dysentery

English

Etymology

From Middle English dissenterie, from Old French dissenterie, from Latin dysenteria, from Ancient Greek δυσεντερία (dusentería), from δυσ- (dus-, “bad”) + ἔντερα (éntera, “bowels”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdɪs.ənˌtɛɹ.i/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdɪs.ən.tə.ɹi/, /ˈdɪs.ən.tɹi/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

dysentery (countable and uncountable, plural dysenteries)

2. (pathology) A disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines, especially the colon (large intestine), accompanied by pus (white blood cells) in the feces, fever, pain in the abdomen, high-volume diarrhea, and possible blood in the feces.
   • 1959, “In Old Mexico”, Tom Lehrer (music):

     We ate, we drank, and we were merry / and we got typhoid and dysentery.

3. Diarrhea.

Derived terms

• amebic dysentery
• amoebic dysentery
• antidysentery
• dysenteric
• hepatodysentery

 

Translations

disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines

• Afrikaans: disenterie
• Albanian: dizenteri (sq) f
• Arabic: زُحَار m (zuḥār)
• Armenian: դիզենտերիա (hy) (dizenteria), թանչ (hy) (tʻančʻ)

  Old Armenian: թանչ (tʻančʻ)

• Asturian: disentería f
• Azerbaijani: dizenteriya
• Bashkir: дизентерия (dizenteriya)
• Basque: disenteria
• Belarusian: дызентэры́я f (dyzjenterýja)
• Bengali: আমাশয় (bn) (amaśoẏ)
• Breton: fluz-gwad m
• Bulgarian: дизентерия f (dizenterija)
• Catalan: disenteria f
• Cebuano: disenteriya
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 痢疾 (lei⁶ zat⁶)

  Hokkien: 痢疾 (lī-chi̍t)

  Mandarin: 痢疾 (zh) (lìji), 白痢 (zh) (báilì), 赤痢 (zh) (chìlì) (with blood)

• Czech: úplavice (cs) f, dyzentérie f
• Danish: dysenteri c
• Dutch: dysenterie (nl) f
• Esperanto: disenterio
• Estonian: düsenteeria
• Faroese: blóðsótt n
• Finnish: punatauti (fi), shigelloosi, dysenteria
• French: dysenterie (fr) f
• Galician: disentería f
• Georgian: დიზენტერია (dizenṭeria)
• German: Dysenterie (de) f, Ruhr (de) f (dated)
• Greek: δυσεντερία (el) f (dysentería)

  Ancient Greek: δυσεντερία f (dusentería)

• Haitian Creole: disantri
• Hebrew: דִּיזֶנְטֶרְיָה (he) f (dizenterya)
• Hiligaynon: balaód
• Hindi: अतिसार (hi) m (atisār), पेचिश (hi) f (peciś), अमाशय m (amāśay), ग्रहणी (hi) m (grahṇī), अन्नगंधि (hi) m (annagandhi), दस्त (hi) m (dast), प्रवाहिका (hi) (pravāhikā)
• Hungarian: vérhas (hu), dizentéria (hu)
• Icelandic: iðrakreppa f, blóðkreppusótt f, blóðfallssótt n, blóðsótt n
• Ido: disenterio (io)
• Ilocano: sika
• Indonesian: disentri (id)
• Ingrian: punatauti
• Irish: dinnireacht f, flosc fola m, rith fola m
• Italian: dissenteria (it) f
• Jamaican Creole: disnchri
• Japanese: 赤痢 (ja) (せきり, sekiri)
• Kabiyé: anɩza kʊdɔŋ
• Kalmyk: туулвр (tuulvr)
• Kazakh: дизентерия (dizenteriä)
• Khiamniungan Naga: thāitshíu
• Khmer: មួល (km) (muəl)
• Korean: 이질 (ko) (ijil)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: dîzanterî f

• Kyrgyz: дизентерия (ky) (dizenteriya)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: dysenteria f
• Latvian: dizentērija f
• Lingala: mokungúlu, mwǎzákónga
• Lithuanian: dizenterija f
• Luxembourgish: Dysenterie f
• Macedonian: дизентерија f (dizenterija)
• Malagasy: nivalan-dra
• Malay: disenteri
• Malayalam: വയറുകടി (vayaṟukaṭi)
• Maltese: diżinterija f
• Maori: kōea, mate kōea
• Mongolian: улаан суулга (ulaan suulga), дизентери (mn) (dizenteri), цусан суулга (cusan suulga), жүсэр (mn) (žüser)
• Navajo: chąądił
• Norman: dysenterie f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: dysenteri m

  Nynorsk: dysenteri m

• Occitan: dessentèri m

  Old Occitan: dissenteria f

• Old Norse: blóðsótt n
• Palantla Chinantec: dsag³ jmø²
• Persian: دیسانتری (fa)
• Polish: dyzenteria (pl) f, czerwonka (pl) f
• Portuguese: disenteria (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਡਾਇਨੇਟੇਰੀ (ḍāineṭerī)
• Quechua: yawar q'icha
• Romanian: dizenterie (ro) f
• Russian: дизентери́я (ru) f (dizenteríja)
• Sanskrit: अन्नगन्धि (sa) (annagandhi)
• Scottish Gaelic: buinnteachd f, bronn-sgaoileadh f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: дизентѐрија f, срдо̀боља f (archaic)

  Roman: dizentèrija (sh) f, srdòbolja (sh) f (archaic)

• Sicilian: dissintirìa f
• Sinhalese: අතීසාරය (atīsāraya)
• Slovak: úplavica f, dyzentéria f
• Slovene: griža (sl) f
• Spanish: disentería (es) f
• Swedish: dysenteri (sv) c
• Tagalog: disenteriya, daragis, iti, pag-iiti, balaod
• Tajik: дизентерия (tg) (dizenteriya)
• Tamil: இரத்தக்கழிசல் (irattakkaḻical), சீதபேதி (ta) (cītapēti)
• Tatar: дизентерия (dizenteriyä)
• Telugu: నీళ్ల విరేచనాలు (nīḷla virēcanālu), గ్రహణి (te) (grahaṇi)
• Thai: โรคบิด (rôok-bìt)
• Turkish: dizanteri (tr)
• Ukrainian: дизентері́я f (dyzenteríja)
• Uzbek:

  Cyrillic: дизентерия (uz) (dizenteriya)

  Roman: dizenteriya (uz)

• Vietnamese: kiết lị, lị (vi), kiết (vi)
• Welsh: dysentri
• Zhuang: bingh'okleih

See also

• shigellosis