leprosy

en-noun

leprosy (usually uncountable, plural leprosies)

From Norman leprosie, from Middle French leprosie (“leprosy & similar skin diseases”), probably from leprous (“leprous”) + -ie (“-y”) but possibly from Medieval Latin leprōsia (leprōsus + -ia) although this only historically attested in reference to leprosariums.
The shift of sense from psoriasis to Hansen's disease occurred in large part from the use of λέπρα (lépra) to translate Hebrew צרעת (“tzaraath”) in the Septuagint and its subsequent use in the New Testament and Late Latin.

der

Then is it surely a leprosy

The great London doctors knew nothing about leprosy and cared less.

1925, Frank Harris, My Life and Loves, volume III, page 183:

The new drug—diaminodiphenylsulphone... offers the first certain cure... and leprosy can be cured in six months

1954, Elspeth J. Huxley, Four Guineas, page 267:

Leprosy seems to have spread from India to the Middle East by early antiquity and from there to Europe during the time of the Roman Empire.

Mycobacterium leprae
Mycobacterium leprae#Translingual

(medicine) An infectious disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium leprae, gradually producing nerve damage and patches of skin necrosis and historically handled by permanently quarantining its sufferers.


measles

From Middle English mesel (“leprous, leper”), from Norman mesel (“leprous, leper”), from Old French mesel (“leprous, leper”), from Late Latin misellus (“leper”), from miser (“wretched, wretch”) + -ellus (“-elle”).

(obsolete) Alternative form of mesels: Leprosy.


lepra

From Latin lepra (“psoriasis & similar skin diseases”), from Koine Greek λέπρα (lépra, “psoriasis & similar skin diseases”), from λεπρός (leprós, “scaly”), from either λεπίς (lepís, “scale”) or λέπος (lépos, “husk, scale”) + -ρος (-ros, suffix forming adjectives). The shift of sense from psoriasis to Hansen's disease occurred in large part from the use of λέπρα (lépra) to translate Hebrew צרעת (“tzaraath”) in the Septuagint and its subsequent use in the New Testament and Late Latin.

der

Lepra is an endemic, chronic, malignant, constitutional disease, due to a specific bacillus.

1914, Henry Weightman Stelwagon, Treatise on Diseases of the Skin, 7th edition, page 914:


leprosarium

en-noun

leprosarium (plural leprosariums or leprosaria)

leprosariums (plural)
leprosaria (plural)

From Medieval Latin leprōsārium, from leprōsus (“leprous”) + -ārium (“-ary: building related to”). Doublet of leprosery.

In the middle of the twelfth century, France had more than 2,000 leprosariums

1971, José Barchilon, introduction to Madness & Civilization

An isolated building or community used to house lepers, usually in permanent quarantine from the rest of society.


leprology

From New Latin leprologia, from Medieval Latin leprōsia (“leprosy”) + -logia (“-logy”), from leprōsus (“leprous”) + -ia, from lepra (“leprosy”) + -ōsus (“-ose”), q.v. Equivalent to leprosy + -ology.

Bergen, the oldest city in the Norwegian kingdom, has been called 'the cradle of modern leprology' and one of its native sons, the physician Daniel Cornelius Danielssen, 'the father of leprology'.

2014, Tony Gould, A Disease Apart: Leprosy in the Modern World:

(sciences) The study of leprosy, particularly (medicine) its diagnosis and treatment.


Hansen's disease

Named after Norwegian physician Gerhard Armauer Hansen (1841–1912), who in 1873 discovered the bacterium causing the disease.

named-after

(pathology) The disease leprosy, caused by infection by Mycobacterium leprae.

漢生病

Hansen's disease (only translations that use the name Hansen somehow) — see also leprosy


Lazarus

From Late Latin Lazarus, from Koine Greek Λᾱ́ζᾱρος (Lā́zāros), the given name of Biblical characters found in Luke 16 and John 12, from Biblical Hebrew אֶלְעָזָר ('El'azár), a given name shared by various figures in the Hebrew Bible and literally meaning "God has helped". Doublet of Eleazar.

(biblical) A beggar in a parable by Jesus Christ, traditionally (Christianity) believed to have been a leper and often conflated with Lazarus of Bethany.

