common cold

common cold

English

Noun

common cold (plural common colds)

1. (pathology) A very common, mild viral infection of the nose and throat, whose symptoms include sneezing, sniffling, a running or blocked nose, a sore throat, coughing and a headache.

Synonyms

• acute viral nasopharyngitis
• acute coryza
• pose

Translations

mild infection

Arabic: زُكَام‎ (zukām) Armenian: մրսածություն (mrsacutʿyun), հարբուխ (hy) (harbux) Chinese: Cantonese: 感冒 (gam2 mou6) Mandarin: 普通感冒 (pǔtōng gǎnmào), 感冒 (zh) (gǎnmào), 傷風／伤风 (zh) (shāngfēng) Czech: nachlazení (cs) n Danish: forkølelse (da) Dutch: verkoudheid (nl) f Esperanto: malvarmumo (eo) Estonian: please add this translation if you can Faroese: krím n Finnish: flunssa (fi), nuhakuume (fi), vilustumistauti, vilustuminen (fi) French: rhume (fr) German: Erkältung (de) f Hindi: सर्दी (hi) (sardī), ज़ुकाम (hi) m (zukām), जुकाम (hi) m (jukām), प्रतिश्याय (hi) m (pratiśyāy) Hungarian: nátha (hu) Indonesian: pilek (id) Japanese: 風邪 (ja) (かぜ, kaze), 細菌性の風邪 (さいきんせいのかぜ, saikinsei no kaze) Khmer: គ្រុនផ្ដាសាយធម្មតា (krun pdaahsaay tʰoammea’daa) Korean: 감기 (ko) (gamgi) Lao: please add this translation if you can Latvian: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can Malayalam: ജലദോഷം (ml) (jaladōṣaṃ) Marathi: सर्दी (sardī) Mongolian: хамрын ханиад (xamryn xaniad), ханиад (mn) (xaniad) Nepali: रुगा (rugā) Polish: przeziębienie (pl) n Portuguese: resfriado (pt) m Romanian: gripă (ro) f, răceală (ro) f Russian: просту́да (ru) f (prostúda), на́сморк (ru) m (násmork), ОРВИ (ru) f (ORVI) (abbr.) Sanskrit: प्रतिश्याय (sa) m (pratiśyāya) Spanish: resfriado común m, resfrío (es) m Swedish: förkylning (sv) c Tamil: please add this translation if you can Thai: หวัด (th) (wàt) Tibetan: ཆམས་པ (chams pa) Turkish: soğuk algınlığı (tr) Ukrainian: засту́да f (zastúda), просту́да f (prostúda), не́жить m (néžytʹ) Vietnamese: bệnh cảm lạnh

See also

• feed a cold, starve a fever
• nasopharyngitis
• rhinitis
• sinusitis