (ja) ( imogasa )
Kabiyé: ɛsɔ kʊdɔŋ
Kalmyk: цецг ( tsetsg )
Kapampangan: bulutung
Kazakh: қара шешек ( qara şeşek )
Khmer: អុតធំ ( ʼot thom )
Korean: 천연두 (ko) ( cheonyeondu )
Kyrgyz: чечек (ky) ( cecek )
Lakota: wičháȟaŋȟaŋ
Latgalian: pokys
Latvian: bakas
Lezgi: цiегьер ( cieher )
Malay: cacar (ms)
Malayalam: വസൂരി (ml) ( vasūri ) , അകമലരി (ml) ( akamalari )
Malecite-Passamaquoddy: lahpihkut
Maltese: ġidri m
Manchu: ᠮᠠᠮᠠ ( mama )
Manx: spohttyn breckey m
Maori: mate koroputaputa , mate pokapoka
Maranao: poko
Marathi: देवी ( devī )
Mi'kmaq: lapigot anim
Navajo: łóódtsoh
Norman: vétheule f ( Jersey )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kopper (no) m pl
Nynorsk: koppar m pl
Odia: ବସନ୍ତ (or) ( basanta )
Old Church Slavonic: осъпꙑ f pl ( osŭpy )
Ossetian: цiегьер ( ciegʹer )
Ottoman Turkish: چیچك ( çiçek )
Pangasinan: gulutong
Pawnee: racákiraaruʾ
Persian: آبله (fa) ( âbele )
Polish: ospa (pl) f , ospa prawdziwa (pl) f , czarna ospa f
Portuguese: varíola (pt) f
Punjabi: ਚੇਚਕ ( cecak ) , ਆਤਸ਼ਕ (pa) ( ātaśak ) , ਵੱਡੀ ਮਾਤਾ ( vaḍḍī mātā ) , ਦਾਣੇ ( dāṇe )
Quechua: muru unquy
Rohingya: áñra
Romanian: variolă (ro) f , vărsat (ro) n
Russian: о́спа (ru) f ( óspa )
Santali: ᱵᱚᱥᱚᱱ ( bôsôn )
Scottish Gaelic: a' bhreac f , a' bhanachrach f
Sindhi: ماتا ( maataa ) , माई , सीतला
Sinhalese: මසූරි ( masūri ) , මසූරිකා ( masūrikā ) , මහලෙඩ ( mahaleḍa ) , වසූරිය ( wasūriya )
Slovak: kiahne (sk) f pl , variola (sk) f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: poki pl
Spanish: viruela (es) f
Swahili: ndui
Swedish: smittkoppor (sv) pl
Tagalog: bulutong (tl)
Tamil: பெரியம்மை (ta) ( periyammai )
Tatar: чәчәк (tt) ( çäçäk )
Tausug: pangkut
Telugu: మశూచి (te) ( maśūci )
Thai: ฝีดาษ (th) ( fǐi-dàat ) , โรคฝีดาษ (th)
Tlingit: kwaan
Turkish: çiçek hastalığı
Turkmen: mama , jäjek (tk)
Ukrainian: ві́спа f ( víspa )
Unami: tëspehëleokàn
Urdu: چیچک ( cecak ) , ماتا ( mātā ) , سیتلا ( sītlā )
Uzbek: chechak (uz) , chin chechak
Vietnamese: đậu mùa (vi)
Volapük: pogip
Waray-Waray: pandok , poko , tipdas
Welsh: brech wen f , brech folog f
Yakut: уоспа ( uospa )
Yiddish: פּאָקן pl ( pokn )