diabetes

See also: Diabetes and diabètes

English

Etymology

From Latin diabētēs (“siphon”), from Ancient Greek διαβήτης (diabḗtēs), from Ancient Greek διαβαίνω (diabaínō, “to pass through”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌdaɪəˈbiːtiːz/, /ˌdaɪəˈbiːtɪs/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌdaɪəˈbitiz/, [ˌdaɪəˈbiɾiz], /ˌdaɪəˈbitɪs/, [ˌdaɪəˈbiɾɪs]
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˌdɑɪəˈbiːtiːz/

  • Audio (Queensland):

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• (Philippines) IPA^(key): /dajaˈbitis/

Noun

diabetes (uncountable)

2. (pathology) Diabetes mellitus; any of a group of metabolic diseases whereby a person (or other animal) has high blood sugar due to an inability to produce, or inability to metabolize, sufficient quantities of the hormone insulin. [from 19th c.]
   • 2020 September 7, Ian Sample, The Guardian:

     In the UK, one in 10 people over 40 live with type 2 diabetes, while one in four have high blood pressure, a condition described as a “silent killer” because it increases the risk of heart attack and stroke but rarely causes symptoms beforehand.

3. (slang, humorous) Any food or beverage with a high amount of sugar.
   • 2017 August 6, “The craziest things you have to eat in New York City”, in Silver Stories‎^[1]:

     This milkshake is pure diabetes, as my friends and I agreed on as a joke when we first came to Black Tap.

4. Diabetes insipidus; any condition characterized by excessive or incontinent urine, now specifically as caused by impaired production of, or response to, the antidiuretic hormone vasopressin. [from 15th c.]
   • 1649, Nicholas Culpeper, The Physical Directory:

     A Sheeps or Goats bladder being burnt, and the ashes given inwardly, helps the Diabetes, or continuall pissing.

   • 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:

     The lady laboured under a Diabetes, in consequence of having used the waters injudiciously for another complaint; and, that she might not be an impediment to the carriage, by ordering it to halt,as often as she should have occasion to disembogue, she had provided herself with a leathern contrivance […] .

Synonyms

• (group of metabolic diseases): diabetes mellitus, DM, diabeetus (humorous)

Hyponyms

• (group of metabolic diseases): IDDM, juvenile diabetes, NIDDM

Derived terms

• adult-onset diabetes
• antidiabetes
• bronze diabetes
• diabesity
• diabetes insipidus
• diabetes mellitus
• diabetology
• diabulimia
• gestational diabetes
• I have diabetes
• nondiabetes
• prediabetes
• sugar diabetes
• telediabetes
• type 1 diabetes
• type 2 diabetes
• type 3 diabetes

 

Related terms

• diabetic

Translations

A group of metabolic diseases

• Arabic: سُكَّرِيّ m (sukkariyy), دِيَابِيطَا m (diyābīṭā) (Classical Arabic)

  Gulf Arabic: سكري m (sukkari)

  Hijazi Arabic: سُكَّر m (sukkar), السُّكَّر m (as-sukkar)

  South Levantine Arabic: سُكَّرِيّ (súkkari)

• Armenian: դիաբետ (hy) (diabet), շաքարախտ (hy) (šakʻaraxt)
• Asturian: diabetes f
• Belarusian: дыябе́т m (dyjabjét)
• Bulgarian: диабе́т m (diabét)
• Catalan: diabetis (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 糖尿病 (tong⁴ niu⁶ beng⁶)

  Mandarin: 糖尿病 (zh) (tángniàobìng)

• Cornish: kleves melys m
• Czech: cukrovka (cs) f
• Danish: sukkersyge (da), diabetes (da)
• Dutch: diabetes (nl) m, suikerziekte (nl)
• Esperanto: diabeto
• Estonian: suhkurtõbi
• Finnish: diabetes (fi), sokeritauti (fi)
• French: diabète (fr) m
• Galician: diabete (gl) f
• Georgian: დიაბეტი (diabeṭi)
• German: Diabetes (de) m, Zuckerkrankheit f, (colloquial) Zucker (de) m
• Greek: διαβήτης (el) m (diavítis), ζάχαρο (el) n (zácharo)