לַעְזָר (la'zár) (used in the Franz Delitzsch translation of the New Testament)


Lazarus

la-proper noun

Lāzārus m (genitive Lāzārī); second declension

Lāzārus (canonical masculine)
Lāzārī (genitive)
Lāzārus (nominative singular)
Lāzārī (nominative plural)
Lāzārī (genitive singular)
Lāzārōrum (genitive plural)
Lāzārō (dative singular)
Lāzārīs (dative plural)
Lāzārum (accusative singular)
Lāzārōs (accusative plural)
Lāzārō (ablative singular)
Lāzārīs (ablative plural)
Lāzāre (singular vocative)
Lāzārī (plural vocative)

English: Lazarus, lazar

French: Lazare

Italian: lazzaro

[ɫ̪äːz̪ˈd̪͡z̪äːrʊs̠]

From Koine Greek Λᾱ́ζᾱρος (Lā́zāros), the given name of the Biblical character found in Luke 16, from Biblical Hebrew אֶלְעָזָר (“Eleazar”), a given name shared by various figures in the Hebrew Bible and literally meaning "God has helped".


leper

From Middle English lepre, leprosy, from Old French [Term?], from Latin leprae, lepra, from Ancient Greek λέπρα (lépra).

A person who has leprosy, a person suffering from Hansen's disease.


leprous

en-adj

leprous (comparative more leprous, superlative most leprous)

more leprous (comparative)
most leprous (superlative)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-leprous.wav

From Middle English leprous (“having leprosy or a skin disease with symptoms like leprosy; (alchemy) of metals or minerals: impure; a leper”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman leprous, lepros [and other forms], Middle French lepros, lepreux, and Old French leprous, lepros (“having leprosy; a leper”) (modern French lépreux), and from their etymon Late Latin leprosus (“having leprosy; (alchemy) of metals: impure; a leper”), from Latin lepra (“leprosy”) + -ōsus (suffix meaning ‘full of; overly; prone to’ forming adjectives from nouns). Lepra is derived from Ancient Greek λέπρᾱ (léprā, “leprosy”), from λεπῐ́ς (lepís, “flake, scale; epithelial debris”) (perhaps from λέπω (lépō, “to peel, strip off a husk or rind”) + -ῐς (-is, suffix forming feminine nouns)) + -ᾱ (-ā, suffix forming action nouns from verbs).

nb...

leperous, leperus, lepourous, lepres, lepris, lepros, leprose, leprouse, leprows, leprus, lepruse, leprys

leperous, leperus, leprus, lepuros, lieprous, lieprus

lepric

particularly with regard to the disease itself

1748, Philip Luckombe, A Tour Through Ireland, London: T. Lowndes & Son, 1783, Journey the Fourth, p. 324,
[…] a dissenting minister […] came to this well, over-run with leprous eruptions on the skin, which had rendered his joints so rigid, that he could neither hold his bridle, nor feed himself […]

Nor shall the art which you and I need be merely a purple robe woven by a slave and thrown over the whitened body of some leprous king to adorn or to conceal the sin of his luxury, but rather shall it be the noble and beautiful expression of a people’s noble and beautiful life.

1882, Oscar Wilde, “The English Renaissance of Art”, in Essays and Lectures, 4th edition, London: Methuen & Co., published 1913:

‘If they die,’ he said, ‘the cell shall be their tomb. They were put there to die, and be lost. The cell is leprous. Do you understand?’

1880, Lew Wallace, Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ, Book Six, Chapter 1:

Of or relating to one of the diseases known as leprosy.

And the Lord said furthermore unto him, Put now thine hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 4:6:

And the cloud departed from off the tabernacle; and, behold, Miriam became leprous, white as snow: and Aaron looked upon Miriam, and, behold, she was leprous.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Numbers 12:10:

Infected with one of the diseases known as leprosy.

مَجْذُوم

infected with one of the diseases known as leprosy

And why, except that it had moved everywhere with them and they regarded it as one of their possessions, had they kept the hatrack, its glass now leprous, most of its hooks broken, its woodwork ugly with painting-over?

1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, published 2001, Prologue:

With little room to maneuver or park private cars, New Yorkers are more desperately dependent on taxis than any other city dwellers in the world. And the thousands of cabs that they ride are among the world's sleaziest: cigarette butts and paper coffee cups on the floor, dirty windows, leprous upholstery, chewed gum and sticky candy wrappers on ripped seats, and jagged metal protrusions on the doors waiting to savage the clothing of entering or departing passengers.

1974 April 8, “Drab Cab Goes Fab”, in Time:

Having the appearance of the skin of one infected with leprosy; flaking, peeling, scabby, scurfy.

