# illness
## English
### Etymology

From ill +‎ -ness.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɪl.nəs/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Audio (UK):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪlnəs

### Noun

illness (countable and uncountable, plural illnesses)
* (countable) An instance of a disease or poor health.
    Her grandmother had passed away after a long illness.
    suffer form a severe illness
    a mild illness
** 2022 May 7, Liang En WeeEdwin Philip ConceicaoJean Xiang-Ying SimMay Kyawt AungAung Myat Ooet al., “Dengue and COVID-19: Managing Undifferentiated Febrile Illness during a ‘Twindemic’”, in Tropical medicine and infectious disease, →DOI:This further exacerbated the diagnostic challenge posed by undifferentiated febrile illness during a “twindemic” of both COVID-19 and dengue, as both illnesses could potentially present with febrile syndromes.
* (uncountable) A state of bad health or disease.
    Many working days this year have been lost through illness.
** 2012, Anne Westhues, Canadian Social Policy: Issues and Perspectives:Illness is a wholistic reality, just as health is wholistic, and healing is the process of moving from illness to health.

#### Synonyms

* (instance): sickness
* (state): sickness
* See also Thesaurus:disease

#### Derived terms

* accelerated critical illness
* critical illness
* final illness
* folk illness
* foodborne illness
* food-derived illness
* Gulf War illness
* mental illness
* postorgasmic illness syndrome
* seroconversion illness
* terminal illness

