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Yiddish
Etymology
Related to קראַנק (krank) and German krank. Possibly cognate to now-obsolete German Kränke.
Pronunciation
Noun
קרענק • (krenk) f, plural קרענקען (krenken)
- (pathology) disease
- Synonyms: שלאַפֿקייט (shlafkeyt), קראַנקייט (krankeyt), חלאַת (khalas)
- illness
- Synonyms: מחלה (makhle), שלאַפֿקייט (shlafkeyt), קראַנקייט (krankeyt), חלאַת (khalas)
- sickness
- Synonyms: מחלה (makhle), קראַנקייט (krankeyt), חלאַת (khalas)
- medical condition
- Synonym: מיחוש (meykhesh)
- malady
- Synonym: מחלה (makhle)
- ailment
- Synonyms: מחלה (makhle), חלאַת (khalas)
Derived terms
- איבערטרעגער פֿון קרענק (ibertreger fun krenk, “carrier of disease”)
- אינפֿעקציע־קרענק (infektsye-krenk), אינפֿעקטיווע קרענק (infektive krenk, “infectious disease”)
- אַלצהײַמער־קרענק (altshaymer-krenk, “Alzheimer's disease”)
- ים־קרענק (yam-krenk, “seasickness”)
- ירושה־קרענק (yerushe-krenk, “hereditary disease”)
- ייִדישע קרענק (yidishe krenk, “(humorous) hemorrhoids”)
- עבאָלאַ־קרענק (ebola-krenk)
- ענגלישע קרענק (englishe krenk)
- גאָשיי־קרענק (goshey-krenk, “Gaucher's disease”)
- היציקע קרענק (hitsike krenk, “fever”)
- קראָן־קרענק (kron-krenk, “Crohn's disease”)
- לײַמער קרענק (laymer krenk, “Lyme disease”)
- לו געריג־קרענק (lu gerig-krenk, “Lou Gehrig's disease”)
- מויל־און־טלאָען־קרענק (moyl-un-tloen-krenk, “foot-and-mouth disease”)
- נאָכווייעניש־קרענק (nokhveyenish-krenk, “battle fatigue”)
- פּאַרקינסאָן־קרענק (parkinson-krenk, “Parkinson's disease”)
- פּאָפּוגײַ־קרענק (popugay-krenk, “psittacosis”)
- טיי־זאַקס־קרענק (tey-zaks-krenk), ווילנער קרענק (vilner krenk, “Tay-Sachs disease”)
- טראַוומעקרענק (travmekrenk, “shell shock”)
- ווענערישע קרענק (venerishe krenk, “venereal disease”)
References
- Schaechter-Viswanath, Gitl, Glasser, Paul (2016) “disease”, in Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, →ISBN