mumps

Etymology
Circa 1600, from, compare , most likely referring to the painful difficulty in swallowing.

Noun

 * 1)  A contagious disease caused by the  of the genus, mostly occurring in childhood, which causes swelling of glands in the face and neck.
 * 2)  A gloomy or sullen silence.

Usage notes

 * Usually used with a singular verb.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: pampoentjies
 * Asturian: parotidis
 * Basque: hazizurri
 * Bikol Central:
 * Cebuano: bayuok
 * Cherokee: ᎠᏓᏴᏦᏗᏍᎩ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: mumpso
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: ყბაყურა
 * German:, , Mumpf
 * Greek: ,
 * Hausa: hangum
 * Hungarian:
 * Hunsrik: Kaschumbe
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian: parotite epidemica,
 * Japanese: 流行性耳下腺炎, おたふく 風邪
 * Kapampangan: bayki, buklaw
 * Khmer: ស្រឡទែន, សាលាទែន
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: binguhik
 * Macedonian: за́ушки
 * Malayalam:
 * Maori: mate pupuhi repe, repe hūware pupuhi
 * Navajo: ayaayááh niichaad
 * Neapolitan: recchiune
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian: اوریون
 * Plautdietsch: Mumps
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: pluc, ploic
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: заушке
 * Roman: zauške
 * Slovak: mumps
 * Spanish: paperas, parotiditis
 * Swedish: parotit,
 * Tagalog: beke, buklaw
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: сви́нка, заву́шниця
 * Waray-Waray: bikag
 * Welsh: clwy'r pennau, twymyn doben