#### Related terms

* ill

#### Translations

Afrikaans: siekte (af)
Aklanon: sakit
Albanian: sëmundje (sq) f
Arabic: مَرَض (ar) m (maraḍ), دَاء m (dāʔ)
Armenian: հիվանդություն (hy) (hivandutʻyun)
Aromanian: lãngoari f, tetã f
Assamese: ৰোগ (rüg)
Azerbaijani: xəstəlik (az)
Bashkir: ауырыу (awırıw)
Belarusian: хваро́ба f (xvaróba)
Bengali: রোগ (bn) (rōg), অসুস্থতা (bn) (ośusthota), ব্যাধি (bn) (bêdhi)
Bikol Central: hilang (bcl)
Bulgarian: бо́лест (bg) f (bólest), заболя́ване (bg) n (zaboljávane)
Burmese: နာမကျန်း (my) (nama.kyan:), ဗျာဓိ (my) (byadhi.), အဖျားအနာ (my) (a.hpya:a.na), ရောဂါ (my) (rau:ga)
Buryat: үбшэн (übšen)
Carpathian Rusyn: хворота f (xvorota)
Catalan: malaltia (ca) f
Cherokee: ᎥᏳᎩ (vyugi)
Chinese:
Dungan: бин (bin), бинҗи (binži), бемар (bi͡əmar)
Mandarin: 疾病 (zh) (jíbìng), 病症 (zh) (bìngzhèng), 病 (zh) (bìng), 患病期間 / 患病期间 (huànbìng qījiān), 病情 (zh) (bìngqíng), 病疾 (bìngjí)
Chukchi: тъычгыргын (tʺyčgyrgyn), аʼратгыргын (aʼratgyrgyn)
Crimean Tatar: maraz
Czech: nemoc (cs) f
Danish: sygdom (da) c
Dutch: ziekte (nl) f, aandoening (nl) f
Egyptian: (mrt)
Esperanto: afekcio, malsano (eo)
Estonian: haigus (et)
Finnish: sairaus (fi)
French: maladie (fr) f
Galician: enfermidade (gl) f, doenza (gl) f
Georgian: ავადმყოფობა (avadmq̇opoba)
German: Krankheit (de) f
Alemannic German: Chranket f
Gothic: 𐍃𐌰𐌿𐌷𐍄𐍃 f (sauhts), 𐍃𐌹𐌿𐌺𐌴𐌹 f (siukei), 𐌿𐌽𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌻𐌹 n (unhaili)
Greek: αρρώστια (el) f (arróstia), ασθένεια (el) f (asthéneia)
Ancient: νόσος f (nósos)
Ionic: νοῦσος f (noûsos)
Gujarati: બીમારી f (bīmārī), માંદગી (mā̃dgī)
Hawaiian: maʻi
Hebrew: מַחֲלָה (he) f (makhalá)
Hindi: रोग (hi) m (rog), बीमारी f (bīmārī), अस्वस्थता f (asvasthatā), मरज़ f (maraz), व्याधि (hi) f (vyādhi)
Hopi: tuuya
Hungarian: betegség (hu)
Icelandic: sjúkdómur (is) m
Indonesian: penyakit (id)
Ingrian: tauti, läsy, topi (dialectal)
Irish: breoiteacht f, othras m, galar (ga) m
Italian: malattia (it) f
Japanese: 病気 (ja) (びょうき, byōki), 疾病 (ja) (しっぺい, shippei)
Kannada: ರೋಗ (kn) (rōga), ಅನಾರೋಗ್ಯ (kn) (anārōgya)
Kazakh: ауру (kk) (auru)
Khmer: ជំងឺ (km) (cumngɨɨ), ជម្ងឺ (km) (cumngɨɨ), រោគ (km) (rook) (formal)
Korean: 질병(疾病) (ko) (jilbyeong), 병 (ko) (byeong)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: nexweşî (ku), bîmarî (ku), merez (ku)
Kyrgyz: оору (ky) (ooru)
Ladino: hazinura
Lao: ພະຍາດ (lo) (pha nyāt), ໂຣກ (rōk), ໂລກ (lo) (lōk), ໂຣຄາ (rō khā), ໂລຄາ (lō khā)
Latin: morbus (la) m, aegror m
Latvian: slimība (lv) f
Lithuanian: liga (lt) f
Luxembourgish: Krankheet f, Kränkt f
Macedonian: болест f (bolest)
Malay: penyakit (ms)
Malayalam: രോഗം (ml) (rōgaṁ)
Maltese: mard m
Manchu: ᠨᡳᠮᡝᡴᡠ (nimeku)
Mansaka: sakit
Marathi: रोग m (rog), आजार m (ājār)
Middle English: seknesse
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: өвчин (mn) (övčin)
Mongolian: ᠡᠪᠡᠳᠴᠢᠨ (ebedčin)
Nepali: रोग (ne) (rog)
Ngazidja Comorian: uwaɗe class 11/10
Norman: maladie f
Northwestern Ojibwa: aakoziwin
Norwegian:
Bokmål: sykdom (no) m, sjukdom (no) m, sjuke m, syke m
Nynorsk: sjukdom m, sjuke m or f
Occitan: malautiá (oc) f
Old English: ādl f
Oromo: dhukkuba
Ossetian: рын (ryn)
Ottoman Turkish: خسته‌لق (hastalık), مرض (maraz)
Papiamentu: malu
Pashto: بيماري (ps) f (bimārí), ناروغي (ps) f (nāroǧí), مرض m (maráz)
Persian:
Iranian Persian: بیماری (fa) (bimâri), مَرَض (maraz), ناخوشی (fa) (nâxoši)
Plautdietsch: Krankheit f
Polish: choroba (pl) f
Portuguese: doença (pt) f, enfermidade (pt) f, maladia (pt) f
Punjabi: ਬਿਮਾਰੀ (bimārī)
Romanian: boală (ro) f
Russian: боле́знь (ru) f (boléznʹ), хворь (ru) f (xvorʹ), неду́г (ru) m (nedúg)
Sanskrit: रोग (sa) m (roga), व्याधि (sa) m (vyādhi), अस्वस्थता (sa) f (asvasthatā)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: бо̏ле̄ст f
Roman: bȍlēst (sh) f
Sicilian: malatìa (scn) f
Sinhalese: ලඩෙ (laḍe)
Slovak: choroba (sk) f, nemoc f
Slovene: bolezen (sl) f
Spanish: enfermedad (es)
Swahili: ugonjwa (sw) class u, maradhi (sw) class ma
Swedish: sjukdom (sv) c
Tagalog: sakit (tl)
Tajik: беморӣ (tg) (bemori), касалӣ (kasali), мараз (maraz)
Tamil: நோய் (ta) (nōy), ரோகம் (ta) (rōkam)
Tatar: авыру (tt) (awıru)
Telugu: వ్యాధి (te) (vyādhi), రోగము (te) (rōgamu)
Thai: โรค (th) (rôok), โรคา (th) (roo-kaa), โรคภัย (rôok-pai), พยาธิ (th) (pá-yâat) (literary)
Tibetan: ན་ཚ (na tsha), སྙུང་གཞི (snyung gzhi) (honorific)
Tocharian B: teki
Turkish: hastalık (tr), maraz (tr)
Turkmen: hassalyk (tk), kesel, nähoşlyk
Ugaritic: 𐎎𐎗𐎕 (mrṣ)
Ukrainian: хворо́ба (uk) f (xvoróba), захво́рювання (uk) n (zaxvórjuvannja), неду́га f (nedúha)
Urdu: بِیماری f (bīmārī), مَرَض f (maraz), روگ m (rog)
Uyghur: كېسەللىك (kësellik)
Uzbek: kasallik (uz), xastalik (uz)
Vietnamese: bệnh (vi), sự đau yếu, sự ốm (vi)
Welsh: salwch (cy)
Yakut: ыарыы (ıarıı)
Yiddish: קראַנקײַט f (krankayt) :
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#### See also

* hypochondriac

### Further reading

* Wikipedia stub on illness