vitiligo
/ˌvɪtɪˈlaɪɡəʊ/
vitiligo noun: the patchy loss of skin pigmentation.
Noun
vitiligo (usually uncountable, plural vitiligos)
- The patchy loss of skin pigmentation.
- In the weeks that followed, I began to notice other people with vitiligo. On the streets, in the stores, in their cars. My God, they were everywhere!2015 September 4, Rich Cohen, “Learning to Live With Vitiligo”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
- Synonyms:
- leucoderma
- Alphos, a form of leprosy.
vitiligo meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
vitiligo in Hindi
- patchy loss of skin pigmentation
- सफ़ेद दाग़ safed dāġ, श्वित्र śvitra
vitiligo in Tamil
- உருக்குறைந்த செயல் தடைப்பட்ட, குறைபட்ட, வெண்குட்டம்
vitiligo in Marathi
- vitiligo, leucoderma
- कोड koḍ
vitiligo in Urdu
- برص, برص کی بیماری
More languagesFewer languages
- vitiligo in Bengali
- শ্বেতী রোগ śeti rōg
- vitiligo in Malayalam
- വെള്ളപ്പാണ്ട് veḷḷappāṇṭŭ
- vitiligo in Kannada
- ತೊನ್ನು tonnu
- vitiligo in Sanskrit
- श्वित्र śvitrá
- vitiligo in Arabic
- بُهَاق buhāq
- vitiligo in Persian
- پیسی pisi
- vitiligo in Vietnamese
- bạch biến
Synonyms of vitiligo
Forms of vitiligo
| plural | vitiligos |
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Origin of vitiligo
Learned borrowing from Latin vitilīgō.
Words formed from vitiligo
Words that rhyme with vitiligo
Questions about vitiligo
- What does vitiligo mean?
- Vitiligo means the patchy loss of skin pigmentation.
- What is vitiligo in Hindi?
- Vitiligo in Hindi is सफ़ेद दाग़ (safed dāġ), श्वित्र (śvitra). See Vitiligo meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is vitiligo?
- Vitiligo is a noun.
- How do you pronounce vitiligo?
- Vitiligo is pronounced /ˌvɪtɪˈlaɪɡəʊ/.
- What is the plural of vitiligo?
- The plural of vitiligo is vitiligos.
Words near vitiligo in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: vitiligo (page history and authors); vitiligo (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); कोड (Marathi) (page history and authors); vitiligo (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); श्वित्र (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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