EXPLORE FILIPINO WORDS IN DEPTH
EXPLORE FILIPINO WORDS IN DEPTH
leprosy...
torpedo (weapon)...
to sabotage a courtship...
Pang-uri
Isang kalagayan o lugar na may kakulangan o kawalan ng suplay ng tubig.
/LEP-ro-si/
FIL: Isang malubhang nakahahawang sakit sa balat at nerbiyos na sanhi ng bakteryang Mycobacterium leprae, na kilala rin bilang sakit na Hansen.
EN: leprosy
The medical term for the disease commonly known as 'ketong'. While it sounds very clinical and serious, the good news is that leprosi is now curable. It's not the biblical-times curse people once thought it was.
From English 'leprosy'.
'Ketong' is the more common vernacular term. 'Leprosi' is used in more formal or medical contexts.
🇵🇭 May lunas na para sa sakit na leprosi.
🇺🇸 There is now a cure for the disease leprosy.
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Pang-uri
Isang kalagayan o lugar na may kakulangan o kawalan ng suplay ng tubig.