bedridden

See also: bed-ridden

English

Alternative forms

• bed-ridden

Etymology

From Middle English bedredyn, bedraden, bedreden, bæddrædæn (also as bedreede, 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: κλινοπετής (klinopetḗs) Hungarian: ágyhoz kötött Irish: cróilí Italian: degente (it), allettato (it) Korean: 와상(臥牀) (wasang) (medical) Norman: grabataithe, au pliâtre Norwegian: sengeliggende Old English: beddrida Ottoman Turkish: گوتورم (götürüm) 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) Welsh: gorweiddiog (cy)