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/

Noun

dysentery (countable and uncountable, plural dysenteries)

(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, Tom Lehrer (music), “In Old Mexico”:
  We ate, we drank, and we were merry / and we got typhoid and dysentery.
Diarrhea.

Derived terms

amebic dysentery
amoebic dysentery
antidysentery
dysenteric

Translations

disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines

Afrikaans: disenterie
Albanian: dizenteri (sq) f
Arabic: زُحَار‎ m (zuḥār)
Armenian: դիզենտերիա (hy) (dizenteria), թանչ (hy) (tʿančʿ)
Old Armenian: թանչ (tʿančʿ)
Asturian: disentería f
Azerbaijani: dizenteriya
Bashkir: дизентерия (dizenteriya)
Basque: disenteria
Belarusian: дызентэры́я f (dyzjenterýja)
Bengali: আমাশয় (amaśôyô)
Breton: fluz-gwad m
Bulgarian: дизентерия f (dizenterija)
Catalan: disenteria f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 痢疾 (lei⁶ zat⁶)
Mandarin: 痢疾 (zh) (lìji), 白痢 (zh) (báilì), 赤痢 (zh) (chìlì) (with blood)
Min Nan: 痢疾 (lī-chi̍t)
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)
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)
Khmer: មួល (km) (muəl)
Korean: 이질 (ko) (ijil)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: dîzanterî f
Kyrgyz: дизентерия (dizenteriya)
Latin: dysenteria f
Latvian: dizentērija f
Lingala: mokungúlu, mwǎzákónga
Lithuanian: dizenterija f
Luxembourgish: Dysenterie f
Macedonian: дизентерија f (dizenterija)
Malagasy: nivalan-dra
Malay: disentri
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: daragis, iti, pag-iiti, balaod
Tajik: дизентерия (tg) (dizenteriya)
Tamil: இரத்தக்கழிசல் (irattakkaḻical), சீதபேதி (ta) (cītapēti)
Tatar: дизентерия (dizenteriya)
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