whooping cough

See also: whooping-cough

English

Alternative forms

• whooping-cough, hooping-cough

Etymology

whooping +‎ cough, from the characteristic-sounding cough that is a major symptom.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈhuːpɪŋ ˌkɒf/
  • (Conservative RP) IPA^(key): /ˈhuːpɪŋ ˌkɔːf/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhuːpɪŋ ˌkɔf/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈwʊpɪŋ ˌkɔf/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

whooping cough (countable and uncountable, plural whooping coughs)

1. (pathology) A contagious disease of the respiratory system that usually affects children caused by the bacterium Bordetella pertussis, the advanced stage of which is characterised by spasms of coughing followed by a whooping sound during the intake of breath.

Synonyms

• pertussis (jargon); chink cough, chin cough (archaic)

Translations

a contagious disease

• Arabic: سُعَال دِيكِيّ m (suʕāl dīkiyy)
• Armenian: կապույտ հազ (kapuyt haz)
• Basque: kukutxeztul
• Belarusian: ко́клюш m (kókljuš), ко́хлік m (kóxlik)
• Bulgarian: ко́клюш (bg) m (kókljuš), магарешка кашлица f (magareška kašlica)
• Catalan: tos ferina (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 百日咳 (baak³ jat⁶ kat¹)

  Hakka: 百日嗽 (pak-ngit-chhu̍k)

  Hokkien: 百日嗽 (zh-min-nan) (pah-ji̍t-sàu, pah-li̍t-sàu)

  Mandarin: 百日咳 (zh) (bǎirìké)

• Crimean Tatar: boğma öksürik
• Czech: černý kašel (cs) m
• Danish: kighoste c
• Dutch: kinkhoest (nl) m
• Esperanto: kokluŝo
• Finnish: hinkuyskä (fi)
• French: coqueluche (fr) f
• Georgian: ყივანახველა (q̇ivanaxvela)
• German: Keuchhusten (de) m
• Greek: κοκκύτης (el) m (kokkýtis)
• Gujarati: ઉટાંટિયું (uṭā̃ṭiyũ)
• Hindi: कुक्कुर खाँसी f (kukkur khā̃sī), कुक्कुर खांसी f (kukkur khānsī)
• Hungarian: szamárköhögés (hu)
• Icelandic: kíghósti (is) m
• Irish: triuch m
• Italian: tosse canina f, pertosse (it) f
• Japanese: 百日咳 (ひゃくにちぜき, hyakunichizeki, ひゃくにちせき, hyakunichiseki)
• Kazakh: көкжөтел (kökjötel)
• Korean: 백일해(百日咳) (ko) (baegilhae)
• Malay: batuk kokol (ms)
• Maori: mare tekekō, mare heihei, mate mare motu
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: хөхүүл ханиад (xöxüül xaniad), зуун хоногийн ханиад (zuun xonogiin xaniad) (esp China)

  Mongolian: ᠬᠥᠬᠥᠬᠥᠯ
  ᠬᠠᠨᠢᠶᠠᠳᠤ (kökököl qaniyadu), ᠵᠠᠭᠤᠨ
  ᠬᠣᠨᠣᠭ ᠦᠨ
  ᠬᠠᠨᠢᠶᠠᠳᠤ (ǰaɣun qonog-ün qaniyadu)

• Norman: coqueluche f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kikhoste m

  Nynorsk: kikhoste m

• Persian: سیاه‌سرفه (siyâh-sorfe)
• Polish: krztusiec (pl) m, koklusz (pl) m
• Portuguese: coqueluche (pt) f, pertússis f, tosse convulsa f
• Romanian: tuse convulsivă (ro) f, tuse măgărească (ro) f
• Russian: коклю́ш (ru) m (kokljúš), ко́клюш (ru) m (kókljuš), су́дорожный ка́шель m (súdorožnyj kášelʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: вѐликӣ ка̏шаљ m, магарѐћӣ ка̏шаљ m, хри̏павац m, ри́кавац m, перту́сис m

  Roman: vèlikī kȁšalj m, magarèćī kȁšalj m, hrȉpavac (sh) m, ríkavac (sh) m, pertúsis (sh) m

• Spanish: tosferina f, tos convulsiva f, coqueluche m, pertusis m
• Swahili: kifaduro (sw)
• Swedish: kikhosta (sv) c
• Tagalog: ubong-dalahit, tosperina
• Telugu: కోరింతదగ్గు (te) (kōrintadaggu)
• Thai: ไอกรน (ai-gron)
• Turkish: boğmaca (tr)
• Ukrainian: ко́клюш m (kókljuš)
• Vietnamese: ho gà (vi)

Further reading

• Pertussis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia