obese

See also: obèse

English

Etymology

From Latin obēsus, derived from obedō (“I devour, eat away”), from ob (“away”) + edō (“I eat”)

Pronunciation

(General American) IPA^(key): /oʊˈbis/
(UK) IPA^(key): /əʊˈbiːs/, /əˈbiːs/

Adjective

obese (comparative more obese, superlative most obese or obesest)

Extremely overweight, especially: weighing more than 20% (for men) or 25% (for women) over their ideal weight determined by height and build; or, having a body mass index over 30 kg/m².

Synonyms

See also Thesaurus:obese

Derived terms

Translations

extremely overweight

Armenian: չաղ (hy) (čʿał)
Bashkir: һимеҙ (himeð)
Catalan: obès (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 肥胖 (zh) (féipàng)
Czech: obézní (cs)
Danish: fed
Dutch: obees, vetzuchtig, diklijvig
Finnish: liikalihava, obeesi (fi)
French: obèse (fr)
Georgian: მსუქანი (msukani)
German: fettleibig (de), fettsüchtig (de), korpulent (de)
Greek: παχύσαρκος (el) (pachýsarkos)
Hungarian: túlsúlyos (hu), elhízott (hu)
Italian: obeso (it) corpulento (it) m
Japanese: 肥満 (ja) (ひまん, himan)
Korean: 뚱뚱한 (ttungttunghan)
Latin: obēsus

Macedonian: дебел m (debel), угоен m (ugoen), згоен m (zgoen)
Malayalam: പൊണ്ണത്തടിയുള്ള (poṇṇattaṭiyuḷḷa), അമിതവണ്ണമുള്ള (amitavaṇṇamuḷḷa)
Nahuatl: tomahuac (nah)
Norwegian: korpulent (no)
Persian: چاق‎ (fa) (čâq)
Polish: otyły (pl) m
Portuguese: obeso (pt)
Romanian: obez (ro)
Russian: то́лстый (ru) (tólstyj), по́лный (ru) (pólnyj), ту́чный (ru) (túčnyj), (impolite) жи́рный (ru) (žírnyj)
Serbo-Croatian:
Roman: gȍjāzan (sh), prètio (sh)
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: syty
Spanish: obeso (es)
Telugu: ఊబ (te) (ūba), ^{(please verify)} ఊబకాయం, ఊబ ఒళ్ళు, స్థూలకాయం (ūbakāyaṃ, ūba oḷḷu, sthūlakāyaṃ), లావు (te) (lāvu), లావైన (te) (lāvaina)
Turkish: obez (tr)
Uzbek: semiz (uz)
Welsh: corffol, gordew, corffog

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Translations to be checked

Albanian: ^{(please verify)} ngjallur (sq), ^{(please verify)} trashë (sq), ^{(please verify)} dhjamosur

Anagrams

Boese

Interlingua

Adjective

obese (not comparable)

obese

Related terms

obesitate

Italian

Adjective

obese

Feminine plural of adjective obeso.

Noun

obese f pl

feminine plural of obeso

Latin

Participle

obēse

vocative masculine singular of obēsus

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