(botany, archaic) Synonym of leprose (“covered with thin scurfy scales, scaly-looking”)

leprose

Thy vncle came, with iuyce of Hebona, / In a viall, and through the porches of my eares / Did powre the leaprous diſtilment, whoſe effect / Hold ſuch an enmitie with blood of man, […]

c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shake-speare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (First Quarto), London: […] [Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and Iohn Trundell, published 1603, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v]:

(obsolete) Causing leprosy or a disease resembling it.


leprous

English: leprous

French: lépreux


कोढ़

koṛh (romanization)
کوڑھ (Urdu)
कोढ़ (direct singular)
कोढ़ (direct plural)
कोढ़ (oblique singular)
कोढ़ों (oblique plural)
कोढ़ (singular vocative)
कोढ़ो (plural vocative)

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀓𑁄𑀠 (koḍha), from Sanskrit कुष्ठ (kúṣṭha).


mesel

From Middle English mesel (“leprous, leper”), from Norman mesel (“leprous, leper”), from Old French mesel (“leprous, leper”), from Late Latin misellus (“leper”), from miser (“wretched, wretch”) + -ellus (“-elle”). Doublet of measles.

Also in that flome Jordan Naaman of Syria bathed him, that was full rich, but he was mesell; and there anon he took his health.

1357, John Mandeville, The Travels of Sir John Mandeville:

(medicine, obsolete) Synonym of leprous: having leprosy or a similar skin disorder.


mesel

(medicine, obsolete) Synonym of leprosy: Hansen's disease and similar skin disorders.


lazzaretto

→ English: lazaretto

→ French: lazaret

→ English: lazaret

→ Portuguese: lazareto

→ Spanish: lazareto

From lazzaro (“lazar, leper”) + -etto (“-ette: forming diminutives”), from Medieval Latin lazarus (“leper”), an antonomasia from Lazarus, from Koine Greek Λᾱ́ζᾱρος (Lā́zāros), the given name of the Biblical character found in Luke 16, from Hebrew אֶלְעָזָר (“Eleazar”, literally “God has helped”), a given name shared by various figures in the Hebrew Bible. Originally the name of a 14th-century leper colony and quarantine site on the island of Sta. Maria di Nazareth in Venice, now known as the Lazzaretto Vecchio, from which use spread more generally.


lazzaro

From Medieval Latin lazarus (“leper”), an antonomasia from Lazarus, from Koine Greek Λᾱ́ζᾱρος (Lā́zāros), the given name of the Biblical character found in Luke 16, from Hebrew אֶלְעָזָר (“Eleazar”, literally “God has helped”), a given name shared by various figures in the Hebrew Bible.


lazar

From Middle English lazare, from Old French lazare, from Medieval Latin lazarus (“leper”), an antonomasia from Lazarus, from Koine Greek Λᾱ́ζᾱρος (Lā́zāros), the given name of the Biblical character found in Luke 16, from Hebrew אֶלְעָזָר (“Eleazar”), a given name shared by various figures in the Hebrew Bible and literally meaning "God has helped".

And Tamburlane cloked the fantasticall cruelty, he exercised upon Lazars or Leprousmen, with a foolish kinde of humanitie, putting all he could finde or heare-of, to death, (as he said,) to ridde them from so painefull and miserable a life, as they lived.

1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 37, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

Why were they proud? Because fair orange-mounts
Were of more soft ascent than lazar stairs?

1820, John Keats, “Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil. A Story from Boccaccio.”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, stanza XVI, page 57:

(archaic) Synonym of leper: a person suffering from Hansen's disease; a person suffering any contagious disease requiring similar isolation.


lazar

(archaic) Synonym of leprous: afflicted by Hansen's disease; afflicted by any contagious disease requiring similar isolation.


leprotic

en-adj

leprotic (comparative more leprotic, superlative most leprotic)

more leprotic (comparative)
most leprotic (superlative)

(medicine) Of or related to the disease leprosy.


lazaret

pl-noun

lazaret m inan (related adjective lazaretowy)

lazaretowy (adjective)
lazaret (nominative singular)
lazarety (nominative plural)
lazaretu (genitive singular)
lazaretów (genitive plural)
lazaretowi (dative singular)
lazaretom (dative plural)
lazaret (accusative singular)
lazarety (accusative plural)
lazaretem (instrumental singular)
lazaretami (instrumental plural)
lazarecie (locative singular)
lazaretach (locative plural)
lazarecie (singular vocative)
lazarety (plural vocative)

(historical) lazaretto, leprosarium, leprosery, leper colony (medical facility specializing in treating contagious diseases, especially leprosy)


leprosaria

en-noun

leprosaria (plural leprosarias or leprosariae)

leprosarias (plural)
leprosariae (plural)

From Medieval Latin leprōsāria, from leprōsus (“leprous”) + -āria, now usually under the influence of Spanish leprosería.

There is Christian work today at the nine government-operated Philippine leprosariae, where the personal, moral, and spiritual needs of 6,290 lepers concern the church which ministers among them.

1956, Dwight E. Stevenson, Christianity in the Philippines, page 23:

The only minor decline was in the number of leprosarias. In 1987 the Catholic Church managed two fewer leprosarias than in 1982.

