English
Etymology
whooping + cough , from the characteristic-sounding cough that is a major symptom.
Noun
whooping cough (countable and uncountable , plural whooping coughs )
( pathology ) A contagious disease of the respiratory system that usually affects children caused by the bacterium Lua error in Module:parameters at line 797 : Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template. , the advanced stage of which is characterised by spasms of coughing followed by a whooping sound during the intake of breath.
Synonyms
Translations
a contagious disease
Arabic: سُعَال دِيكِيّ m ( suʕāl dīkiyy )
Armenian: կապույտ հազ ( kapuyt haz )
Basque: kukutxeztul
Belarusian: ко́клюш m ( kókljuš ) , ко́хлік m ( kóxlik )
Bulgarian: ко́клюш (bg) m ( kókljuš ) , магарешка кашлица f ( magareška kašlica )
Catalan: tos ferina (ca) f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 百日咳 ( baak3 jat6 kat1 )
Hakka: 百日嗽 ( pak-ngit-chhu̍k )
Mandarin: 百日咳 (zh) ( bǎirìké )
Min Nan: 百日嗽 (zh-min-nan) ( pah-ji̍t-sàu, pah-li̍t-sàu )
Crimean Tatar: boğma öksürik
Czech: černý kašel (cs) m
Danish: kighoste c
Dutch: kinkhoest (nl) m
Esperanto: kokluŝo
Finnish: hinkuyskä (fi)
French: coqueluche (fr) f
Georgian: ყივანახველა ( q̇ivanaxvela )
German: Keuchhusten (de) m
Greek: κοκκύτης (el) m ( kokkýtis )
Gujarati: ઉટાંટિયું ( uṭā̃ṭiyũ )
Hindi: कुक्कुर खाँसी f ( kukkur khā̃sī ) , कुक्कुर खांसी f ( kukkur khānsī )
Hungarian: szamárköhögés (hu)
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Icelandic: kíghósti (is) m
Italian: tosse canina f , pertosse (it) f
Japanese: 百日咳 ( ひゃくにちぜき, hyakunichizeki )
Korean: 백일해 (ko) ( baegilhae ) (百日咳 (ko) )
Malay: batuk kokol
Maori: mare tekekō , mare heihei , mate mare motu
Norman: coqueluche f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kikhoste m
Nynorsk: kikhoste m
Persian: سیاهسرفه ( siyâh-sorfe )
Polish: koklusz (pl) m
Portuguese: coqueluche (pt) f , pertússis f , tosse convulsa f
Romanian: tuse convulsivă (ro) f
Russian: коклю́ш (ru) m ( kokljúš ) , ко́клюш (ru) m ( kókljuš ) , су́дорожный ка́шель m ( súdorožnyj kášelʹ )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: вѐликӣ ка̏шаљ m , магарѐћӣ ка̏шаљ m , хри̏павац m , ри́кавац m , перту́сис m
Roman: vèlikī kȁšalj m , magarèćī kȁšalj (sh) m , hrȉpavac (sh) m , ríkavac (sh) m , pertúsis (sh) m
Spanish: tosferina f , tos convulsiva f , coqueluche m
Swahili: kifaduro (sw)
Swedish: kikhosta (sv) c
Tagalog: ubong-dalahit , tosperina
Telugu: కోరింతదగ్గు (te) ( kōrintadaggu )
Thai: ไอกรน ( ai-gron )
Turkish: boğmaca (tr)
Ukrainian: ко́клюш m ( kókljuš )
Vietnamese: ho gà (vi)
Further reading