smallpox

smallpox

See also: small-pox and small pox

English

Severe form of smallpox.

Etymology

From small +‎ pox.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsmɔːlpɒks/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsmɔlpɑks/

Noun

smallpox (usually uncountable, plural smallpoxes)

1. (pathology) An acute, highly infectious often fatal disease caused by Variola virus of the family Poxviridae. It was completely eradicated in the 1970s, but still exists in laboratories. Those who survived were left with pockmarks.

   Synonym: variola

   The Europeans brought new diseases such as smallpox, measles, dysentery, influenza, syphilis and leprosy.

   • 1973, Alfred W. Crosby, The Columbian Exchange, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, →ISBN, page 42:

     We know that the most deadly of the early epidemics in America were those of the eruptive fevers—smallpox, measles, typhus, and so on. The first to arrive and the deadliest, said contemporaries, was smallpox.

Derived terms

• antismallpox

 

Translations

disease

Albanian: li e madhe f Arabic: جُدَرِيّ‎ m (judariyy) Arikara: nasačiraánuʾ, sawárus, sačiraánuʾ Armenian: ծաղիկ (hy) (całik) Assamese: বৰ আই (bor ai), বসন্ত ৰোগ (boxonto rüg) Assiniboine: wįcáȟniȟni Asturian: belleya f Aymara: chuqu usu Azerbaijani: çiçək (az) Bashkir: сәсәк (säsäk), ҡара сәсәк (qara säsäk) Belarusian: во́спа f (vóspa) Bengali: গুটিবসন্ত (guṭibsônt) Bikol Central: poko Bulgarian: едра шарка f (edra šarka), вариола f (variola) Burmese: ကျောက်ကြီး (my) (kyaukkri:) Catalan: verola (ca) f, pigota (ca) f Cebuano: buti Cherokee: ᎤᏃᏔᏩᎸᏯᎩ (unotawalvyagi), ᎤᏅᏔᏆᎵ (unvtaquali) Chinese: Mandarin: 天花 (zh) (tiānhuā) Classical Nahuatl: (please verify) huēi zahuatl, huēyi zahuatl, mātlālzahuatl Cree: ᒥᓯ ᐅᒥᑮᐏᐣ (misi omikiiwin) Czech: neštovice (cs) f pl Danish: kopper (da) pl Dhivehi: ކަށި ވިދުރި‎ (kaṣi viduri) Dutch: pokken (nl) c Esperanto: variolo Estonian: rõuged Finnish: isorokko (fi) French: variole (fr) f, petite vérole (fr) f Galician: varíola f, boas f pl, vexigas f pl German: Pocken (de) f pl, Blattern (de) f pl Greek: ευλογιά (el) f (evlogiá) Hindi: चेचक (hi) f (cecak), शीतला (hi) (śītlā), माता (hi) (mātā), बड़ी माता (baṛī mātā), आतशक (hi) f (ātśak) Guaraní: mbiru'a Gujarati: શીતળા (śītaḷā), શીળી (śīḷī) Hiligaynon: hangga, buti Hungarian: fekete himlő (hu) Icelandic: bólusótt (is) f Ilocano: burtong Irish: bolgach f, bolgach Dé f Italian: vaiolo (it) m, vaiuolo m Japanese: 天然痘 (ja) (てんねんとう, tennentō), 疱瘡 (ja) (ほうそう, hōsō), 痘瘡 (ja) (とうそう, tōsō), 疱瘡 (ja) (mogasa), 疱瘡 (ja) (imogasa) Kabiyé: ɛsɔ kʊdɔŋ Kalmyk: цецг (tsetsg) Kapampangan: bulutung Kazakh: қара шешек (qara şeşek) Khmer: អុតធំ (ʼot thom) Korean: 천연두 (ko) (cheonyeondu) Kyrgyz: чечек (ky) (çeçek) Lakota: wičháȟaŋȟaŋ Latgalian: pokys Latvian: bakas Lezgi: цiегьер (cieher) Malay: cacar (ms) Malayalam: വസൂരി (ml) (vasūri), അകമലരി (ml) (akamalari) Malecite-Passamaquoddy: lahpihkut Maltese: ġidri m Manchu: ᠮᠠᠮᠠ (mama) Manx: spohttyn breckey m Maori: mate koroputaputa, mate pokapoka Maranao: poko Marathi: देवी (devī) Mi'kmaq: lapigot anim Navajo: łóódtsoh Norman: vétheule f (Jersey) Norwegian: Bokmål: kopper (no) m pl Nynorsk: koppar m pl Oriya: ବସନ୍ତ (or) (bôsôntô) Ossetian: цiегьер (ciegʹer) Pangasinan: gulutong Pawnee: racákiraaruʾ Persian: آبله‎ (fa) (âbele) Polish: ospa (pl) f Portuguese: varíola (pt) f Punjabi: ਚੇਚਕ (cecak), ਆਤਸ਼ਕ (pa) (ātaśak), ਵੱਡੀ ਮਾਤਾ (vaḍḍī mātā), ਦਾਣੇ (dāṇe) Quechua: muru unquy Rohingya: áñra Romanian: variolă (ro) f, vărsat (ro) n Russian: о́спа (ru) f (óspa) Santali: ᱵᱚᱥᱚᱱ (bôsôn) Scottish Gaelic: a' bhreac f, a' bhanachrach f Sindhi: ماتا‎ (maataa), माई, सीतला Sinhalese: මසූරි (masūri), මසූරිකා (masūrikā), මහලෙඩ (mahaleḍa), වසූරිය (wasūriya) Slovak: kiahne (sk) f pl, variola (sk) f Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: poki pl Spanish: viruela (es) f Swahili: ndui Swedish: smittkoppor (sv) pl Tagalog: bulutong (tl) Tamil: பெரியம்மை (ta) (periyammai) Tatar: чәчәк (tt) (çäçäk) Tausug: pangkut Telugu: మశూచి (te) (maśūci) Thai: ฝีดาษ (th) (fǐi-dàat), โรคฝีดาษ (th) Tlingit: kwaan Turkish: çiçek hastalığı Ukrainian: ві́спа f (víspa) Unami: tëspehëleokàn Urdu: چیچک‎ (cecak), ماتا‎ (mātā), سیتلا‎ (sītlā) Uzbek: chechak (uz), chin chechak Vietnamese: đậu mùa (vi) Volapük: pogip Waray-Waray: pandok, poko, tipdas Welsh: brech wen f, brech folog f Yakut: уоспа (uospa) Yiddish: פּאָקן‎ pl (pokn)

Further reading

• smallpox on Wikipedia.Wikipedia