strangles

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈstɹæŋɡ(ə)lz/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈstɹæŋɡəlz/
• Hyphenation: stran‧gles

Etymology 1

Noun

strangles (uncountable)

1. A disease of horses caused by an infection by the bacterium Streptococcus equi.
   • 1816, Richard Lawrence, The complete farrier, and British sportsman, page 245:

     The Vives, like the strangles, is most incident to young horses, and usually proceeds from the same causes, such as catching cold, being over-heated, or over-worked, about the time of shedding their teeth.

Derived terms

• bastard strangles

Translations

disease of horses

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: galteres equines f pl
• Czech: hříběcí
• Danish: kværke c
• Dutch: droes (nl) m
• Estonian: nõlg
• Finnish: pääntauti
• French: gourme (fr) f
• German: Druse (de) f
• Hungarian: mirigykór
• Ido: gurmo (io)
• Ingrian: päätauti
• Italian: stranguglione m
• Norwegian Nynorsk: kverke f, kversill f, kverksvull m kverksott f
• Polish: zołzy nvir
• Portuguese: garrotilho m
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: мыт (ru) m (myt)
• Spanish: gurma f
• Swedish: kvarka c
• Turkish: su sakağısı

Further reading

• strangles on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “strangles”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• Streptococcus equi at List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature

Etymology 2

Verb

strangles

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of strangle

Noun

strangles

1. plural of strangle

Anagrams

• Stanglers, grantless, slangster