1995, Satya R. Pattnayak, Organized Religion in the Political Transformation of Latin America, page 214:


ukoma

leprosy (infectious disease caused by infection by Mycobacterium leprae)


sangla

Often suggested as from Spanish sangrar (“to bleed”) although sarna (“scabies”) is more likely.


কুষ্ঠ

head

কুষ্ঠ • (kuśṭho)

bn-noun

কুষ্ঠ • (kuśṭho)

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit कुष्ठ (kuṣṭha).


leprose

en-adj

leprose (comparative more leprose, superlative most leprose)

more leprose (comparative)
most leprose (superlative)

From New Latin leprōsus in botany especially as used by Linnaeus in his 1753 Species Plantarum and Late Latin leprōsus in medicine, from lepra (“psoriasis, leprosy”) + -ōsus, from Koine Greek λέπρᾱ (léprā, “psoriasis & similar skin diseases”), from Ancient Greek λεπρός (leprós, “scaly”), from either λεπίς (lepís, “scale”) or λέπος (lépos, “husk, scale”) + -ρος (-ros, “forming adjective”).

der

(medicine) Synonym of leprous, afflicted with leprosy.


alphos

From Latin alphos, from Ancient Greek ἀλφός (alphós, “dull white, used for some leprosy, psoriasis, etc.”).

bor

(medicine, obsolete) Any disease causing dull white or silvery spots on the skin, including non-contagious forms of leprosy and psoriasis.


dapsone

en-noun

dapsone (countable and uncountable, plural dapsones)

(pharmacology) A bacteriostatic antimicrobial agent 4-[(4-aminobenzene)sulfonyl]aniline (C₁₂H₁₂N₂O₂S) used in the treatment of leprosy and a chronic form of dermatitis.


leprosus

la-adj

leprōsus (feminine leprōsa, neuter leprōsum); first/second-declension adjective

leprōsus (canonical)
leprōsa (feminine)
leprōsum (neuter)
leprōsus (masculine nominative singular)
leprōsa (feminine nominative singular)
leprōsum (neuter nominative singular)
leprōsī (masculine nominative plural)
leprōsae (feminine nominative plural)
leprōsa (neuter nominative plural)
leprōsī (genitive masculine singular)
leprōsae (feminine genitive singular)
leprōsī (genitive neuter singular)
leprōsōrum (genitive masculine plural)
leprōsārum (feminine genitive plural)
leprōsōrum (genitive neuter plural)
leprōsō (dative masculine singular)
leprōsae (dative feminine singular)
leprōsō (dative neuter singular)
leprōsīs (dative feminine masculine neuter plural)
leprōsum (accusative masculine singular)
leprōsam (accusative feminine singular)
leprōsum (accusative neuter singular)
leprōsōs (accusative masculine plural)
leprōsās (accusative feminine plural)
leprōsa (accusative neuter plural)
leprōsō (ablative masculine singular)
leprōsā (ablative feminine singular)
leprōsō (ablative neuter singular)
leprōsīs (ablative feminine masculine neuter plural)
leprōse (masculine singular vocative)
leprōsa (feminine singular vocative)
leprōsum (neuter singular vocative)
leprōsī (masculine plural vocative)
leprōsae (feminine plural vocative)
leprōsa (neuter plural vocative)

English: leprous, leprose

Italian: leproso

Spanish: leproso

[ɫ̪ɛˈproːs̠ʊs̠]

From lepra (“leprosy”) + -ōsus (“-ose”).

(Late Latin) leprous, having leprosy or the appearance of leprosy

(New Latin, botany) leprose, having a scaly appearance


lazar house

15th c., William of Worcester, “The Rolle of Sencte Bartholemeweis Priorie” cited in William Barrett, The History and Antiquities of the City of Bristol, 1789, p. 429,
These bee alle the bookes ynne the ache Camberre & of the reste of the Lazar house bee cellis & beddis for the Lazars, beeynge manie in number […]

[…] Immediately a place
Before his eyes appeard, sad, noysom, dark,
A Lazar-house it seemd, wherein were laid
Numbers of all diseas’d, all maladies
Of gastly Spasm, or racking torture, qualmes
Of heart-sick Agonie, all feavorous kinds […]

1667, John Milton, “Book XI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 477-482:

1965, Richard Howard (translator), Madness and Civilization by Michel Foucault (1961), New York: Random House, Chapter 1, “Stultifera Navis”,
The lazar house of Nancy, which was among the largest in Europe, had only four inmates during the regency of Marie de Médicis.

(archaic) Synonym of leprosery: A building used to house lepers, usually in permanent quarantine from the rest of society.


