hay fever

See also: hayfever and hay-fever

English

Alternative forms

• hay-fever
• hayfever

Etymology

First attested by John Bostock in 1819. The smell of hay in the summer was thought to be the origin of the condition.

Noun

hay fever (usually uncountable, plural hay fevers)

1. (pathology, immunology) An allergy to the pollen of grass or other plants that causes symptoms similar to those of a cold; pollinosis.

Synonyms

• allergic rhinitis
• hay asthma
• hay cold
• pollinosis
• rose fever

Derived terms

• hay-feverish
• hay feverite
• non-seasonal hay fever, nonseasonal hay fever
• perennial hay fever

Translations

allergy to pollen

• Afrikaans: hooikoors
• Basque: errinitis alergikoa
• Bulgarian: сенна треска f (senna treska)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 枯草熱／枯草热 (zh) (kūcǎorè), 花粉症 (zh) (huāfěnzhèng), 花粉熱／花粉热 (zh) (huāfěnrè)

• Czech: senná rýma (cs) f
• Danish: høfeber (da) c
• Dutch: hooikoorts (nl) f
• Faroese: hoyfepur
• Finnish: heinänuha (fi)
• French: rhume des foins (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Heuschnupfen (de) m
• Hebrew: קדחת השחת f (kadákhat hashákhat)
• Hungarian: szénanátha (hu)
• Icelandic: heymæði f
• Interlingua: febre del feno, pollinosis
• Irish: slaghdán teaspaigh m
• Italian: raffreddore da fieno m, febbre da fieno f, pollinosi (it) f
• Japanese: 花粉症 (ja) (かふんしょう, kafunshō)
• Latvian: siena drudzis
• Maori: (mate) ihu pāwera
• Norman: maladie du fain f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: høysnue m

  Nynorsk: høysnue m

• Polish: katar sienny m (common use), pyłkowica f (medical term)
• Portuguese: febre de feno f
• Russian: сенна́я лихора́дка (ru) f (sennája lixorádka)
• Scottish Gaelic: am fiabhras-feòir m
• Spanish: fiebre del heno f, polinosis
• Swedish: hösnuva (sv) c
• Thai: ไข้ละอองฟาง
• Turkish: saman nezlesi (tr)
• Ukrainian: поліно́з m (polinóz), сінна́ гаря́чка f (sinná harjáčka)
• Welsh: clefyd y gwair m