menopause

Etymology
From, from , from +. Equivalent to.

Noun

 * 1) The period in a woman's life when menstruation becomes irregular and less frequent before eventually stopping altogether, usually accompanied by a range of unpleasant symptoms; the period spanning perimenopause up to postmenopause.
 * 2) The final menstrual period of a woman after which ovulation no longer occurs.
 * 1) The final menstrual period of a woman after which ovulation no longer occurs.
 * 1) The final menstrual period of a woman after which ovulation no longer occurs.

Usage notes
Sometimes encountered in the form the menopause, especially in Commonwealth English.

Translations

 * Albanian: menopauzë
 * Arabic: إِيَاس
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: klimaks, menopauza
 * Belarusian: менапа́ўза, клі́макс, клімактэ́рый
 * Bikol Central: langday
 * Bulgarian: менопа́уза
 * Catalan: menopausa
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , 經絕期
 * Czech:
 * Danish: overgangsalder
 * Dutch: ,
 * Estonian: menopaus
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Georgian: მენოპაუზა, კლიმაქსი, კლიმაქტერიუმი
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hindi: रजोनिवृत्ति
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: tíðahvörf
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 更年期,
 * Kazakh: етеккір үзілісі
 * Korean:, 갱년기(更年期)
 * Kyrgyz: менопауза, климакс
 * Latvian: menopauze
 * Lithuanian: menopauzė
 * Macedonian: менопауза
 * Malay: menopaus
 * Malayalam: ആർത്തവവിരാമം
 * Maori: ruahinetanga, ruahinetanga
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, menopause, klimakterium
 * Nynorsk: overgangsalder
 * Persian:
 * Polish: klimakterium, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:,  ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: làn-sgur fuil-mìosa
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: менопа̀уза
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: menopauza
 * Slovene:, klimakterij,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: layag
 * Tajik: климактерий
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: менопа́уза, клі́макс, клімакте́рій
 * Uzbek:, menopauza
 * Vietnamese:

Etymology
,, from , from.

Noun

 * : The period in a woman's life when menstruation becomes irregular and less frequent before eventually stopping altogether, usually accompanied by a range of unpleasant symptoms; the period spanning perimenopause up to postmenopause; The final menstrual period of a woman after which ovulation no longer occurs.

Alternative forms

 * ménopaus