SARS

SARS

See also: sårs, sars, and Sars

English

Pronunciation

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Noun

SARS (uncountable)

1. (medicine) Acronym of severe acute respiratory syndrome; also Sars.
   • 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 182:

     SARS set off a panic about global spread and contagion.

Descendants

• Translingual: SARS-CoV, SARS-CoV-1, SARS-CoV-2, SARSr-CoV
• Chinese: SARS
• Finnish: SARS
• German: SARS
• Portuguese: SARS

Translations

severe acute respiratory syndrome

Chinese: SARS (zh) Cantonese: 沙士 (saa1 si6-2) Mandarin: 非典 (zh) (fēidiǎn) Danish: please add this translation if you can Finnish: SARS (fi) French: SRAS (fr) m German: SARS (de) Hungarian: súlyos akut légzőszervi szindróma (hu) Japanese: サーズ (sāzu) Korean: 사스 (saseu), 싸스 (ssaseu) Portuguese: SARS (pt) f Spanish: SRAS m

Proper noun

SARS

1. (Nigeria, law enforcement) Initialism of Special Anti-Robbery Squad, a Nigerian police unit known for police brutality and corruption

See also

• MERS
• COVID-19

Anagrams

• ASSR, RSAs

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Chinese

Etymology

From English SARS.

Noun

SARS

1. (medicine, pathology, virology) SARS (“severe acute respiratory syndrome”) (a disease)
2. (medicine, pathology, virology, informal) SARS-CoV-1 (the virus that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome, SARS)
3. (medicine, pathology, virology, informal) SARSr-CoV (the virus species that contains the SARS virus)

Coordinate terms

• Cantonese: 沙士 (“saa1 si6-2”)
• Mandarin: 非典 (“fēidiǎn”)

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Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from English SARS.

Noun

SARS

1. (medicine, pathology, virology) SARS: severe acute respiratory syndrome

Usage notes

The "severe acute respiratory syndrome" translates into Finnish as äkillinen vakava hengitystieoireyhtymä, but the term is seldom used. Usually the English initialism SARS is used as the Finnish name of this illness. An individual occurrence of SARS may be referred to as SARS-tapaus.

Declension

Inflection of SARS (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		SARS	—
genitive		SARSin	—
partitive		SARSia	—
illative		SARSiin	—
		singular	plural
nominative		SARS	—
accusative	nom.	SARS	—
	gen.	SARSin
genitive		SARSin	—
partitive		SARSia	—
inessive		SARSissa	—
elative		SARSista	—
illative		SARSiin	—
adessive		SARSilla	—
ablative		SARSilta	—
allative		SARSille	—
essive		SARSina	—
translative		SARSiksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		SARSitta	—
comitative		—	—

Possessive forms of SARS (type risti)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	SARSini	SARSimme
2nd person	SARSisi	SARSinne
3rd person	SARSinsa

Synonyms

• SARS-keuhkokuume