flu

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Influenza

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Alternative forms

'flu (dated)
floo (dated)

Etymology

Clipping of influenza

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /fluː/
(General Australian) IPA^(key): /flʉː/
Audio (US): (file)
Rhymes: -uː
Homophones: flew, flue

Noun

flu (usually uncountable, plural flus)

Influenza.
catch flu

get over the flu

transmit flu
(informal) Stomach flu.

Usage notes

Can be used with or without the definite article: I have the flu or I have flu

Synonyms

(influenza): grippe, grip

Derived terms

Terms derived from flu

Translations

influenza

Afrikaans: griep
Albanian: grip (sq) m
Arabic: إِنْفْلُوِنْزَا f (ʔinfluwinzā)
Armenian: գրիպ (hy) (grip)
Azerbaijani: qrip (az)
Belarusian: грып m (hryp)
Bengali: ইনফ্লুয়েঞ্জা (bn) (inphluẏenja), ফ্লু (bn) (phlu)
Bulgarian: грип (bg) m (grip), инфлуе́нца (bg) f (influénca)
Burmese: တုတ်ကွေးရောဂါ (tutkwe:rau:ga)
Catalan: grip (ca) f
Chamicuro: e'tes̈huli
Chinese:
Mandarin: 流行性感冒 (zh) (liúxíngxìnggǎnmào), 流感 (zh) (liúgǎn)
Czech: chřipka (cs) f
Danish: influenza (da) c
Dutch: griep (nl) f
Esperanto: gripo
Estonian: gripp
Finnish: influenssa (fi), flunssa (fi)
French: grippe (fr) f
Galician: gripe f, gripio m, gripallo m, gripalleira f, gripallada f, gripaxe f
Georgian: გრიპი (griṗi)
German: Grippe (de) f
Greek: γρίπη (el) f (grípi)
Hebrew: שפעת (he) f (shapa'at)
Hindi: इनफ़्लुएंज़ा (influenzā)
Hungarian: influenza (hu)
Icelandic: flensa (is) f, inflúensa (is) f
Indonesian: influenza (id), flu (id)
Italian: influenza (it) f
Japanese: (general) インフルエンザ (ja) (infuruenza); (abbr) インフル (ja) (infuru); (medical) 流行性感冒 (ja) (ryūkōsē-kanbō)
Kannada: ಇನ್ಫ್ಲುಯೆನ್ಜ (inphluyenja)
Kazakh: тұмау (tūmau)
Khiamniungan Naga: vēimū
Khmer: ជំងឺគ្រុនផ្ដាសាយ (cumŋɨɨ krun pdaahsaay), គ្រុនផ្ដាសាយ (krun pdaahsaay)
Korean: 인플루엔자 (ko) (inpeulluenja)
Kyrgyz: грипп (ky) (gripp), тумоо (ky) (tumoo)
Lao: ໄຂ້ຫວັດໃຫຍ່ (khai wat nyai)
Latin: influentia f
Latvian: gripa f
Lithuanian: gripas m
Luxembourgish: Gripp (lb) f
Macedonian: грип m (grip)
Malay: influenza
Malayalam: ഇൻഫ്ലുവെൻസ (iṉphluveṉsa)
Mongolian: томуу (mn) (tomuu), ханиад (mn) (xaniad)
Navajo: tahoniigááh
Nepali: रुघा (rughā)
Norman: grippe f
Persian: انفلوانزا (fa) (anfoluânzâ)
Polish: grypa (pl) f
Portuguese: gripe (pt) f
Romanian: gripă (ro)
Russian: грипп (ru) m (gripp), инфлюэ́нца (ru) f (infljuénca)
Scottish Gaelic: cnatan mòr m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: грип m, инфлуенца f

Roman: grip m, influenca (sh) f
Slovak: chrípka (sk) f
Slovene: gripa (sl) f
Spanish: gripe (es) f, gripa (es) f (Colombia, Mexico)
Swedish: influensa (sv) c, flunsa (sv) c
Tagalog: trangkaso
Tajik: грипп (gripp)
Tamil: இன்ஃபுளுவென்சா (iṉfuḷuveṉcā)
Tatar: грипп (gripp)
Telugu: ఫ్లూ (phlū)
Thai: ไข้หวัดใหญ่ (th) (kâi wàt yài)
Tibetan: ཚད་རིམས། (tshad rims)
Turkish: grip (tr)
Turkmen: grip
Ukrainian: грип m (hryp)
Urdu: انفلوئنزا (influenzā), نزلہ
Uzbek: gripp (uz)
Vietnamese: bệnh cúm, cúm (vi)
Yiddish: גריפּע f (gripe)
Zulu: imfuluwenza class 9

Anagrams

-ful, ULF

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Etymology

Borrowed from English flu (“influenza”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /fly/
Audio (Canada): (file)

Noun

flu m (uncountable)

(Quebec) diarrhea

Noun

flu (first-person possessive fluku, second-person possessive flumu, third-person possessive flunya)

flu

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /flʉː/

Etymology 1

Related to the verb fly (“to fly”). The verb is derived from the noun.

Noun

flu n (definite singular fluet, indefinite plural flu, definite plural flua)

(countable and uncountable, fishing) bait that is strewn out over the surface to attract fish

Verb

flu (present tense flur, past tense fludde, past participle flutt/fludd, passive infinitive fluast, present participle fluande, imperative flu)

(intransitive) to fish using such a technique

Alternative forms

flua, flue

Etymology 2

From Old Norse flúð.

Alternative forms

flud (non-standard since 1917)

Noun

flu f (definite singular flua, indefinite plural fluer, definite plural fluene)

a bank or skerry which is underwater at high tide

Related terms

flod
flyte

References

“flu” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

ful, Ulf

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Etymology

Borrowed from French flou.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /fʎu/

Adjective

flu

fuzzy
(photography) blurred, out of focus

flu

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