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English
Etymology
From seasick + -ness and/or sea + sickness. Compare Middle English seknesse of the see (“seasickness”, literally “sickness of the sea”).
Pronunciation
Noun
seasickness (usually uncountable, plural seasicknesses)
- Nausea, dizziness etc caused by the motion of a ship; a form of motion sickness.
- Synonym: naupathia
Hypernyms
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Translations
a feeling of nausea caused by the motion of a ship
- Arabic: دُوَار اَلْبَحْر m (duwār al-baḥr), مَيْد m (mayd)
- Armenian: ծովախտ (hy) (covaxt)
- Belarusian: марская хвароба f (marskaja xvaróba)
- Bulgarian: морска болест f (morska bolest)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 暈船 / 晕船 (zh) (yùnchuán)
- Czech: mořská nemoc (cs) f
- Danish: søsyge (da) c
- Esperanto: marmalsano (eo)
- Faroese: sjóverkur m
- Finnish: merisairaus (fi)
- French: mal de mer (fr) m, naupathie (fr) f
- German: Seekrankheit (de) f, Naupathie f
- Greek: ναυτία (el) f (naftía)
- Ancient: ναυσία f (nausía), ναυτία f (nautía)
- Hebrew: מחלת ים \ מַחֲלַת יָם (he) f (makhalát yam)
- Hungarian: tengeribetegség (hu)
- Icelandic: sjóveiki (is) f
- Irish: tinneas farraige m
- Italian: mal di mare (it) m, naupatia f
- Japanese: 船酔い (ja) (ふなよい, funayoi)
- Korean: 뱃멀미 (baenmeolmi)
- Latvian: jūras slimība f
- Malay: mabuk laut (ms)
- Maori: mate moana
- Norman: ma d'la mé m (Jersey)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: sjøsyke m, sjøsjuke m
- Nynorsk: sjøsjuke m or f
- Occitan: mau de mar m
- Plautdietsch: Seekrankheit f
- Polish: choroba morska (pl) f
- Portuguese: enjoo marítimo m
- Romanian: rău de mare (ro) n
- Russian: морска́я боле́знь (ru) f (morskája boléznʹ), кинето́з m (kinetóz)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: морска бо̏ле̄ст f, кинето́за f
- Roman: morska bȍlēst f, kinetóza (sh) f
- Slovak: morská choroba (sk) f
- Spanish: mareo (es) m
- Swedish: sjösjuka (sv) c
- Tagalog: lula, pagkalula, sawan
- Turkish: deniz tutması
- Ukrainian: морська хвороба f (morsʹka xvoroba)
- Volapük: melamaläd
- Welsh: salwch môr m, sâl môr m
- Yiddish: ים־קראַנקײַט f (yam-krankayt)
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