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English
Etymology
From Latin constīpātiō, from cōnstīpō.
Pronunciation
Noun
constipation (countable and uncountable, plural constipations)
- A state of the bowels in which the evacuations are infrequent and difficult, or the intestines become filled with hardened faeces
- Synonym: costiveness
- The act of crowding anything into a lesser space, or the state of being crowded or pressed together; condensation.
Derived terms
Translations
state of bowels
- Albanian: kapsllëk (sq) m
- Arabic: إِمْسَاك m (ʔimsāk)
- Armenian: փորկապություն (hy) (pʻorkaputʻyun)
- Azerbaijani: qəbiz, qəbəlik, qəbizlik
- Belarusian: запо́р m (zapór)
- Bulgarian: запек (bg) m (zapek)
- Catalan: restrenyiment m
- Cebuano: tubol
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 便秘 (zh) (biànmì)
- Czech: zácpa (cs) f
- Danish: forstoppelse (da) c
- Dutch: constipatie (nl) f
- Esperanto: konstipo, mallakso
- Estonian: kõhukinnisus
- Finnish: ummetus (fi)
- French: constipation (fr) f
- Georgian: ყაბზობა (q̇abzoba)
- German: Obstipation (de) f, Verstopfung (de) f
- Greek: δυσκοιλιότητα (el) f (dyskoiliótita)
- Hebrew: עֲצִירוּת (he)
- Hindi: कब्ज (hi) m (kabj), कब्ज़ f (kabz)
- Hungarian: székrekedés (hu)
- Icelandic: harðlífi (is) n, hægðatregða (is) f
- Indonesian: sembelit (id)
- Irish: iatacht f
- Italian: stipsi (it) f, stitichezza (it) f
- Japanese: 便秘 (ja) (べんぴ, benpi)
- Korean: 변비(便秘) (ko) (byeonbi)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: zikgirî f
- Ladino:
- Roman: durera f
- Latvian: aizcietējums m
- Macedonian: запек m (zapek)
- Malayalam: മലബന്ധം (ml) (malabandhaṁ)
- Maori: mate kōroke, mate kōreke
- Mongolian: өтгөн хаталт (ötgön xatalt)
- Norman: constipâtion f (Jersey)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: forstoppelse m, obstipasjon m
- Nynorsk: forstopping f, obstipasjon m
- Persian: یبوست (fa) (yobusat)
- Piedmontese: stitichëssa f
- Polish: konstypacja f, obstrukcja (pl) f, zaparcie (pl) n, zatwardzenie (pl) n
- Portuguese: constipação (pt) f, prisão de ventre (pt) f
- Romanian: constipație (ro) f
- Russian: запо́р (ru) m (zapór), констипа́ция (ru) f (konstipácija)
- Scottish Gaelic: teanntachd-cuim f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: констипација f, затвор m
- Roman: konstipacija (sh) f, zatvor (sh) m
- Slovak: zápcha (sk) f
- Slovene: zaprtje n
- Spanish: estreñimiento (es) m
- Swedish: förstoppning (sv) c
- Tagalog: tibi
- Tamil: மலச்சிக்கல் (ta) (malaccikkal)
- Thai: ท้องผูก
- Turkish: kabızlık (tr)
- Ukrainian: запо́р m (zapór)
- Urdu: قَبْض m (qabẓ)
- Vietnamese: táo bón (vi)
- Welsh: rhwymedd m
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See also
Anagrams
French
Etymology
From Latin cōnstīpātiōnem.
Pronunciation
Noun
constipation f (plural constipations)
- constipation
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