chicken pox

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• General-American: /ˈt͡ʃɪ.k(ə)nˌpɑks/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃɪ.k(ə)nˌpɒks/
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From chicken + pox, under the influence of earlier hen-pox and swinepox, which formed larger blisters.

105 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: li e bardhë — disease
• Albanian: li e dushkut — disease
• Albanian: li e mirë — disease
• Albanian: li e pyllit — disease
• Arabic: جُدَرِيّ المَاء (judariyy al-māʔ) — disease
• Arabic: عَنْقَز (ʕanqaz) — disease
• Arabic: عَنْقَز (ʕangaz) — disease
• Arabic: بوشويكة (bušwīka) — disease
• Armenian: ջրծաղիկ (ǰrcaġik) — disease
• Assamese: মাজু আই (mazu ai) — disease
• Azerbaijani: toyuqçiçəyi — disease
• Azerbaijani: suçiçəyi — disease
• Belarusian: ветрана́я во́спа (vjetranája vóspa) — disease
• Belarusian: ветра́нка (vjetránka) — disease
• Belarusian: ахва́т (axvát) — disease
• Central Bikol: utos — disease
• Bulgarian: варицела (varicela) — disease
• Burmese: ကျောက်ရောဂါ (kyauk-rau:ga) — disease
• Burmese: ပဲသီတာ (pai:sita) — disease
• Catalan: varicel·la — disease
• Cebuano: hangga — disease
• Cherokee: ᏣᏔᎦ ᎤᏃᏔᏩᎸᏍᎩ (tsataga unotawalvsgi) — disease
• Chinese Cantonese: 水痘 — disease
• Chinese: 水珠 (zh-min-nan) — disease
• Chinese Mandarin: 水痘 (shuǐdòu) — disease
• Czech: plané neštovice — disease
• Danish: skoldkopper — disease
• Dutch: waterpokken — disease
• Dutch: wijnpokken — disease
• Dutch: windpokken — disease
• Dutch: varicella — disease
• Erzya: варма ливкст (varma livkst) — disease
• Esperanto: varioleto — disease
• Faroese: skáldkoppar — disease
• Finnish: vesirokko — disease
• French: varicelle — disease
• Galician: bolercas — disease
• Galician: boas — disease
• Galician: lambercas — disease
• German: Windpocken — disease
• Greek: ανεμοβλογιά (anemovlogiá) — disease
• Gujarati: અછબડા (achabḍā) — disease
• Hebrew: אבעבועות רוח (ava'abu'ot ruakh) — disease
• Hindi: छोटी माता (choṭī mātā) — disease
• Hungarian: bárányhimlő — disease
• Icelandic: hlaupabóla — disease
• Ilocano: tuko — disease
• Irish: deilgneach — disease
• Italian: varicella — disease
• Japanese: 水痘 (suitō) — disease
• Japanese: 水疱瘡 (mizubōsō) — disease
• Kikuyu: mũthandũkũ — disease
• Korean: 수두 (sudu) — disease
• Central Kurdish: مێکوتە (mêkute) — disease
• Lao: ຫມາກສຸກ ຫມາກໃສ (māk suk māk sai) — disease
• Latvian: vējbakas — disease
• Lithuanian: vėjaraupiai — disease
• Luxembourgish: Waasserpouken — disease
• Malayalam: ചിക്കൻപോക്സ് (cikkaṉpōksŭ) — disease
• Maltese: ġidri r-riħ — disease
• Māori: koroputa hei — disease
• Marathi: कांजिण्या (kāñjiṇyā) — disease
• Marshallese: bok — disease
• Nandi: kâpimperu — disease
• Neapolitan: ìsciola — disease
• Norman: vétheule volante — disease
• Norwegian Bokmål: vannkopper — disease
• Plautdietsch: Wintpock — disease
• Polish: ospa — disease
• Polish: ospa wietrzna — disease
• Polish: wiatrówka — disease
• Polish: wietrzyca — disease
• Portuguese: varicela — disease
• Portuguese: catapora — disease
• Punjabi: ਛੋਟੀ ਮਾਤਾ (choṭī mātā) — disease
• Quechua: hawaqlla muru unquy — disease
• Romanian: vărsat de vânt — disease
• Russian: ветряна́я о́спа (vetrjanája óspa) — disease
• Russian: ветря́нка (vetrjánka) — disease
• Sassarese: rosa — disease
• Sassarese: baglioru basthardhu — disease
• Satawalese: kinipaarang — disease
• Sinhalese: පැපොල (pæpola) — disease
• Somali: busbus — disease
• Spanish: varicela — disease
• Spanish: china — disease
• Spanish: lechina — disease
• Spanish: peste cristal — disease
• Sundanese: ᮎᮎᮁ (cacar) — disease
• Swahili: tetekuwanga — disease
• Swedish: vattkoppor — disease
• Tagalog: bulutung-tubig — disease
• Tagalog: bulutong-tubig — disease
• Tamil: சின்னம்மை (ciṉṉammai) — disease
• Tamil: பயற்றம்மை (payaṟṟammai) — disease
• Thai: อีสุกอีใส (ii-sùk-ii-sǎi) — disease
• Thai: สุกใส — disease
• Turkish: su çiçeği — disease
• Ukrainian: вітряна́ ві́спа (vitrjaná víspa) — disease
• Ukrainian: вітря́нка (vitrjánka) — disease
• Vietnamese: thủy đậu — disease
• Waigali: jagara — disease
• Walloon: ploketes d' aiwe — disease
• Waray-Waray: hangga — disease
• Welsh: brech yr ieir — disease