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English
A dog infected with rabies
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin rabiēs ( “ rage, madness, fury ” ) . Doublet of rage .
Pronunciation
Noun
rabies (uncountable )
( pathology ) An infectious disease caused by species of Lyssavirus that causes acute encephalitis in warm-blooded animals and people, characterised by abnormal behaviour such as biting , excitement , aggressiveness , and dementia , followed by paralysis and death .
Synonyms: ( archaic ) Arctic dog disease , hydrophobia , lyssa
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
viral disease
Afrikaans: hondsdolheid
Arabic: كَلَب (ar) m ( kalab ) , دَاء اَلْكَلَب m ( dāʔ al-kalab )
Egyptian Arabic: سعر m ( sáʕar )
Moroccan Arabic: سعر m ( saʕr )
Armenian: կատաղություն (hy) ( kataġutʻyun )
Azerbaijani: quduzluq
Belarusian: шаленства n ( šaljenstva ) , шал m ( šal )
Bengali: জলাতঙ্ক (bn) ( jolatoṅko )
Bulgarian: бяс (bg) m ( bjas )
Burmese: ခွေးရူးပြန်ရောဂါ (my) ( hkwe:ru:pranrau:ga )
Catalan: ràbia (ca) f
Cebuano: rabis
Chinese:
Mandarin: 狂犬病 (zh) ( kuángquǎnbìng )
Czech: vzteklina (cs) f
Danish: hundegalskab (da) c , rabies (da) c
Dutch: hondsdolheid (nl) f , rabiës (nl) f
Estonian: marutaud
Finnish: vesikauhu (fi) , raivotauti (fi)
French: rage (fr) f
Galician: rabia (gl) f
Georgian: ცოფი ( copi )
German: Tollwut (de) f
Greek: λύσσα (el) f ( lýssa )
Hebrew: כַּלֶּבֶת (he) f ( kallevet )
Hindi: हलकाव ( halkāv )
Hungarian: veszettség (hu) f
Ido: ranio
Indonesian: rabies (id) , anjing gila (id)
Irish: confadh
Italian: rabbia (it) f
Japanese: 狂犬病 (ja) ( きょうけんびょう , kyōkenbyō)
Khmer: ឆ្កែឆ្កួត ( chkae chkuət )
Korean: 광견병 (ko) ( gwanggyeonbyeong )
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: harî (ku)
Lao: ວໍ້ ( wǭ )
Macedonian: бе́снило n ( bésnilo )
Malay: penyakit anjing gila , gila anjing , rabies
Marathi: अलर्क ( alarka )
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: галзуу өвчин ( galzuu övčin )
Mongolian: ᠭᠠᠯᠵᠠᠭᠤ ᠡᠪᠡᠳᠴᠢᠨ ( ɣalǰaɣu ebedčin )
Norman: rage f ( Jersey )
Norwegian: hundegalskap n , rabies m
Ottoman Turkish: قودوز
Persian: هاری (fa)
Polish: wścieklizna (pl) f
Portuguese: raiva (pt) f
Punjabi: ہلک ( hlk ) , ਹਲਕ ( halak )
Romanian: turbare (ro) f , rabie (ro) f
Russian: бе́шенство (ru) n ( béšenstvo )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: бѐснило n , бесноћа f
Roman: bèsnilo (sh) n , besnoća f
Sicilian: raggia (scn) f
Sinhalese: පිස්සුකම ( pissukama ) , පිස්සුව ( pissuwa )
Slovak: besnota f
Slovene: steklina (sl) f
Spanish: rabia (es) f
Swedish: rabies (sv) c
Tagalog: rabis
Tajik: калоб ( kalob )
Tamil: நாய்க்கடிசன்னி ( nāykkaṭicaṉṉi )
Thai: พิษสุนัขบ้า (th) ( pít-sù-nák-bâa )
Turkish: kuduz (tr)
Ukrainian: сказ m ( skaz )
Urdu: ہلکاؤ
Vietnamese: dại (vi) , bệnh dại
Walloon: må d' araedje (wa) m , araedje (wa) f , raedje (wa) f
Yiddish: וואַסערשרעק m ( vasershrek )
Further reading
Anagrams
Danish
Noun
rabies c (singular definite rabiesen , not used in plural form )
rabies
Declension
Synonyms
References
Finnish
Etymology
Internationalism (see English rabies ).
Pronunciation
Noun
rabies
( medicine ) Synonym of vesikauhu
Declension
Galician
Verb
rabies
second-person singular present subjunctive of rabiar
Indonesian
Etymology
Internationalism , borrowed from Dutch rabiës , from Latin rabies ( “ madness ” ) .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ra.ˈbi.ɛs/
Rhymes: -ɛs , -s
Hyphenation: ra‧bi‧es
Noun
rabies
( pathology , neurology ) rabies : an infectious disease caused by species of Lyssavirus that causes acute encephalitis in warm-blooded animals and people, characterised by abnormal behaviour such as biting, excitement, aggressiveness, and dementia, followed by paralysis and death.
Synonym: anjing gila
Further reading
Latin
Etymology
From rabiō + -iēs .
Pronunciation
Noun
rabiēs f (genitive rabiēī ) ; fifth declension
rage
madness
Declension
The genitive singular appears as rabiēs in Lucretius . The nominative, accusative and ablative singular are the only attested forms in Classical Latin .
Fifth-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
Reflexes of the late variant rabia :
Italo-Romance:
Padanian:
Gallo-Romance:
Ibero-Romance:
Insular Romance:
References
“rabies ”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879 ) A Latin Dictionary , Oxford: Clarendon Press
“rabies ”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891 ) An Elementary Latin Dictionary , New York: Harper & Brothers
rabies in Gaffiot, Félix (1934 ) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français , Hachette.
Spanish
Verb
rabies
second-person singular present subjunctive of rabiar
Swedish
Noun
rabies c (uncountable )
( medicine ) rabies
Synonym: vattuskräck
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