typhus

Etymology
From, from , from , from , extended form of.

Noun

 * 1)  Any of several similar diseases, characterised by high recurrent fever, caused by  bacteria. Not to be confused with typhoid fever.

Translations

 * Arabic: تِيفُوس, تِيفُوس
 * Asturian: tifus
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: tyfus
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Faroese: týfus
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:, Flecktyphus
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:, kiütéses tífusz,
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: сүзек
 * Korean:
 * Malay: tifus
 * Maori: karawaka
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: tyfus
 * Nynorsk: tyfus
 * Plautdietsch: Tiefuss
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, сыпно́й тиф
 * Scottish Gaelic: fiabhras-ballach
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:

Etymology
From, from ; see above.

Etymology
Early modern coinage from.

Noun

 * 1)   a form, type, or character of a fever.
 * 2)  A periodic fever.