scrapie

See also: Scrapie

English

Etymology

From scrape +‎ -ie, from the tendency of affected animals to scrape themselves against solid objects.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈskɹeɪpi/
Rhymes: -eɪpi

Noun

scrapie (countable and uncountable, plural scrapies)

A degenerative prion disease of sheep and goats that attacks the central nervous system.
- 1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial, published 2004, page 272:
  This incurable disease, called scrapie, became a large problem, often killing one ewe in ten.

Coordinate terms

Translations

A degenerative prion disease

Arabic: قعاص الغنم
Chinese:
Mandarin: 痒病 (yǎngbìng)
Dutch: schuurziekte f
Esperanto: ŝaftremo
Finnish: scrapie (fi), skrapi (fi), lampaan kutkatauti
French: tremblante du mouton (fr)
Galician: teo (gl) m, rebullón m, tortón m
German: Traberkrankheit f, Scrapie
Hebrew: סקרייפי m
Icelandic: riða (is) f
Irish: scráibeach
Italian: scrapie f
Japanese: スクレイピー (sukureipī)
Portuguese: scrapie m or f
Russian: скре́йпи (ru) (skréjpi), почесу́ха (ru) f (počesúxa)
Slovene: praskavec m
Spanish: prurito lumbar m
Turkish: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

epacris, ice spar, icespar, pie cars, raspice, spacier

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English scrapie.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈskɾej.pi/ [ˈskɾeɪ̯.pi]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈskɾej.pe/ [ˈskɾeɪ̯.pe]

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈskɾɐj.pɨ/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈskɾej.pɨ/
- (Central Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈskɾej.pɨ/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈskɾe.pɨ/

Noun

scrapie m or f (uncountable)

(Brazil) scrapie (degenerative disease of sheep and goats)

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