Standard Lemma guide

MUMPS

name · noun · verb · 6 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • /mʌmps/
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  • rhymes with -ʌmps
  • CMU ARPABET: M AH1 M P S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

name

Meaning 1

Acronym of Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming System, a programming language (and database) developed originally to be specifically for hierarchically arranged records, such as medical records.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

A contagious disease caused by the Mumps virus of the genus Rubulavirus, mostly occurring in childhood, which causes swelling of glands in the face and neck.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: plural, plural-only

Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

A gloomy or sullen silence.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: dated, plural, plural-only

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

plural of mump

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: form-of, plural

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

verb

Meaning 5

third-person singular simple present indicative of mump

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

an acute contagious viral disease characterized by fever and by swelling of the parotid glands

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: epidemic parotitis

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: infectious disease

History

Etymology

Circa 1600, from mump (“grimace”, noun), compare mump (verb), most likely referring to the painful difficulty in swallowing.

Across languages

Translations

75 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: pampoentjies — contagious disease
  • Albanian: shyta — contagious disease
  • Arabic: نُكَاف (nukāf) — contagious disease
  • Asturian: parotidis — contagious disease
  • Basque: hazizurri — contagious disease
  • Central Bikol: bayuko — contagious disease
  • Bulgarian: заушка (zauška) — contagious disease
  • Cebuano: bayuok — contagious disease
  • Cherokee: ᎠᏓᏴᏦᏗᏍᎩ (adayvtsodisgi) — contagious disease
  • Chinese Mandarin: 腮腺炎 (sāixiànyán) — contagious disease
  • Czech: příušnice — contagious disease
  • Dutch: bof — contagious disease
  • Esperanto: mumpso — contagious disease
  • Estonian: mumps — contagious disease
  • Finnish: sikotauti — contagious disease
  • French: oreillons — contagious disease
  • Georgian: ყბაყურა (q̇baq̇ura) — contagious disease
  • German: Mumps — contagious disease
  • German: Ziegenpeter — contagious disease
  • German: Mumpf — contagious disease
  • Greek: παρωτίτιδα (parotítida) — contagious disease
  • Greek: μαγουλάδες (magouládes) — contagious disease
  • Hausa: hàngum — contagious disease
  • Hebrew: חַזֶּרֶת (khazéret) — contagious disease
  • Hungarian: mumpsz — contagious disease
  • Hunsrik: Kaschumbe — contagious disease
  • Ido: oreliono — contagious disease
  • Indonesian: beguk — contagious disease
  • Italian: parotite epidemica — contagious disease
  • Italian: orecchioni — contagious disease
  • Japanese: 流行性耳下腺炎 (ryūkōsei jikasen'en) — contagious disease
  • Japanese: おたふく 風邪 (otafuku kaze) — contagious disease
  • Kapampangan: bayki — contagious disease
  • Kapampangan: buklaw — contagious disease
  • Khmer: ស្រឡទែន (srɑɑlɑɑtɛɛn) — contagious disease
  • Khmer: សាលាទែន (saaliətɛɛn) — contagious disease
  • Korean: 볼거리 (bolgeori) — contagious disease
  • Northern Kurdish: binguhik — contagious disease
  • Lithuanian: kiaulytė — contagious disease
  • Macedonian: за́ушки (záuški) — contagious disease
  • Malayalam: മുണ്ടിനീര് (muṇṭinīrŭ) — contagious disease
  • Māori: mate pupuhi repe — contagious disease
  • Māori: repe hūware pupuhi — contagious disease
  • Navajo: ayaayááh niichaad — contagious disease
  • Neapolitan: recchiune — contagious disease
  • Norwegian: kusma — contagious disease
  • Persian: اوریون (oreyon) — contagious disease
  • Plautdietsch: Mumps — contagious disease
  • Polish: świnka — contagious disease
  • Portuguese: parotidite epidémica — contagious disease
  • Portuguese: papeira — contagious disease
  • Portuguese: caxumba — contagious disease
  • Romanian: oreion — contagious disease
  • Russian: зау́шница (zaúšnica) — contagious disease
  • Russian: сви́нка (svínka) — contagious disease
  • Scottish Gaelic: a' phluc — contagious disease
  • Scottish Gaelic: a' phloic — contagious disease
  • Serbo-Croatian: заушке — contagious disease
  • Serbo-Croatian: zauške — contagious disease
  • Slovak: mumps — contagious disease
  • Spanish: paperas — contagious disease
  • Spanish: parotiditis — contagious disease
  • Sundanese: gondongeun — contagious disease
  • Swedish: parotit — contagious disease
  • Swedish: påssjuka — contagious disease
  • Tagalog: beke — contagious disease
  • Tagalog: buklaw — contagious disease
  • Turkish: kabakulak — contagious disease
  • Ukrainian: сви́нка (svýnka) — contagious disease
  • Ukrainian: заву́шниця (zavúšnycja) — contagious disease
  • Vietnamese: quai bị — contagious disease
  • Vietnamese: chàm bàm — contagious disease
  • Waray-Waray: bikag — contagious disease
  • Welsh: clwy'r pennau — contagious disease
  • Welsh: twymyn doben — contagious disease
Real reading context

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