ܓܪܒܐ

garbā (romanization)
ܓܪܒܐ (plural)
ܓܪܒ (absolute singular)
ܓܪܒܝܢ (absolute plural)
ܓܪܒ (construct singular)
ܓܪܒܝ (construct plural)
ܓܪܒܐ (emphatic singular)
ܓܪܒܐ (emphatic plural)
ܓܪܒܝ (common-gender first-person possessive singular)
ܓܪܒܟ (masculine possessive second-person singular)
ܓܪܒܝܟ (masculine possessive second-person singular)
ܓܪܒܟܝ (feminine possessive second-person singular)
ܓܪܒܝܟܝ (feminine possessive second-person singular)
ܓܪܒܗ (masculine possessive singular third-person)
ܓܪܒܘܗܝ (masculine possessive singular third-person)
ܓܪܒܗ (feminine possessive singular third-person)
ܓܪܒܝܗ (feminine possessive singular third-person)
ܓܪܒܢ (common-gender first-person plural possessive)
ܓܪܒܝܢ (common-gender first-person plural possessive)
ܓܪܒܟܘܢ (masculine plural possessive second-person)
ܓܪܒܝܟܘܢ (masculine plural possessive second-person)
ܓܪܒܟܝܢ (feminine plural possessive second-person)
ܓܪܒܝܟܝܢ (feminine plural possessive second-person)
ܓܪܒܗܘܢ (masculine plural possessive third-person)
ܓܪܒܝܗܘܢ (masculine plural possessive third-person)
ܓܪܒܗܝܢ (feminine plural possessive third-person)
ܓܪܒܝܗܝܢ (feminine plural possessive third-person)


leprosity

en-noun

leprosity (countable and uncountable, plural leprosities)

From Middle English leprosite, from Medieval Latin leprositas (“state of being leprous, leprosy”) either directly or via French leprosite, from leprōsus (“leprous”) + -itas (“-ity”).

der

(medicine, now rare) Synonym of leprosy in its various senses.


leprostatic

en-adj

leprostatic (comparative more leprostatic, superlative most leprostatic)

more leprostatic (comparative)
most leprostatic (superlative)

From leprosy + -static (“bringing to stasis: slowing, stopping”).

suffix

(medicine) Inhibiting the worsening of Hansen's disease (leprosy), inhibiting the growth of M. leprae.


melas

From Ancient Greek μέλας (mélas, “black”).

(medicine, obsolete) Synonym of leprosy, particularly contagious forms causing dark spots on the skin.


lazarlike

en-adj

lazarlike (comparative more lazarlike, superlative most lazarlike)

more lazarlike (comparative)
most lazarlike (superlative)

(obsolete) Synonym of leprous: afflicted with Hansen's disease or visibly covered in similar sores and lesions.


gafo

head

gafo (feminine singular gafa, masculine plural gafos, feminine plural gafas)

gafa (feminine singular)
gafos (masculine plural)
gafas (feminine plural)

Spanish: gafo

Eſte herodes Murio mala muerte deuẏno gafo de pues por la grãt pudor q̃ ſalẏo del ⁊ nõ lo podie ſofrir. el Miſmo ſe mato cõ .j. guchiello.

c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 78r:

This Herod died a bad death. He became leprous [and] then, because of the great shame which he displayed and could not bear, he killed himself with a knife.


leproid

The term leproid or leprous maculatum, I venture to use for a similar colouring, when the edge of each spot is defined and circular.

1839 Nov. 22, London Medical Gazette, p. 325

(Medicine) Synonym of leprous: resembling leprosy or its symptoms.


เรื้อน

th-noun

เรื้อน • (rʉ́ʉan)

Cognate with Lao ເຮຶ້ອນ (hưan), Lü ᦵᦣᦲᧃᧉ (hoen²), Tai Dam ꪹꪭ꫁ꪙ, Shan ႁိူၼ်ႉ (hô̰en, “itch”), Tai Nüa ᥞᥫᥢᥳ (hȯen).

cog

Lü ᦵᦣᦲᧃᧉ (hoen²)

โรค โรค#Thai


kiḷḷiġruaq

From kiḷḷiq "sore (without pus), cut on the skin". Literally means "bad, old cut".


ઋક્ષજિહ્વ

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit ऋक्षजिह्व (ṛkṣajihva), compound of ऋक्ष (ṛ́kṣa, “bear”) + जिह्व (jihva, “tongue”).

compound

A kind of leprosy whose texture is very reminiscent of a bear's tongue. It is characterized by sores that are red at the rim, yellow and black on the inside, and very painful to the touch.

મહાકોઢ: કાપાલ

Types of Leprosy Listed in Indian Literature


કોઢ

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀓𑁄𑀠 (koḍha), from Sanskrit कुष्ठ (kúṣṭha).


