syphilis

Etymology
From, originally the title of a poem by concerning “Syphilus”,  a shepherd boy who insulted the Greek god Apollo and was punished by that god with a horrible disease.

Noun

 * 1)  A disease spread via sexual activity, caused by the bacterium.

Translations

 * Arabic: زُهَرِيّ, مَرَض فِرَنْجِيّ, اَلاِفْرَنْجِيّ
 * Arikara: čeeníwiš
 * Assiniboine: ceȟníbi
 * Bulgarian: сифилис
 * Catalan: sífilis
 * Chichewa: chindoko
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: syfilis,
 * Danish: syfilis
 * Dhivehi: ސިފިލިސް
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: sifiliso
 * Estonian: süüfilis
 * Faroese: fransósir, syfilis
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:, , ,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Greenlandic: niviarsiapilunneq, syfilisi
 * Hawaiian: kaokao
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:, ,
 * Interlingua: syphilis
 * Irish: bolgach fhrancach
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:, ジフィリス, 唐瘡
 * Kalmyk: мерәсн
 * Kazakh: мерез
 * Korean:
 * Koyraboro Senni: masar
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Latvian: sifiliss
 * Malay: penyakit raja singa
 * Maori: pākewakewa, mate pākewakewa
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Mongolian: ᠲᠡᠮᠪᠦᠦ
 * Nandi: takan
 * Navajo: cháchʼosh
 * Niuean: kafukula
 * Norman: chancre
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: syfilis
 * Nynorsk: syfilis
 * Polish:, , , ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi:
 * Quechua: wanthi unquy
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tibetan: སེ་མོག, རྒྱ་ནད
 * Turkish: ,
 * Tuvan: паш
 * Volapük: süfilid
 * Yapese: baaydook

Etymology
First used in 1530 by, from the name of a mythical first sufferer of the disease, Syphilus.