bejel

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic بَجَل (bajal).

Noun

bejel (uncountable)

Endemic syphilis, a chronic disease of skin and tissue caused by infection by a subspecies of the spirochete Treponema pallidum.
Synonyms: button scurvy, sibbens, njovera, belesh, dichuchwa

Translations

Endemic syphilis

Arabic: بَجَل m (bajal)
Belarusian: пра́нец m (pránjec) (usually pluraletantum)
Bulgarian: фре́нга f (frénga)
French: pian de Nérac m, lépre du nord f, maladie de Scherlievo f
German: Grobnigger-Krankheit f, Salzfluss m, Marschkrankheit f, nordische Küstenseuche f, Holsteinische Marschkrankheit f, Dithmarsische Krankheit f, Radeseuche f, Franzosen (de) m pl
Greek: ενδημική σύφιλη (endimikí sýfili)
Icelandic: liktrá f
Italian: Scherlievo m,
Norwegian: radesyge, slemsyge, stygsyge, spedalskhed
Polish: francuska choroba (pl) f, francowata choroba f, franca (pl) f, kiła (pl) f
Russian:
Historical: францу́зская боле́знь (ru) f (francúzskaja boléznʹ) фра́нец m (fránec), пра́нец m (pránec), хра́нец m (xránec), парша́ (ru) f (paršá), сыпь (ru) f (sypʹ), ше́лудь f (šéludʹ), коро́ста (ru) f (korósta), ше́ро́х m (šéróx) (фра́нец, пра́нец, хра́нец, парша́ and ше́лудь are often used as pluraletantum for this specific meaning)

Modern: беджель m (bedželʹ), баляш m (baljaš), ньювера f (nʹjuvera), си́филис ара́бский m (sífilis arábskij)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: шкр̏љево n, škrljevska bȍlēst f, фре̏ња̄к m, вре̏ња̄к m, вре̏њга f, фре̏њга f, фре̏нга f, фре̏нка f

Latin: škȑljevo n, шкрљевска бо̏ле̄ст f, frȅnjāk (sh) m, vrȅnjāk m, vrȅnjga f, , frȅnjga f, frȅnga (sh) f, frȅnka f
Slovene: škrljevo n, škrljeva bolezen f
Swedish: bondfransoser, soltflod, radesyge, spetälska (sv), spedalskhed, franska sjukan (sv)
Translingual: lepra norvegica, lepra septentrionalis, lepra borealis, lepra esthonum, morbus ditmarsicus, lepra holsatica, lepra norvegica, lepra nervosa, elephantiasis norvegica, elephantiasis Graecorum
Turkish:
Ottoman Turkish: فرنك زحمتی (frenk zahmeti), فرنك اویوزی (frenk uyuzi)
Ukrainian: пра́нец m (pránec) (usually pluraletantum)

References

Willcox, R.R. (1960 June 1) “Evolutionary Cycle of the Treponematoses”, in The British Journal of Venereal Diseases‎, number 36, →DOI

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