croup

English

From Middle English croupe, from Old French croupe (“rump, body”), from Old Norse kroppr (“body, trunk, mass”), from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (“body, mass, heap, collection, crop”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to curve, bend, crawl”). More at crupper, doublet of croupe, group, and crop.

croup (plural croups)

top of the rump of a horse

From Scots croup, croop (“the croup”), from Scots croup, crowp, croop (“to croak, speak hoarsely, murmur, complain”), from Old Scots crowp, crope, croap (“to call loudly, croak”), alteration of rowp, roup, roip, rope (“to cry, cry hoarsely, roop”), from Middle English roupen, ropen, from Old English hrōpan (“to shout, proclaim; cry out, scream, howl”), from Proto-Germanic *hrōpaną (“to shout”), from Proto-Indo-European *ker-, *kor- (“to caw, crow”). More at roop.

croup (third-person singular simple present croups, present participle crouping, simple past and past participle crouped)

to croak — see croak

croup (uncountable)

(pathology) An infectious illness of the larynx, especially in young children, causing respiratory difficulty.

There are two forms of croup, one caused by the diphtheria bacterium which may be deadly if not cured, and the other, less severe, caused by viruses. The viral form was formerly called pseudocroup. Vaccines and antibiotics have nearly eradicated the diphtheritic form from developed countries, and now the term "croup" chiefly refers to the viral form.

an infectious illness of the larynx

Armenian: խռուկ (hy) (xṙuk), խռիկ (hy) (xṙik)
Bulgarian: спазматичен ларингит m (spazmatičen laringit) (мед.)
Catalan: crup (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 義膜性喉炎 / 义膜性喉炎 (yìmóxìng hóuyán), 喉氣管支氣管炎 / 喉气管支气管炎 (hóuqìguǎnzhīqìguǎnyán), 哮吼 (zh) (xiàohǒu)
Danish: strubehoste c
Dutch: kroep (nl)
Esperanto: krupo
Finnish: kuristustauti (fi) (diphtheritic form); valekuristustauti (fi) (viral form)
French: croup (fr) m
Galician: crup m
German: Krupp (de) m, Kehlkopfdiphtherie f (diphtheric), Pseudokrupp m (viral)
Hungarian: krupp (hu)
Irish: tochtán m
Lezgi: бугъма (buġma)
Macedonian: круп m (krup)
Polish: krup (pl) m
Russian: круп (ru) m (krup)
Scots: croup
Spanish: crup m, garrotillo m
Swedish: krupp (sv) c
Turkish: krup
Welsh: crŵp m

croup