leprosy

Etymology
From, from , probably from +  but possibly from  ( + ) although this only historically attested in reference to leprosariums.

The shift of sense from psoriasis to Hansen's disease occurred in large part from the use of to translate  in the Septuagint and its subsequent use in the New Testament and Late Latin.

Noun

 * 1)  An infectious disease caused by the bacterium, gradually producing nerve damage and patches of skin necrosis and historically handled by permanently quarantining its sufferers.
 * 2) * 1535,, , . 8:3:
 * Then is it surely a leprosy
 * 1)  Similar contagious skin diseases causing light patches of scaly skin, particularly psoriasis, syphilis, vitiligo, scabies, and  the various diseases considered "tzaraath" in the Old Testament.
 * 2)  Anything considered similarly permanent, harmful, and communicable, particularly when such a thing should be handled by avoidance or isolation of its victims.
 * 3)  A contagious disease causing similar effects in animals, particularly
 * 4)  and , diseases caused in rodents and cats by Mycobacterium lepraemurium.
 * 5)   and  in horses.
 * : a place for the housing of lepers in isolation from the rest of society.
 * 1)  A contagious disease causing similar effects in animals, particularly
 * 2)  and , diseases caused in rodents and cats by Mycobacterium lepraemurium.
 * 3)   and  in horses.
 * : a place for the housing of lepers in isolation from the rest of society.

Usage notes
Many modern medical associations now prefer the more clinical to avoid both confusion with diseases which may appear superficially similar to proper leprosy and to avoid the stigma and harsh treatment historically associated with the disease.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: جُذَام
 * Egyptian Arabic: برص, جذام
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: llepra
 * Azerbaijani: cüzam
 * Belarusian: прака́за, стру́пля
 * Bengali: ,
 * Bikol Central: kagitsi
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:, ,
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: lansaro
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: or 痲瘋病, ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: spedalskhed
 * Dhivehi: ޖުޒާމު ބަލި
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: lepro
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: spitalskusjúka, líktrá
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician: ,
 * Georgian: კეთრი
 * German: ,
 * Gothic: 𐌸𐍂𐌿𐍄𐍃𐍆𐌹𐌻𐌻
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: λέπρα
 * Greenlandic: pupinneq
 * Gujarati: કોઢ
 * Hawaiian: lēpela, maʻi lēpela, maʻi Pākē, maʻi aliʻi, maʻi hoʻokaʻawale
 * Hebrew:
 * Hiligaynon: aro
 * Hindi:, , कुष्ठरोग
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Indonesian:, penyakit kusta,
 * Inupiaq: auyugaqtuaq, kiḷḷiġruaq
 * Irish: lobhra
 * Italian:
 * Jamaican Creole: cocobay
 * Japanese: ,
 * Javanese:
 * Kannada:
 * Kazakh: алапес
 * Khmer: ,
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: گولی
 * Northern Kurdish: girrew
 * Latin: lepra
 * Lingala: maba
 * Lithuanian: raupsai
 * Macedonian: лепра
 * Malay:, penyakit kusta
 * Malayalam:
 * Maori: takewhenua, tuwhenua, mumutu, mate tūhawaiki, mate ngerengere
 * Maranao: bakataw, bowa, koliyo
 * Minangkabau:
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian:, lepra
 * Occitan: lepra
 * Old Church Slavonic: проказа
 * Old English: hrēofl
 * Ottoman Turkish: پیس
 * Persian:, , داءالاسد , ,
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਕੋਢ਼
 * Quechua: lliqti unquy, sisu, şişu
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Santali: ᱢᱩᱰᱨᱩᱡ ᱟᱡᱟᱨ
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Roman: ,
 * Sinhalese: ලාදුරු
 * Spanish:
 * Sundanese: ᮊᮥᮞ᮪ᮒ
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog:
 * Tamil: தொழு நோய்
 * Tausug: ipul
 * Telugu: కుష్టు వ్యాధి
 * Thai:, , , ,
 * Tibetan: མཛེ་ནད
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: прока́за, ле́пра
 * Urdu: جذام
 * Uyghur: ماخاۋ
 * Vietnamese: (風),  (㽿),
 * Volapük: leprad
 * Welsh: gwahanglwyf
 * Zazaki: cuzzam