digestion

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From Old French digestion. Partly displaced native Old English melting (“melting, digestion”).

135 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: spysvertering — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Afrikaans: vertering — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Albanian: tretje — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Arabic: هَضْم (haḍm) — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Arabic: هضم (haḍm) — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Armenian: մարսողություն (marsoġutʻyun) — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Azerbaijani: həzm — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Azerbaijani: mənimsəmə — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Belarusian: стравава́нне (stravavánnje) — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Bengali: পরিপাক (poripak) — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Bulgarian: храносми́лане (hranosmílane) — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Carpathian Rusyn: травлїня (travljinja) — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Carpathian Rusyn: діґесція (digescija) — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Chinese Mandarin: 消化 (xiāohuà) — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Czech: trávení — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Danish: fordøjelse — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Dutch: spijsvertering — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Dutch: vertering — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Esperanto: digesto — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Estonian: seedimine — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Faroese: sodning — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Finnish: ruoansulatus — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Finnish: ruuansulatus — process in gastrointestinal tract
• French: digestion — process in gastrointestinal tract
• West-Frisian: spiisfertarring — process in gastrointestinal tract
• West-Frisian: fertarring — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Galician: dixestión — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Georgian: მონელება (moneleba) — process in gastrointestinal tract
• German: Verdauung — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Greek: πέψη (pépsi) — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Greek: χώνεψη (chónepsi) — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Ancient Greek: πέψις (pépsis) — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Hebrew: עיכול \ עִכּוּל (ikúl) — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Hindi: पाचन (pācan) — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Hindi: हज़म (hazam) — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Hindi: हाज़मा (hāzmā) — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Hungarian: emésztés — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Icelandic: melting — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Indonesian: pencernaan — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Irish: díleá — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Italian: digestione — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Japanese: 消化 (shōka) — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Kazakh: асқорыту (asqorytu) — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Kazakh: қорыту (qorytu) — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Khmer: ការរំលាយអាហារ (kaa rumliəy ʼaahaa) — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Khmer: ជីរណា (ciirĕəʼnaa) — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Korean: 소화 (sohwa) — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Northern Kurdish: heriskirin — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Northern Kurdish: heris — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Northern Kurdish: herisîn — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Northern Kurdish: hezm — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Kyrgyz: тамак сиңирүү (tamak siŋirüü) — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Kyrgyz: сиңирүү (siŋirüü) — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Lao: ການຍ່ອຽອາຫານ (kān nyǭi ʼā hān) — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Latin: digestio — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Latvian: gremošana — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Lithuanian: virškinimas — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Macedonian: варење (varenje) — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Macedonian: дигестија (digestija) — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Malay: pencernaan — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Malayalam: ദഹനം (dahanaṁ) — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Māori: whakangawheretanga — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Mirandese: digeston — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Mongolian: хоолны шингэц (xoolny šingec) — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Nahuatl: tlatemohuiliztli — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Norwegian Bokmål: fordøyelse — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Norwegian Nynorsk: fordøying — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Norwegian Nynorsk: melting — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Norwegian Nynorsk: matmelting — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Old English: melting — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Pashto: هضم (hazᶕm) — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Pashto: هاضمه (hāzemá) — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Pashto: هضمېدنه (hazmedǝ́na) — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Persian: هضم (hazm) — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Persian: گوارش (govâreš) — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Polish: trawienie — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Portuguese: digestão — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Romanian: digestie — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Russian: пищеваре́ние (piščevarénije) — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Russian: переварива́ние (perevarivánije) — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Sanskrit: जीर्ण (jīrṇa) — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Sanskrit: पाचन (pācana) — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Scottish Gaelic: meirbheadh — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Serbo-Croatian: варење — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Serbo-Croatian: varenje — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Slovak: trávenie — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Slovene: prebava — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Lower Sorbian: póžywanje — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Upper Sorbian: požiwanje — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Spanish: digestión — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Swedish: matspjälkning — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Swedish: matsmältning — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Tajik: ҳазм (hazm) — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Telugu: జీర్ణము (jīrṇamu) — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Thai: การย่อยอาหาร — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Turkish: sindirim — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Turkmen: siňdiriş — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Ukrainian: тра́влення (trávlennja) — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Urdu: ہضم (hazam) — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Urdu: ہاضمہ (hāzmā) — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Uzbek: hazm — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Vietnamese: hệ tiêu hóa — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Vietnamese: sự tiêu hóa — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Volapük: dicet — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Volapük: dicetam — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Welsh: traul — process in gastrointestinal tract
• Galician: dixestión — result of this process
• Greek: πέψη (pépsi) — result of this process
• Greek: χώνεψη (chónepsi) — result of this process
• Italian: digestione — result of this process
• Romanian: digestie — result of this process
• Scottish Gaelic: meirbheadh — result of this process
• Spanish: digestión — result of this process
• Bulgarian: храносмилане (hranosmilane) — ability to use this process
• Scottish Gaelic: meirbheadh — ability to use this process
• Spanish: digestión — ability to use this process
• Dutch: vertering — processing of decay in organic matter assisted by microorganisms
• Dutch: verteren — processing of decay in organic matter assisted by microorganisms
• Finnish: hajottaminen — processing of decay in organic matter assisted by microorganisms
• Galician: descomposición — processing of decay in organic matter assisted by microorganisms
• Greek: αποσύνθεση (aposýnthesi) — processing of decay in organic matter assisted by microorganisms
• Italian: decomposizione — processing of decay in organic matter assisted by microorganisms
• Italian: digestione — processing of decay in organic matter assisted by microorganisms
• Spanish: descomposición — processing of decay in organic matter assisted by microorganisms
• Spanish: putrefacción — processing of decay in organic matter assisted by microorganisms
• Dutch: verwerven — assimilation and understanding of ideas
• Dutch: verwerving — assimilation and understanding of ideas
• Dutch: assimilatie — assimilation and understanding of ideas
• Galician: asimilación — assimilation and understanding of ideas
• Georgian: ათვისება (atviseba) — assimilation and understanding of ideas
• Greek: αφομοίωση (afomoíosi) — assimilation and understanding of ideas
• Italian: assimilazione — assimilation and understanding of ideas
• Spanish: digestión — assimilation and understanding of ideas
• Spanish: asimilación — assimilation and understanding of ideas
• Telugu: హరాయించుకొను (harāyiñcukonu) — assimilation and understanding of ideas