Hydrophobia

//ˌhʌɪ.dɹə(ʊ)ˈfəʊ.bɪ.ə//

Synonyms for "hydrophobia" (185 found)

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Noun(2 words)
waterfrightaquaphobia

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63 translations across 31 languages.

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Arabic

1 entries
  • كَلَب noun (rabies — see also rabies)

Bulgarian

2 entries
  • бяс noun (rabies — see also rabies)
  • хидрофобия noun (fear of water — see also aquaphobia)

Catalan

2 entries
  • hidrofòbia noun (rabies — see also rabies)
  • hidrofòbia noun (fear of water — see also aquaphobia)

Chinese Cantonese

1 entries
  • 恐水病 noun (rabies — see also rabies)

Chinese Mandarin

2 entries
  • 恐水病 noun (rabies — see also rabies)
  • 狂犬病 noun (rabies — see also rabies)

Danish

3 entries
  • hundegalskab noun (rabies — see also rabies)
  • hydrofobi noun (fear of water — see also aquaphobia)
  • rabies noun (rabies — see also rabies)

Dutch

2 entries
  • watervrees noun (rabies — see also rabies)
  • watervrees noun (fear of water — see also aquaphobia)

Esperanto

2 entries
  • akvofobio noun (fear of water — see also aquaphobia)
  • hidrofobio noun (rabies — see also rabies)

Finnish

4 entries
  • hydrofobia noun (rabies — see also rabies)
  • raivotauti noun (rabies — see also rabies)
  • veden pelko noun (fear of water — see also aquaphobia)
  • vesikauhu noun (rabies — see also rabies)

French

1 entries
  • peur de l'eau noun (fear of water — see also aquaphobia)

Georgian

1 entries
  • ცოფი noun (rabies — see also rabies)

German

2 entries
  • Tollwut noun (rabies — see also rabies)
  • Wasserscheu noun (fear of water — see also aquaphobia)

Greek

1 entries
  • ὑδροφοβία noun (rabies — see also rabies)

Hindi

3 entries
  • जलत्रास noun (rabies — see also rabies)
  • जलत्रास noun (fear of water — see also aquaphobia)
  • जलांतक noun (rabies — see also rabies)

Hungarian

4 entries
  • hidrofóbia noun (rabies — see also rabies)
  • hidrofóbia noun (fear of water — see also aquaphobia)
  • veszettség noun (rabies — see also rabies)
  • víziszony noun (rabies — see also rabies)

Irish

1 entries
  • hidreafóibe noun (rabies — see also rabies)

Italian

2 entries
  • idrofobia noun (rabies — see also rabies)
  • idrofobia noun (fear of water — see also aquaphobia)

Japanese

2 entries
  • 水恐怖症 noun (fear of water — see also aquaphobia)
  • 狂犬病 noun (rabies — see also rabies)

Korean

1 entries
  • 공수병 noun (rabies — see also rabies)

Latin

1 entries
  • hydrophobia noun (rabies — see also rabies)

Macedonian

2 entries
  • бе́снило noun (rabies — see also rabies)
  • хидрофо́бија noun (fear of water — see also aquaphobia)

Malay

3 entries
  • hidrofobia noun (rabies — see also rabies)
  • hidrofobia noun (fear of water — see also aquaphobia)
  • penyakit anjing gila noun (rabies — see also rabies)

Middle English

1 entries
  • idroforbia noun (rabies — see also rabies)

Polish

4 entries
  • hydrofobia noun (rabies — see also rabies)
  • hydrofobia noun (fear of water — see also aquaphobia)
  • wodowstręt noun (rabies — see also rabies)
  • wodowstręt noun (fear of water — see also aquaphobia)

Portuguese

3 entries
  • hidrofobia noun (rabies — see also rabies)
  • hidrofobia noun (fear of water — see also aquaphobia)
  • raiva noun (rabies — see also rabies)

Russian

3 entries
  • бе́шенство noun (rabies — see also rabies)
  • водобоя́знь noun (rabies — see also rabies)
  • гидрофо́бия noun (rabies — see also rabies)

Serbo-Croatian

2 entries
  • hidrofobija noun (rabies — see also rabies)
  • hidrofobija noun (fear of water — see also aquaphobia)

Spanish

1 entries
  • hidrofobia noun (fear of water — see also aquaphobia)

Swedish

1 entries
  • hydrofobi noun (fear of water — see also aquaphobia)

Tagalog

2 entries
  • takot sa tubig noun (rabies — see also rabies)
  • tubigsikway noun (fear of water — see also aquaphobia)

Ukrainian

2 entries
  • водобоя́знь noun (rabies — see also rabies)
  • гідрофо́бія noun (rabies — see also rabies)

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[…] Cato, who ſcorned both death and fortune, could not abide the ſight of a looking glaſſe or of water; overcome with horrour, and quelled with amazement, if by the contagion of a mad dog he had falne into that ſickneſſe which Phiſitians call Hydroforbia, or feare of waters.

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Now that I have breathed a little, I am anxious to know your opinion of the nature of that affection in the throat, which deprives a patient of the power of ſwallowing in conſequence of hydrophobia.

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I myself knew a boy whose face was licked by a dog that was going mad, and who died of hydrophobia.

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Hydrophobia may, without risk, be applied to the disease in mankind, and serve to distinguish it; but it would be most injudicious to retain it as a designation for the madness or rabies of the lower animals. […] "Hydrophobia" is not even a proper designation for the malady in him [man], inasmuch as authors have described a spontaneous hydrophobia in the human species, or certain symptoms resembling those of hydrophobia, which certainly were not the same as those produced by the bite of a rabid animal, neither was the presence of a transmissible virus proved to exist.

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