seasickness

seasickness

See also: sea-sickness

English

Alternative forms

• sea-sickness, sea sickness

Etymology

seasick +‎ -ness.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsiːsɪk.nəs/

Noun

seasickness (usually uncountable, plural seasicknesses)

1. Nausea, dizziness etc caused by the motion of a ship; a form of motion sickness.

Hypernyms

• motion sickness

Coordinate terms

• airsickness
• carsickness
• trainsickness

Translations

a feeling of nausea caused by the motion of a ship

Arabic: دُوَار اَلْبَحْر‎ m (duwār al-baḥr) Armenian: ծովախտ (hy) (covaxt) Belarusian: марская хвароба f (marskaja xvaróba) Chinese: Mandarin: 暈船 (zh), 晕船 (zh) (yùnchuán) Czech: mořská nemoc (cs) f Danish: søsyge (da) Finnish: merisairaus (fi) French: mal de mer (fr) m, naupathie (fr) f German: Seekrankheit (de) f, Naupathie f Greek: ναυτία (el) f (naftía) Ancient: ναυσία f (nausía) Hebrew: מחלת ים \\ מַחֲלַת יָם‎ (he) f (makhalát yam) Hungarian: tengeribetegség (hu) Icelandic: sjóveiki (is) f Italian: mal di mare (it) m, naupatia f Japanese: 船酔い (ふなよい, funayoi) Korean: 뱃멀미 (baet-meolmi)

Latvian: jūras slimība Maori: mate moana Norwegian: Bokmål: sjøsyke m, sjøsjuke m Nynorsk: sjøsjuke m or f Polish: choroba morska (pl) f Portuguese: enjoo marítimo m Russian: морска́я боле́знь (ru) f (morskája boléznʹ), кинето́з m (kinetóz) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: морска болест f, кинетоза f Roman: morska bolest f, kinetoza (sh) f Slovak: morská choroba (sk) f Spanish: mareo (es) m Swedish: sjösjuka (sv) c Tagalog: lula, pagkalula, sawan Ukrainian: морська хвороба f (morsʹka xvoroba) Volapük: melamaläd Yiddish: ים־קראַנקײַט‎ f (yam-krankayt)