fever

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈfiːvə/
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• General-American: /ˈfivɚ/
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• US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• rhymes with -iːvə(ɹ)
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• CMU ARPABET: F IY1 V ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English fever, fevere, from Old English fefer, fefor (“fever”) and Old French fievre (“fever”), from Latin febris (“a fever”), from Proto-Indo-European *dhegwh- (“to burn”). Displaced native Old English hriþ (“fever”). Compare also Saterland Frisian Fiewer, German Fieber, Danish feber, Swedish feber.

244 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: koors — higher than normal body temperature
• Albanian: ethe — higher than normal body temperature
• Southern Altai: туму (tumu) — higher than normal body temperature
• Southern Altai: безгек (bezgek) — higher than normal body temperature
• Amharic: ትኩሳት (təkusat) — higher than normal body temperature
• Arabic: حُمَّة (ḥumma) — higher than normal body temperature
• Arabic: حُمَّى (ḥummā) — higher than normal body temperature
• Arabic: سخنية (suxuneyya) — higher than normal body temperature
• Arabic: حرارة (ḥarāra) — higher than normal body temperature
• Arabic: سخانة (sḵāna) — higher than normal body temperature
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܚܲܡܚܲܡܬܵܐ (ḥamḥamtā) — higher than normal body temperature
• Armenian: տենդ (tend) — higher than normal body temperature
• Armenian: տաքություն (takʻutʻyun) — higher than normal body temperature
• Armenian: ջերմություն (ǰermutʻyun) — higher than normal body temperature
• Armenian: կրակ (krak) — higher than normal body temperature
• Aromanian: heavrã — higher than normal body temperature
• Assamese: জ্বৰ (zor) — higher than normal body temperature
• Asturian: fiebre — higher than normal body temperature
• Azerbaijani: qızdırma — higher than normal body temperature
• Azerbaijani: isitmə — higher than normal body temperature
• Bashkir: биҙгәк (biźgək) — higher than normal body temperature
• Basque: sukar — higher than normal body temperature
• Belarusian: тэмперату́ра (tempjeratúra) — higher than normal body temperature
• Belarusian: гара́чка (haráčka) — higher than normal body temperature
• Belarusian: жар (žar) — higher than normal body temperature
• Belarusian: ліхама́нка (lixamánka) — higher than normal body temperature
• Bengali: জ্বর (jor) — higher than normal body temperature
• Central Bikol: kalentura — higher than normal body temperature
• Bulgarian: температу́ра (temperatúra) — higher than normal body temperature
• Bulgarian: тре́ска (tréska) — higher than normal body temperature
• Burmese: အဖျား (a.hpya:) — higher than normal body temperature
• Catalan: febre — higher than normal body temperature
• Cebuano: hilanat — higher than normal body temperature
• Cebuano: kalentura — higher than normal body temperature
• Chakma: 𑄎𑄧𑄢𑄴 (jar) — higher than normal body temperature
• Chamicuro: alijkwa'takochi — higher than normal body temperature
• Chinese Mandarin: 發熱 /发热 (fārè) — higher than normal body temperature
• Chinese Mandarin: 發燒 /发烧 (fāshāo) — higher than normal body temperature
• Chinese Mandarin: 熱病 /热病 (rèbìng) — higher than normal body temperature
• Maore Comorian: ɓuhuo — higher than normal body temperature
• Czech: horečka — higher than normal body temperature
• Czech: teplota — higher than normal body temperature
• Danish: feber — higher than normal body temperature
• Dutch: verhoging — higher than normal body temperature
• Dutch: koorts — higher than normal body temperature
• Egyptian: S-m-m-t-Q7 (šmmt) — higher than normal body temperature
• Esperanto: febro — higher than normal body temperature
• Estonian: palavik — higher than normal body temperature
• Faroese: fepur — higher than normal body temperature
• Finnish: kuume — higher than normal body temperature
• French: fièvre — higher than normal body temperature
• Friulian: fiere — higher than normal body temperature