癩病

ja-noun

癩(らい)病(びょう) • (raibyō) ^(←らいびやう (raibyau)?)

癩病 (canonical)
raibyō (romanization)
raibyau (romanization)
らいびやう (hiragana historical)


麻風病

/mä³⁵ fɤŋ⁵⁵ piŋ⁵¹/

/maː²¹ fʊŋ⁵⁵ pɛːŋ²²/

/ma¹¹ fʊŋ⁴⁴⁻³⁵ pʰiaŋ⁵³/

/mä³⁵ fɤŋ⁵⁵ piŋ⁵¹/

/maː²¹ fʊŋ⁵⁵ pɛːŋ²²/

/ma¹¹ fʊŋ⁴⁴⁻³⁵ pʰiaŋ⁵³/


癩菌

Mycobacterium leprae, the bacteria that causes leprosy


leprologist

From leprology + -ist, equivalent to leprosy + -ologist.

A student of leprology, a doctor or researcher specialized in the diagnosis and treatment of leprosy.


leprophobia

I therefore entreat you to beware of the lepro-phobia that appears to be coming upon us.

1889, Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Bombay, number 12, page 123:

(psychology) An irrationally excessive fear of Hansen's disease (leprosy) and lepers.


lepromatous

en-adj

lepromatous (comparative more lepromatous, superlative most lepromatous)

more lepromatous (comparative)
most lepromatous (superlative)

Synonym of lepromatoid: Of or relating to leprous lesions (lepromas) or lepromatic leprosy.


leproma

From New Latin leproma, equivalent to lepra (“leprosy”) + -oma (“mass or tumor related to”).

suffix

(pathology) An area of inflammation in the skin symptomatic of leprosy


leprosery

From French léproserie and léprosarie, from Medieval Latin leprōsārium, from leprōsus (“leprous”) + -ārium (“-ary: building related to”). Equivalent to leprose + -ery.

Lewis VIII, king of France, made bequests in the year 1227 to two thousand Leprosaries within his own dominions.

There was a rule that the leproserie should take contagious cases only.

1961, Graham Greene, Burnt-out Case, page 13:

A building used to house lepers, usually in permanent quarantine from the rest of society.

leprozerie

building used to quarantine and treat lepers — see also leper colony


કાકણ

head

કાકણ • (kākaṇ) m

gu-noun

કાકણ • (kākaṇ) m

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit काकण (kākaṇa).

learned borrowing

A kind of leprosy that induces sharp pains. It is red in the center and black around the edge, likened to jequirity


સિધ્મ

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit सिध्म (sidhma).

A kind of leprosy where the skin becomes white and red and also becomes very thin. Rashes and scabs develop as well.


ハンセン病

ハンセン病 (canonical)
Hansen-byō (romanization)

[hã̠ɰ̃sẽ̞mbʲo̞ː]


leper colony

Popularized during the period of New Imperialism, when leprosy was largely absent in Europe but seen as a growing threat in its colonial empires.

An isolated community used to house lepers, usually in permanent quarantine from the rest of society.

melaatse kolonie

isolated community of lepers — see also leprosery


sanla

Often suggested as from Spanish sangrar (“to bleed”) although sarna (“scabies”) is more likely.


tzaraath

Borrowed from Hebrew צרעת (tsará'at), originally "smitten" or "struck" from various skin afflictions' supposed divine origin.

(Judaism) Any of various disfigurements of a person's skin, hair, clothing, or home understood as a kind of impurity requiring special rituals of atonement.

spitaali

any of various disfigurements associated with certain kinds of ritual impurity in Judaism


ketongin

[kɛˈt̪oː.ŋɪn̪]


ketongin

[kɛˈt̪oː.ŋɪn̪]


ketongin

tl-verb

ketongin (complete kinetong, progressive kineketong, contemplative keketongin, Baybayin spelling ᜃᜒᜆᜓᜅᜒᜈ᜔)

kinetong (completive)
kineketong (progressive)
keketongin (contemplative)
ᜃᜒᜆᜓᜅᜒᜈ᜔ (Baybayin)
-in (affix)
ᜒᜈ᜔ (affix)
ketong (root)
ᜃᜒᜆᜓᜅ᜔ (root)
ketongin (infinitive)
ᜃᜒᜆᜓᜅᜒᜈ᜔ (infinitive)
kinetong (completive root)
ᜃᜒᜈᜒᜆᜓᜅ᜔ (completive root)
kineketong (progressive root)
ᜃᜒᜈᜒᜃᜒᜆᜓᜅ᜔ (progressive root)
inaketong (dialectal progressive root)
ᜁᜈᜃᜒᜆᜓᜅ᜔ (progressive root)
keketongin (contemplative objective)
ᜃᜒᜃᜒᜆᜓᜅᜒᜈ᜔ (contemplative objective)
aketongin (contemplative dialectal objective)
ᜀᜃᜒᜆᜓᜅᜒᜈ᜔ (contemplative objective)
ketongin (imperative objective)
ᜃᜒᜆᜓᜅᜒᜈ᜔ (imperative objective)
ketong (dialectal imperative objective)
ᜃᜒᜆᜓᜅ᜔ (imperative objective)
ketonga (dialectal imperative objective)
ᜃᜒᜆᜓᜅ (imperative objective)