  Ancient: δίψακος m (dípsakos)

• Gujarati: મધુપ્રમેહ (madhuprameh)
• Hausa: ciwon sukari (ha)
• Hebrew: סוכרת / סֻכֶּרֶת (he) f (sukéret)
• Hindi: मधुमेह (hi) (madhumeh)
• Hungarian: cukorbetegség (hu), diabétesz (hu), cukorbaj (hu)
• Icelandic: sykursýki f
• Indonesian: kencing manis (id), diabetes (id)
• Italian: diabete (it) m
• Japanese: 糖尿病 (ja) (とうにょうびょう, tōnyōbyō)
• Kannada: ಡಯಾಬಿಟಿಸ್ (ḍayābiṭis), ಸಕ್ಕರೆ ಕಾಯಲೆ (kn) (sakkare kāyale), ಸಕ್ಕರೆ ಕಾಯಿಲೆ (sakkare kāyile), ಮಧುಮೇಹ (kn) (madhumēha), ಸಿಹಿಮೂತ್ರ ರೋಗ (kn) (sihimūtra rōga), ಸಕ್ಕರೆ ರೋಗ (kn) (sakkare rōga)
• Kazakh: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 당뇨병(糖尿病) (ko) (dangnyobyeong)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: şekirmiz f, şekre (ku) f

• Lao: ເບົາຫວານ (bao wān)
• Malay: kencing manis (ms)
• Malayalam: പ്രമേഹം (ml) (pramēhaṁ)
• Maori: mate hukatoto, mate huka
• Mongolian: чихрийн шижин (čixriin šižin), чихрийн өвчин (čixriin övčin)
• Navajo: atsʼíístah áshįįh łikan nanitʼąʼ silį́į́ʼ
• Norman: diabète f, maladie d'chucre f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: diabetes (no) m, sukkersyke m

  Nynorsk: diabetes m, sukkersjuke m or f

• Occitan: diabèta (oc) f, diabèti (oc) m
• Ojibwe: ziinzibaakwadowaapinewin
• Persian: مرض قند (fa) (maraz-e qand), بیماری قند (bimâri-ye qand), دیابت (fa) (diyâbet)
• Polish: cukrzyca (pl) f
• Portuguese: diabetes (pt) m or f, diabete (pt) m or f
• Romanian: diabet (ro)
• Russian: диабе́т (ru) m (diabét)
• Sanskrit: मधुमेह (sa) (madhumeha)
• Scottish Gaelic: tinneas an t-siùcair m, galar-fuail m, ruith-fhuail f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: дијабетес m

  Roman: dijabetes (sh) m

• Sicilian: diabbeti f
• Slovak: cukrovka (sk) f
• Slovene: sladkorna bolezen (sl) f
• Spanish: diabetes f
• Swahili: kisukari (sw)
• Swedish: diabetes (sv)
• Tagalog: diyabetes
• Telugu: బహుమూత్రము (te) (bahumūtramu), మధుమేహము (madhumēhamu), అతిమూత్రము (atimūtramu), ఇక్షుమేహము (te) (ikṣumēhamu), షుగరు (ṣugaru), షుగర్ (ṣugar)
• Tetum: diabete
• Thai: เบาหวาน (th) (bao-wǎan)
• Tok Pisin: sik suga
• Tongan: suka
• Turkish: diyabet (tr), şeker hastalığı (tr)
• Turkmen: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: діабе́т m (diabét)
• Urdu: ذیابیطس (ziyābītas), شوگر (śugar), ذیابیطس شکری (ziyābītas-e-śakrī)
• Uyghur: دىابېت (diabët)
• Uzbek: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: đái tháo đường, tiểu đường
• Volapük: diabet
• Welsh: dibetes m, clefyd siwgr m

diabetes insipidus — see diabetes insipidus

Anagrams

• beadiest

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈdɪjabɛtɛs]

