bedridden

See also: bed-ridden

English

Alternative forms

• bed-ridden
• bedrid (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English bedreden (also as bedrede), from Old English bedreda (“bedridden”, adj.), from bedreda, bedrida, bæddryda (“one who is bedridden”, noun), from bed, bedd (“bed”) + rida (“rider”), with -en by analogy with past participle adjectives.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbɛdɹɪdən/

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Adjective

bedridden (not comparable)

1. Confined to bed because of infirmity or illness.
   • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XXIV, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:

     the estate of a bedridden old gentleman

Synonyms

• (confined to bed): bedfast, bedbound

Derived terms

• bedriddenness

Translations

confined to bed

• Armenian:

  Old Armenian: մահճակալ (mahčakal)

• Bulgarian: прикова́н на легло́ (prikován na legló)
• Catalan: enllitat, allitat (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 臥床不起的 / 卧床不起的 (wòchuángbùqǐ de)

• Dutch: bedlegerig (nl)
• Esperanto: litmalsana
• Finnish: vuoteenoma (fi)
• French: alité (fr), cloué au lit, grabataire (fr)
• German: bettlägerig (de)
• Greek: κλινήρης (el) (kliníris)

  Ancient Greek: κλινοπετής (klinopetḗs)

• Hungarian: ágyhoz kötött
• Irish: cróilí
• Italian: degente (it), allettato (it)
• Korean: 와상(臥牀) (wasang) (medical)
• Middle English: bedrede, bedlawere
• Norman: grabataithe, au pliâtre
• Norwegian: sengeliggende
• Old English: beddrida
• Persian: بستری (fa) (bastari)
• Polish: przykuty do łóżka, obłożnie chory
• Portuguese: acamado (pt)
• Russian: прико́ванный к посте́ли (prikóvannyj k postéli)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: прикован за кревет, везан за кревет

  Latin: prikovan za krevet, vezan za krevet

• Spanish: limitado a la cama, confinado en cama, postrado en cama, encamado (es)
• Swedish: sängliggande (sv), sängbunden
• Tagalog: datay, nakaratay, nasa banig ng karamdaman
• Tamil: படுத்தபடுக்கையாக (paṭuttapaṭukkaiyāka)
• Turkish: yatalak (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: گوتورم (götürüm)

• Welsh: gorweiddiog (cy)