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Webster 1913 Edition

Leper

Lep′er

(lĕp′ẽr)

,

Noun.

[OE.

lepre

leprosy, F.

lèpre

, L.

leprae

,

lepra

, fr. Gr.

λέπρα

, fr.

λεπρόσ

scaly, fr.

λέποσ

scale,

λέπειν

to peel.]

A person affected with leprosy.

Webster 1828 Edition

Leper

LEP'ER

,

Noun.

[L. lepra, leprosy. Gr.] A person affected with leprosy.

Definition 2024

leper

leper

English

Noun

leper ‎(plural lepers)

A person who has leprosy.
A person who is shunned; a pariah.

Translations

person who has leprosy

Bikol Central: kagitsion
Danish: spedalsk
Dutch: melaatse (nl) m, f, leproos (nl) m
Esperanto: leprulo
Finnish: spitaalinen (fi)
French: léprosé m, lépreux (fr)
Georgian: კეთროვანი ‎(ḳetrovani)
German: Aussätziger (de) m
Greek: λεπρός (el) m ‎(leprós)
Greenlandic: pupissoq
Hebrew: מצרע ‎(m"tzorah)
Hungarian: leprás (hu)
Japanese: 癩病患者 ‎(らいびょうかんじゃ, raibyōkanja)

Kurdish:
Sorani: گول
Persian: جذامی (fa)
Polish: trędowaty (pl) m
Portuguese: leproso (pt) m, leprosa f
Russian: прокажённый (ru) ‎(prokažónnyj)
Serbo-Croatian: gubavac (sh) m, gubavica (sh) f
Spanish: leproso (es) m, leprosa (es) f
Swedish: spetälsk (sv) c
Tagalog: ketongin
Turkish: cüzzamlı (tr)
Volapük: (♂♀) lepradan, (♂) hilepradan, (♀) jilepradan

person who is shunned; a pariah

Finnish: hyljeksitty henkilö (fi)

Polish: trędowaty (pl) m

References

“leper” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).
leper in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

repel

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