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English
Etymology
From Middle English indigestioun, from Old French indigestion, from Late Latin indigestio, by surface analysis, in- + digestion.
Pronunciation
Noun
indigestion (usually uncountable, plural indigestions)
- A condition of heartburn, nausea, or other stomach-related pain, sometimes caused by eating too quickly.
Derived terms
Translations
condition caused by eating too quickly
- Afrikaans: slegte spysvertering
- Albanian: dispepsi
- Arabic: عُسْر الهَضَم (ʕusr al-haḍam)
- Azerbaijani: həzmsizlik
- Basque: indigestioak
- Belarusian: нястраўнасць (njastraŭnascʹ)
- Bengali: বদহজম (bn) (bod'hojom)
- Bulgarian: лошо храносмилане (lošo hranosmilane)
- Burmese: အစာမကွေခွငျး (a.cama.kwehkwa.ngya:)
- Catalan: indigestió
- Chichewa: kudzimbidwa
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 消化不良 (zh) (xiāohuà bùliáng)
- Corsican: indigestione
- Czech: špatné trávení, zažívací potíže
- Dutch: indigestie (nl)
- Esperanto: dispepsio, misdigesto
- Estonian: seedehäired, seedehäire
- Finnish: ruoansulatusvaivat pl, ruoansulatushäiriö
- French: indigestion (fr) f
- Galician: indixestión, empacho m
- Georgian: საჭმლის მონელების დარღვევა (sač̣mlis monelebis darɣveva)
- German: Verdauungsstörung (de) f
- Greek: δυσπεψία (el) f (dyspepsía), βαρυστομαχιά (el) f (varystomachiá)
- Ancient: ἀπεψία f (apepsía)
- Gujarati: અપચો (apaco)
- Haitian Creole: gonfleman
- Hindi: अनपच (hi) (anpac), बदहज़मी f (badhazmī), अजीर्ण (hi) m (ajīrṇ)
- Hungarian: gyomorrontás (hu)
- Icelandic: meltingartruflanir
- Indonesian: gangguan pencernaan
- Irish: mí-dhíleá m, tinneas bhéal an ghoile m
- Italian: indigestione (it) f
- Japanese: 消化不良 (shōka furyō)
- Kannada: ಅಜೀರ್ಣ (kn) (ajīrṇa)
- Khmer: ការរំលាយអាហារ (kaa rumliəy ʼaahaa)
- Korean: 소화 불량 (sohwa bullyang)
- Kyrgyz: ашказан бузулуу (aşkazan buzuluu), зилинин (zilinin)
- Latin: cruditatem, cruditas, cruditates
- Latvian: gremošanas traucējumi
- Lithuanian: nevirškinimas
- Malay: ketakcernaan
- Malayalam: ദഹനക്കേട് (ml) (dahanakkēṭŭ)
- Maltese: indiġestjoni
- Maori: taratarawai, kunāwhea
- Marathi: अपचन (apcan)
- Nepali: अपच (ne) (apac)
- Norwegian: fordøyelsesproblemer pl, fordøyelsesbesvær n
- Persian: سوءِ هاضمه (su'-e hâzeme)
- Polish: niestrawność (pl) f, dyspepsja (pl) f
- Portuguese: indigestão (pt) f
- Punjabi: ਬਦਹਜ਼ਮੀ (badhazamī)
- Romanian: indigestie (ro) f
- Russian: несваре́ние желу́дка f (nesvarénije želúdka), диспепси́я (ru) f (dispepsíja)
- Sanskrit: अजीर्ण (sa) n (ajīrṇa)
- Scottish Gaelic: cion-meirbhidh m, dì-chnàmhadh m
- Serbo-Croatian: пробавне сметње, probavne smetnje
- Sinhalese: අජීර්ණය (ajīrṇaya)
- Spanish: indigestión
- Swedish: indigestion (sv)
- Tagalog: disatunaw
- Telugu: అజీర్ణము (te) (ajīrṇamu), అజీర్తి (te) (ajīrti)
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French
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Late Latin indigestiō.
Pronunciation
Noun
indigestion f (plural indigestions)
- indigestion
- (figuratively) overdose of, surfeit of something
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