obesity

obesity

English

Etymology

From French obésité, from Latin obēsitās, from obēsus (“fat”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ə(ʊ)ˈbiːsɪti/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /oʊˈbisɪti/, [-ɾi]
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /oʊˈbɛzɪti/[1]
• Hyphenation: obes‧i‧ty

Noun

obesity (countable and uncountable, plural obesities)

1. (pathology) The state of being obese due to an excess of body fat.

Derived terms

• diabesity
• globesity
• infobesity

Translations

act or state of being obese

Arabic: سِمْنَة‎ f (simna), بَدَانَة‎ (ar) f (badāna) Armenian: գիրություն (hy) (girutʿyun), չաղություն (hy) (čʿałutʿyun) (colloquial) Basque: loditasun Bulgarian: затлъстяване (bg) n (zatlǎstjavane) Burmese: အဝလွန်ခြင်း (a.wa.lwanhkrang:) Catalan: obesitat (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 肥胖 (zh) (féipàng), 肥胖症 (zh) (féipàngzhèng) Czech: obezita (cs) f, otylost f Danish: fedme c, overvægt ? Dutch: obesitas (nl) f Esperanto: obezeco Estonian: rasvumus Finnish: liikalihavuus (fi), ylipaino (fi) French: obésité (fr) f Georgian: სიმსუქნე (simsukne), გაცხიმოვნება (gacximovneba) German: Fettsucht (de) f, Übergewicht (de) n, Adipositas (de) f, Fettleibigkeit (de) f Greek: παχυσαρκία (el) f (pachysarkía) Hebrew: שׁוֹמֶן‎ (he) m (shomen), השמנת יתר חולנית‎ f Hindi: मेदुरता ? (medurtā) Hungarian: elhízás (hu) Icelandic: offita (is) f Indonesian: obesitas (id) Irish: otracht f, murtall m, beathaitheacht f, cothaitheacht f, foircheas m, foircheasacht f Italian: obesità (it) f Japanese: 肥満 (ja) (ひまん, himan), 肥大 (ja) (ひだい, hidai) Kalmyk: әрмгллһн (ärmgllğn) Kazakh: толықтық (tolyqtyq), семіздік (semızdık) Korean: 비만 (ko) (biman) Kyrgyz: семирүү (semirüü) Latin: obēsitās f, adeps m or f Lithuanian: nutukimas ? Malay: obesiti (ms) Maori: mate mōmona Norwegian: Bokmål: fedme (no) m, overvekt (no) m or f Nynorsk: overvekt f Occitan: obesitat f Persian: چاقی‎ (fa) (čâqi) Polish: otyłość (pl) f Portuguese: obesidade (pt) f Romanian: obezitate (ro) f Russian: ожире́ние (ru) n (ožirénije), ту́чность (ru) f (túčnostʹ) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: прѐтило̄ст f, го̏ја̄зно̄ст f Roman: prètilōst (sh) f, gȍjāznōst (sh) f Slovak: obezita ? Slovene: debelost ? Southern Altai: семирер (semirer) Spanish: obesidad (es) f, sobrepeso (es) m Swedish: fetma (sv) c Tamil: உடற்பருமன (uṭaṟparumaṉa) Turkish: obezite (tr) Ukrainian: ожирі́нння ? (ožyrínnnja) Vietnamese: béo phì Yiddish: גראָב‎ ? (grob)

References

1. Meredith, L. P. (1872), “Obesity”, in Every-Day Errors of Speech, Philadelphia: J.P. Lippincott & Co., page 33.