constipation

See also: constipâtion

English

Etymology

From Latin constīpātiō, from cōnstīpō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkɒnstɪˈpeɪʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

constipation (countable and uncountable, plural constipations)

1. A state of the bowels in which the evacuations are infrequent and difficult, or the intestines become filled with hardened faeces

   Synonym: costiveness

2. The act of crowding anything into a lesser space, or the state of being crowded or pressed together; condensation.

Derived terms

• anticonstipation
• verbal constipation

 

Translations

state of bowels

• Albanian: kapsllëk (sq) m
• Arabic: إِمْسَاك m (ʔimsāk)
• Armenian: փորկապություն (hy) (pʻorkaputʻyun)
• Azerbaijani: qəbiz, qəbəlik, qəbizlik
• Belarusian: запо́р m (zapór)
• Bulgarian: запек (bg) m (zapek)
• Catalan: restrenyiment m
• Cebuano: tubol
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 便秘 (zh) (biànmì)

• Czech: zácpa (cs) f
• Danish: forstoppelse (da) c
• Dutch: constipatie (nl) f
• Esperanto: konstipo, mallakso
• Estonian: kõhukinnisus
• Finnish: ummetus (fi)
• French: constipation (fr) f
• Georgian: ყაბზობა (q̇abzoba)
• German: Obstipation (de) f, Verstopfung (de) f
• Greek: δυσκοιλιότητα (el) f (dyskoiliótita)
• Hebrew: עֲצִירוּת (he)
• Hindi: कब्ज (hi) m (kabj), कब्ज़ f (kabz)
• Hungarian: székrekedés (hu)
• Icelandic: harðlífi (is) n, hægðatregða (is) f
• Indonesian: sembelit (id)
• Irish: iatacht f
• Italian: stipsi (it) f, stitichezza (it) f
• Japanese: 便秘 (ja) (べんぴ, benpi)
• Korean: 변비(便秘) (ko) (byeonbi)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: zikgirî f

• Ladino:

  Roman: durera f

• Latvian: aizcietējums m
• Macedonian: запек m (zapek)
• Malayalam: മലബന്ധം (ml) (malabandhaṁ)
• Maori: mate kōroke, mate kōreke
• Mongolian: өтгөн хаталт (ötgön xatalt)
• Norman: constipâtion f (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: forstoppelse m, obstipasjon m

  Nynorsk: forstopping f, obstipasjon m

• Persian: یبوست (fa) (yobusat)
• Piedmontese: stitichëssa f
• Polish: konstypacja f, obstrukcja (pl) f, zaparcie (pl) n, zatwardzenie (pl) n
• Portuguese: constipação (pt) f, prisão de ventre (pt) f
• Romanian: constipație (ro) f
• Russian: запо́р (ru) m (zapór), констипа́ция (ru) f (konstipácija)
• Scottish Gaelic: teanntachd-cuim f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: констипација f, затвор m

  Roman: konstipacija (sh) f, zatvor (sh) m

• Slovak: zápcha (sk) f
• Slovene: zaprtje n
• Spanish: estreñimiento (es) m
• Swedish: förstoppning (sv) c
• Tagalog: tibi
• Tamil: மலச்சிக்கல் (ta) (malaccikkal)
• Thai: ท้องผูก
• Turkish: kabızlık (tr)
• Ukrainian: запо́р m (zapór)
• Urdu: قَبْض m (qabẓ)
• Vietnamese: táo bón (vi)
• Welsh: rhwymedd m

See also

• Constipation in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

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French

Etymology

From Latin cōnstīpātiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃s.ti.pa.sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

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Noun

constipation f (plural constipations)

1. constipation

Related terms

• constiper

Further reading

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