COVID-19

Etymology
From and the year 2019. The format was established by the World Health Organization (WHO) and is to be used for the names of future outbreaks.

Proper noun

 * 1)  A disease caused by a coronavirus discovered in 2019, in a zoonotic pandemic starting in Wuhan, Hubei, China.
 * 2)  ; the virus which causes the disease.

Coordinate terms




Etymology
Abbreviation of  + 19 from 2019, the year the virus was discovered. Coined by the World Health Organization on February 11, 2020. Intended to avoid stigma by not referring to a place, animal, career, or group of people.

Proper noun

 * 1)   disease
 * 2)   virus that causes the COVID-19 disease
 * 3) The COVID-19 pandemic which began in early 2020.
 * ''Many diabetics have been dying, especially during COVID-19.
 * 1)   virus that causes the COVID-19 disease
 * 2) The COVID-19 pandemic which began in early 2020.
 * ''Many diabetics have been dying, especially during COVID-19.
 * 1)   virus that causes the COVID-19 disease
 * 2) The COVID-19 pandemic which began in early 2020.
 * ''Many diabetics have been dying, especially during COVID-19.
 * 1) The COVID-19 pandemic which began in early 2020.
 * ''Many diabetics have been dying, especially during COVID-19.
 * 1) The COVID-19 pandemic which began in early 2020.
 * ''Many diabetics have been dying, especially during COVID-19.
 * 1) The COVID-19 pandemic which began in early 2020.
 * ''Many diabetics have been dying, especially during COVID-19.

Related terms

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Translations

 * Apache:
 * Western Apache: Cowid ńgóstʼáítsʼádah, cowid ńgóstʼáítsʼádah, nantʼaʼ chʼah kah naghaa
 * Arabic: كوفيد-19، كوڤيد-19، كوفيد-١٩، كوڤيد-١٩
 * Aromanian: Cuvid
 * Burmese: ကိုဗစ်-၁၉
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ;, 新型冠状病毒肺炎
 * Dhivehi: ކޮވިޑް-19
 * Dutch: Covid-19,
 * Esperanto: KOVIM-19
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: კოვიდ-19, კორონავირუსი
 * German:
 * Hebrew: קובי״ד־19
 * Hindi: कोविड-१९, कोविड-19
 * Japanese: 新型肺炎, 新型コロナウイルス感染症, コロナウイルス感染症2019, コロナ2019
 * Kannada: ಕೋವಿಡ್ ೧೯
 * Khmer: កូវីដ-១៩
 * Korean: 신종 코로나바이러스 감염증, 신형코로나비루스감염증
 * Lao: ໂຄວິດ-19
 * Macedonian: Ко́вид-19
 * Maori: KOWHEORI-19
 * Navajo: Dikos Ntsaaígíí-19
 * Northwestern Ojibwa: biiwaabik-wiiwakwaan aakoziwin
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: Covid-19,
 * Russian: Ковид-19
 * Samoan: KOVITI-19
 * Serbo-Croatian: Ковид-19
 * Spanish: covid-19
 * Swahili: Covid-19, UVIKO-19
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: ཏོག་དབྱིབས་ན་ཚ, ཏོག་དབྱིབས་རིམས་ནད, ཏོག་དབྱིབས་གཉན་རིམས་ ༡༩, ཀོ་ཝིད་ཊ་-༡༩, ཀོ་ལྦིད་ཊ་-༡༩, ཏོག་དབྱིབས་ནད་དུག
 * Ukrainian: Ковід-19
 * Vietnamese:, Cô Vy
 * Welsh: COVID-19, y Gofid Mawr
 * Yiddish: קאָװיד־19

Etymology
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