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English

Etymology

Etymology tree
English ill
Proto-Germanic *-in-
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti
Proto-Germanic *-ōną
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-der.
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English illness

    From ill + -ness.

    Pronunciation

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

    Noun

    illness (countable and uncountable, plural illnesses)

    1. (countable) An instance (episode) 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 Wee, Edwin Philip Conceicao, Jean Xiang-Ying Sim, May Kyawt Aung, Aung Myat Oo, et 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.
    2. (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
    • chronic illness
    • critical illness
    • final illness
    • folk illness
    • foodborne illness
    • food-derived illness
    • Gulf War illness
    • illness anxiety disorder
    • illnesslike
    • mental illness
    • nonillness
    • postorgasmic illness syndrome
    • seroconversion illness
    • terminal illness

    Related terms

    • ill

    Translations

    an instance of a disease or poor health
    • 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)
    • Bangi: bokono
    • Bashkir: ауырыу (awïrïw)
    • Belarusian: хваро́ба f (xvaróba)
    • Bengali: রোগ (bn) (rōg), অসুস্থতা (bn) (ośusthota), ব্যাধি (bn) (bêdhi)
    • Bikol:
      Central Bikol: 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 (binji), бемар (biəmar)
      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)
    • Comorian:
      Ngazidja Comorian: uwaɗe class 11/10
    • Crimean Tatar: maraz
    • Czech: nemoc (cs) f
    • Danish: sygdom (da) c
    • Dutch: ziekte (nl) f, aandoening (nl) f
    • Egyptian:
      U23mr
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      (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 Greek: νόσος f (nósos)
      Ionic Greek: νοῦσος f (noûsos)
    • Gujarati: બીમારી f (bīmārī), માંદગી (mā̃dgī)
    • Haida: stʼíi
    • Hawaiian: maʻi
    • Hebrew: מַחֲלָה (he) f (makhalá)
    • Hindi: रोग (hi) m (rog), बीमारी f (bīmārī), अस्वस्थता f (asvasthatā), मरज़ f (maraz), मर्ज़ f (marz), 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) (awruw)
    • 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
    • Lingala: maláli, bokono (ln)
    • 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)
    • Mauritian Creole: maladi
    • Middle English: seknesse
    • Mongolian:
      Cyrillic: өвчин (mn) (övčin)
      Mongolian script: ᠡᠪᠡᠳᠴᠢᠨ (ebedčin)
    • Nepali: रोग (ne) (rog)
    • Norman: maladie f
    • Norwegian:
      Bokmål: sykdom (no) m, sjukdom (no) m, sjuke m, syke m
      Nynorsk: sjukdom m, sjuke m or f
    • Occitan: malautiá (oc) f
    • Ojibwa:
      Northwestern Ojibwa: aakoziwin
    • Old English: ādl f
    • Oromo: dhukkuba
    • Ossetian: рын (ryn)
    • 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:
      Gurmukhi: 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
      Latin: bȍlēst (sh) f
    • Sicilian: malatìa (scn) f
    • Sinhalese: ලඩෙ (laḍe)
    • Slovak: choroba (sk) f, nemoc f
    • Slovene: bolezen (sl) f
    • Spanish: enfermedad (es) f
    • Swahili: ugonjwa (sw) class u, maradhi (sw) class ma
    • Swedish: sjukdom (sv) c
    • Tagalog: sakit (tl)
    • Tajik: беморӣ (tg) (bemori), касалӣ (kasali), мараз (maraz), нохушӣ (noxuši)
    • 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)
      Ottoman Turkish: خسته‌لق (hastalık), علت (ʼillet), مرض (maraz)
