Circa 1600, from mump ( “ grimace ” , noun ) , compare mump ( verb ) , most likely referring to the painful difficulty in swallowing.
mumps pl plural only )
( pathology ) disease caused by the Mumps virus Rubulavirus ( dated ) gloomy or sullen silence .Usually used with a singular verb. contagious disease
Afrikaans: pampoentjies
Arabic: نُكَاف m ( nukāf )
Asturian: parotidis
Basque: hazizurri
Bikol Central: bayuko (bcl)
Cebuano: bayuok
Cherokee: ᎠᏓᏴᏦᏗᏍᎩ ( adayvtsodisgi )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 腮腺炎 (zh) ( sāixiànyán )
Czech: příušnice (cs) f pl
Dutch: bof (nl)
Esperanto: mumpso
Estonian: mumps (et)
Finnish: sikotauti (fi)
French: oreillons (fr)
Georgian: ყბაყურა ( q̇baq̇ura )
German: Mumps (de) m Ziegenpeter (de) m Mumpf m
Greek: παρωτίτιδα (el) f ( parotítida ) , μαγουλάδες (el) f pl ( magouládes )
Hausa: hàngum m
Hungarian: mumpsz (hu)
Hunsrik: Kaschumbe pl
Ido: oreliono (io)
Indonesian: beguk (id)
Italian: parotite epidemica f orecchioni (it)
Japanese: 流行性耳下腺炎 ( りゅうこうせいじかせんえん, ryūkōsei jikasen'en ) , おたふく 風邪 ( otafuku kaze )
Kapampangan: bayki buklaw
Khmer: ស្រឡទែន ( srɑɑlɑɑtɛɛn ) , សាលាទែន ( saaliətɛɛn )
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: binguhik
Macedonian: за́ушки pl ( záuški )
Malayalam: മുണ്ടിനീര് (ml) ( muṇṭinīrŭ )
Maori: mate pupuhi repe repe hūware pupuhi
Navajo: ayaayááh niichaad
Neapolitan: recchiune
Norwegian: kusma (no)
Persian: اوریون ( oreyon )
Plautdietsch: Mumps f
Polish: świnka (pl) f
Portuguese: caxumba (pt) f
Russian: зау́шница (ru) f ( zaúšnica ) , сви́нка (ru) f ( svínka )
Scottish Gaelic: a' phluc f a' phloic
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: заушке f
Roman: zauške f
Slovak: mumps m
Spanish: paperas parotiditis f
Swedish: parotit c påssjuka (sv) c
Tagalog: beke buklaw
Turkish: kabakulak (tr)
Ukrainian: сви́нка f ( svýnka ) , заву́шниця f ( zavúšnycja )
Waray-Waray: bikag
Welsh: clwy'r pennau twymyn doben
mumps
third-person singular simple present indicative of mump mumps
plural of mump Douglas Harper (2001–2024 ) “mumps ”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