tl-infl-in

ketongin

ketongin

ketongin
 ᜃᜒᜆᜓᜅᜒᜈ᜔

kinetong
 ᜃᜒᜈᜒᜆᜓᜅ᜔

kineketong
ᜃᜒᜈᜒᜃᜒᜆᜓᜅ᜔
inaketong¹
ᜁᜈᜃᜒᜆᜓᜅ᜔

keketongin
ᜃᜒᜃᜒᜆᜓᜅᜒᜈ᜔
aketongin¹
 ᜀᜃᜒᜆᜓᜅᜒᜈ᜔

ketongin
 ᜃᜒᜆᜓᜅᜒᜈ᜔
ketong¹
ᜃᜒᜆᜓᜅ᜔
ketonga¹
ᜃᜒᜆᜓᜅ

ketong
ᜃᜒᜆᜓᜅ᜔

[kɛˈt̪oː.ŋɪn̪]


lansaro

[l̪ɐn̪.s̪ɐˈɾ̪o]


ܡܣܟܝܢܐ

head

ܡܣܟܝܢܐ • (meskênā) m (plural ܡܣܟܝܢܐ (meskênē), singular feminine counterpart ܡܣܟܝܢܬܐ (meskê[n]tā))

meskênā (romanization)
ܡܣܟܝܢܐ (plural)
ܡܣܟܝܢܬܐ (feminine singular)
ܡܣܟܝܢ (absolute singular)
ܡܣܟܝܢܝܢ (absolute plural)
ܡܣܟܝܢ (construct singular)
ܡܣܟܝܢܝ (construct plural)
ܡܣܟܝܢܐ (emphatic singular)
ܡܣܟܝܢܐ (emphatic plural)
ܡܣܟܝܢܝ (common-gender first-person possessive singular)
ܡܣܟܝܢܟ (masculine possessive second-person singular)
ܡܣܟܝܢܝܟ (masculine possessive second-person singular)
ܡܣܟܝܢܟܝ (feminine possessive second-person singular)
ܡܣܟܝܢܝܟܝ (feminine possessive second-person singular)
ܡܣܟܝܢܗ (masculine possessive singular third-person)
ܡܣܟܝܢܘܗܝ (masculine possessive singular third-person)
ܡܣܟܝܢܗ (feminine possessive singular third-person)
ܡܣܟܝܢܝܗ (feminine possessive singular third-person)
ܡܣܟܝܢܢ (common-gender first-person plural possessive)
ܡܣܟܝܢܝܢ (common-gender first-person plural possessive)
ܡܣܟܝܢܟܘܢ (masculine plural possessive second-person)
ܡܣܟܝܢܝܟܘܢ (masculine plural possessive second-person)
ܡܣܟܝܢܟܝܢ (feminine plural possessive second-person)
ܡܣܟܝܢܝܟܝܢ (feminine plural possessive second-person)
ܡܣܟܝܢܗܘܢ (masculine plural possessive third-person)
ܡܣܟܝܢܝܗܘܢ (masculine plural possessive third-person)
ܡܣܟܝܢܗܝܢ (feminine plural possessive third-person)
ܡܣܟܝܢܝܗܝܢ (feminine plural possessive third-person)

→ Arabic: مِسْكِين (miskīn)

From Akkadian 𒈦𒆕𒂗 (muškēnum); compare Hebrew מִסְכֵּן (miskēn).


癩風

/laɪ̯⁵¹ fɤŋ⁵⁵/

/laɪ̯⁵¹ fɤŋ⁵⁵/


나환자

Sino-Korean word from 나(癩) (na, “leprosy”) + 환자(患者) (hwanja, “patient”).

ko-etym-sino

나환자 식민지

(medicine) a leper (someone suffering from leprosy)


나병

Sino-Korean word from 癩病, from 癩 (“leprosy”) + 病 (“disease”).


lepromatic

en-adj

lepromatic (comparative more lepromatic, superlative most lepromatic)

more lepromatic (comparative)
most lepromatic (superlative)

(medicine) Synonym of lepromatoid: of or related to leprous lesions (lepromas) or lepromatoid leprosy.


lepromatoid

lepromatoid (comparative more lepromatoid, superlative most lepromatoid)

more lepromatoid (comparative)
most lepromatoid (superlative)

Lepromatoid or lepromatous leprosy is distinguished from tuberculoid leprosy by the greater diffusion of skin complaints.

