wart

See also: Wart and wärt

English

Etymology

From Old English wearte, from Proto-Germanic *wartǭ. Cognate with Dutch wrat, German Warze, Hunsrik Waarz, Swedish vårta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wɔːt/
• IPA^(key): /wɔɹt/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t

• Audio (US):

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Noun

wart (plural warts)

1. (pathology) A type of deformed growth occurring on the skin caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV).
2. Any similar growth occurring in plants or animals, such as the parotoid glands in the back of toads.
3. (computing, programming, slang, derogatory) Any of the prefixes used in Hungarian notation.
   • 1998, "Chris Ahlstrom", Hungarian notation (on newsgroup microsoft.public.vc.language)

     Hungarian warts suck big time! If you need them, your functions are too big and your class interface is much too fat.

   • 2002, "Linonut", Computer Science (on newsgroup comp.os.linux.advocacy)

     Far easier to not use warts in the first place. Even if a wart is present, you still have to verify the variable's declaration anyway, if you're a diligent maintenance programmer.

Derived terms

• genital wart
• Peruvian wart
• plantar wart
• wall wart

• warthog
• warty
• warts and all
• warty toad

Translations

type of growth occurring on the skin

• Albanian: lez (sq)
• Arabic: ثُؤْلُول m (ṯuʔlūl)

  Egyptian Arabic: سنطاية f (sánṭāya)

  Moroccan Arabic: تولالة f (tolala)

• Armenian: գորտնուկ (hy) (gortnuk)
• Assamese: আজিনাই (azinai)
• Azerbaijani: ziyil
• Bashkir: һөйәл (höyəl)
• Basque: garatxo
• Belarusian: баро́даўка f (baródaŭka)
• Breton: gwenaenn f
• Bulgarian: брада́вица (bg) f (bradávica)
• Burmese: ကြွက်နို့ (my) (krwaknui.)
• Catalan: berruga (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 瘊子 (zh) (hóuzi), 肉贅／肉赘 (zh) (ròuzhuì), 肉赘 (zh) (ròuzhuì), (formal) 疣 (zh) (yóu), 贅瘤／赘瘤 (zh) (zhuìliú), 赘瘤 (zh) (zhuìliú), 贅疣／赘疣 (zh) (zhuìyóu), 赘疣 (zh) (zhuìyóu)

• Czech: bradavice (cs) f
• Danish: vorte c
• Dutch: wrat (nl) f
• Esperanto: veruko
• Estonian: soolatüügas (et)
• Faroese: kambfjøður f, finnur m, finna f
• Finnish: syylä (fi)
• French: verrue (fr) f
• Galician: espulla f, verruga f
• Georgian: მეჭეჭი (meč̣eč̣i)
• German: Warze (de) f
• Greek: κρεατοελιά (el) f (kreatoeliá), ακροχορδώνα f (akrochordóna), μυρμηγκιά (el) f (myrmigkiá)

  Ancient: θύμιον n (thúmion)

• Hebrew: יַבֶּלֶת f (yabėleţ)
• Hindi: मस्सा (hi) m (massā)
• Hungarian: szemölcs (hu)
• Hunsrik: Waarz f
• Icelandic: varta (is) f
• Ido: veruko (io)
• Indonesian: kutil (id)
• Irish: faithne m
• Italian: verruca (it) f, porro (it) m
• Japanese: 疣 (ja) (いぼ, ibo)
• Kazakh: сүйел (süiel)
• Khmer: ឫស (km) (rɨh)
• Korean: 사마귀 (ko) (samagwi)
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• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: بالووکە (balûke)

  Laki: بالیک (balîk)

  Northern Kurdish: balûk (ku)

  Southern Kurdish: بالۊک (balük)

• Kyrgyz: сөөл (ky) (sööl)
• Lao: ຫູດ (hūt)
• Latin: verrūca f
• Latvian: kārpa f
• Lithuanian: karpa f
• Luxembourgish: Waarzel f
• Macedonian: брадавица f (bradavica)
• Maori: kautona, kiritona, marupo, unahiaua, tongatonga
• Navajo: sęęs
• Norman: véthue f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: vorte (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: vorte f

• Old English: wearte f
• Persian: زگیل (fa) (zegil), بالو (fa) (bālū), آزخ (fa) (āzax)
• Polish: brodawka (pl) f, kurzajka f
• Portuguese: verruga (pt) f
• Romanian: neg (ro), gâlmă (ro) f
• Russian: борода́вка (ru) f (borodávka)
• Sanskrit: कच्छपी (sa) f (kacchapī)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: брадавица f (bradavica), пупчица f (pupčica)

  Roman: bradavica (sh) f, pupčica f

• Slovak: bradavica (sk) f
• Slovene: bradavica (sl) f
• Spanish: verruga (es) f
• Swedish: vårta (sv) c
• Tagalog: butig, kulugo
• Tajik: озах (ozax), севол (sevol), ағаз (aġaz)
• Thai: หูด (hùut)
• Tibetan: མཛེར་པ (mdzer pa)
• Turkish: siğil (tr)
• Turkmen: siňňil
• Ukrainian: боро́давка (uk) f (boródavka)
• Uzbek: soʻgal (uz)
• Vietnamese: mụn cóc, mụt cóc, hột cơm (vi)
• Walloon: porea (wa) m
• Welsh: dafaden (cy) f

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Translations to be checked

• Georgian: ^{(please verify)} ხალი (xali)
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See also

• verruca

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vaːɐ̯t/

• Audio:

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Verb

wart

1. (deprecated template usage) Second-person plural preterite of sein.

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Middle Dutch

Verb

wart

1. first/third-person singular past indicative of werden

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Polish

Etymology

From German wert.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vart/

• audio:

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Adjective

wart (comparative bardziej, superlative najbardziej)

1. worth

Derived terms

• warto
• wartość

Further reading

• Template:R:PWN