hemorrhoid

hemorrhoid

English

Alternative forms

• haemorrhoid (UK)
• hæmorrhoid (UK, obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English emerowdes, emeroides, emeroydez, from Old French emorroides, from Latin haemorrhoidae,[1] from Ancient Greek αἱμορροΐς (haimorrhoḯs),a feminine adjective from αἱμόρροος (haimórrhoos, “flowing with blood”), from αἷμα (haîma, “blood”) and the root of ῥέω (rhéō, “flow”).[2] Doublet of emerod.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɛməɹɔɪd/, /ˈhɛmɹɔɪd/

Noun

hemorrhoid (plural hemorrhoids)

1. (pathology, often in the plural) An engorged, dilated and easily broken varicosity in the perianal area, often accompanied by intense itching and throbbing pain: piles.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• external hemorrhoid
• hemorrhoidal
• hemorrhoidectomy
• internal hemorrhoid

Translations

perianal varicosity

Adyghe: please add this translation if you can Afrikaans: aambei (af) Arabic: بَاسُور‎ m (bāsūr) Armenian: թութք (hy) (tʿutʿkʿ) Azerbaijani: babasil Belarusian: гемаро́й m (hjemarój) Bulgarian: хеморои́д (bg) m (hemoroíd) Burmese: လိပ်ခေါင်း (my) (liphkaung:), လိပ်ခေါင်းရောဂါ (my) (liphkaung:rau:ga) Catalan: hemorroide (ca) f, morena (ca) f Chinese: Cantonese: 痔瘡, 痔疮 (zi6 cong1) Mandarin: 痔瘡／痔疮 (zh) (zhìchuāng), 痔 (zh) (zhì) Min Nan: 痔瘡 (zh-min-nan), 痔疮 (tī-chhng), 起背仔 (khí-pèr-á) Czech: hemoroid m Esperanto: hemoroido Finnish: peräpukama (fi) French: hémorroïde (fr) f Galician: hemorroide f, almorrá f sg German: Hämorrhoide (de) f Gujarati: please add this translation if you can Hindi: बवासीर (hi) f (bavāsīr), अर्श (hi) m (arś) Hungarian: aranyér (hu) Icelandic: gyllinæð f, raufaræðahnútur m Indonesian: ambeien (id), wasir (id), hemoroid (id), bawasir (id) Japanese: 疣痔 (いぼじ, iboji), 痔核 (ja) (じかく, jikaku) Kazakh: көтеу (köteu) Kyrgyz: please add this translation if you can Korean: 치질(痔疾) (ko) (chijil) Macedonian: хемороид m (hemoroid) Maori: tero puta Norwegian: Bokmål: hemoroide m Nynorsk: hemoroide m Persian: بواسیر‎ (fa) (bavâsir) Polish: hemoroid m Portuguese: hemorroida (pt) f, almorroida (pt) f, almorreima f Romanian: hemoroid m Russian: геморро́й (ru) m (gemorrój), геморроида́льный у́зел m (gemorroidálʹnyj úzel) Sanskrit: मूलव्याधि (sa) m (mūlavyādhi), अर्श (sa) m (arśa), अर्शस् (sa) n (arśas) Scottish Gaelic: neasgaid fala f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: хеморо̀ӣд m pl Latin: hemoròīd m pl Slovak: hemoroid m Spanish: hemorroide (es) f, almorrana (es) f Swedish: hemorrojd c Tagalog: almoranas Thai: ริดสีดวงทวาร (th) (rít-sǐi-duuang-tá-waan) Turkish: basur (tr), hemoroit (tr) Ukrainian: геморо́й m (hemorój) Vietnamese: trĩ (vi) (痔 (vi)), bệnh trĩ (病痔) Yoruba: please add this translation if you can

References

1. Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “hemorrhoids”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
2. “hemorrhoid”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.