yellow fever

English

Noun

yellow fever (uncountable)

(pathology) An acute febrile illness of tropical regions, caused by a flavivirus (Yellow fever virus) and spread by certain mosquitoes, characterised by jaundice, black vomit and the absence of urination.
Synonyms: black vomit (obsolete), yellow jack (obsolete), Bulam fever (obsolete)
(slang) The attraction of a person of non-East Asian descent towards people of East Asian descent; racial fetishism towards East Asians.
Synonym: Asian fever

Derived terms

yellow-fever mosquito (Aedes aegypti)

Translations

illness

Arabic: حَمَّى صَفْرَاء‎ f (ḥammā ṣafrāʾ)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 黃熱病 (zh), 黄热病 (zh) (huáng rèbìng)
Danish: gul feber
Esperanto: flava febro
Finnish: keltakuume (fi)
French: fièvre jaune (fr) f
Georgian: ყვითელი ციებ-ცხელება (q̇viteli cieb-cxeleba), ყვითელი ცხელება (q̇viteli cxeleba)
German: Gelbfieber (de) n
Hungarian: sárgaláz (hu)
Irish: fiabhras buí n

Japanese: 黄熱 (おうねつ, ōnetsu)
Korean: 황열 (ko) (hwangyeol)
Polish: żółta febra f
Portuguese: febre amarela (pt) f
Russian: жёлтая лихора́дка (ru) f (žóltaja lixorádka), амарилле́з (ru) m (amarilléz)
Scottish Gaelic: fiabhras-buidhe m
Spanish: fiebre amarilla (es) f
Swahili: homa ya manjano
Ukrainian: жо́вта гаря́чка f (žóvta harjáčka)
Vietnamese: sốt vàng, sốt vàng da
Yucatec Maya: xekik

slang: attraction

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