• Galician: febre — higher than normal body temperature
• Galician: quentura — higher than normal body temperature
• Georgian: სიცხე (sicxe) — higher than normal body temperature
• Georgian: ციებ-ცხელება (cieb-cxeleba) — higher than normal body temperature
• Georgian: ტემპერატურა (ṭemṗeraṭura) — higher than normal body temperature
• German: Fieber — higher than normal body temperature
• German: Temperaturerhöhung — higher than normal body temperature
• Gothic: 𐌱𐍂𐌹𐌽𐌽𐍉 (brinnō) — higher than normal body temperature
• Gothic: 𐌷𐌴𐌹𐍄𐍉 (heitō) — higher than normal body temperature
• Greek: πυρετός (pyretós) — higher than normal body temperature
• Ancient Greek: πυρετός (puretós) — higher than normal body temperature
• Gujarati: તાવ (tāv) — higher than normal body temperature
• Hawaiian: wela — higher than normal body temperature
• Hawaiian: maʻi kuni — higher than normal body temperature
• Hawaiian: piwa — higher than normal body temperature
• Hebrew: קַדַּחַת (kadákhat) — higher than normal body temperature
• Hiligaynon: hilanat — higher than normal body temperature
• Hindi: बुख़ार (buxār) — higher than normal body temperature
• Hindi: ज्वर (jvar) — higher than normal body temperature
• Hungarian: láz — higher than normal body temperature
• Hungarian: hőemelkedés — higher than normal body temperature
• Icelandic: hiti — higher than normal body temperature
• Icelandic: hitasótt — higher than normal body temperature
• Ilocano: gurigor — higher than normal body temperature
• Indonesian: demam — higher than normal body temperature
• Ingrian: žaaru — higher than normal body temperature
• Ingrian: varitauti — higher than normal body temperature
• Interlingua: febre — higher than normal body temperature
• Iquito: ípanaca — higher than normal body temperature
• Irish: fiabhras — higher than normal body temperature
• Isnag: daxang — higher than normal body temperature
• Italian: febbre — higher than normal body temperature
• Japanese: 熱 (netsu) — higher than normal body temperature
• Japanese: 発熱 (hatsunetsu) — higher than normal body temperature
• Kapampangan: lagnat — higher than normal body temperature
• Kazakh: қызба (qyzba) — higher than normal body temperature
• Khmer: គ្រុន (krun) — higher than normal body temperature
• Korean: 열 (yeol) — higher than normal body temperature
• Korean: 열병 (yeolbyeong) — higher than normal body temperature
• Korean: 발열 (baryeol) — higher than normal body temperature
• Central Kurdish: تا (ta) — higher than normal body temperature
• Northern Kurdish: ta — higher than normal body temperature
• Northern Kurdish: tasar — higher than normal body temperature
• Northern Kurdish: tagerm — higher than normal body temperature
• Kyrgyz: калтыратма (kaltıratma) — higher than normal body temperature
• Kyrgyz: безгек (bezgek) — higher than normal body temperature
• Ladin: fiëura — higher than normal body temperature
• Lao: ໄຂ້ (khai) — higher than normal body temperature
• Latin: febris — higher than normal body temperature
• Latvian: drudzis — higher than normal body temperature
• Lithuanian: karščiavimas — higher than normal body temperature
• Lü: ᦺᦃᧉ (ẋay2) — higher than normal body temperature
• Macedonian: треска (treska) — higher than normal body temperature
• Malagasy: fanaviana — higher than normal body temperature
• Malay: demam — higher than normal body temperature
• Māori: kirikā — higher than normal body temperature
• Mauritian Creole: lafiev — higher than normal body temperature
• Classical Nahuatl: tletl — higher than normal body temperature
• Navajo: tahoniigááh — higher than normal body temperature
• Nepali: ज्वरो (jvaro) — higher than normal body temperature
• Norman: fièvre — higher than normal body temperature
• Norwegian Bokmål: feber — higher than normal body temperature
• Occitan: fèbre — higher than normal body temperature
• Old English: hriþ — higher than normal body temperature
• Pali: pariḷāha — higher than normal body temperature
• Pali: jararoga — higher than normal body temperature
• Pangasinan: puetang — higher than normal body temperature
• Pannonian Rusyn: горучка (horučka) — higher than normal body temperature