    • Turkmen: hassalyk (tk), kesel, nähoşlyk
    • Ugaritic: 𐎎𐎗𐎕 (mrṣ)
    • Ukrainian: хворо́ба (uk) f (xvoróba), захво́рювання (uk) n (zaxvórjuvannja), неду́га f (nedúha)
    • Urdu: بِیماری f (bīmārī), مَرْض f (marz), مَرَض f (maraz), روگ m (rog)
    • Uyghur: كېسەللىك (kësellik)
    • Uzbek: kasallik (uz), xastalik (uz)
    • Vietnamese: bệnh (vi), sự đau yếu, sự ốm (vi)
    • Volapük: maläd (vo)
    • Welsh: salwch (cy)
    • Yakut: ыарыы (ïarïï)
    • Yiddish: קראַנקײַט f (krankayt)
    a state of bad health or disease
    • Armenian: անառողջություն (anaṙoġǰutʻyun)
    • Bashkir: ауырыу (awïrïw), сир (sir)
    • Bulgarian: боледуване n (boleduvane)
    • Catalan: malaltia (ca) f
    • Chinese:
      Mandarin: 病 (zh) (bìng), 生病 (zh) (shēngbìng)
    • Danish: syg (da)
    • Finnish: sairaus (fi)
    • French: maladie (fr) f
    • Galician: enfermidade (gl) f, doenza (gl) f
    • Gothic: 𐍃𐌰𐌿𐌷𐍄𐍃 f (sauhts), 𐍃𐌹𐌿𐌺𐌴𐌹 f (siukei)
    • Greek: ασθένεια (el) f (asthéneia)
    • Hindi: रोग (hi) m (rog)
    • Hungarian: betegség (hu)
    • Irish: othras m, galar (ga) m
    • Italian: malattia (it) f
    • Malay: sakit (ms)
    • Māori: māuiuitanga
    • Portuguese: enfermidade (pt) f, doença (pt) f
    • Scottish Gaelic: euslaint f
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Latin: oboljenje (sh) n, oboljelost (sh) f, bolest (sh) f, болест f
    • Sicilian: malatìa (scn) f
    • Spanish: enfermedad (es) f
    • Swahili: ugonjwa (sw)
    • Unami: palsëwakàn
    The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
    Translations to be checked‌: "disease"
    • Afrikaans: (please verify) siekte (af)
    • Albanian: (please verify) sëmundje (sq) f
    • Arabic: (please verify) مَرَض (ar) (maraḍ), (please verify) دَاء m (dāʔ), (please verify) سُقْم m (suqm)
    • Basque: (please verify) gaixotasun (eu)
    • Esperanto: (please verify) malsano (eo)
    • Estonian: (please verify) haigus (et)
    • Faroese: (please verify) sjúka
    • Frisian:
      West Frisian: (please verify) sykte
    • Georgian: (please verify) ავადმყოფობა (avadmq̇opoba)
    • Haitian Creole: (please verify) maladi
    • Hebrew: (please verify) חֹלִי (he) m (khóli)
    • Hungarian: (please verify) betegség (hu)
    • Indonesian: (please verify) sakitnya (id)
    • Irish: (please verify) tinneas (ga)
    • Kurdish:
      Central Kurdish: (please verify) نەخۆشی (nexoşî)
    • Latin: (please verify) aegritudo
    • Malay: (please verify) penyakit (ms)
    • Malayalam: (please verify) സുഖക്കേട് (ml) (sukhakkēṭŭ), (please verify) രോഗം (ml) (rōgaṁ)
    • Old English: (please verify) adl, (please verify) leġer
    • Santali: (please verify) ᱨᱳᱜ (rok’)
    • Scottish Gaelic: (please verify) trioblaid f, (please verify) galar m, (please verify) tinneas m, (please verify) euslaint f
    • Slovak: (please verify) nemoc
    • Slovene: (please verify) obolenje n
    • Sranan Tongo: (please verify) siki
    • Swahili: (please verify) chirwa (sw)
    • Swedish: (please verify) sjukdom (sv) c
    • Tagalog: (please verify) sakit (tl)
    • Thai: (please verify) โรค (th) (rôok), (please verify) โรคภัยไข้เจ็บ (th) (rôok-pai-kâi-jèp), (please verify) โรคาพยาธิ
    • Turkish: (please verify) hastalık (tr)
      Ottoman Turkish: خسته‌لق (hastalık), مرض (maraz)
    • Uyghur: (please verify) bitabliq
    • Vietnamese: (please verify) sự đau yếu
    • Welsh: (please verify) gwaeledd m
    • Yucatec Maya: (please verify) k’oha’nil

    See also

    • hypochondriac

    Further reading

    • Wikipedia stub on illness
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