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From Middle English ille (“evil; wicked”), from Old Norse íllr (adjective), ílla (adverb), ílt (noun), from Proto-Germanic *ilhilaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h1elḱ- (whence Latin ulcus (“sore”), Ancient Greek ἕλκος (hélkos, “wound, ulcer”), Sanskrit अर्शस् (árśas, “hemorrhoids”)). Cognates Cognate with Scots and Yola ill, Danish ilde (“bad”), Faroese, Icelandic illur (“bad, ill, wicked”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk ille (“bad”), Swedish illa (“badly; poorly”).

From French Ill.

259 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Acehnese: saket — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Afrikaans: siek — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Aghwan: 𐔱𐔰𐕅 (bal') — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Aklanon: masakit — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Albanian: i sëmurë — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Gheg Albanian: smu — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Amharic: ሕሙም (ḥəmum) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Arabic: مَرِيض (marīḍ) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Chadian Arabic: مرضان (mardān) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Arabic: عيان (ʕayyān) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Arabic: مريض (mrīd) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Armenian: հիվանդ (hivand) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Old Armenian: հիւանդ (hiwand) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Old Armenian: խօթ (xōtʻ) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Aromanian: lãndzit — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Aromanian: lãntsid — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Aromanian: lãndzidzãt — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Aromanian: niputut — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Aromanian: shuplicat — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Aromanian: hivrit — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Asturian: enfermu — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Azerbaijani: xəstə — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Azerbaijani: naxoş — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Bashkir: ауырыу (awırıw) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Bashkir: сирле (sirle) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Bashkir: сырхау (sırxaw) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Basque: gaixo — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Belarusian: хво́ры (xvóry) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Bengali: অসুস্থ (ośustho) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Bislama: siki — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Bulgarian: бо́лен (bólen) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Burmese: နာ (na) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Burmese: နေထိုင်မကောင်း (nehtuingma.kaung:) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Catalan: malalt — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Chickasaw: abika — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Chinese Cantonese: 病 (beng6) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Chinese: бин (bin) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Chinese: бемар (biəmar) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Chinese Mandarin: 病 (bìng) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Choctaw: abeka — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Chukchi: тъытԓьэн (tʺytḷʹėn) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Czech: nemocný — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Danish: syg — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Dutch: ziek — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Dutch: zieke — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Dutch: krank — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Elfdalian: klien — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Elfdalian: siuok — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Erzya: ормав (ormav) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Esperanto: malsana — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Estonian: haige — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Faroese: sjúkur — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Finnish: sairas — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• French: malade — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• West-Frisian: siik — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Galician: enfermo — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Galician: doente — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Georgian: ავადმყოფი (avadmq̇opi) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Georgian: სნეული (sneuli) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• German: krank — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• German: siech — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Gothic: 𐌿𐌽𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌻𐍃 (unhails) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Greek: άρρωστος (árrostos) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Ancient Greek: ἄρρωστος (árrhōstos) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Greenlandic: napparsimasoq — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Haitian Creole: malad — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Hawaiian: maʻi — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Hebrew: חוֹלֶה (kholé) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Hindi: अस्वस्थ (asvasth) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Hindi: बीमार (bīmār) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Hindi: रोगी (rogī) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• White Hmong: mob — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Hungarian: beteg — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Icelandic: veikur — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Icelandic: lasinn — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Icelandic: sjúkur — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Ido: malada — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Indonesian: sakit — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Ingrian: kippiä — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Interlingua: malade — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Iranun: masakit — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Irish: tinn — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Italian: malato — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Japanese: 病気 (byōki) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Javanese: lara — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Old Javanese: lara — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Kazakh: ауру (auru) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Kazakh: науқас (nauqas) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Kazakh: сырқат (syrqat) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Kazakh: дімкәс (dımkäs) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Khmer: ឈឺ (chɨɨ) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Khmer: ថ្កាត់ (thkat) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Korean: 병들다 (byeongdeulda) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Korean: 앓다 (alta) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Central Kurdish: نەخۆش (nexoş) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Northern Kurdish: nexweş — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Kyrgyz: оору (ooru) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Kyrgyz: оорулуу (ooruluu) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Kyrgyz: ноокас (nookas) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Kyrgyz: сыркоолуу (sırkooluu) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Ladino: hazino — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Ladino: hazinu (Monastir) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Ladino: hazina — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Ladino: malo (Izmir) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Lao: ເຈັບ (chep) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Lao: ຕົກອັບ (tok ʼap) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Lao: ບໍ່ສະບາຍ (bǭ sa bāi) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Latgalian: navasals — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Latin: īnfirmus — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Latin: aeger — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Latin: aegrōtus — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Latvian: slims — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Latvian: sasirdzis — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Laz: ზაბუნი (zabuni) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Lithuanian: sergantis — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Livonian: rujā — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Lushootseed: ʔəsʔi — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Luxembourgish: krank — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Macedonian: болен (bolen) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Malay: sakit — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Malay: gering — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Maltese: marid — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Mansaka: masakit — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Māori: mahaki — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Māori: maki — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Māori: wheori — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Māori: tarutaruhea — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Māori: manauhea — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Māori: māuiui — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Maranao: kasakit — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Mauritian Creole: malad — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Mingrelian: ლეხიანი (lexiani) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Moksha: сяряди (särädi) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Mongolian: өвчтэй (övčtej) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Mongolian: ᠥᠪᠡᠳᠴᠢᠲᠡᠢ (öbedčitei) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Norman: malade — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Norwegian Bokmål: syk — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Norwegian Bokmål: sjuk — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Norwegian Nynorsk: sjuk — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Nǀuu: ʘʻuiʻiki — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Occitan: malaut — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Odia: ବେମାରିଆ (bemāriā) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Ojibwe: aakozi — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Church Slavic: больнъ (bolĭnŭ) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Old English: seoc — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Old English: ādliġ — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Old Saxon: siok — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Pashto: بيمار (bimār) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Pashto: مريض (mariz) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Persian: بیمار (bimâr) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Persian: مریض (mariz) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Pijin: siki — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Plautdietsch: krank — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Polish: chory — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Portuguese: doente — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Romagnol: mêl — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Romani: nasvalo — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Romanian: bolnav — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Romanian: abătut — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Romansh: malsaun — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Russian: больно́й (bolʹnój) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Russian: хво́рый (xvóryj) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Northern Sami: buohcci — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Northern Sami: buozas — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Samoan: maʻi — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Sango: kobêla — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Sanskrit: अस्वस्थ (asvastha) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Sanskrit: रुग्ण (rugṇa) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Scottish Gaelic: tinn — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Serbo-Croatian: бо̏лестан — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Serbo-Croatian: bȍlestan — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Sindhi: بیمار — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Sinhalese: අසනීප (asanīpa) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Slovak: chorý — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Slovak: nemocný — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Slovene: bolan — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Somali: bukaan — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Somali: xanuun — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Lower Sorbian: chóry — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Upper Sorbian: chory — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Spanish: enfermo — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Spanish: mareado — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Swahili: -gonjwa — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Swedish: sjuk — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Tagalog: may sakit — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Tahitian: maʻi — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Tajik: бемор (bemor) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Tajik: мариз (mariz) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Tajik: касал (kasal) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Talysh: noxəş — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Talysh: مریض (mariz) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Tat: naxuş — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Tat: bimar — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Tatar: авыру (awıru) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Tetum: moras — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Thai: ป่วย (bpùai) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Thai: ไม่สบาย (mâi-sà-baai) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Tibetan: ན (na) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Tibetan: ནན་ཏེ (nan te) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Tigrinya: ሕሙም (ḥəmum) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Tocharian B: tekiññe — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Tok Pisin: sik — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Tongan: mahaki — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Tongan: puke — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Turkish: hasta — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Turkish: sayrı — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Ottoman Turkish: خسته — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Turkmen: syrkaw — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Turkmen: hassa — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Turkmen: kesel — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Turkmen: näsag — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Ukrainian: хво́рий (xvóryj) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Unami: palsi — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Urdu: بیمار (bīmār) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Urdu: مریض (marīz) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Urdu: علیل (alīl) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Uyghur: كېسەل (kësel) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Uzbek: kasal — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Uzbek: xasta — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Uzbek: bemor — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Uzbek: nosogʻ — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Vietnamese: bệnh — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Vietnamese: ốm — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Volapük: malädik — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Welsh: sâl — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Yiddish: קראַנק (krank) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Yiddish: קרענקלעך (krenklekh) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Yiddish: געלעגן צו בעט (gelegn tsu bet) — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Zhuang: bingh — in poor health, suffering from a disease
• Danish: kvalm — having an urge to vomit
• Dutch: misselijk — having an urge to vomit
• French: écœuré — having an urge to vomit
• French: écœurée — having an urge to vomit
• German: übel — having an urge to vomit
• German: schlecht — having an urge to vomit
• Indonesian: mual — having an urge to vomit
• Indonesian: jijik — having an urge to vomit
• Irish: adhascaideach — having an urge to vomit
• Norwegian: kvalm — having an urge to vomit
• Spanish: mal — having an urge to vomit
• Spanish: mareado — having an urge to vomit
• Swedish: illamående — having an urge to vomit
• French: s — in hip-hop slang: sublime
• Bulgarian: зле (zle) — not well
• French: mal — not well
• Hungarian: rosszul — not well
• Macedonian: болно (bolno) — not well
• Polish: źle — not well
• Spanish: mal — not well
• Bulgarian: беда (beda) — a problem
• Bulgarian: трудност (trudnost) — a problem
• Bulgarian: мъчнотия (mǎčnotija) — a problem
• German: Übel — a problem
• Macedonian: зло (zlo) — a problem
• Polish: problem — a problem
• Bulgarian: болест (bolest) — a physical ailment; an illness
• Volapük: maläd — a physical ailment; an illness
• Bulgarian: щета (šteta) — something damaging
• Polish: krzywda — something damaging