Black Death

English

Proper noun

the Black Death

1. (pathology, historical) A pandemic outbreak of bubonic plague throughout Europe and most of Asia in the 14th century that killed nearly half the population of Europe and Asia.
   • 2013, Al Gore, “Earth Inc.”, in The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change‎^[1], New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 18:

     Following the Black Death in the mid-fourteenth century, and the weakening of Mongol rule, the closing of overland routes between Europe and Asia once again created a bottleneck that flowed through the Middle East, trade flows that were largely controlled by Venice and Egypt.

Synonyms

• the plague
• the bubonic plague
• the Black Plague

Translations

14th century pandemic outbreak

• Arabic: مَوْت أَسْوَد m (mawt ʔaswad)
• Breton: bosenn zu f
• Bulgarian: черна смърт f (černa smǎrt)
• Catalan: pesta negra f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 黑死病 (zh) (hēisǐbìng)

• Danish: den sorte død
• Dutch: zwarte dood m
• Esperanto: nigra morto
• Estonian: must surm
• Faroese: svartideyði m
• Finnish: musta surma (fi)
• French: peste noire (fr) f
• German: Beulenpest (de) f, schwarzer Tod m
• Greek: Μαύρη Πανώλη f (Mávri Panóli)
• Hebrew: המוות השחור
• Hungarian: fekete halál
• Icelandic: svarti dauði (is) m
• Indonesian: Kematian Hitam
• Italian: peste nera f
• Japanese: 黒死病 (ja) (こくしびょう, kokushibyō)
• Korean: 흑사병(黑死病) (ko) (heuksabyeong)
• Latvian: melnā nāve
• Lithuanian: juodoji mirtis
• Low German: swart Dood m
• Macedonian: цр́на смрт f (cŕna smrt)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: хар үхэл (xar üxel)

• Neapolitan: pésta f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: svartedauden (no) m (definite form)

  Nynorsk: svartedauden m (definite form)

• Polish: czarna śmierć (pl) f
• Portuguese: peste negra (pt) f
• Romanian: moartea neagră f, ciumă (ro) f, pestă (ro) f
• Russian: чёрная смерть f (čórnaja smertʹ), чёрный мор m (čórnyj mor)
• Scottish Gaelic: Bàs Dubh m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: доба куге, црна смрт f

  Roman: doba kuge, crna smrt f

• Slovak: mor (sk) m
• Slovene: črna smrt f
• Spanish: peste negra (es) f
• Swedish: digerdöden (sv) c (definite form), pesten (sv) c (definite form), böldpest (sv) c
• Turkish: kara ölüm
• Vietnamese: Cái Chết Đen
• Welsh: pla du m, haint y nodau f