Noun

diabetes m inan

1. diabetes mellitus

   Synonyms: cukrovka, (dated) úplavice cukrová

Declension

Declension of diabetes (hard masculine inanimate foreign)

	singular	plural
nominative	diabetes	diabety
genitive	diabetu	diabetů
dative	diabetu	diabetům
accusative	diabetes	diabety
vocative	diabete	diabety
locative	diabetu	diabetech
instrumental	diabetem	diabety

Related terms

• diabetes insipidus
• diabetes mellitus
• diabetik

 

Further reading

• “diabetes”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “diabetes”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• diabetes in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

Danish

Noun

diabetes c (singular definite diabetesen, not used in plural form)

1. diabetes

   Synonym: sukkersyge

Declension

Declension of diabetes

common gender	Singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	diabetes	diabetesen
genitive	diabetes'	diabetesens

Further reading

• “diabetes” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

From Latin diabetes mellitus, from Ancient Greek διαβαίνω (diabaínō, “to pass through”), via the agent noun διαβήτης (diabḗtēs, “passing through”). This refers to the excessive amounts of urine produced by sufferers. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌdi.aːˈbeː.təs/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: di‧a‧be‧tes
• Rhymes: -eːtəs

Noun

diabetes m (uncountable)

1. diabetes

Related terms

• diabeet
• diabetica
• diabeticus
• diabetisch

Descendants

• → Indonesian: diabetes

Finnish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin diabētēs.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdiɑbe(ː)t(ː)es/, [ˈdiɑ̝ˌbe̞(ː)t̪(ː)e̞s̠]
• Rhymes: -etes
• Syllabification^(key): di‧a‧be‧tes

Noun

diabetes

1. diabetes

   Synonym: sokeritauti

   Hyponyms: nuoruusiän diabetes (type I), aikuisdiabetes (type II)

Declension

Inflection of diabetes (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation)
nominative		diabetes	diabetekset
genitive		diabeteksen	diabetesten diabeteksien
partitive		diabetesta	diabeteksia
illative		diabetekseen	diabeteksiin
		singular	plural
nominative		diabetes	diabetekset
accusative	nom.	diabetes	diabetekset
	gen.	diabeteksen
genitive		diabeteksen	diabetesten diabeteksien
partitive		diabetesta	diabeteksia
inessive		diabeteksessa	diabeteksissa
elative		diabeteksesta	diabeteksista
illative		diabetekseen	diabeteksiin
adessive		diabeteksella	diabeteksilla
ablative		diabetekselta	diabeteksilta
allative		diabetekselle	diabeteksille
essive		diabeteksena	diabeteksina
translative		diabetekseksi	diabeteksiksi
abessive		diabeteksetta	diabeteksitta
instructive		—	diabeteksin
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

