measles

Etymology 1
Either from or, both from. . Cognate with &  and 🇨🇬 &. Influenced in pronunciation and some senses by.

Noun

 * 1)  An acute and highly contagious disease which often afflicts children caused by the virus  and causing red rashes, fever, runny nose, coughing, and red eyes.
 * 2)  Any disease causing red rashes.
 * : A disease of livestock or meat caused by the presence of tapeworm larvae.
 * 1)  Any disease causing a tree's bark to become rough and irregular.
 * : a red spot forming part of a rash, particularly those caused by M. morbillivirus.
 * 1) * 1599, "A.M." translating Osswald Gäbelkhover as The Boock of Physicke, p. 277:
 * Others take a fether, and dippe it in the saide water, and therwith they annoynte all the Measells of the Face when they are come forth.
 * : any similar-looking red spot, particularly foxing.
 * : the individual cysts of cysticercosis.
 * : the individual blisters in the surface of a diseased tree's bark.
 * 1)  A discreet assassination made to look like death from any natural cause.
 * : a red spot forming part of a rash, particularly those caused by M. morbillivirus.
 * 1) * 1599, "A.M." translating Osswald Gäbelkhover as The Boock of Physicke, p. 277:
 * Others take a fether, and dippe it in the saide water, and therwith they annoynte all the Measells of the Face when they are come forth.
 * : any similar-looking red spot, particularly foxing.
 * : the individual cysts of cysticercosis.
 * : the individual blisters in the surface of a diseased tree's bark.
 * 1)  A discreet assassination made to look like death from any natural cause.
 * : the individual cysts of cysticercosis.
 * : the individual blisters in the surface of a diseased tree's bark.
 * 1)  A discreet assassination made to look like death from any natural cause.
 * 1)  A discreet assassination made to look like death from any natural cause.

Usage notes
Typically, most senses of measels use the plural form but take singular agreement with verbs and other words, as if acting as an ellipsis for expressions such as a case of the measels. Typically but not always used with the definite article the.

Synonyms

 * See Thesaurus:the dickens
 * See Thesaurus:the dickens

Translations

 * Afrikaans: masels
 * Arabic: حَصْبَة
 * Moroccan Arabic: بوحمرون
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: সৰু আই
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: ҡыҙылса
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: адзёр
 * Bikol Central:
 * Bulgarian:, дребна шарка
 * Catalan:
 * Cherokee: ᎤᏁᏲᏘᏍᎩ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Chukchi: челгат
 * Czech:
 * Danish: mæslinger
 * Dargwa: аринж
 * Dutch:, morbilli
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: leetrid
 * Faroese: meslingar
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: sarampelo, xarampón
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Greenlandic: mæslingit
 * Guinea-Bissau Creole: sarampa
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: bruitíneach
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: سوورێژە
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Latvian: masalas
 * Lithuanian:
 * Luxembourgish:
 * Macedonian: сипаници
 * Malay:
 * Maltese: ħosba
 * Maori: mate karawaka, mītera, mītara
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: улаан бурхан, улаан нуд, улаан нод
 * Mongolian: ᠤᠯᠠᠭᠠᠨ ᠪᠤᠷᠬᠠᠨ, ᠤᠯᠠᠭᠠᠨ ᠨᠣᠳ
 * Norman: rouogeule
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: meslingar
 * Occitan: ,
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:, ukambi
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: tigdas
 * Tamil:
 * Thai: หัด
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: خسرہ
 * Uyghur:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: morbil
 * Walloon: ,
 * Welsh: brech goch
 * Zazaki: surıc, surani


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish:
 * Spanish:
 * Zazaki: surani

Etymology 2
From, from , from , from , from +.

Noun

 * : Leprosy.
 * : Leprosy.