palpitation

English

Etymology

From Middle French palpitation, from Latin palpitatio.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

palpitation (countable and uncountable, plural palpitations)

1. An abnormal beating of the heart that may be perceived by the patient, a result of excitement, exertion, or illness.
   • 1818, [Mary Shelley], chapter IV, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume I, London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, →OCLC, pages 101–102:

     Sometimes my pulse beat so quickly and hardly, that I felt the palpitation of every artery; at others, I nearly sank to the ground through languor and extreme weakness.

Translations

abnormal beating of the heart

• Arabic: خَفَقَان m (ḵafaqān)
• Armenian: սրտխփոց (hy) (srtxpʿocʿ)
• Azerbaijani: ürəkdöyünmə, ürəkçırpıntısı
• Bulgarian: сърцебиене n (sǎrcebiene)
• Catalan: palpitació f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 心悸 (zh) (xīnjì)

• Czech: palpitace (cs) f
• Finnish: sydämentykytys (fi)
• French: palpitation (fr) f
• Georgian: პალპიტაცია (ka) (ṗalṗiṭacia)
• German: Herzklopfen (de) n, Palpitation (de) f
• Greek: παλμός (el) m (palmós), καρδιοχτύπι (el) n (kardiochtýpi)

  Ancient: ἄραδος m (árados)

• Haitian Creole: palpitasyon
• Japanese: 動悸 (ja) (どうき, dōki)
• Macedonian: срцеби́ење n (srcebíenje)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: palpitasjon m, hjertebank m

  Nynorsk: palpitasjon m, hjartebank m or n

• Persian: تپش قلب
• Polish: palpitacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: palpitação (pt) f
• Russian: си́льное сердцебие́ние n (sílʹnoje serdcebijénije), пальпита́ция (ru) f (palʹpitácija)
• Scottish Gaelic: plosg m, plosgadh m
• Serbo-Croatian: palpitacija (sh) f
• Spanish: palpitación f
• Swedish: hjärtklappning c
• Tagalog: tahip, sikdo
• Ukrainian: пальпіта́ція f (palʹpitácija)

French

Etymology

From Latin palpitātiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pal.pi.ta.sjɔ̃/

• Audio

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Noun

palpitation f (plural palpitations)

1. palpitation

Related terms

• palpiter

Descendants

• → Romanian: palpitație

Further reading

• “palpitation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.