• Pashto: تبه (tᶕba) — higher than normal body temperature
• Iranian Persian: تَب (tab) — higher than normal body temperature
• Plautdietsch: Feeba — higher than normal body temperature
• Plautdietsch: Braunt — higher than normal body temperature
• Polish: gorączka — higher than normal body temperature
• Polish: temperatura — higher than normal body temperature
• Portuguese: febre — higher than normal body temperature
• Punjabi: ਤਾਪ (tāp) — higher than normal body temperature
• Punjabi: ਬੁਖ਼ਾਰ (buxār) — higher than normal body temperature
• Quechua: rupha — higher than normal body temperature
• Romagnol: favarsena — higher than normal body temperature
• Romanian: temperatură — higher than normal body temperature
• Romanian: febră — higher than normal body temperature
• Romansh: fevra — higher than normal body temperature
• Romansh: feavra — higher than normal body temperature
• Romansh: feivra — higher than normal body temperature
• Russian: температу́ра (temperatúra) — higher than normal body temperature
• Russian: лихора́дка (lixorádka) — higher than normal body temperature
• Russian: горя́чка (gorjáčka) — higher than normal body temperature
• Russian: жар (žar) — higher than normal body temperature
• Sanskrit: ज्वर (jvara) — higher than normal body temperature
• Sardinian: calentura — higher than normal body temperature
• Sardinian: callantura — higher than normal body temperature
• Scottish Gaelic: fiabhras — higher than normal body temperature
• Serbo-Croatian: гро̀зница — higher than normal body temperature
• Serbo-Croatian: gròznica — higher than normal body temperature
• Sicilian: frevi — higher than normal body temperature
• Slovak: horúčka — higher than normal body temperature
• Slovene: vročina — higher than normal body temperature
• Somali: qandho — higher than normal body temperature
• Lower Sorbian: zymnica — higher than normal body temperature
• Spanish: fiebre — higher than normal body temperature
• Spanish: calentura — higher than normal body temperature
• Sumerian: 𒌓 (/⁠ud⁠/) — higher than normal body temperature
• Swahili: homa — higher than normal body temperature
• Swahili: harara — higher than normal body temperature
• Swedish: feber — higher than normal body temperature
• Tagalog: lagnat — higher than normal body temperature
• Tajik: таб (tab) — higher than normal body temperature
• Tajik: табларза (tablarza) — higher than normal body temperature
• Tamil: காய்ச்சல் (kāyccal) — higher than normal body temperature
• Tamil: ஜுரம் (juram) — higher than normal body temperature
• Tashelhit: ⵜⴰⵡⵍⴰ (tawla) — higher than normal body temperature
• Tatar: бизгәк (bizgäk) — higher than normal body temperature
• Tausug: hinglaw — higher than normal body temperature
• Telugu: జ్వరము (jvaramu) — higher than normal body temperature
• Telugu: వేకి (vēki) — higher than normal body temperature
• Telugu: పులకరము (pulakaramu) — higher than normal body temperature
• Thai: ไข้ (kâi) — higher than normal body temperature
• Tigrinya: ምርባጽ (mərbaṣ) — higher than normal body temperature
• Turkish: ateş — higher than normal body temperature
• Turkish: humma — higher than normal body temperature
• Ottoman Turkish: حرارت (hararet) — higher than normal body temperature
• Turkmen: gyzzyrma — higher than normal body temperature
• Ukrainian: гаря́чка (harjáčka) — higher than normal body temperature
• Ukrainian: лихома́нка (lyxománka) — higher than normal body temperature
• Ukrainian: температу́ра (temperatúra) — higher than normal body temperature
• Ukrainian: жар (žar) — higher than normal body temperature
• Ukrainian: пропáсниця (propásnycja) — higher than normal body temperature
• Unami: kshëlexin — higher than normal body temperature
• Urdu: بُخار (buxār) — higher than normal body temperature
• Urdu: تاپ (tāp) — higher than normal body temperature
• Uyghur: قىزىتما (qizitma) — higher than normal body temperature
• Uzbek: isitma — higher than normal body temperature
• Uzbek: bezgak — higher than normal body temperature
• Venetan: fevra — higher than normal body temperature
