allergy

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Allergie. Coined by Austrian pediatrician Clemens von Pirquet in 1906 from Ancient Greek ἄλλος (állos, “other”) ἔργον (érgon, “work, activity”), on the model of Energie.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ălʹər-jē; IPA^(key): /ˈæl.əɹ.d͡ʒi/
  • (UK) IPA^(key): [ˈæl.ə.dʒi]

  • Audio (Southern England):

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  • (US) IPA^(key): [ˈæl.ɚ.d͡ʒi]
• Hyphenation: al‧ler‧gy

Noun

allergy (plural allergies)

2. (medicine, immunology, broadly) A disorder of the immune system causing adverse reactions to substances (allergens) not harmful to most and marked by the body's production of histamines and associated with atopy, anaphylaxis, and asthma; any condition of hypersensitivity to a substance.
   2. (medicine, immunology, strictly) Specifically, hypersensitivity of class I in the modern classification thereof: the immunoglobulin E–mediated type.
3. (informal) An antipathy, as toward a person or activity.

   He has an allergy to reality TV.

Usage notes

From its coining in 1906 until the 1960s, the word allergy always covered any kind of (what humans now call) hypersensitivity reactions. Since then, the word also has a stricter sense referring specifically to only a subset of them, mediated by a certain antibody. Both senses remain in wide use.

Synonyms

• (disorder of the immune system): type 1 hypersensitivity
• (hypersensitivity): intolerance

Hypernyms

• (disorder of the immune system): hypersensitivity

Derived terms

• aeroallergy
• allergen
• allergic
• allergin
• allergist
• allergoid
• allergologist
• allergology
• allergylike
• allergy salute
• antiallergy
• autoallergy
• cold allergy
• food allergy
• mammalian meat allergy
• nonallergy
• oral allergy syndrome
• photoallergy
• polyallergy
• pseudoallergy
• total allergy syndrome
• water allergy

 

Descendants

• → Bengali: এলার্জি (elarji)
• → Cebuano: alerdyi
• → Hindi: एलर्जी (elarjī)
• → Urdu: الرجی (alarjī)

Translations

disorder of the immune system

• Albanian: alergji (sq) f
• Arabic: أَرَجِيَّة f (ʔarajiyya), حَسَّاسِيَّة f (ḥassāsiyya)
• Armenian: ալերգիա (hy) (alergia)
• Asturian: alerxa f
• Azerbaijani: allergiya

  South Azerbaijani: حساسیة (həssasiyyət)

• Belarusian: алергі́я f (aljerhíja)
• Bengali: এলার্জি (elarji)
• Bulgarian: але́ргия (bg) f (alérgija)
• Burmese: မတဲ့ဘူး (ma.tai.bhu:)
• Catalan: al·lèrgia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 過敏／过敏 (zh) (guòmǐn)

• Cornish: alergedh m
• Czech: alergie (cs) f
• Danish: allergi (da) c
• Dutch: allergie (nl) f
• Esperanto: alergio
• Estonian: allergia
• Faroese: ovurviðkvæmi n
• Finnish: allergia (fi)
• French: allergie (fr) f
• Galician: alerxia (gl) f
• Georgian: ალერგია (alergia)
• German: Allergie (de) f
• Greek: αλλεργία (el) f (allergía)
• Greenlandic: please add this translation if you can
• Hebrew: אַלֶרגִיָה (he) f (alergiya)
• Hindi: एलर्जी f (elarjī)
• Hungarian: allergia (hu)
• Icelandic: ofnæmi (is) n
• Ido: alergio (io)
• Indonesian: alergi (id)
• Irish: ailléirge f
• Italian: allergia (it) f
• Japanese: アレルギー (ja) (arerugī)
• Kazakh: аллергия (allergiä)
• Khmer: អាឡែរហ្សី (ʼaalaezəy), អាឡែស៊ី (ʼaalaesii)
• Korean: 알레르기 (ko) (allereugi)
• Kyrgyz: аллергия (ky) (allergiya)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: alerģija f
• Lithuanian: alergija f
• Macedonian: алергија f (alergija)
• Malay: alahan (ms), alergi (ms)
• Manx: allerjee
• Maori: mate pāwera, mate tūtohu
• Mongolian: харшил (mn) (xaršil)
• Navajo: hojoołáhígíí
• Northern Sami: allergiija
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: allergi (no) m

