English swelling definition
Pronunciation
Noun
swelling (countable and uncountable, plural swellings)
- The state of being swollen.
a1420, The British Museum Additional MS, 12,056, “Wounds complicated by the Dislocation of a Bone”, in Robert von Fleischhacker, editor, Lanfranc's "Science of cirurgie."[1], London: K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co, translation of original by Lanfranc of Milan, published 1894, →ISBN, page 63:Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate, til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge; & þanne brynge togidere þe brynkis eiþer þe disiuncture after þe techynge þat schal be seid in þe chapitle of algebra.
- Anything swollen, especially any abnormally swollen part of the body.
- (figurative) A rising, as of passion or anger.
Derived terms
Translations
the state of being swollen
- Armenian: այտուցվածություն (hy) (aytucʿvacutʿyun)
- Bashkir: шеш (şiş), шешеү (şişiv)
- Bulgarian: издуване (izduvane)
- Finnish: ajetus, turvotus (fi), pöhötys (fi), paisuminen (fi)
- French: gonflement (fr) m
- Galician: inchazo m, inchazón (gl) f
- German: Anschwellen n, Anschwellung f
- Greek: πρήξιμο (el) n (príximo), διόγκωση (el) f (diógkosi), οίδημα (el) n (oídima)
- Hungarian: duzzadás (hu)
- Irish: at m
- Italian: gonfiore (it)
- Japanese: はれ (ja) (hare), ふくれ (fukure)
- Latin: tumor m
- Pashto: غومبه f (γumba), پړسوب (ps) m (parrsob)
- Polish: opuchlizna (pl) f, obrzęk (pl) m
- Portuguese: inchaço (pt) m, inchação (pt) f
- Romanian: umflare (ro) f
- Russian: опуха́ние (ru) n (opuxánije)
- Scottish Gaelic: atadh m
- Spanish: inflamación (es) f, hinchazón (es) f
- Swedish: svullnad (sv) c
- Tamil: தடிப்பு (ta) (taṭippu)
- Tarifit: tuffett f
- Telugu: వాచుట (te) (vācuṭa)
- Uyghur: گادازا (gadaza), دوماق (domaq), ئۇچقۇن (uchqun), ئۇششۇق (ushshuq), ئىششىق (ishshiq)
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anything swollen
- Armenian: ուռուցք (hy) (uṙucʿkʿ), այտուց (hy) (aytucʿ)
- Aromanian: umflãturã f
- Bashkir: шеш (şiş)
- Bulgarian: изпъкналост (bg) f (izpǎknalost), подутина (bg) f (podutina)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 腫脹／肿胀 (zh) (zhǒngzhàng)
- Czech: otok (cs) m
- Finnish: ajettuma, pöhö (fi), pöhöttymä, turvotus (fi)
- Galician: inchazo m, inchazón (gl) m
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: Schwellung (de) f
- Greek:
- Ancient: οἴδημα n (oídēma), οἶδος n (oîdos)
- Hungarian: duzzanat (hu)
- Irish: at m
- Italian: gonfiore (it) m, gnocco (it) m
- Japanese: はれもの (ja) (haremono)
- Khmer: ហើម (km) (haəm)
- Latin: tumor m, tumiditās f, tumentia f
- Maori: uruhumu, pauku, uruhua, uruumu
- Ottoman Turkish: شیش (şiş), یومرو (yumru)
- Pashto: غومبه f (γumba)
- Plautdietsch: Schwolst n
- Portuguese: inchaço (pt) m
- Romanian: umflătură (ro) f
- Russian: о́пухоль (ru) f (ópuxolʹ), припу́хлость (ru) f (pripúxlostʹ)
- Scottish Gaelic: atadh m
- Southern Altai: тижик (tižik)
- Spanish: hinchazón (es) f
- Swedish: svullnad (sv) c
- Tarifit: tuffett f
- Telugu: వాపు (te) (vāpu)
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Tibetan: སྐྲང་ཀོ (skrang ko)
- Tocharian B: yweru
- Welsh: chwydd (cy) m
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Verb
swelling
- present participle and gerund of swell
See also
Anagrams
Middle English swelling definition
Noun
swelling
- Alternative form of swellynge