shingles

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃɪŋɡəlz/

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Etymology 1

From Latin cingulus, variant of cingulum (“girdle”), translating Ancient Greek ζώνη (zṓnē), ζωστήρ (zōstḗr).

Noun

shingles (uncountable)

1. (pathology, informal) Herpes zoster, caused by Human herpes virus 3, in genus Varicellovirus.

   Synonym: herpes zoster

   • 2005, Donald Hall, The Best Day the Worst Day: Life with Jane Kenyon, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 98:

     From the description, Letha felt sure Jane had herpes zoster, or shingles, which often strikes cancer patients or others with depressed immune systems. Jane spent another week in the Bubble, treated with acyclovir.

Translations

herpes zoster

• Arabic: اَلْهِرْبِس اَلْعَصَبِيّ m (al-hirbis al-ʕaṣabiyy)
• Bulgarian: херпес m (herpes)
• Catalan: foc de Sant Antoni m, herpes zòster, zòster
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 生蛇 (saang¹ se⁴)

  Mandarin: 帶狀皰疹／带状疱疹 (zh) (dàizhuàng pàozhěn)

• Czech: pásový opar m
• Danish: helvedesild c
• Dutch: gordelroos (nl) f, zona (nl)
• Esperanto: zostero
• Estonian: vöötohatis
• Finnish: vyöruusu (fi)
• French: zona (fr) m
• German: Herpes Zoster (de), Gürtelrose (de) f
• Greek: έρπης ζωστήρ m (érpis zostír)

  Ancient: ἕρπης m (hérpēs), ζωστήρ m (zōstḗr)

• Hebrew: שלבקת חוגרת pl
• Hungarian: övsömör (hu)
• Italian: herpes zoster, fuoco di Sant'Antonio m
• Japanese: 帯状疱疹 (ja) (たいじょうほうしん, taijō hōshin)
• Khmer: រើម (km) (rəəm)
• Korean: 대상포진(帶狀疱疹) (daesangpojin)
• Latin: zoster m
• Luxembourgish: Gürtelrous
• Malay: kayap (ms)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: бүслүүр яр (büslüür jar), могой яр (mogoj jar)

  Mongolian: ᠪᠦᠰᠡᠯᠡᠭᠦᠷ
  ᠶᠠᠷ᠎ᠠ (büselegür yar-a), ᠮᠣᠭᠠᠢ
  ᠶᠠᠷ᠎ᠠ (moɣai yar-a)

• Navajo: akááʼ niʼníkę́ę́z neezgaiʼígíí
• Norman: cheintuthe au dgiâbl'ye f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: helvetesild m

  Nynorsk: helveteseld m, beltesjuke f

• Odia: ହର୍ପିସ୍ ଜୋସ୍ଟର (hôrpis josṭôrô)
• Plautdietsch: Roos f
• Polish: półpasiec (pl) m
• Portuguese: zona (pt) f, herpes-zóster (pt) m, cobrão (pt) m
• Romanian: zona zoster
• Russian: опоя́сывающий лиша́й m (opojásyvajuščij lišáj)
• Sicilian: focu di Sant'Antoniu m
• Slovene: pasovec m
• Spanish: culebrilla f, culebrina (es) f, herpes zóster (es) m
• Swahili: mkanda wa jeshi
• Swedish: bältros (sv) c, helveteseld
• Thai: โรคงูสวัด (rôhk ngôot-wát)
• Turkish: zona (tr)
• Vietnamese: bệnh zona, giời leo
• Walloon: cingues (wa)

See also

• chicken pox

Etymology 2

Noun

shingles

1. plural of shingle

Anagrams

• Hessling