Of or related to leprous lesions (lepromas).


leprologic

(rare) Synonym of leprological: Of or related to leprology.


leprological

From leprology + -ical, equivalent to leprosy + -logical.

Of or related to leprology, the scientific study of leprosy.


араҥ

head

араҥ • (arañ)

From Proto-Turkic *saraŋ (“experiencing lack, deficient; frugal, parsimonious”). See Bashkir һаран (haran) and Kazakh сараң (sarañ) for more.


maladie de Hansen

LL-Q150 (fra)-Mecanautes-maladie de Hansen.wav


문둥병

문둥 (mundung, “leper”) + 병(病) (byeong, “disease”).


한센병

From English Hansen + 병(病) (byeong, “disease”).


ឃ្លង់

km-noun

ឃ្លង់ • (khlŭəng)

រោគ រោគ#Khmer


ព្យាធិ៍

ព្យាធិ៍ • (pyiət)


Hansenotic

From Hansen + -otic; see Hansen's disease.


Hansenosis

From Hansen + -osis; see Hansen's disease.


hreof

hrēof (canonical)
hrēof (masculine nominative singular)
hrēof (feminine nominative singular)
hrēof (neuter nominative singular)
hrēofne (accusative masculine singular)
hrēofe (accusative feminine singular)
hrēof (accusative neuter singular)
hrēofes (genitive masculine singular)
hrēofre (feminine genitive singular)
hrēofes (genitive neuter singular)
hrēofum (dative masculine singular)
hrēofre (dative feminine singular)
hrēofum (dative neuter singular)
hrēofe (instrumental masculine singular)
hrēofre (feminine instrumental singular)
hrēofe (instrumental neuter singular)
hrēofe (masculine nominative plural)
hrēofa (feminine nominative plural)
hrēofe (feminine nominative plural)
hrēof (neuter nominative plural)
hrēofe (accusative masculine plural)
hrēofa (accusative feminine plural)
hrēofe (accusative feminine plural)
hrēof (accusative neuter plural)
hrēofra (genitive masculine plural)
hrēofra (feminine genitive plural)
hrēofra (genitive neuter plural)
hrēofum (dative masculine plural)
hrēofum (dative feminine plural)
hrēofum (dative neuter plural)
hrēofum (instrumental masculine plural)
hrēofum (feminine instrumental plural)
hrēofum (instrumental neuter plural)
hrēofa (masculine nominative singular)
hrēofe (feminine nominative singular)
hrēofe (neuter nominative singular)
hrēofan (accusative masculine singular)
hrēofan (accusative feminine singular)
hrēofe (accusative neuter singular)
hrēofan (genitive masculine singular)
hrēofan (feminine genitive singular)
hrēofan (genitive neuter singular)
hrēofan (dative masculine singular)
hrēofan (dative feminine singular)
hrēofan (dative neuter singular)
hrēofan (instrumental masculine singular)
hrēofan (feminine instrumental singular)
hrēofan (instrumental neuter singular)
hrēofan (masculine nominative plural)
hrēofan (feminine nominative plural)
hrēofan (neuter nominative plural)
hrēofan (accusative masculine plural)
hrēofan (accusative feminine plural)
hrēofan (accusative neuter plural)
hrēofra (genitive masculine plural)
hrēofena (genitive masculine plural)
hrēofra (feminine genitive plural)
hrēofena (feminine genitive plural)
hrēofra (genitive neuter plural)
hrēofena (genitive neuter plural)
hrēofum (dative masculine plural)
hrēofum (dative feminine plural)
hrēofum (dative neuter plural)
hrēofum (instrumental masculine plural)
hrēofum (feminine instrumental plural)
hrēofum (instrumental neuter plural)

reef (sense 3)

From Proto-Germanic *hreubaz (“rough, scabby”), from Proto-Indo-European *kreup (“scab, crust”)


leprozorium

leprozorium (nominative singular)
leprozoria (nominative plural)
leprozorium (genitive singular)
leprozoriów (genitive plural)
leprozorium (dative singular)
leprozoriom (dative plural)
leprozorium (accusative singular)
leprozoria (accusative plural)
leprozorium (instrumental singular)
leprozoriami (instrumental plural)
leprozorium (locative singular)
leprozoriach (locative plural)
leprozorium (singular vocative)
leprozoria (plural vocative)

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin leprōsārium.

lbor

(historical) lazaretto, leprosarium, leprosery, leper colony (medical facility specializing in treating contagious diseases, especially leprosy)