name
Meaning 1
plural of Glander
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, plural
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Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
glanders
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noun
Meaning 2
An infectious disease of horses, mules, and donkeys caused by the bacterium Burkholderia, one species of which may be transmitted to humans.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
Meaning 3
a destructive and contagious bacterial disease of horses that can be transmitted to humans
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: zoonosis, zoonotic disease
History
Etymology
From Middle English glandres, glaundres, from Old French glandres, plural of Old French glandre, from Latin glandula. Doublet of glandule.
Across languages
Translations
37 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: رُعَام (ruʕām) — disease
- Bulgarian: сап (sap) — disease
- Catalan: borm — disease
- Chinese Mandarin: 馬鼻疽 /马鼻疽 — disease
- Czech: vozhřivka — disease
- Finnish: räkätauti — disease
- French: morve — disease
- Galician: mormo — disease
- German: Rotz — disease
- Greek: μάλις (mális) — disease
- Hungarian: takonykór — disease
- Ingrian: räkätauti — disease
- Irish: boilg fola — disease
- Irish: fothach — disease
- Italian: morva — disease
- Latin: malleus — disease
- Norwegian Bokmål: snive — disease
- Old Galician-Portuguese: mormo — disease
- Persian: مشمشه (mešmeše) — disease
- Polish: nosacizna — disease
- Portuguese: mormo — disease
- Romanian: morvă — disease
- Russian: сап (sap) — disease
- Scots: mortercheyn — disease
- Sicilian: morvu — disease
- Slovak: sopľavka — disease
- Spanish: muermo — disease
- Swedish: rots — disease
- Swedish: snip — disease
- Turkish: sakağı — disease
- Turkish: mankafa — disease
- Turkish: ruam — disease
- Ottoman Turkish: صقاغی (sakağı) — disease
- Ottoman Turkish: مانقفا (mankafa) — disease
- Ottoman Turkish: رعام (ruʿam) — disease
- Ukrainian: сап (sap) — disease
- Welsh: ysgyfaint — disease