rabies

rabies

See also: rabiés and ràbies

English

A dog infected with rabies

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin rabiēs (“rage, madness, fury”). Doublet of rage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹeɪ.biːz/

• Audio (RP)

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• Rhymes: -eɪbiːz

Noun

rabies (uncountable)

1. (pathology) An infectious disease caused by species of Lyssavirus that causes acute encephalitis in warm-blooded animals and people, characterised by abnormal behaviour such as biting, excitement, aggressiveness, and dementia, followed by paralysis and death.

   Synonyms: hydrophobia, lyssa

Derived terms

• rabid
• rabietic

Translations

viral disease

Afrikaans: hondsdolheid Arabic: كَلَب‎ (ar) m (kalab), دَاء اَلْكَلَب‎ m (dāʾ al-kalab) Egyptian Arabic: سعر‎ m (sáʿar) Moroccan Arabic: سعر‎ m (saʕr) Armenian: կատաղություն (hy) (katałutʿyun) Azerbaijani: quduzluq Belarusian: шаленства n (šaljenstva), шал m (šal) Bulgarian: бяс (bg) m (bjas) Catalan: ràbia (ca) f Cebuano: rabis Chinese: Mandarin: 狂犬病 (zh) (kuángquǎnbìng) Czech: vzteklina (cs) f Danish: hundegalskab (da) c, rabies (da) c Dutch: hondsdolheid (nl) f Estonian: marutaud Finnish: vesikauhu (fi), raivotauti (fi) French: rage (fr) f Galician: rabia f Georgian: ცოფი (copi) German: Tollwut (de) f Greek: λύσσα (el) f (lýssa) Hebrew: כַּלֶּבֶת‎ (he) f (kallevet) Hungarian: veszettség (hu) f Ido: ranio Indonesian: rabies (id), anjing gila (id) Irish: confadh Italian: rabbia (it) f Japanese: 狂犬病 (ja) (きょうけんびょう, kyōkenbyō) Khmer: ឆ្កែឆ្កួត (chkae chkuət) Korean: 광견병 (ko) (gwanggyeonbyeong) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: harî (ku) Lao: ວໍ້ (wǭ) Malay: penyakit anjing gila, gila anjing, rabies Mongolian: галзуу өвчин (galzuu övčin) Norman: rage f (Jersey) Norwegian: hundegalskap n, rabies m Polish: wścieklizna (pl) f Portuguese: raiva (pt) f Romanian: turbare (ro) f, rabie (ro) f Russian: бе́шенство (ru) n (béšenstvo) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: бѐснило n, бесноћа f Roman: bèsnilo (sh) n, besnoća f Sicilian: raggia (scn) f Slovak: besnota f Slovene: steklina (sl) f Spanish: rabia (es) f Swedish: rabies (sv) c Tagalog: rabis Thai: พิษสุนัขบ้า (th) (pít-sù-nák-bâa) Turkish: kuduz (tr) Ukrainian: сказ m (skaz) Vietnamese: dại (vi), bệnh dại Walloon: må d' araedje (wa) m, araedje (wa) f, raedje (wa) f Yiddish: וואַסערשרעק‎ m (vasershrek)

Further reading

• rabies on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• rabies in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
• rabies at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Baiers, Serbia, braies, braise, rebias

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Danish

Noun

rabies c (singular definite rabiesen, not used in plural form)

1. rabies

Declension

Declension of rabies

common gender	Singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	rabies	rabiesen
genitive	rabies'	rabiesens

Synonyms

• hundegalskab

References

• “rabies” in Den Danske Ordbog

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Latin

Etymology

From rabiō +‎ -iēs.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈra.bi.eːs/, [ˈräbieːs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈra.bi.es/, [ˈräːbies]

Noun

rabiēs f (genitive rabiēī); fifth declension

1. rage
2. madness

Declension

• The genitive singular appears as rabiēs in Lucretius. The nominative, accusative and ablative singular are the only attested forms in Classical Latin.

Fifth-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	rabiēs	rabiēs
Genitive	rabiēī	rabiērum
Dative	rabiēī	rabiēbus
Accusative	rabiem	rabiēs
Ablative	rabiē	rabiēbus
Vocative	rabiēs	rabiēs

Derived terms

• rabidus

Descendants

• Late Latin: rabia (see there for further descendants)
• Occitan: rabi (Provençal; the variant ragi is contaminated by raja < rabia)

Borrowings:

• → English: rabies
  • → Cebuano: rabis
  • → Danish: rabies
  • → Malay: rabies
    • → Indonesian: rabies
  • → Norwegian: rabies
  • → Swedish: rabies
  • → Tagalog: rabis
• → Old French: rabe
• → Portuguese: rabia
• → Romanian: rabie

References

• “rabies”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “rabies”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• rabies in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

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Spanish

Verb

rabies

1. second-person singular present subjunctive of rabiar

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Swedish

Noun

rabies c (uncountable)

1. (medicine) rabies

   Synonym: vattuskräck

See also

• fradga (“froth”)

References

• rabies in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• rabies in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• rabies in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)