dyspnea

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• Received-Pronunciation: /dɪspˈniː.ə/
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• General-American: /ˈdɪsp.ni.ə/
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• rhymes with -iːə
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• CMU ARPABET: D IH2 S P N IY1 AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Variant spelling of dyspnoea, a learned borrowing from Latin dyspnoea (“difficulty breathing”), from Ancient Greek δῠ́σπνοιᾰ (dŭ́spnoiă, “difficulty breathing, shortness of breath”), from δῠ́σπνοος (dŭ́spnoos, “short of breath, breathing with difficulty”, adjective) (also δῠ́σπνους (dŭ́spnous) by contraction) + -ῐᾰ (-ĭă, suffix forming abstract nouns). Δῠ́σπνοος (Dŭ́spnoos) is derived from δῠσ- (dŭs-, prefix meaning ‘bad; difficult, hard; unfortunate’) + πνέω (pnéō, “to blow; to breathe”) (from Proto-Indo-European *pnew- (“to breathe; to pant”)) + -ος (-os, suffix forming adjectives). The English word is analysable as dys- (prefix meaning ‘abnormal; difficult; disease’) + -pnea (suffix meaning ‘breathing, respiration’).

63 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: aamborstigheid — difficult or laboured respiration
• Azerbaijani: təngnəfəslik — difficult or laboured respiration
• Bulgarian: затруднено дишане (zatrudneno dišane) — difficult or laboured respiration
• Catalan: dispnea — difficult or laboured respiration
• Chinese Mandarin: 呼吸困難 /呼吸困难 (hūxī kùnnan) — difficult or laboured respiration
• Czech: dušnost — difficult or laboured respiration
• Danish: åndenød — difficult or laboured respiration
• Dutch: aamborstigheid — difficult or laboured respiration
• Dutch: ademnood — difficult or laboured respiration
• Finnish: dyspnea — difficult or laboured respiration
• Finnish: hengenahdistus — difficult or laboured respiration
• Finnish: hengitysvaikeus — difficult or laboured respiration
• French: dyspnée — difficult or laboured respiration
• French: essoufflement — difficult or laboured respiration
• Georgian: დისპნოე (disṗnoe) — difficult or laboured respiration
• German: Dyspnoe — difficult or laboured respiration
• German: Atembeschwerde — difficult or laboured respiration
• German: Atemnot — difficult or laboured respiration
• German: Kurzatmigkeit — difficult or laboured respiration
• Greek: δύσπνοια (dýspnoia) — difficult or laboured respiration
• Ancient Greek: δῠ́σπνοιᾰ (dŭ́spnoiă) — difficult or laboured respiration
• Hungarian: légszomj — difficult or laboured respiration
• Icelandic: mæði — difficult or laboured respiration
• Ido: anhelo — difficult or laboured respiration
• Indonesian: dispnèa — difficult or laboured respiration
• Interlingua: dyspnea — difficult or laboured respiration
• Italian: dispnea — difficult or laboured respiration
• Italian: fame d'aria — difficult or laboured respiration
• Italian: mancanza di fiato — difficult or laboured respiration
• Italian: mancanza di respiro — difficult or laboured respiration
• Japanese: 呼吸困難 (kokyū konnan) — difficult or laboured respiration
• Latvian: aizdusa — difficult or laboured respiration
• Luxembourgish: Otemnout — difficult or laboured respiration
• Macedonian: оте́жнато ди́шење (otéžnato díšenje) — difficult or laboured respiration
• Persian: تنگی نفس (tangi-e nafas) — difficult or laboured respiration
• Polish: duszność — difficult or laboured respiration
• Polish: jaducha — difficult or laboured respiration
• Polish: zadyszka — difficult or laboured respiration
• Portuguese: dispneia — difficult or laboured respiration
• Portuguese: abafação — difficult or laboured respiration
• Portuguese: falta de ar — difficult or laboured respiration
• Romanian: dispnee — difficult or laboured respiration
• Russian: диспно́э (dispnóe) — difficult or laboured respiration
• Russian: оды́шка (odýška) — difficult or laboured respiration
• Russian: затруднённое дыха́ние (zatrudnjónnoje dyxánije) — difficult or laboured respiration
• Serbo-Croatian: диспнеа — difficult or laboured respiration
• Serbo-Croatian: диспнѐја — difficult or laboured respiration
• Serbo-Croatian: кра̀так да̏х — difficult or laboured respiration
• Serbo-Croatian: за́духа — difficult or laboured respiration
• Serbo-Croatian: dispnea — difficult or laboured respiration
• Serbo-Croatian: dispnèja — difficult or laboured respiration
• Serbo-Croatian: kràtak dȁh — difficult or laboured respiration
• Serbo-Croatian: záduha — difficult or laboured respiration
• Spanish: disnea — difficult or laboured respiration
• Spanish: falta de aire — difficult or laboured respiration
• Spanish: falta de aliento — difficult or laboured respiration
• Swedish: dyspné — difficult or laboured respiration
• Swedish: andtäppa — difficult or laboured respiration
• Tagalog: paghihirap sa paghinga — difficult or laboured respiration
• Turkish: nefes darlığı — difficult or laboured respiration
• Ukrainian: зади́шка (zadýška) — difficult or laboured respiration
• Welsh: dyspnea — difficult or laboured respiration
• Xhosa: iphika — difficult or laboured respiration