jet lag

See also: jetlag and jet-lag

English

Alternative forms

• jetlag

Etymology

Possibly coined by Horace Sutton in 1966.

Noun

jet lag (usually uncountable, plural jet lags)

1. (aviation) A physical condition caused by crossing time zones during flight; often the result of disruption to the circadian rhythms of the body.

   Synonyms: jet syndrome, (medicine) circadian dysrhythmia, (medicine) desynchronosis

   • 2003, William Gibson, Pattern Recognition (Bigend cycle; book 1), New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, page 1:

     She knows, now, absolutely, hearing the white noise that is London, that Damien’s theory of jet lag is correct: that her mortal soul is leagues behind her, being reeled in on some ghostly umbilical down the vanished wake of the plane that brought her here, hundreds of thousands of feet above the Atlantic.

Derived terms

• jet-lagged
• jet-lagging
• jetlaggy
• social jet lag

 

Translations

physical condition

• Afrikaans: vlugvoosheid
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 時差問題／时差问题 (shíchā wèntí), 飛行時差反應／飞行时差反应 (fēixíng shíchā fǎnyìng), 時差感／时差感 (shíchāgǎn), 倒時差／倒时差 (dǎo shíchā)

• Czech: pásmová nemoc f
• Danish: jetlag n
• Dutch: jetlag (nl) m
• Finnish: aikaerorasitus (fi), aikaero (fi)
• French: décalage horaire (fr) m
• German: Jetlag (de) m
• Greek: βιοαπορρύθμιση f (vioaporrýthmisi)
• Hungarian: időeltolódás miatti kimerültség, időátállási probléma, időzónaugrás szindróma
• Icelandic: dægurvilla f, flugþreyta f, þotuþreyta f
• Irish: tuirse aerthaistil f
• Japanese: 時差ぼけ (ja) (じさぼけ, jisa boke)
• Korean: 시차증(時差症) (sichajeung)
• Malay: lamban jet, gangguan ritma harian
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: jetlag (no)

  Nynorsk: jetlag

• Polish: jet lag (pl) m, jetlag m
• Portuguese: jet lag m
• Russian: джетла́г (ru) m (džetlág), десинхрони́я f (desinxroníja)
• Slovak: pásmová choroba f
• Spanish: desfase horario m; jet-lag m, jet lag (es) m
• Swedish: jetlag (sv) c
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: lludded jet m, jetludded m

Italian

Alternative forms

• jet-lag

Etymology

Borrowed from English jet lag.

Noun

jet lag m (invariable)

1. jet lag
   • 2007, Di Thomas Kohnstamm, Venezuela, →ISBN:

     Per evitare il jet lag bevete molti liquidi (non alcolici) e mangiate cibi leggeri.

     In order to avoid jet lag, drink lots of (non-alcoholic) liquid and eat lightly.

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English jet lag.

Noun

jet lag m (uncountable)

1. jet lag (a physical condition caused by crossing time zones during flight)

Spanish

Noun

jet lag m (uncountable)

1. jet lag

Further reading

• “jet lag”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014