sickness

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old English seocness.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪknɪs/

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• Hyphenation: sick‧ness

NounEdit

sickness (usually uncountable, plural sicknesses)

1. The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness.

   I do lament the sickness of the king. -William Shakespeare

   Trust not too much your now resistless charms; Those, age or sickness soon or late disarms. -Alexander Pope.

   Sickness is a dangerous indulgence at my time of life. -Jane Austen.

2. Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.
3. (linguistics) The analogical misuse of a rarer or marked grammatical case in the place of a more common or unmarked case.

SynonymsEdit

• (quality or state of being sick): disease, illness, infirmity, malady

Derived termsEdit

Terms derived from sickness

• car sickness
• dative sickness

• homesickness
• motion sickness

• sickness unto death

TranslationsEdit

the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady

• Ainu: タスㇺ (tasum)
• Arabic: مرض‎ (ar) m
• Armenian: հիվանդություն (hy) (hivandutʿyun)

  Old Armenian: հիւանդութիւն (hiwandutʿiwn), ախտ (axt)

• Aromanian: lãngoari f
• Czech: nemoc (cs) f
• Dutch: ziekte (nl) f
• Finnish: sairaus (fi)
• French: maladie (fr) f
• Galician: doenza (gl) f
• German: Krankheit (de) f
• Greek: ασθένεια (el) f (asthéneia)
• Haitian Creole: maladi
• Irish: tinneas (ga) m, othras m
• Japanese: 病 (ja) (yamai), 病気 (ja) (byōki)
• Korean: 질병 (ko) (jilbyeong)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: نه‌خۆشی‎

• Latin: morbus (la) m, aegritudo f
• Maori: māruru
• Navajo: tsʼííh niidóóh
• Oriya: ବେମାର (or), ବେମାର (or)
• Polish: choroba (pl) f
• Portuguese: doença (pt) f
• Quechua: unquy
• Romanian: maladie (ro) f, boală (ro) f
• Russian: боле́знь (ru) f (boléznʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: galar m, tinneas m, euslaint f
• Serbo-Croatian: bolest (sh) f
• Slovene: bolézen (sl) f
• Spanish: enfermedad (es)
• Swahili: ugonjwa (sw)
• Taos: hə́olene
• Telugu: రోగము (te) (rōgamu), వ్యాధి (te) (vyādhi)

nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach

• Armenian: սրտախառնոց (hy) (srtaxaṙnocʿ)
• Dutch: misselijkheid (nl) f
• Finnish: pahoinvointi (fi)
• German: Übelkeit (de) f
• Greek: ναυτία (el) f (naftía)
• Japanese: 吐き気 (ja) (hakike)

• Kurdish:

  Sorani: هێڵنج‎

• Latin: aegritudo f
• Romanian: greață (ro) f
• Russian: тошнота́ (ru) f (tošnotá), рво́та (ru) f (rvóta)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} ziekte (nl) de
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} malattia (it) f
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 병 (ko) (byeong)

• Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 憔悴 (zh)
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} enfermedad (es) f

ReferencesEdit

• sickness in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913