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cholera

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkɒləɹə/
  • General-American: /ˈkɑləɹə/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • CMU ARPABET: K AA1 L ER0 AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

Any of several acute infectious diseases of humans and domestic animals, caused by certain strains of the Vibrio cholerae bacterium through ingestion of contaminated water or food, usually marked by severe gastrointestinal symptoms such as diarrhea, abdominal cramps, nausea, vomiting, and dehydration.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

an acute intestinal infection caused by ingestion of contaminated water or food

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: Asiatic cholera, Indian cholera, epidemic cholera

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: infectious disease

History

Etymology

From Latin cholera (“bilious disease”), from Ancient Greek χολέρα (kholéra, “cholera”). Doublet of choler.

Across languages

Translations

88 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Southern Altai: холера (holera) — infectious disease
  • Southern Altai: холера оору (holera ooru) — infectious disease
  • Arabic: كُولِيرَا (kōlīrā) — infectious disease
  • Arabic: هَيْضَة (hayḍa) — infectious disease
  • Armenian: խոլերա (xolera) — infectious disease
  • Azerbaijani: vəba — infectious disease
  • Azerbaijani: xolera — infectious disease
  • Bashkir: ваба (vaba) — infectious disease
  • Basque: kolera — infectious disease
  • Belarusian: хале́ра (xaljéra) — infectious disease
  • Betawi: kelèra — infectious disease
  • Bulgarian: холе́ра (holéra) — infectious disease
  • Burmese: ဝမ်းရောဂါ (wam:rau:ga) — infectious disease
  • Burmese: ကာလဝမ်း (kala.wam:) — infectious disease
  • Catalan: còlera — infectious disease
  • Cebuano: kolera — infectious disease
  • Chinese Cantonese: 霍亂 /霍乱 (fok3 lyun6) — infectious disease
  • Chinese Mandarin: 霍亂 /霍乱 (huòluàn) — infectious disease
  • Chinese Mandarin: 虎列拉 (hǔlièlā) — infectious disease
  • Czech: cholera — infectious disease
  • Danish: kolera — infectious disease
  • Dinka: yäcpou — infectious disease
  • Dutch: cholera — infectious disease
  • Esperanto: ĥolero — infectious disease
  • Estonian: koolera — infectious disease
  • Faroese: kolera — infectious disease
  • Finnish: kolera — infectious disease
  • French: choléra — infectious disease
  • Georgian: ქოლერა (kolera) — infectious disease
  • German: Cholera — infectious disease
  • Greek: χολέρα (choléra) — infectious disease
  • Ancient Greek: χολέρα (kholéra) — infectious disease
  • Gujarati: કોગળિયું (kogaḷiyũ) — infectious disease
  • Hebrew: כּוֹלֶרָה (koléra) — infectious disease
  • Hebrew: חֳלִירַע (kholéra) — infectious disease
  • Hiligaynon: kolera — infectious disease
  • Hindi: कॉलरा (kŏlrā) — infectious disease
  • Hindi: हैज़ा (haizā) — infectious disease
  • Hungarian: kolera — infectious disease
  • Icelandic: kólera — infectious disease
  • Ingrian: haleri — infectious disease
  • Irish: calar — infectious disease
  • Italian: colera — infectious disease
  • Japanese: コレラ (korera) — infectious disease
  • Kalmyk: оңһадг (oñğadg) — infectious disease
  • Kazakh: тырысқақ (tyrysqaq) — infectious disease
  • Khmer: អាសន្នរោគ (ʼaasɑnnaʼrook) — infectious disease
  • Korean: 콜레라 (kollera) — infectious disease
  • Kyrgyz: холера (holera) — infectious disease
  • Latvian: holera — infectious disease
  • Lithuanian: cholera — infectious disease
  • Malay: penyakit taun — infectious disease
  • Malayalam: കോളറ (kōḷaṟa) — infectious disease
  • Malayalam: ഛർദ്യാതിസാരം (chaṟdyātisāraṁ) — infectious disease
  • Malayalam: വിഷൂചിക (viṣūcika) — infectious disease
  • Māori: korera — infectious disease
  • Māori: korara — infectious disease
  • Māori: mate korara — infectious disease
  • Norwegian Bokmål: kolera — infectious disease
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: kolera — infectious disease
  • Persian: وبا (vabâ) — infectious disease
  • Polish: cholera — infectious disease
  • Portuguese: cólera — infectious disease
  • Romanian: holeră — infectious disease
  • Russian: холе́ра (xoléra) — infectious disease
  • Samoan: kolela — infectious disease
  • Scottish Gaelic: colera — infectious disease
  • Slovak: cholera — infectious disease
  • Spanish: cólera — infectious disease
  • Swahili: kipindupindu — infectious disease
  • Swedish: kolera — infectious disease
  • Tagalog: kolera — infectious disease
  • Tajik: вабо (vabo) — infectious disease
  • Tatar: ваба (waba) — infectious disease
  • Thai: อหิวาต์ (à-hì-waa) — infectious disease
  • Tocharian B: iweru — infectious disease
  • Tocharian B: wīcuṣik — infectious disease
  • Tok Pisin: kolera — infectious disease
  • Turkish: kolera — infectious disease
  • Turkish: vebâ — infectious disease
  • Ukrainian: холе́ра (xoléra) — infectious disease
  • Urdu: ہیضہ (haizā) — infectious disease
  • Uzbek: vabo — infectious disease
  • Vietnamese: (bệnh) tả — infectious disease
  • Welsh: colera — infectious disease
  • Welsh: geri — infectious disease
  • Yoruba: onígbáméjì — infectious disease
  • Yoruba: kọ́lẹ́rà — infectious disease