obese

See also: obèse

English

Etymology

From Latin obēsus, derived from obedō (“I devour, eat away”), from ob (“away”) + edō (“I eat”). Displaced native Old English oferfǣtt (literally “overfat”).

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -iːs

Adjective

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

1. Extremely overweight, especially: weighing more than 20% (for men) or 25% (for women) over their conventionally ideal weight determined by height and build; or, having a body mass index over 30 kg/m².
   • 2020 October 3, Peter Bowes, “Trump spends first night in hospital after Covid-19 diagnosis”, in BBC:

     The president, being 74, a man and someone categorised as obese, is in a higher-risk category for Covid-19.

   • 2020, Christia Marie Ramos, “Teacher behind exam material body-shaming Angel Locsin undergoing admin probe — DepEd”, in Philippine Daily Inquirer:

     But it can be recalled that Locsin earlier called out DepEd for seemingly being “unaffected” by the actions of a teacher who body-shamed her by describing her ^[sic] “an obese person” in a Physical Education (PE) educational material after the agency issued an apology.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:obese

Derived terms

• clinically obese
• morbidly obese
• obesity

 

Translations

extremely overweight

• Arabic:

  Egyptian: تخين (tiḵīn), سمين (samīn)

• Armenian: չաղ (hy) (čʻaġ)
• Bashkir: һимеҙ (himeź)
• Bulgarian: прекалено дебел (prekaleno debel)
• Catalan: obès (ca)
• Cherokee: ᎦᎵᏦᎯᏓ (galitsohida)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 肥胖 (zh) (féipàng)

• Czech: obézní (cs)
• Danish: fed
• Dutch: obees (nl), vetzuchtig, diklijvig
• Finnish: liikalihava, obeesi (fi)
• French: obèse (fr)
• Galician: obeso
• Georgian: მსუქანი (msukani)
• German: fettleibig (de), fettsüchtig (de), adipös (de)
• Greek: παχύσαρκος (el) (pachýsarkos)
• Hungarian: elhízott (hu), obez (hu)
• Italian: obeso (it) corpulento (it) m
• Jamaican Creole: mampy
• Japanese: 肥満 (ja) (ひまん, himan)
• Korean: 뚱뚱한 (ttungttunghan)
• Latin: obēsus, corpulentus
• Macedonian: дебел m (debel), угоен m (ugoen), згоен m (zgoen)
• Malayalam: പൊണ്ണത്തടിയുള്ള (poṇṇattaṭiyuḷḷa), അമിതവണ്ണമുള്ള (amitavaṇṇamuḷḷa)
• Norwegian: korpulent (no)
• Occitan: bombut, obès
• Old English: oferfǣtt
• 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 (ūbakāyaṁ, ūba oḷḷu, sthūlakāyaṁ), లావు (te) (lāvu), లావైన (te) (lāvaina)
• Tocharian B: kraupalñetstse
• Turkish: obez (tr)
• Uzbek: semiz (uz)
• Vietnamese: béo phì
• Welsh: corffol, gordew, corffog

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

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

See also

• fat

Noun

obese (plural obeses)

1. A person who is obese.
   • 2009, Abdoulaye Ba, Stephane Delliaux, Fabienne Bregeon, Samuel Levy, Yves Jammes, “Post-exercise heart rate recovery in healthy, obeses, and COPD subjects: relationships with blood lactic acid and PaO2 levels”, in Clinical Research in Cardiology‎^[1], volume 98, number 1, Springer, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 52–58:

     Despite a large scattering of HR decay rate, even present in healthy subjects, a ₂ and ΔHR were significantly lower in obeses and COPDs.

   • 2014, Ahmet Celik, Edibe Saricicek, Vahap Saricicek, Elif Sahin, Gokhan Ozdemir, Metin Kilinc, Ayten Oguz, Relation between the new anthropometric obesity parameters and inflammatory markers in healthy adult men‎^[2], SCIRJ:

     Subjects were grouped as Group 1 and Group 2 according to VAI, and normals, overweights and obeses according to BMI.

Translations

Translations

• Finnish: liikalihava
• German: Fettleibiger m, Fettleibige f, Fettsüchtiger m, Fettsüchtige f, Adipöser (de) m, Adipöse (de) f
• Polish: otyły (pl) m, otyła f
• Romanian: obez (ro) m, obeză f

Anagrams

• Boese

Interlingua

Adjective

obese (not comparable)

1. obese

Related terms

• obesitate

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oˈbe.ze/, (traditional) /oˈbɛ.ze/
• Rhymes: -eze, (traditional) -ɛze
• Hyphenation: o‧bé‧se, (traditional) o‧bè‧se

Adjective

obese f pl

1. feminine plural of obeso

Noun

obese f pl

1. feminine plural of obeso

Latin

Participle

obēse

1. vocative masculine singular of obēsus