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Since 16th century; borrowed from French épilepsie, from Latin epilēpsia, from Ancient Greek ἐπιληψίᾱ (epilēpsíā), from ἐπιλαμβάνω (epilambánō, “to seize”), from ἐπι- (epi-, “upon”) + λαμβάνω (lambánō, “to take”). Displaced native Old English fiellesēocnes (literally “falling sickness”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɛpɪlɛpsi/
• (US) IPA(key): /ˈɛpɪˌlɛpsi/, /ˈɛpəˌlɛpsi/
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈepəlepsi/
• (Scotland) IPA(key): /ˈɛpɪlɛpse/, /-sɪ/, /-si/
• Hyphenation: ep‧i‧lep‧sy

epilepsy (countable and uncountable, plural epilepsies)

1. (pathology) A medical condition in which the sufferer experiences seizures (or convulsions) and blackouts.
   • 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […], →OCLC:
     Epilepsies, or fallings and reelings, and beastly vomitings. The least of these, even when the tongue begins to be untied, is a degree of drunkenness.

• antiepilepsy
• antiepileptic
• epileptic
• epileptiform
• hysteroepilepsy
• migralepsy
• northern epilepsy syndrome
• oligoepilepsy
• severe myoclonic epilepsy of infancy

medical condition

• Albanian: epilepsi (sq) f, sëmundje e tokës f, botë (sq) f, shakull (sq) m, punëherë (sq) f

• Arabic: صَرْع m (ṣarʕ)

• Armenian: ընկնավորություն (hy) (ənknavorutʻyun)

• Assamese: আঁৱৰি (ãori)

• Asturian: epilepsia f

• Banjarese: gila babi, balawa

• Bengali: মৃগীরোগ (mrigirōg)

• Catalan: epilèpsia (ca) f

• Chinese:
  Mandarin: 羊癲瘋 / 羊癫疯 (yángdiānfēng), 癲癇 / 癫痫 (zh) (diānxián), 癲癇癥 / 癫痫症 (diānxiánzhèng), 羊癇 / 羊痫 (yángxián), 羊癇瘋 / 羊痫疯 (yángxiánfēng), 羊角風 / 羊角风 (zh) (yángjiǎofēng)

• Czech: epilepsie (cs) f

• Danish: epilepsi c, ligfald n (archaic), faldende syge (obsolete)

• Dinka: nok

• Dutch: epilepsie (nl) f, vallende ziekte (nl)

• Esperanto: epilepsio

• Estonian: epilepsia (et), langetõbi (et)

• Finnish: epilepsia (fi)

• Fon: please add this translation if you can

• French: épilepsie (fr) f, mal caduc (fr)

• Galician: epilepsia (gl) f, gota (gl) f

• German: Epilepsie (de) f; (archaic) Fallsucht (de) f

• Greek: επιληψία (el) f (epilipsía)
  Ancient Greek: ἐπιληψία f (epilēpsía)

• Gujarati: અપસ્માર m (apasmār)

• Haitian Creole: malkadi

• Hindi: अपस्मार (hi) m (apasmār), मिर्गी (hi) f (mirgī)

• Hungarian: epilepszia (hu)

• Icelandic: flogaveiki (is) f, flog (is) n, niðurfallssýki f

• Ido: epilepsio (io)

• Igbo: ájụ̀

• Indonesian: epilepsi (id), ayan (id)

• Ingrian: lankiivatauti

• Irish: titimeas m, an bhreoiteacht mhór f, galar titimeach m, galar Póil m, galar talmhaí m, an tinneas beannaithe m, an tinneas mór m, tinneas Póil m, tinneas talún m

• Isoko: evbavba

• Italian: epilessia (it) f

• Japanese: 癲癇 (ja) (てんかん, tenkan)

• Javanese: ꦲꦪꦤ꧀ (jv) (ayan)

• Kazakh: қояншық (qoänşyq)

• Kurdish:
  Central Kurdish: فێ (fê)

• Latin: epilēpsia f

• Luganda: enzimire class 3

• Macedonian: епилепсија f (epilepsija), падавица f (padavica)

• Malay: epilepsi, gila babi, sawan (ms)

• Māori: (mate)hukihuki, (mate) hūkiki

• Minangkabau: ayan (min)

• Nias: faniri

• Nogai: талма (talma)

• Norman: épilepsie f (Jersey)

• Norwegian:
  Bokmål: epilepsi m
  Nynorsk: epilepsi m

• Odia: ଅପସ୍ମାର (or) (apasmāra)

• Old English: fiellesēocnes f

• Persian: صرع (fa) (sar')

• Plautdietsch: Aunstoot

• Polish: padaczka (pl) f, epilepsja (pl) f

• Portuguese: epilepsia (pt) f

• Russian: эпиле́псия (ru) f (epilépsija), паду́чая (ru) f (padúčaja) (obsolete)

• Sanskrit: अपस्मार (sa) m (apasmāra)

• Scottish Gaelic: tuiteamas m

• Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: епилѐпсија f, па̏давица f
  Latin: epilèpsija (sh) f, pȁdavica (sh) f

• Slovene: epilepsija (sl) f, božjast (sl) f

• Somali: qallal (so)

• Spanish: epilepsia (es) f, gota caduca f, gota coral f, mal caduco m

• Sranan Tongo: adube

• Sundanese: épilépsi, ayan

• Swahili: kifafa (sw)

• Swedish: epilepsi (sv) c

• Tagalog: kisay, gotakural

• Tày: bả mu

• Thai: ลมชัก (lom-chák), ลมบ้าหมู (th) (lom-bâa-mǔu)

• Tocharian B: apasmār

• Turkish: tutarak (tr), tutarık (tr), tutarga (tr), yilbik (tr), sara (tr), epilepsi (tr)

• Ukrainian: епіле́псія f (epilépsija)

• Urdu: مِرْگی f (mirgī), صَرْع m (sar')

• Vietnamese: bệnh động kinh, hội chứng động kinh (formal)

• Volapük: peiläp (vo)

• Welsh: epilepsi m

• Yiddish: ניכפּה (nikhpe)

• EEG

• falling sickness

• grand mal

• neurology

• petit mal

• seizure