leprosy meaning in Marathi
कुष्ठरोग
/ˈlɛpɹəsi/
leprosy in Marathi: कुष्ठरोग, कुष्ठ रोग, कुष्ठरोगाचा. In English, leprosy means an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium leprae, gradually producing nerve damage and patches of skin necrosis and historically handled by permanently quarantining its sufferers.
Marathi words for leprosy
- कुष्ठरोग, कुष्ठ रोग, कुष्ठरोगाचा
English meaning of leprosy
- noun An infectious disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium leprae, gradually producing nerve damage and patches of skin necrosis and historically handled by permanently quarantining its sufferers.
- noun Similar contagious skin diseases causing light patches of scaly skin, particularly psoriasis, syphilis, vitiligo, scabies, and (biblical) the various diseases considered "tzaraath" in the Old Testament.
- noun Anything considered similarly permanent, harmful, and communicable, particularly when such a thing should be handled by avoidance or isolation of its victims.
- noun Synonym of mange and glanders in horses.
leprosy in a sentence
- Sin is a spiritual leprosy.
Synonyms of leprosy
- Hansensiasis
- Hansen's disease
- mesel
- measles
- elephantiasis
- Greek elephantiasis
- Greek leprosy
- Greek lepra
- leprosity
- bastard scurvy
- mange and glanders in horses
- leprosarium
leprosy in other languages
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Questions about leprosy in Marathi
- What is the meaning of leprosy in Marathi?
- Leprosy in Marathi is कुष्ठरोग, कुष्ठ रोग, कुष्ठरोगाचा.
- leprosy चा मराठी अर्थ काय आहे?
- Leprosy: कुष्ठरोग, कुष्ठ रोग, कुष्ठरोगाचा.
- What does leprosy mean in English?
- Leprosy means an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium leprae, gradually producing nerve damage and patches of skin necrosis and historically handled by permanently quarantining its sufferers.
Source and license
Marathi words: machine translation by IndicTrans2 (AI4Bharat, MIT license), kept only when it translates back to “leprosy”. English meanings adapted from Wiktionary: leprosy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Marathi words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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