obesity

English

Etymology

From French obésité, from Latin obēsitās, from obēsus (“fat”). By surface analysis, obese +‎ -ity.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ə(ʊ)ˈbiːsɪti/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /oʊˈbisɪti/, [-ɾi]
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /oʊˈbɛzɪti/
• Hyphenation: obes‧i‧ty

Noun

obesity (countable and uncountable, plural obesities)

1. (pathology) The state of being obese.
   • 2015 July 4, Vilma E. Ortiz, Jean Kwo, “Obesity: physiologic changes and implications for preoperative management”, in BMC Anesthesiology‎^[2], volume 15, →DOI:

     While the majority of individuals with severe obesity are able to maintain eucapnia, a significant minority will develop obesity hypoventilation syndrome (OHS), characterized by alveolar hypoventilation (PaCO 2  > 45 mmHg) unexplained by other disorders.

Derived terms

• antiobesity
• diabesity
• energy obesity
• globesity
• infobesity
• morbid obesity
• obesity hypoventilation syndrome
• superobesity

 

Translations

act or state of being obese

• Arabic: سِمْنَة f (simna), بَدَانَة (ar) f (badāna)
• Armenian: գիրություն (hy) (girutʻyun), չաղություն (hy) (čʻaġutʻyun) (colloquial)
• Basque: loditasun
• Bulgarian: затлъстяване (bg) n (zatlǎstjavane)
• Burmese: အဝလွန်ခြင်း (a.wa.lwanhkrang:)
• Catalan: obesitat (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 肥胖 (zh) (féipàng), 肥胖症 (zh) (féipàngzhèng)

• Czech: obezita (cs) f, otylost f
• Danish: fedme c, overvægt c
• Dutch: obesitas (nl) f
• Esperanto: obezeco
• Estonian: rasvumus
• Finnish: liikalihavuus (fi), ylipaino (fi)
• French: obésité (fr) f
• Galician: obesidade (gl) f
• Georgian: სიმსუქნე (simsukne), გაცხიმოვნება (gacximovneba)
• German: Fettsucht (de) f, Übergewicht (de) n, Adipositas (de) f, Fettleibigkeit (de) f
• Greek: παχυσαρκία (el) f (pachysarkía)
• Hebrew: שׁוֹמֶן (he) m (shomen), השמנת יתר חולנית f
• Hindi: मेदुरता ? (medurtā)
• Hungarian: elhízás (hu), obezitás
• Icelandic: offita (is) f
• Indonesian: obesitas (id)
• Irish: otracht f, murtall m, beathaitheacht f, cothaitheacht f, foircheas m, foircheasacht f
• Italian: obesità (it) f
• Japanese: 肥満 (ja) (ひまん, himan), 肥大 (ja) (ひだい, hidai), 肥満症 (himanshō) (medical)
• Kalmyk: әрмгллһн (ärmgllğn)
• Kazakh: толықтық (tolyqtyq), семіздік (semızdık)
• Korean: 비만 (ko) (biman)
• Kyrgyz: семирүү (ky) (semirüü)
• Latin: obēsitās f, adeps m or f
• Lithuanian: nutukimas ?
• Malay: obesiti (ms)
• Malayalam: പൊണ്ണത്തടി (poṇṇattaṭi), അമിതവണ്ണം (ml) (amitavaṇṇaṁ)
• Maori: mate mōmona
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fedme (no) m, overvekt (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: overvekt f

• Occitan: obesitat f
• Persian: چاقی (fa) (čâqi)
• Polish: otyłość (pl) f
• Portuguese: obesidade (pt) f
• Romanian: obezitate (ro) f
• Russian: ожире́ние (ru) n (ožirénije), ту́чность (ru) f (túčnostʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: прѐтило̄ст f, го̏ја̄зно̄ст f

  Roman: prètilōst (sh) f, gȍjāznōst (sh) f

• Sicilian: sbisazzatizza f
• Slovak: obezita f
• Slovene: debelost ?
• Southern Altai: семирер (semirer)
• Spanish: obesidad (es) f, sobrepeso (es) m
• Swahili: kiribatumbo
• Swedish: fetma (sv) c
• Tamil: உடற்பருமன (uṭaṟparumaṉa)
• Turkish: obezite (tr)
• Ukrainian: ожирі́нння n (ožyrínnnja)
• Vietnamese: béo phì
• Yiddish: גראָב ? (grob)