smallpox

See also: small-pox and small pox

English

Severe form of smallpox.

Etymology

From small +‎ pox, in contrast to greatpox (“syphilis”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsmɔːlpɒks/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsmɔlpɑks/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

smallpox (usually uncountable, plural smallpoxes)

2. (pathology) An acute, highly infectious often fatal disease caused by Variola virus of the family Poxviridae. It was completely eradicated in the 1970s, but still exists in laboratories. Those who survived were left with pockmarks.

   Synonym: variola

   The Europeans brought new diseases such as smallpox, measles, dysentery, influenza, syphilis and leprosy.

   • 1973, Alfred W. Crosby, The Columbian Exchange, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, →ISBN, page 42:

     We know that the most deadly of the early epidemics in America were those of the eruptive fevers—smallpox, measles, typhus, and so on. The first to arrive and the deadliest, said contemporaries, was smallpox.

   • 1998 February 15, David X. Cohen, “Das Bus”, in The Simpsons, season 9, episode 14, spoken by Homer:

     Can't make it in today, Mr. Smithers; I have smallpox. Well it wasn't wiped out in my house!

Derived terms

• antismallpox

 

Translations

disease

• Albanian: li e madhe f
• Arabic: جُدَرِيّ m (judariyy)
• Arikara: nasačiraánuʾ, sawárus, sačiraánuʾ
• Armenian: ծաղիկ (hy) (caġik)
• Assamese: বৰ আই (bor ai), বসন্ত ৰোগ (boxonto rüg)
• Assiniboine: wįcáȟniȟni
• Asturian: belleya f
• Aymara: chuqu usu
• Azerbaijani: çiçək (az)
• Bashkir: сәсәк (səsək), ҡара сәсәк (qara səsək)
• Belarusian: во́спа f (vóspa)
• Bengali: গুটিবসন্ত (bn) (guṭibśonto)
• Bikol Central: poko
• Bulgarian: едра шарка f (edra šarka), вариола f (variola)
• Burmese: ကျောက်ကြီး (my) (kyaukkri:)
• Catalan: verola (ca) f, pigota (ca) f
• Cebuano: buti
• Cherokee: ᎤᏃᏔᏩᎸᏯᎩ (unotawalvyagi), ᎤᏅᏔᏆᎵ (unvtaquali)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 天花 (zh) (tiānhuā)

• Classical Nahuatl: ^{(please verify)} huēi zahuatl, huēyi zahuatl, mātlālzahuatl
• Cree: ᒥᓯ ᐅᒥᑮᐏᐣ (misi omikiiwin)
• Czech: neštovice (cs) f pl
• Danish: kopper (da) pl
• Dharug: galgala
• Dhivehi: ކަށި ވިދުރި (kaṣi viduri)
• Dutch: pokken (nl) c
• Esperanto: variolo
• Estonian: rõuged
• Faroese: pokur
• Finnish: isorokko (fi)
• French: variole (fr) f, petite vérole (fr) f
• Galician: varíola (gl) f, boas (gl) f pl, vexigas f pl
• German: Pocken (de) f pl, (dated) Blattern (de) f pl
• Greek: ευλογιά (el) f (evlogiá)
• Guaraní: mbiru'a
• Gujarati: શીતળા (śītaḷā), શીળી (śīḷī)
• Hiligaynon: hangga, buti
• Hindi: चेचक (hi) f (cecak), शीतला (hi) (śītlā), माता (hi) (mātā), बड़ी माता (baṛī mātā), आतशक (hi) f (ātśak)
• Hungarian: fekete himlő (hu)
• Icelandic: bólusótt (is) f
• Ilocano: burtong
• Irish: bolgach f, bolgach Dé f
• Italian: vaiolo (it) m, vaiuolo m
• Japanese: 天然痘 (ja) (てんねんとう, tennentō), 疱瘡 (ja) (ほうそう, hōsō), 痘瘡 (ja) (とうそう, tōsō), 疱瘡 (ja) (mogasa), 疱瘡 (ja) (imogasa)
• Kabiyé: ɛsɔ kʊdɔŋ
• Kalmyk: цецг (tsetsg)
• Kapampangan: bulutung
• Kazakh: қара шешек (qara şeşek)
• Khmer: អុតធំ (ʼot thom)
• Korean: 천연두 (ko) (cheonyeondu)
• Kyrgyz: чечек (ky) (cecek)
• Lakota: wičháȟaŋȟaŋ
• Latgalian: pokys
• Latvian: bakas
• Lezgi: цiегьер (cieher)
• Malay: cacar (ms)
• Malayalam: വസൂരി (ml) (vasūri), അകമലരി (ml) (akamalari)
• Malecite-Passamaquoddy: lahpihkut
• Maltese: ġidri m
• Manchu: ᠮᠠᠮᠠ (mama)
• Manx: spohttyn breckey m
• Maori: mate koroputaputa, mate pokapoka
• Maranao: poko
• Marathi: देवी (devī)
• Mi'kmaq: lapigot anim
• Navajo: łóódtsoh
• Norman: vétheule f (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kopper (no) m pl

  Nynorsk: koppar m pl

• Odia: ବସନ୍ତ (or) (basanta)
• Old Church Slavonic: осъпꙑ f pl (osŭpy)
• Ossetian: цiегьер (ciegʹer)
• Ottoman Turkish: چیچك (çiçek)
• Pangasinan: gulutong
• Pawnee: racákiraaruʾ
• Persian: آبله (fa) (âbele)
• Polish: ospa (pl) f, ospa prawdziwa (pl) f, czarna ospa f
• Portuguese: varíola (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਚੇਚਕ (cecak), ਆਤਸ਼ਕ (pa) (ātaśak), ਵੱਡੀ ਮਾਤਾ (vaḍḍī mātā), ਦਾਣੇ (dāṇe)
• Quechua: muru unquy
• Rohingya: áñra
• Romanian: variolă (ro) f, vărsat (ro) n
• Russian: о́спа (ru) f (óspa)
• Santali: ᱵᱚᱥᱚᱱ (bôsôn)
• Scottish Gaelic: a' bhreac f, a' bhanachrach f
• Sindhi: ماتا (maataa), माई, सीतला
• Sinhalese: මසූරි (masūri), මසූරිකා (masūrikā), මහලෙඩ (mahaleḍa), වසූරිය (wasūriya)
• Slovak: kiahne (sk) f pl, variola (sk) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: poki pl

• Spanish: viruela (es) f
• Swahili: ndui
• Swedish: smittkoppor (sv) pl
• Tagalog: bulutong (tl)
• Tamil: பெரியம்மை (ta) (periyammai)
• Tatar: чәчәк (tt) (çäçäk)
• Tausug: pangkut
• Telugu: మశూచి (te) (maśūci)
• Thai: ฝีดาษ (th) (fǐi-dàat), โรคฝีดาษ (th)
• Tlingit: kwaan
• Turkish: çiçek hastalığı
• Turkmen: mama, jäjek (tk)
• Ukrainian: ві́спа f (víspa)
• Unami: tëspehëleokàn
• Urdu: چیچک (cecak), ماتا (mātā), سیتلا (sītlā)
• Uzbek: chechak (uz), chin chechak
• Vietnamese: đậu mùa (vi)
• Volapük: pogip
• Waray-Waray: pandok, poko, tipdas
• Welsh: brech wen f, brech folog f
• Yakut: уоспа (uospa)
• Yiddish: פּאָקן pl (pokn)

Further reading

• smallpox on Wikipedia.Wikipedia