paralysis

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Borrowed from Latin paralysis, from Ancient Greek παράλυσις (parálusis, “palsy”), from παραλύω (paralúō, “to disable on one side”). By surface analysis, para- + -lysis. Doublet of palsy.

106 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: paralizë — loss of muscle control
• Arabic: شَلَل (šalal) — loss of muscle control
• Arabic: فَالَج (fālaj) — loss of muscle control
• Armenian: կաթվածահարություն (katʻvacaharutʻyun) — loss of muscle control
• Asturian: paralís — loss of muscle control
• Asturian: parálisis — loss of muscle control
• Azerbaijani: iflic — loss of muscle control
• Belarusian: пара́ліч (parálič) — loss of muscle control
• Bhojpuri: लकवा (lakəvā) — loss of muscle control
• Bulgarian: пара́лиза (paráliza) — loss of muscle control
• Catalan: paràlisi — loss of muscle control
• Chinese Mandarin: 癱瘓 /瘫痪 (tānhuàn) — loss of muscle control
• Chinese Mandarin: 麻痹 (mábì) — loss of muscle control
• Crimean Tatar: nüzül — loss of muscle control
• Czech: ochrnutí — loss of muscle control
• Czech: paralýza — loss of muscle control
• Danish: paralyse — loss of muscle control
• Danish: lammelse — loss of muscle control
• Dutch: verlamming — loss of muscle control
• Esperanto: paralizo — loss of muscle control
• Estonian: halvatus — loss of muscle control
• Faroese: lamningur — loss of muscle control
• Faroese: lammilsi — loss of muscle control
• Finnish: halvaus — loss of muscle control
• French: paralysie — loss of muscle control
• Georgian: დამბლა (dambla) — loss of muscle control
• German: Paralyse — loss of muscle control
• German: Lähmung — loss of muscle control
• German: Muskellähmung — loss of muscle control
• Greek: παράλυση (parálysi) — loss of muscle control
• Ancient Greek: παράλυσις (parálusis) — loss of muscle control
• Hebrew: שיתוק \ שִׁתּוּק (shitúk) — loss of muscle control
• Hindi: लक़वा (laqvā) — loss of muscle control
• Hindi: पक्षाघात (pakṣāghāt) — loss of muscle control
• Hindi: अंगघात (aṅgghāt) — loss of muscle control
• Hindi: फ़ालिज (fālij) — loss of muscle control
• Hungarian: bénulás — loss of muscle control
• Hungarian: paralízis — loss of muscle control
• Hungarian: megbénulás — loss of muscle control
• Hungarian: lebénulás — loss of muscle control
• Hungarian: parézis — loss of muscle control
• Icelandic: lömun — loss of muscle control
• Italian: paralisi — loss of muscle control
• Japanese: まひ状態 (mahijōtei) — loss of muscle control
• Japanese: 麻痺 (mahi) — loss of muscle control
• Kazakh: сал (sal) — loss of muscle control
• Kazakh: паралич (paraliç) — loss of muscle control
• Korean: 마비 (mabi) — loss of muscle control
• Kyrgyz: шал (şal) — loss of muscle control
• Kyrgyz: паралич (paralic) — loss of muscle control
• Lao: ອໍາມະພາດ (ʼam ma phāt) — loss of muscle control
• Latin: paralysis — loss of muscle control
• Latvian: paralīze — loss of muscle control
• Lithuanian: paralyžius — loss of muscle control
• Macedonian: парали́за (paralíza) — loss of muscle control
• Malay: kelumpuhan — loss of muscle control
• Manx: neulheiltys — loss of muscle control
• Māori: mate rōrā — loss of muscle control
• Mongolian: саа (saa) — loss of muscle control
• Mongolian: ᠰᠠ (sa) — loss of muscle control
• Norwegian Bokmål: lammelse — loss of muscle control
• Occitan: paralisi — loss of muscle control
• Persian: فلج (falaj) — loss of muscle control
• Polish: paraliż — loss of muscle control
• Polish: porażenie — loss of muscle control
• Polish: bezwład — loss of muscle control
• Portuguese: paralisia — loss of muscle control
• Romanian: paralizie — loss of muscle control
• Russian: парали́ч (paralíč) — loss of muscle control
• Russian: парализо́ванность (paralizóvannostʹ) — loss of muscle control
• Serbo-Croatian: парали́за — loss of muscle control
• Serbo-Croatian: paralíza — loss of muscle control
• Slovak: ochrnutie — loss of muscle control
• Slovak: paralýza — loss of muscle control
• Slovene: paraliza — loss of muscle control
• Slovene: ohromelost — loss of muscle control
• Spanish: parálisis — loss of muscle control
• Swedish: paralys — loss of muscle control
• Swedish: förlamning — loss of muscle control
• Tajik: фалаҷ (falaj) — loss of muscle control
• Tamil: பக்கவாதம் (pakkavātam) — loss of muscle control
• Tamil: பாரிசவாதம் (pāricavātam) — loss of muscle control
• Telugu: పక్షవాతము (pakṣavātamu) — loss of muscle control
• Thai: อัมพาต (am-má-pâat) — loss of muscle control
• Turkish: felç — loss of muscle control
• Turkish: inme — loss of muscle control
• Ukrainian: пара́ліч (parálič) — loss of muscle control
• Urdu: لَقْوَہ (laqvā) — loss of muscle control
• Urdu: فالِج (fālij) — loss of muscle control
• Uzbek: paralich — loss of muscle control
• Uzbek: shol — loss of muscle control
• Uzbek: falaj — loss of muscle control
• Vietnamese: liệt — loss of muscle control
• Volapük: lem — loss of muscle control
• Yiddish: פּאַראַליטש (paralitsh) — loss of muscle control
• Finnish: lama — state of inability to act
• Finnish: lamaannus — state of inability to act
• Hungarian: bénultság — state of inability to act
• Hungarian: cselekvésképtelenség — state of inability to act
• Hungarian: tehetetlenség — state of inability to act
• Occitan: paralisi — state of inability to act
• Polish: paraliż — state of inability to act
• Polish: niemoc — state of inability to act
• Polish: bezwład — state of inability to act
• Portuguese: paralisia — state of inability to act
• Russian: парали́ч (paralíč) — state of inability to act