sleep paralysis

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33 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: شَلَل النَّوْم (šalal an-nawm) — inability to move or speak while falling asleep or upon awakening
• Arabic: جَاثُوم (jāṯūm) — inability to move or speak while falling asleep or upon awakening
• Arabic: ياثوم (yāṯūm) — inability to move or speak while falling asleep or upon awakening
• Arabic: جاثوم (jāṯūm) — inability to move or speak while falling asleep or upon awakening
• Azerbaijani: qarabasma — inability to move or speak while falling asleep or upon awakening
• Azerbaijani: yuxu iflici — inability to move or speak while falling asleep or upon awakening
• Catalan: paràlisi del son — inability to move or speak while falling asleep or upon awakening
• Chinese Mandarin: 睡眠癱瘓症 /睡眠瘫痪症 (shuìmián tānhuànzhèng) — inability to move or speak while falling asleep or upon awakening
• Chinese Mandarin: 鬼壓床 /鬼压床 (guǐyāchuáng) — inability to move or speak while falling asleep or upon awakening
• Chinese Mandarin: 鬼壓身 /鬼压身 (guǐyāshēn) — inability to move or speak while falling asleep or upon awakening
• Finnish: unihalvaus — inability to move or speak while falling asleep or upon awakening
• French: paralysie du sommeil — inability to move or speak while falling asleep or upon awakening
• German: Schlafparalyse — inability to move or speak while falling asleep or upon awakening
• German: Schlafstarre — inability to move or speak while falling asleep or upon awakening
• German: Schlaflähmung — inability to move or speak while falling asleep or upon awakening
• Greek: παράλυση ύπνου (parálysi ýpnou) — inability to move or speak while falling asleep or upon awakening
• Gujarati: ઓથાર (othār) — inability to move or speak while falling asleep or upon awakening
• Icelandic: svefnlömun — inability to move or speak while falling asleep or upon awakening
• Indonesian: kelumpuhan tidur — inability to move or speak while falling asleep or upon awakening
• Indonesian: ketindihan — inability to move or speak while falling asleep or upon awakening
• Italian: paralisi nel sonno — inability to move or speak while falling asleep or upon awakening
• Japanese: 金縛り (kanashibari) — inability to move or speak while falling asleep or upon awakening
• Korean: 가위눌림 (gawinullim) — inability to move or speak while falling asleep or upon awakening
• Latin: paralysis somnī — inability to move or speak while falling asleep or upon awakening
• Portuguese: paralisia do sono — inability to move or speak while falling asleep or upon awakening
• Romanian: paralizie în timpul somnului — inability to move or speak while falling asleep or upon awakening
• Russian: со́нный парали́ч (sónnyj paralíč) — inability to move or speak while falling asleep or upon awakening
• Spanish: parálisis del sueño — inability to move or speak while falling asleep or upon awakening
• Swedish: sömnparalys — inability to move or speak while falling asleep or upon awakening
• Swedish: sömnförlamning — inability to move or speak while falling asleep or upon awakening
• Thai: ผีอํา (pǐi-am) — inability to move or speak while falling asleep or upon awakening
• Ukrainian: со́нний пара́ліч (sónnyj parálič) — inability to move or speak while falling asleep or upon awakening
• Vietnamese: bóng đè — inability to move or speak while falling asleep or upon awakening