Since 16th century; borrowed from French épilepsie, from Latin epilēpsia, from Ancient Greek ἐπιληψίᾱ (epilēpsíā), from ἐπιλαμβάνω (epilambánō, “I seize”), from ἐπι- (epi-, “upon”) + λαμβάνω (lambánō, “I take”). Displaced native Old English fiellesēocnes (literally “falling sickness”).
- IPA(key): /ˈɛpɪlɛpsi/
- Hyphenation: ep‧i‧lep‧sy
epilepsy (countable and uncountable, plural epilepsies)
- (pathology) A medical condition in which the sufferer experiences seizures (or convulsions) and blackouts.
1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […], →OCLC:Epilepsies, or fallings and reelings, and beastly vomitings. The least of these, even when the tongue begins to be untied, is a degree of drunkenness.
medical condition
- Albanian: epilepsi (sq) f, sëmundje e tokës f, botë (sq) f, shakull (sq) m, punëherë (sq) f
- Arabic: صَرْع m (ṣarʕ)
- Armenian: ընկնավորություն (hy) (ənknavorutʻyun)
- Assamese: আঁৱৰি (ãori)
- Asturian: epilepsia f
- Banjarese: gila babi, balawa
- Bengali: মৃগীরোগ (mrigirōg)
- Catalan: epilèpsia (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 羊癲瘋／羊癫疯 (yángdiānfēng), 癲癇／癫痫 (zh) (diānxián), 癲癇癥／癫痫症 (diānxiánzhèng), 羊癇／羊痫 (yángxián), 羊癇瘋／羊痫疯 (yángxiánfēng), 羊角風／羊角风 (zh) (yángjiǎofēng)
- Czech: epilepsie (cs) f
- Danish: epilepsi c
- Dinka: nok
- Dutch: epilepsie (nl) f, vallende ziekte (nl)
- Esperanto: epilepsio
- Estonian: epilepsia (et), langetõbi (et)
- Finnish: epilepsia (fi)
- French: épilepsie (fr) f, mal caduc (fr)
- Galician: epilepsia f, gota (gl) f
- German: Epilepsie (de) f; (archaic) Fallsucht (de) f
- Greek: επιληψία (el) f (epilipsía)
- Ancient: ἐπιληψία f (epilēpsía)
- Haitian Creole: malkadi
- Hindi: अपस्मार (hi) m (apasmār), मिर्गी (hi) f (mirgī)
- Hungarian: epilepszia (hu)
- Icelandic: flogaveiki (is) f, flog (is) n, niðurfallssýki f
- Ido: epilepsio (io)
- Igbo: ájụ̀
- Indonesian: epilepsi (id), ayan (id)
- Ingrian: lankiivatauti
- Irish: titimeas m, an bhreoiteacht mhór f, galar titimeach m, galar Póil m, galar talmhaí m, an tinneas beannaithe m, an tinneas mór m, tinneas Póil m, tinneas talún m
- Italian: epilessia (it) f
- Japanese: 癲癇 (ja) (てんかん, tenkan)
- Javanese: ꦲꦪꦤ꧀ (jv) (ayan)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: فێ (fê)
- Latin: epilēpsia f
- Malay: epilepsi, gila babi, sawan (ms)
- Maori: hukihuki, hūkiki, mate hukihuki
- Minangkabau: ayan (min)
- Nias: faniri
- Nogai: талма (talma)
- Norman: épilepsie f (Jersey)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: epilepsi m
- Nynorsk: epilepsi m
- Odia: ଅପସ୍ମାର (or) (ôpôsmarô)
- Old English: fiellesēocnes f
- Persian: صرع (fa) (sar')
- Plautdietsch: Aunstoot
- Polish: padaczka (pl) f, epilepsja (pl) f
- Portuguese: epilepsia (pt) f
- Russian: эпиле́псия (ru) f (epilépsija), паду́чая (ru) f (padúčaja) (obsolete)
- Sanskrit: अपस्मार (sa) m (apasmāra)
- Scottish Gaelic: tuiteamas m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: епилѐпсија f, па̏давица f
- Roman: epilèpsija (sh) f, pȁdavica (sh) f
- Slovene: epilepsija (sl) f, božjast (sl) f
- Somali: qallal
- Spanish: epilepsia (es) f
- Sundanese: épilépsi, ayan
- Swahili: kifafa (sw)
- Swedish: epilepsi (sv) c
- Tagalog: kisay, gotakural
- Thai: ลมชัก (lom-chák), ลมบ้าหมู (lom-bâa-mǔu)
- Tocharian B: apasmār
- Turkish: tutarak (tr), tutarık (tr), tutarga (tr), yilbik (tr), sara (tr), epilepsi (tr)
- Tày: bả mu
- Vietnamese: động kinh
- Volapük: peiläp (vo)
- Welsh: epilepsi m
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