lumbago

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• Received-Pronunciation: /lʌmˈbeɪɡəʊ/
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• General-American: /ˌlʌmˈbeɪˌɡoʊ/
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• General-American: /ˌləm-/
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• rhymes with -eɪɡəʊ
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• CMU ARPABET: L AH0 M B EY1 G OW2 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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The noun is borrowed from Late Latin lumbāgō (“backache of the lumbar region”), from Late Latin lumbus (“lumbar”), Latin lumbus (“loin”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lendh- (“loins”)) + -āgō (suffix forming nouns describing objects, animals, and plants). The verb is derived from the noun.

68 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: أَلَمْ قَطَنِيّ (ʔalam qaṭaniyy) — backache of the lumbar region
• Arabic: أَلَمْ اَلْقَطَنْ (ʔalam al-qaṭan) — backache of the lumbar region
• Basque: lunbagoa — backache of the lumbar region
• Basque: lunbalgia — backache of the lumbar region
• Bulgarian: лумбаго (lumbago) — backache of the lumbar region
• Bulgarian: болка в кръста (bolka v krǎsta) — backache of the lumbar region
• Catalan: lumbago — backache of the lumbar region
• Catalan: dolor lumbar — backache of the lumbar region
• Catalan: lumbàlgia — backache of the lumbar region
• Chinese Mandarin: 下背痛 (xiàbèitòng) — backache of the lumbar region
• Chinese Mandarin: 腰痛 (yāotòng) — backache of the lumbar region
• Czech: bederní ústřel — backache of the lumbar region
• Czech: houser — backache of the lumbar region
• Dutch: lumbago — backache of the lumbar region
• Dutch: spit — backache of the lumbar region
• Dutch: verschot — backache of the lumbar region
• Esperanto: lumbalgio — backache of the lumbar region
• Finnish: noidannuoli — backache of the lumbar region
• French: lumbago — backache of the lumbar region
• French: lombalgie — backache of the lumbar region
• French: tour de reins — backache of the lumbar region
• Georgian: ჭვალი (č̣vali) — backache of the lumbar region
• German: Lumbago — backache of the lumbar region
• German: Hexenschuss — backache of the lumbar region
• German: Lumbalgie — backache of the lumbar region
• Greek: οσφυαλγία (osfyalgía) — backache of the lumbar region
• Ancient Greek: ὀσφυαλγία (osphualgía) — backache of the lumbar region
• Hebrew: מתנת — backache of the lumbar region
• Hungarian: lumbágó — backache of the lumbar region
• Hungarian: derékzsába — backache of the lumbar region
• Icelandic: þursabit — backache of the lumbar region
• Icelandic: lendagigt — backache of the lumbar region
• Ido: lumbago — backache of the lumbar region
• Indonesian: nyeri punggung — backache of the lumbar region
• Irish: lumbágó — backache of the lumbar region
• Italian: lombaggine — backache of the lumbar region
• Italian: lombalgia — backache of the lumbar region
• Italian: lumbalgia — backache of the lumbar region
• Japanese: 腰痛 (yōtsū) — backache of the lumbar region
• Korean: 요통 (yotong) — backache of the lumbar region
• Kyrgyz: люмбаго (lyumbago) — backache of the lumbar region
• Macedonian: лумбаго (lumbago) — backache of the lumbar region
• Norwegian Bokmål: lumbago — backache of the lumbar region
• Polish: lumbago — backache of the lumbar region
• Polish: postrzał — backache of the lumbar region
• Polish: heksenszus — backache of the lumbar region
• Portuguese: lumbago — backache of the lumbar region
• Portuguese: lombalgia — backache of the lumbar region
• Romanian: lumbago — backache of the lumbar region
• Romanian: dorsalgia joasă — backache of the lumbar region
• Romanian: durerea lombară — backache of the lumbar region
• Russian: люмба́го (ljumbágo) — backache of the lumbar region
• Serbo-Croatian: крижо̀боља — backache of the lumbar region
• Serbo-Croatian: križòbolja — backache of the lumbar region
• Slovene: lumbago — backache of the lumbar region
• Slovene: bolečina v križu — backache of the lumbar region
• Spanish: lumbago — backache of the lumbar region
• Spanish: lumbalgia — backache of the lumbar region
• Swedish: ryggskott — backache of the lumbar region
• Tajik: люмбаго (lyumbago) — backache of the lumbar region
• Tamil: இடுப்புவலி (iṭuppuvali) — backache of the lumbar region
• Thai: ปวดหลังส่วนล่าง — backache of the lumbar region
• Ukrainian: люмбаго (ljumbaho) — backache of the lumbar region
• Uzbek: belangi — backache of the lumbar region
• Vietnamese: đau lưng dưới — backache of the lumbar region
• Vietnamese: y chứng đau lưng — backache of the lumbar region
• Walloon: clipe — backache of the lumbar region
• Spanish: dar lumbago a alguien — to affect (someone) with lumbago