• Venetan: féra — higher than normal body temperature
• Vietnamese: sốt — higher than normal body temperature
• Volapük: fif — higher than normal body temperature
• Walloon: five — higher than normal body temperature
• Welsh: twymyn — higher than normal body temperature
• Welsh: achre — higher than normal body temperature
• Yakan: lemmun — higher than normal body temperature
• Yiddish: פֿיבער (fiber) — higher than normal body temperature
• Afrikaans: koors — usually in combination: any of various diseases
• Armenian: տենդ (tend) — usually in combination: any of various diseases
• Bulgarian: тре́ска (tréska) — usually in combination: any of various diseases
• Chinese Mandarin: 熱病 /热病 (rèbìng) — usually in combination: any of various diseases
• Chinese Mandarin: 病 (bìng) — usually in combination: any of various diseases
• Finnish: -kuume (also -rokko, -nuha etc.) — usually in combination: any of various diseases
• Greek: πυρετός (pyretós) — usually in combination: any of various diseases
• Hebrew: קַדַּחַת (kadákhat) — usually in combination: any of various diseases
• Hungarian: láz — usually in combination: any of various diseases
• Navajo: tahoniigááh — usually in combination: any of various diseases
• Norwegian Bokmål: feber — usually in combination: any of various diseases
• Polish: gorączka — usually in combination: any of various diseases
• Russian: лихора́дка (lixorádka) — usually in combination: any of various diseases
• Russian: горя́чка (gorjáčka) — usually in combination: any of various diseases
• Scottish Gaelic: fiabhras — usually in combination: any of various diseases
• Sicilian: frevi — usually in combination: any of various diseases
• Sicilian: malatìa — usually in combination: any of various diseases
• Swahili: homa — usually in combination: any of various diseases
• Swedish: feber — usually in combination: any of various diseases
• Turkish: humma — usually in combination: any of various diseases
• Ottoman Turkish: حرارت (hararet) — usually in combination: any of various diseases
• Ukrainian: лихома́нка (lyxománka) — usually in combination: any of various diseases
• Ukrainian: пропа́сниця (propásnycja) — usually in combination: any of various diseases
• Afrikaans: koors — state of excitement (of a person or people)
• Arabic: حَرَارَة (ḥarāra) — state of excitement (of a person or people)
• Armenian: հուզմունք (huzmunkʻ) — state of excitement (of a person or people)
• Belarusian: ліхама́нка (lixamánka) — state of excitement (of a person or people)
• Chinese Mandarin: 狂熱 /狂热 (kuángrè) — state of excitement (of a person or people)
• Chinese Mandarin: 熱 /热 (rè) — state of excitement (of a person or people)
• Czech: horečka — state of excitement (of a person or people)
• Finnish: kuume — state of excitement (of a person or people)
• Finnish: huuma — state of excitement (of a person or people)
• Finnish: vimma — state of excitement (of a person or people)
• Greek: πυρετός (pyretós) — state of excitement (of a person or people)
• Hungarian: izgalom — state of excitement (of a person or people)
• Hungarian: izgatottság — state of excitement (of a person or people)
• Norwegian Bokmål: feber — state of excitement (of a person or people)
• Pannonian Rusyn: горучка (horučka) — state of excitement (of a person or people)
• Polish: gorączka — state of excitement (of a person or people)
• Polish: podniecenie — state of excitement (of a person or people)
• Russian: жар (žar) — state of excitement (of a person or people)
• Russian: лихора́дка (lixorádka) — state of excitement (of a person or people)
• Russian: горя́чка (gorjáčka) — state of excitement (of a person or people)
• Sicilian: liscìa — state of excitement (of a person or people)
• Sicilian: lisìa — state of excitement (of a person or people)
• Sicilian: scìḍḍicu — state of excitement (of a person or people)
• Sicilian: scipitirìa — state of excitement (of a person or people)
• Swahili: homa — state of excitement (of a person or people)
• Swedish: feber — state of excitement (of a person or people)
• Ukrainian: лихома́нка (lyxománka) — state of excitement (of a person or people)