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Borrowed from Arabic بَجَل ( bajal ) .
bejel (uncountable
Endemic syphilis , a chronic disease of skin and tissue caused by infection by a subspecies of the spirochete Treponema pallidum Synonyms: button scurvy sibbens njovera belesh dichuchwa Endemic syphilis
Arabic: بَجَل m ( bajal )
Belarusian: пра́нец m ( pránjec ) ( usually pluraletantum )
Bulgarian: фре́нга f ( frénga )
French: pian de Nérac m lépre du nord f maladie de Scherlievo f
German: Grobnigger-Krankheit f Salzfluss m Marschkrankheit f nordische Küstenseuche f Holsteinische Marschkrankheit f Dithmarsische Krankheit f Radeseuche f Franzosen (de) m pl
Greek: ενδημική σύφιλη ( endimikí sýfili )
Icelandic: liktrá f
Italian: Scherlievo m
Norwegian: radesyge slemsyge stygsyge spedalskhed
Polish: francuska choroba (pl) f francowata choroba f franca (pl) f kiła (pl) f
Russian:
Historical: францу́зская боле́знь (ru) f ( francúzskaja boléznʹ ) фра́нец m ( fránec ) , пра́нец m ( pránec ) , хра́нец m ( xránec ) , парша́ (ru) f ( paršá ) , сыпь (ru) f ( sypʹ ) , ше́лудь f ( šéludʹ ) , коро́ста (ru) f ( korósta ) , ше́ро́х m ( šéróx ) ( фра́нец, пра́нец, хра́нец, парша́ and ше́лудь are often used as pluraletantum for this specific meaning )
Modern: беджель m ( bedželʹ ) , баляш m ( baljaš ) , ньювера f ( nʹjuvera ) , си́филис ара́бский m ( sífilis arábskij )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: шкр̏љево n škrljevska bȍlēst f фре̏ња̄к m вре̏ња̄к m вре̏њга f фре̏њга f фре̏нга f фре̏нка f
Latin: škȑljevo n шкрљевска бо̏ле̄ст f frȅnjāk (sh) m vrȅnjāk m vrȅnjga f frȅnjga f frȅnga (sh) f frȅnka f
Slovene: škrljevo n škrljeva bolezen f
Swedish: bondfransoser soltflod radesyge spetälska (sv) , spedalskhed franska sjukan (sv)
Translingual: lepra norvegica lepra septentrionalis lepra borealis lepra esthonum morbus ditmarsicus lepra holsatica lepra norvegica lepra nervosa elephantiasis norvegica elephantiasis Graecorum
Turkish:
Ottoman Turkish: فرنك زحمتی ( frenk zahmeti ) , فرنك اویوزی ( frenk uyuzi )
Ukrainian: пра́нец m ( pránec ) ( usually pluraletantum )
Willcox, R.R. (1 June 1960), “Evolutionary Cycle of the Treponematoses”, in The British Journal of Venereal Diseases [1] 36 , →DOI
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IPA (key ) : /beˈxel/ [beˈxel] Rhymes: -el
Syllabification: be‧jel bejel m plural bejeles
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