mumps

See also: MUMPS and Mumps

English

Etymology

Circa 1600, from mump (“grimace”, noun), compare mump (verb), most likely referring to the painful difficulty in swallowing.

Noun

mumps pl (plural only)

(pathology) A contagious disease caused by the Mumps virus of the genus Rubulavirus, mostly occurring in childhood, which causes swelling of glands in the face and neck.
(dated) A gloomy or sullen silence.

Usage notes

Usually used with a singular verb.

Hypernyms

parotitis

Translations

contagious disease

Afrikaans: pampoentjies
Asturian: parotidis
Basque: hazizurri
Bikol Central: bayuko
Cebuano: bayuok
Cherokee: ᎠᏓᏴᏦᏗᏍᎩ (adayvtsodisgi)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 腮腺炎 (zh) (sāixiànyán)
Czech: příušnice (cs) f pl
Dutch: bof (nl)
Esperanto: mumpso
Estonian: mumps (et)
Finnish: sikotauti (fi)
French: oreillons (fr)
Georgian: ყბაყურა (q̇baq̇ura)
German: Mumps (de) m
Greek: παρωτίτιδα (el) f (parotítida), μαγουλάδες (el) f pl (magouládes)
Hausa: hàngum m
Hungarian: mumpsz (hu)
Hunsrik: Kaschumbe pl
Ido: oreliono (io)
Indonesian: beguk (id)
Italian: parotite epidemica f, orecchioni (it)
Japanese: 流行性耳下腺炎 (りゅうこうせいじかせんえん, ryūkōsei jikasen'en), おたふく風邪 (otafuku kaze)
Kapampangan: bayki, buklaw
Khmer: ស្រឡទែន (srɑɑlɑɑtɛɛn), សាលាទែន (saaliətɛɛn)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: binguhik
Macedonian: за́ушки pl (záuški)
Malayalam: മുണ്ടിനീര് (ml) (muṇṭinīrŭ)
Maori: mate pupuhi repe, repe hūware pupuhi
Navajo: ayaayááh niichaad
Neapolitan: recchiune
Norwegian: kusma (no)
Persian: اوریون‎ (oreyon)
Plautdietsch: Mumps f
Polish: świnka (pl) f
Portuguese: caxumba (pt) f
Russian: зау́шница (ru) f (zaúšnica), сви́нка (ru) f (svínka)
Scottish Gaelic: a' phluc f, a' phloic
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: заушке f
Roman: zauške f
Spanish: paperas, parotiditis f
Swedish: parotit c, påssjuka (sv) c
Tagalog: beke, buklaw
Turkish: kabakulak (tr)
Ukrainian: сви́нка f (svýnka), заву́шниця f (zavúšnycja)
Waray-Waray: bikag
Welsh: clwy'r pennau, twymyn doben

Verb

mumps

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mump

Noun

mumps

plural of mump

References

Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “mumps”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Anagrams

PMMUs