Possessive forms of diabetes (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative diabetekseni diabetekseni accusative nom. diabetekseni diabetekseni gen. diabetekseni genitive diabetekseni diabetesteni diabeteksieni partitive diabetestani diabeteksiani inessive diabeteksessani diabeteksissani elative diabeteksestani diabeteksistani illative diabetekseeni diabeteksiini adessive diabeteksellani diabeteksillani ablative diabetekseltani diabeteksiltani allative diabetekselleni diabeteksilleni essive diabeteksenani diabeteksinani translative diabeteksekseni diabeteksikseni abessive diabeteksettani diabeteksittani instructive — — comitative — diabeteksineni second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative diabeteksesi diabeteksesi accusative nom. diabeteksesi diabeteksesi gen. diabeteksesi genitive diabeteksesi diabetestesi diabeteksiesi partitive diabetestasi diabeteksiasi inessive diabeteksessasi diabeteksissasi elative diabeteksestasi diabeteksistasi illative diabetekseesi diabeteksiisi adessive diabeteksellasi diabeteksillasi ablative diabetekseltasi diabeteksiltasi allative diabeteksellesi diabeteksillesi essive diabeteksenasi diabeteksinasi translative diabetekseksesi diabeteksiksesi abessive diabeteksettasi diabeteksittasi instructive — — comitative — diabeteksinesi first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative diabeteksemme diabeteksemme accusative nom. diabeteksemme diabeteksemme gen. diabeteksemme genitive diabeteksemme diabetestemme diabeteksiemme partitive diabetestamme diabeteksiamme inessive diabeteksessamme diabeteksissamme elative diabeteksestamme diabeteksistamme illative diabetekseemme diabeteksiimme adessive diabeteksellamme diabeteksillamme ablative diabetekseltamme diabeteksiltamme allative diabeteksellemme diabeteksillemme essive diabeteksenamme diabeteksinamme translative diabetekseksemme diabeteksiksemme abessive diabeteksettamme diabeteksittamme instructive — — comitative — diabeteksinemme second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative diabeteksenne diabeteksenne accusative nom. diabeteksenne diabeteksenne gen. diabeteksenne genitive diabeteksenne diabetestenne diabeteksienne partitive diabetestanne diabeteksianne inessive diabeteksessanne diabeteksissanne elative diabeteksestanne diabeteksistanne illative diabetekseenne diabeteksiinne adessive diabeteksellanne diabeteksillanne ablative diabetekseltanne diabeteksiltanne allative diabeteksellenne diabeteksillenne essive diabeteksenanne diabeteksinanne translative diabetekseksenne diabeteksiksenne abessive diabeteksettanne diabeteksittanne instructive — — comitative — diabeteksinenne third-person possessor singular plural nominative diabeteksensa diabeteksensa accusative nom. diabeteksensa diabeteksensa gen. diabeteksensa genitive diabeteksensa diabetestensa diabeteksiensa partitive diabetestaan diabetestansa diabeteksiaan diabeteksiansa inessive diabeteksessaan diabeteksessansa diabeteksissaan diabeteksissansa elative diabeteksestaan diabeteksestansa diabeteksistaan diabeteksistansa illative diabetekseensa diabeteksiinsa adessive diabeteksellaan diabeteksellansa diabeteksillaan diabeteksillansa ablative diabetekseltaan diabetekseltansa diabeteksiltaan diabeteksiltansa allative diabetekselleen diabeteksellensa diabeteksilleen diabeteksillensa essive diabeteksenaan diabeteksenansa diabeteksinaan diabeteksinansa translative diabeteksekseen diabetekseksensa diabeteksikseen diabeteksiksensa abessive diabeteksettaan diabeteksettansa diabeteksittaan diabeteksittansa instructive — — comitative — diabeteksineen diabeteksinensa

Derived terms

compounds

• aikuisdiabetes
• esidiabetes
• nuoruusdiabetes
• raskausdiabetes

 

Related terms

• diabeetikko

 

Further reading

• “diabetes”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch diabetes, from Latin diabetes, from Ancient Greek διαβαίνω (diabaínō, “to pass through”), via the agent noun διαβήτης (diabḗtēs, “passing through”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [diaˈbɛtəs] (Standard)
• Hyphenation: di‧a‧bè‧tês

Noun

diabetes (first-person possessive diabetesku, second-person possessive diabetesmu, third-person possessive diabetesnya)

1. (medicine) diabetes, a general term referring to any of various disorders characterized by excessive urination (polyuria).
2. (medicine, colloquial) diabetes mellitus, a medical disorder characterized by varying or persistent hyperglycemia, especially after eating, classically characterized by excessive urination.

