obese

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin obēsus, derived from obedō (“I devour, eat away”), from ob (“away”) + edō (“I eat”). Displaced native Old English oferfǣtt (literally “overfat”).

PronunciationEdit

(General American) IPA^(key): /oʊˈbis/
(UK) IPA^(key): /əʊˈbiːs/, /əˈbiːs/
Audio (UK) (file)
Rhymes: -iːs

AdjectiveEdit

obese (comparative more obese, superlative most obese or obesest)

Extremely overweight, especially: weighing more than 20% (for men) or 25% (for women) over their conventionally ideal weight determined by height and build; or, having a body mass index over 30 kg/m².
- 2020 October 3, Peter Bowes, “Trump spends first night in hospital after Covid-19 diagnosis”, in BBC:
  The president, being 74, a man and someone categorised as obese, is in a higher-risk category for Covid-19.
- 2020, Christia Marie Ramos, “Teacher behind exam material body-shaming Angel Locsin undergoing admin probe — DepEd”, in Philippine Daily Inquirer:
  But it can be recalled that Locsin earlier called out DepEd for seemingly being “unaffected” by the actions of a teacher who body-shamed her by describing her ^[sic] “an obese person” in a Physical Education (PE) educational material after the agency issued an apology.

SynonymsEdit

See also Thesaurus:obese

Derived termsEdit

TranslationsEdit

extremely overweight

Arabic:
Egyptian: تخين‎ (tiḵīn), سمين‎ (samīn)
Armenian: չաղ (hy) (čʿał)
Bashkir: һимеҙ (himeð)
Bulgarian: прекалено дебел (prekaleno debel)
Catalan: obès (ca)
Cherokee: ᎦᎵᏦᎯᏓ (galitsohida)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 肥胖 (zh) (féipàng)
Czech: obézní (cs)
Danish: fed
Dutch: obees (nl), vetzuchtig, diklijvig
Finnish: liikalihava, obeesi (fi)
French: obèse (fr)
Galician: obeso
Georgian: მსუქანი (msukani)
German: fettleibig (de), fettsüchtig (de), adipös (de)
Greek: παχύσαρκος (el) (pachýsarkos)
Hungarian: elhízott (hu), obez
Italian: obeso (it) corpulento (it) m
Jamaican Creole: mampy
Japanese: 肥満 (ja) (ひまん, himan)
Korean: 뚱뚱한 (ttungttunghan)
Latin: obēsus, corpulentus
Macedonian: дебел m (debel), угоен m (ugoen), згоен m (zgoen)
Malayalam: പൊണ്ണത്തടിയുള്ള (poṇṇattaṭiyuḷḷa), അമിതവണ്ണമുള്ള (amitavaṇṇamuḷḷa)
Norwegian: korpulent (no)
Old English: oferfǣtt
Persian: چاق‎ (fa) (čâq)
Polish: otyły (pl) m
Portuguese: obeso (pt)
Romanian: obez (ro)
Russian: то́лстый (ru) (tólstyj), по́лный (ru) (pólnyj), ту́чный (ru) (túčnyj), (impolite) жи́рный (ru) (žírnyj)
Serbo-Croatian:
Roman: gȍjāzan (sh), prètio (sh)
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: syty
Spanish: obeso (es)
Telugu: ఊబ (te) (ūba), ^{(please verify)} ఊబకాయం, ఊబ ఒళ్ళు, స్థూలకాయం (ūbakāyaṁ, ūba oḷḷu, sthūlakāyaṁ), లావు (te) (lāvu), లావైన (te) (lāvaina)
Tocharian B: kraupalñetstse
Turkish: obez (tr)
Uzbek: semiz (uz)
Vietnamese: béo phì
Welsh: corffol, gordew, corffog

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Translations to be checked

Albanian: ^{(please verify)} ngjallur (sq), ^{(please verify)} trashë (sq), ^{(please verify)} dhjamosur

NounEdit

obese (plural obeses)

A person who is obese.
- 2009, Abdoulaye Ba, Stephane Delliaux, Fabienne Bregeon, Samuel Levy, Yves Jammes, “Post-exercise heart rate recovery in healthy, obeses, and COPD subjects: relationships with blood lactic acid and PaO2 levels”, in Clinical Research in Cardiology‎^[1], volume 98, number 1, Springer, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 52-58:
  Despite a large scattering of HR decay rate, even present in healthy subjects, a ₂ and ΔHR were significantly lower in obeses and COPDs.
- 2014, Ahmet Celik, Edibe Saricicek, Vahap Saricicek, Elif Sahin, Gokhan Ozdemir, Metin Kilinc, Ayten Oguz, Relation between the new anthropometric obesity parameters and inflammatory markers in healthy adult men‎^[2], SCIRJ:
  Subjects were grouped as Group 1 and Group 2 according to VAI, and normals, overweights and obeses according to BMI.