Circa 1600, from mump (“grimace”, noun), compare mump (verb), most likely referring to the painful difficulty in swallowing.
mumps pl (plural only)
- (pathology) A contagious disease caused by the Mumps virus of the genus Rubulavirus, mostly occurring in childhood, which causes swelling of glands in the face and neck.
- (dated) A gloomy or sullen silence.
- Usually used with a singular verb.
contagious disease
- Afrikaans: pampoentjies
- Asturian: parotidis
- Basque: hazizurri
- Bikol Central: bayuko (bcl)
- Cebuano: bayuok
- Cherokee: ᎠᏓᏴᏦᏗᏍᎩ (adayvtsodisgi)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 腮腺炎 (zh) (sāixiànyán)
- Czech: příušnice (cs) f pl
- Dutch: bof (nl)
- Esperanto: mumpso
- Estonian: mumps (et)
- Finnish: sikotauti (fi)
- French: oreillons (fr)
- Georgian: ყბაყურა (q̇baq̇ura)
- German: Mumps (de) m, Ziegenpeter (de) m, Mumpf m
- Greek: παρωτίτιδα (el) f (parotítida), μαγουλάδες (el) f pl (magouládes)
- Hausa: hàngum m
- Hungarian: mumpsz (hu)
- Hunsrik: Kaschumbe pl
- Ido: oreliono (io)
- Indonesian: beguk (id)
- Italian: parotite epidemica f, orecchioni (it)
- Japanese: 流行性耳下腺炎 (りゅうこうせいじかせんえん, ryūkōsei jikasen'en), おたふく 風邪 (otafuku kaze)
- Kapampangan: bayki, buklaw
- Khmer: ស្រឡទែន (srɑɑlɑɑtɛɛn), សាលាទែន (saaliətɛɛn)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: binguhik
- Macedonian: за́ушки pl (záuški)
- Malayalam: മുണ്ടിനീര് (ml) (muṇṭinīrŭ)
- Maori: mate pupuhi repe, repe hūware pupuhi
- Navajo: ayaayááh niichaad
- Neapolitan: recchiune
- Norwegian: kusma (no)
- Persian: اوریون (oreyon)
- Plautdietsch: Mumps f
- Polish: świnka (pl) f
- Portuguese: caxumba (pt) f
- Russian: зау́шница (ru) f (zaúšnica), сви́нка (ru) f (svínka)
- Scottish Gaelic: a' phluc f, a' phloic
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: заушке f
- Roman: zauške f
- Slovak: mumps m
- Spanish: paperas, parotiditis f
- Swedish: parotit c, påssjuka (sv) c
- Tagalog: beke, buklaw
- Turkish: kabakulak (tr)
- Ukrainian: сви́нка f (svýnka), заву́шниця f (zavúšnycja)
- Waray-Waray: bikag
- Welsh: clwy'r pennau, twymyn doben
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mumps
- third-person singular simple present indicative of mump
mumps
- plural of mump
Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “mumps”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