   Synonyms: diabetes melitus, penyakit kencing manis, penyakit gula

Alternative forms

• diabet

Hyponyms

• diabetes insipidus
• diabetes melitus

Further reading

• “diabetes” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

Etymology

Borrowing from Ancient Greek δῐᾰβήτης (diabḗtēs, “siphon; diabetes”), from δῐᾰβαίνω (diabaínō, “to step across, pass over”) +‎ -της (-tēs, “-er, -or”, agent noun suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /di.aˈbeː.teːs/, [d̪iäˈbeːt̪eːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /di.aˈbe.tes/, [d̪iäˈbɛːt̪es]

Noun

diabētēs m (genitive diabētae); first declension

1. a siphon

   Synonym: sīphō

   • 4 CE – c. 70 CE, Columella, De Re Rustica 3.10:

     Naturali enim spiritu omne alimentum virentis, quasi quaedam anima, per medullam trunci veluti per siphonem quem diabeten vocant mechanici, trahitur in summum: […]

     For by natural respiration all the nourishment of a green plant is drawn, as a sort of vital breath, into the highest point, passing through the pith of the stem as though through a siphon, which mechanics call diabetes; […]

2. (New Latin, pathology) diabetes

Inflection

First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ēs).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	diabētēs	diabētae
Genitive	diabētae	diabētārum
Dative	diabētae	diabētīs
Accusative	diabētēn	diabētās
Ablative	diabētē	diabētīs
Vocative	diabētē	diabētae

Descendants

• → English: diabetes

References

• “diabetes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek participle διαβήτης (diabḗtēs, “passing through”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.a.be.tes/, [dɪ.ɑ.ˈbeː.teːs]

Noun

diabetes m (singular definite diabetesen) (uncountable)

1. diabetes (a group of metabolic diseases)

Synonyms

• sukkersyke

References

“diabetes” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek participle διαβήτης (diabḗtēs, “passing through”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪɑˈbeːtes/

Noun

diabetes m (singular definite diabetesen) (uncountable)

1. diabetes (a group of metabolic diseases)

Synonyms

• sukkersjuke

References

“diabetes” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• diabete

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒi.aˈbɛ.t͡ʃis/ [d͡ʒɪ.aˈbɛ.t͡ʃis], (faster pronunciation) /d͡ʒjaˈbɛ.t͡ʃis/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒi.aˈbɛ.t͡ʃis/ [d͡ʒɪ.aˈbɛ.t͡ʃis], (faster pronunciation) /d͡ʒjaˈbɛ.t͡ʃis/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒi.aˈbɛ.t͡ʃiʃ/ [d͡ʒɪ.aˈbɛ.t͡ʃiʃ], (faster pronunciation) /d͡ʒjaˈbɛ.t͡ʃiʃ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒi.aˈbɛ.tes/ [d͡ʒɪ.aˈbɛ.tes], (faster pronunciation) /d͡ʒjaˈbɛ.tes/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /di.ɐˈbɛ.tɨʃ/ [di.ɐˈβɛ.tɨʃ], (faster pronunciation) /djɐˈbɛ.tɨʃ/ [djɐˈβɛ.tɨʃ]

• Hyphenation: di‧a‧be‧tes

Noun

diabetes f or m (invariable)

1. diabetes (a group of metabolic diseases)

Usage notes

• The gender of this Portuguese noun varies from speaker to speaker. Some use it as a masculine noun and others as a feminine noun.

Noun

diabetes f pl or m pl

1. plural of diabete

References

• “diabetes”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /djaˈbetes/ [d̪jaˈβ̞e.t̪es]

• Audio (Venezuela):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -etes
• Syllabification: dia‧be‧tes

Noun

diabetes f (plural diabetes)

1. diabetes

Derived terms

• diabetes insípida

 

Related terms

• diabético

 

Further reading

• “diabetes”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16

Swedish

Noun

diabetes c

1. diabetes (diabetes mellitus)

   Synonym: (less common) sockersjuka

Declension

Declension of diabetes

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	diabetes	diabetes
	definite	diabetesen, diabetes	diabetesens, diabetes
plural	indefinite	—	—
	definite	—	—

Related terms

• diabetiker (“a diabetic”)
• diabetisk (“diabetic”)

References

• diabetes in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• diabetes in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• diabetes in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• Svensk MeSH