Syphilis is an infection that can be transmitted through sexual intercourse.
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Syphilis
//ˈsɪfɪlɪs//
Synonyms for "syphilis" (50 found)
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Closest matches (10)
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Related words (25)
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89 translations across 62 languages.
Arabic
3 entries- اَلاِفْرَنْجِيّ noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
- زُهَرِيّ noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
- مَرَض فِرَنْجِيّ noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
Arikara
1 entries- čeeníwiš noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
Assiniboine
1 entries- ceȟníbi noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
Bulgarian
1 entries- сифилис noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
Catalan
1 entries- sífilis noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
Chichewa
1 entries- chindoko noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 梅毒 noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
Czech
2 entries- příjice noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
- syfilis noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
Danish
1 entries- syfilis noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
Dhivehi
1 entries- ސިފިލިސް noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
Dutch
3 entries- harde sjanker noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
- lues noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
- syfilis noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
Esperanto
1 entries- sifiliso noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
Estonian
1 entries- süüfilis noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
Faroese
2 entries- fransósir noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
- syfilis noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
Finnish
2 entries- kuppa noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
- syfilis noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
French
1 entries- syphilis noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
Galician
4 entries- gálico noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
- lúes noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
- morbo gálico noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
- sífilis noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
German
1 entries- Syphilis noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
Greek
1 entries- σύφιλη noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
Greenlandic
2 entries- niviarsiapilunneq noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
- syfilisi noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
Hawaiian
1 entries- kaokao noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
Hebrew
1 entries- עַגֶּבֶת noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
Hindi
1 entries- उपदंश noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
Hungarian
1 entries- szifilisz noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
Icelandic
1 entries- sárasótt noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
Indonesian
3 entries- lues noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
- raja singa noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
- sifilis noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
Interlingua
1 entries- syphilis noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
Irish
1 entries- bolgach fhrancach noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
Italian
2 entries- lue noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
- sifilide noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
Japanese
3 entries- ジフィリス noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
- 唐瘡 noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
- 梅毒 noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
Kalmyk
1 entries- мерәсн noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
Kazakh
1 entries- мерез noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
Korean
1 entries- 매독 noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
Koyraboro-Senni
1 entries- masar noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
Latvian
1 entries- sifiliss noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
Malay
1 entries- penyakit raja singa noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
Mongolian
2 entries- тэмбүү noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
- ᠲᠡᠮᠪᠦᠦ noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
Māori
2 entries- mate pākewakewa noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
- pākewakewa noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
Nandi
1 entries- takan noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
Navajo
1 entries- cháchʼosh noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
Niuean
1 entries- kafukula noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
Norman
1 entries- chancre noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- agire noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- syfilis noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- syfilis noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
Polish
4 entries- franca noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
- kiła noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
- lues noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
- przymiot noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
Portuguese
1 entries- sífilis noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
Punjabi
1 entries- ਆਤਸ਼ਕ noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
Quechua
1 entries- wanthi unquy noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
Romanian
1 entries- sifilis noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
Russian
3 entries- генера́л noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
- си́филис noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
- сифо́н noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
Slovak
1 entries- syfilis noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
Spanish
2 entries- gálico noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
- sífilis noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
Swahili
1 entries- kaswende noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
Swedish
1 entries- syfilis noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
Tibetan
2 entries- རྒྱ་ནད noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
- སེ་མོག noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
Turkish
2 entries- frengi noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
- sifilis noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
Tuvan
1 entries- паш noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
Urdu
1 entries- آتشک noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
Vietnamese
1 entries- giang mai noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
Volapük
1 entries- süfilid noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
Yapese
1 entries- baaydook noun (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum)
Sample sentences
10 total sentences available.
Although there was once believed to be a causative relationship between syphilis and artistic genius, I would hope that the vast majority of modern artists and writers are reasonable enough to avoid becoming infected just on the off chance that neurosyphilis dementia might improve the quality of their work.
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The prostitutes here have an incurable form of syphilis.
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This is how we spread syphilis.
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