flu

See also: 'flu

English

Alternative forms

'flu (dated), floo (dated)

Etymology

Clipping of influenza

Pronunciation

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

Noun

flu (usually uncountable, plural flus)

Influenza.
(informal) Stomach flu.

Synonyms

(influenza): grippe, grip

Derived terms

Terms derived from flu

Translations

influenza

Afrikaans: griep
Albanian: grip (sq) m
Arabic: إِنْفْلُوِنْزَا‎ f (ʾinfluwinzā)
Armenian: գրիպ (hy) (grip)
Azerbaijani: qrip (az)
Belarusian: грып m (hryp)
Bengali: ইনফ্লুয়েঞ্জা (inphluyenja)
Bulgarian: грип (bg) m (grip), инфлуе́нца f (influénca)
Burmese: တုတ်ကွေးရောဂါ (tutkwe:rau:ga)
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)
French: grippe (fr) f
Georgian: ინფლუენცია (inpluencia), გრიპი (griṗi)
German: Grippe (de) f
Greek: γρίπη (el) f (grípi)
Hebrew: שפעת‎ f (shapa'at)
Hindi: इनफ़्लुएंज़ा (influ'enzā)
Hungarian: influenza (hu)
Icelandic: flensa (is) f, inflúensa (is) f
Indonesian: influenza (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 (kk) (tumaw)
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 f
Macedonian: грип m (grip)
Malay: influenza
Malayalam: ഇൻഫ്ലുവെൻസ (inphluvensa)
Mongolian: томуу (mn) (tomuu), ханиад (mn) (haniad)
Navajo: tahoniigááh
Norman: grippe f
Persian: انفلوانزا‎ (fa) (anfuluânzâ)
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 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 (kâi wàt yài)
Tibetan: ཚད་རིམས། (tshad rims)
Turkish: grip (tr)
Turkmen: grip
Ukrainian: грип m (hryp)
Uzbek: gripp (uz)
Vietnamese: bệnh cúm, cúm (vi)
Zulu: imfuluwenza class 9

Anagrams

-ful, ULF

French

Etymology

From English flu (“influenza”)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /flu/

Noun

flu m (uncountable)

(Quebec) diarrhoea

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French flou.

Adjective

flu (comparative daha flu, superlative en flu)

fuzzy
(photography) blurred, out of focus

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