  Nynorsk: allergi m

• Persian: آلرژی (fa) (âlerži), حساسیت (fa) (hassâsiyat)
• Polish: uczulenie (pl) n, alergia (pl) f
• Portuguese: alergia (pt) f
• Romanian: alergie (ro) f
• Russian: аллерги́я (ru) f (allergíja)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: алѐргија f

  Roman: alèrgija f

• Slovak: alergia (sk) f
• Slovene: alergija (sl) f
• Spanish: alergia (es) f
• Swedish: allergi (sv) c
• Tagalog: taluramdam, taluhiyang
• Tajik: аллергиа (allergia)
• Tamil: ஒவ்வாமை (ta) (ovvāmai)
• Thai: ภูมิแพ้ (th) (puum-pɛ́ɛ)
• Tibetan: ཆམས་ཚི (chams tshi)
• Turkish: alerji (tr)
• Turkmen: allergiýa
• Ukrainian: алергі́я (uk) f (alerhíja)
• Urdu: الرجی f (elarjī)
• Uzbek: allergiya (uz)
• Vietnamese: dị ứng
• Yiddish: אַלערגיע (alergye)
• Zazaki: alerciye (diq) f

hypersensitivity

• Arabic: أَرَجِيَّة f (ʔarajiyya), حَسَّاسِيَّة f (ḥassāsiyya)
• Armenian: ալերգիա (hy) (alergia)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 過敏／过敏 (zh) (guòmǐn)

• Cornish: alergedh m
• Dutch: allergie (nl) f
• Finnish: allergia (fi)
• French: allergie (fr) f
• Galician: alerxia (gl) f
• German: Allergie (de) f
• Ido: alergio (io)
• Irish: ailléirge f
• Japanese: アレルギー (ja) (arerugī)
• Korean: 알레르기 (ko) (allereugi)
• Maori: mate pāwera
• Persian: آلرژی (fa) (âlerži), حساسیت (fa) (hassâsiyat)
• Polish: alergia (pl) f
• Portuguese: alergia (pt) f
• Romanian: alergie (ro) f
• Russian: аллерги́я (ru) f (allergíja)
• Spanish: alergia (es) f

altered susceptibility

• Armenian: ալերգիա (hy) (alergia)
• Cornish: alergedh m
• Finnish: allergia (fi)
• Japanese: アレルギー (ja) (arerugī)
• Korean: 알레르기 (ko) (allereugi)
• Macedonian: але́ргија f (alérgija)
• Russian: аллерги́я (ru) (allergíja)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: алѐргија f

  Roman: alèrgija f

• Swedish: allergi (sv) c

antipathy

• Armenian: ալերգիա (hy) (alergia)
• Catalan: al·lèrgia (ca) f
• Cornish: alergedh m
• Czech: alergie (cs) f
• Dutch: allergie (nl) f
• Finnish: allergia (fi)
• French: allergie (fr) f
• German: Allergie (de) f
• Hungarian: allergia (hu)
• Japanese: アレルギー (ja) (arerugī)
• Macedonian: але́ргија f (alérgija)
• Polish: alergia (pl) f, awersja (pl) f, uczulenie (pl) n
• Portuguese: alergia (pt) f, ojeriza (pt) f, antipatia (pt) f
• Russian: аллерги́я (ru) (allergíja)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: алѐргија f

  Roman: alèrgija f

• Swedish: allergi (sv) c

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} trosentemo
• German: ^{(please verify)} Allergie (de) f
• Macedonian: ^{(please verify)} але́ргија f (alérgija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ^{(please verify)} алѐргија f

  Roman: ^{(please verify)} alèrgija f

• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} allergi (sv) c, ^{(please verify)} överkänslighet (sv) c

See also

• allergy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Hypersensitivity on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Gallery, largely, regally, Allgyer, gallery