Definify.com

Webster 1828 Edition

Gonorrhea

GONORRHE'A

,

Noun.

[Gr. semen, and to flow.] A morbid discharge in venereal complaints.

Definition 2025

gonorrhea

gonorrhea

English

Alternative forms

gonorrhoea, gonorrhœa (British)

Noun

gonorrhea ‎(countable and uncountable, plural gonorrheas)

An STD caused by a species of bacteria (the gonococcus) that affects the mucous membrane of the genital and urinary tracts.

Synonyms

the clap

Related terms

Translations

STD

Arabic: سَيَلَان m ‎(sayalān)
Arikara: karahkotkaáhux
Assiniboine: cé otùyąbi
Basque: gonorrea (eu)
Belarusian: ганарэ́я f ‎(hanaréja)
Bulgarian: гоноре́я f ‎(gonoréja), три́пер m ‎(tríper)
Catalan: gonocòccia f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 淋病 (zh) ‎(lìnbìng, línbìng)
Czech: kapavka (cs) f
Danish: gonoré
Dhivehi: ކިހުނުވުން ‎(kihunuvun)
Dutch: gonorroe (nl)
Esperanto: gonoreo
Estonian: gonorröa
Faroese: dryppari m
Finnish: tippuri (fi)
French: gonorrhée (fr) f, blennorragie (fr) f
German: Gonorrhoe f
Greek: βλεννόρροια (el) f ‎(vlennórroia)
Hebrew: זִיבָה (he) f ‎(zivá)
Hindi: प्रमेह (hi) ‎(prameh), गोनोरिया ‎(gonoriyā)
Hungarian: kankó (hu), tripper (hu)
Indonesian: kencing nanah (id)
Italian: gonorrea (it) f
Japanese: 淋病 ‎(りんびょう, rinbyō)
Kazakh: соз ‎(soz)

Korean: 임질 ‎(imjil)
Latin: gonorrhoea f
Lithuanian: gonorėja
Low German: drüpper
Malay: gonorea
Maori: pakiwhara
Neapolitan: scarfatura f
Norman: gôrre f, vétheule honteuse f
Norwegian: gonoré
Persian: سوزاک (fa) ‎(suzâk), گنوره ‎(gonore)
Polish: rzeżączka (pl) f
Portuguese: gonorreia (pt) f
Russian: гоноре́я (ru) f ‎(gonoréja), пари́жский на́сморк m ‎(parížskij násmork) (slang, "Parisian cold"), три́ппер (ru) m ‎(trípper), три́пер (ru) m ‎(tríper)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: гонореја f

Roman: gonoreja (sh) f, kapavac (sh) m
Slovene: gonoreja (sl) f
Spanish: gonorrea (es) f
Swedish: gonorré (sv)
Tagalog: tulas, gonoreya
Tamil: கொணோறியா ‎(koṇōṟiyā)
Telugu: సెగవ్యాధి ‎(segavyādhi)
Turkish: belsoğukluğu (tr), gonore
Ukrainian: гоноре́я f ‎(honoréja)
Vietnamese: lậu mủ
Yurok: mechomee'

References

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary: Tenth Edition (1997)