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English
Etymology
From French obésité, from Latin obēsitās, from obēsus (“fat”).
Pronunciation
Noun
obesity (countable and uncountable, plural obesities)
- (pathology) The state of being obese.
Derived terms
Translations
act or state of being obese
- Arabic: سِمْنَة f (simna), بَدَانَة (ar) f (badāna)
- Armenian: գիրություն (hy) (girutʻyun), չաղություն (hy) (čʻaġutʻyun) (colloquial)
- Basque: loditasun
- Bulgarian: затлъстяване (bg) n (zatlǎstjavane)
- Burmese: အဝလွန်ခြင်း (a.wa.lwanhkrang:)
- Catalan: obesitat (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 肥胖 (zh) (féipàng), 肥胖症 (zh) (féipàngzhèng)
- Czech: obezita (cs) f, otylost f
- Danish: fedme c, overvægt c
- Dutch: obesitas (nl) f
- Esperanto: obezeco
- Estonian: rasvumus
- Finnish: liikalihavuus (fi), ylipaino (fi)
- French: obésité (fr) f
- Galician: obesidade (gl) f
- Georgian: სიმსუქნე (simsukne), გაცხიმოვნება (gacximovneba)
- German: Fettsucht (de) f, Übergewicht (de) n, Adipositas (de) f, Fettleibigkeit (de) f
- Greek: παχυσαρκία (el) f (pachysarkía)
- Hebrew: שׁוֹמֶן (he) m (shomen), השמנת יתר חולנית f
- Hindi: मेदुरता ? (medurtā)
- Hungarian: elhízás (hu), obezitás
- Icelandic: offita (is) f
- Indonesian: obesitas (id)
- Irish: otracht f, murtall m, beathaitheacht f, cothaitheacht f, foircheas m, foircheasacht f
- Italian: obesità (it) f
- Japanese: 肥満 (ja) (ひまん, himan), 肥大 (ja) (ひだい, hidai), 肥満症 (himanshō) (medical)
- Kalmyk: әрмгллһн (ärmgllğn)
- Kazakh: толықтық (tolyqtyq), семіздік (semızdık)
- Korean: 비만 (ko) (biman)
- Kyrgyz: семирүү (ky) (semirüü)
- Latin: obēsitās f, adeps m or f
- Lithuanian: nutukimas ?
- Malay: obesiti (ms)
- Malayalam: പൊണ്ണത്തടി (poṇṇattaṭi), അമിതവണ്ണം (ml) (amitavaṇṇaṁ)
- Maori: mate mōmona
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: fedme (no) m, overvekt (no) m or f
- Nynorsk: overvekt f
- Occitan: obesitat f
- Persian: چاقی (fa) (čâqi)
- Polish: otyłość (pl) f
- Portuguese: obesidade (pt) f
- Romanian: obezitate (ro) f
- Russian: ожире́ние (ru) n (ožirénije), ту́чность (ru) f (túčnostʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: прѐтило̄ст f, го̏ја̄зно̄ст f
- Roman: prètilōst (sh) f, gȍjāznōst (sh) f
- Sicilian: sbisazzatizza f
- Slovak: obezita f
- Slovene: debelost ?
- Southern Altai: семирер (semirer)
- Spanish: obesidad (es) f, sobrepeso (es) m
- Swahili: kiribatumbo
- Swedish: fetma (sv) c
- Tamil: உடற்பருமன (uṭaṟparumaṉa)
- Turkish: obezite (tr)
- Ukrainian: ожирі́нння n (ožyrínnnja)
- Vietnamese: béo phì
- Yiddish: גראָב ? (grob)
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