glanders

glanders

See also: Glanders

English

Etymology

From Middle English glandres, glaundres, from Old French glandres, plural of Old French glandre, from Latin glandula.

Noun

glanders (uncountable)

1. An infectious disease of horses, mules and donkeys caused by the bacterium Burkholderia, one species of which may be transmitted to humans.

Synonyms

• leprosy (obs.)

Translations

disease

Arabic: رُعَام‎ (ruʿām) Catalan: borm m Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Czech: vozhřivka f Finnish: räkätauti (fi) French: morve (fr) f Galician: mormo m German: Rotz (de) m Greek: μάλις f (mális) Hungarian: takonykór Ingrian: räkätauti Irish: boilg fola m pl, fothach m Italian: morva f Latin: malleus (la) m Norwegian: Bokmål: snive m or f Persian: مشمشه‎ (fa) (mešmeše) Polish: nosacizna (pl) f Romanian: morvă (ro) f Russian: сап (ru) m (sap) Sicilian: morvu (scn) m Spanish: muermo m Turkish: sakağı (tr), mankafa (tr), ruam (tr) Ukrainian: сап m (sap) Welsh: ysgyfaint (cy) f

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• Danglers, Legrands, danglers