name
Meaning 1
plural of Yaw
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
Standard Lemma guide
yaws
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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/ˈjɔːz/
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rhymes with -ɔːz
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homophone: yous (some non-rhotic accents, especially with the pour–poor merger)
noun
Meaning 2
A contagious tropical disease, caused by the spirochete Treponema pertenue, characterized by yellowish or reddish tumors, which often resemble berries.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: frambesia, parangi, pian
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
plural of yaw
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
verb
Meaning 4
third-person singular simple present indicative of yaw
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
an infectious tropical disease resembling syphilis in its early stages; marked by red skin eruptions and ulcerating lesions
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: frambesia, framboesia
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: infectious disease
History
Etymology
Uncertain. Attested since the 1670s, perhaps from an English creole (or other language) of the Caribbean.
Inflected forms.
Across languages
Translations
27 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Cebuano: puko — a contagious tropical disease caused by the spirochete Treponema pertenue
- Chinese Mandarin: 雅司病 (yǎsībìng) — a contagious tropical disease caused by the spirochete Treponema pertenue
- Chinese Mandarin: 雅司 (yǎsī) — a contagious tropical disease caused by the spirochete Treponema pertenue
- Finnish: frambesia — a contagious tropical disease caused by the spirochete Treponema pertenue
- French: pian — a contagious tropical disease caused by the spirochete Treponema pertenue
- German: Frambösie — a contagious tropical disease caused by the spirochete Treponema pertenue
- Hindi: गोंडी रोग (goṇḍī rog) — a contagious tropical disease caused by the spirochete Treponema pertenue
- Hindi: माड़िया रोग (māṛiyā rog) — a contagious tropical disease caused by the spirochete Treponema pertenue
- Hungarian: frambőzia — a contagious tropical disease caused by the spirochete Treponema pertenue
- Indonesian: puru — a contagious tropical disease caused by the spirochete Treponema pertenue
- Indonesian: patek — a contagious tropical disease caused by the spirochete Treponema pertenue
- Indonesian: frambusia — a contagious tropical disease caused by the spirochete Treponema pertenue
- Japanese: 森林梅毒 (shinrinbaidoku) — a contagious tropical disease caused by the spirochete Treponema pertenue
- Javanese: ꦥꦛꦺꦏ꧀ (pathék) — a contagious tropical disease caused by the spirochete Treponema pertenue
- Javanese: ꦥꦸꦫꦸ (puru) — a contagious tropical disease caused by the spirochete Treponema pertenue
- Malay: puru — a contagious tropical disease caused by the spirochete Treponema pertenue
- Nheengatu: piã — a contagious tropical disease caused by the spirochete Treponema pertenue
- Old Tupi: piã — a contagious tropical disease caused by the spirochete Treponema pertenue
- Pohnpeian: kens — a contagious tropical disease caused by the spirochete Treponema pertenue
- Polish: malinica — a contagious tropical disease caused by the spirochete Treponema pertenue
- Polish: jagodzica — a contagious tropical disease caused by the spirochete Treponema pertenue
- Polish: frambezja — a contagious tropical disease caused by the spirochete Treponema pertenue
- Portuguese: bouba — a contagious tropical disease caused by the spirochete Treponema pertenue
- Portuguese: piã — a contagious tropical disease caused by the spirochete Treponema pertenue
- Samoan: tona — a contagious tropical disease caused by the spirochete Treponema pertenue
- Swahili: buba — a contagious tropical disease caused by the spirochete Treponema pertenue
- Tahitian: tona — a contagious tropical disease caused by the spirochete Treponema pertenue