hygiene

See also: Hygiene, hygiène, and hygiëne

English

Etymology

From French hygiène, from Ancient Greek ὑγιεινή (τέχνη) (hugieinḗ (tékhnē), literally “art of health”), from ὑγιεινός (hugieinós, “of health, good for the health, wholesome, sound, healthy”), from ὑγιής (hugiḗs, “healthy, sound”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: hī'jēn, hījēn', IPA^(key): /ˈhaɪˌd͡ʒiːn/, /haɪˈd͡ʒiːn/

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Noun

hygiene (countable and uncountable, plural hygienes)

1. The science of health, its promotion and preservation.
2. Those conditions and practices that promote and preserve health.

   Hygiene is an important consideration in places where food is prepared.

3. Cleanliness.

   They have poor personal hygiene.

4. (computing, slang, of a macro) The property of having an expansion that is guaranteed not to cause the accidental capture of identifiers.

Derived terms

• feminine hygiene
• hygiene poverty
• hygiene theater
• hygienic
• hygienically
• hygienics
• hygienist
• hyperhygienist
• mental hygiene
• occupational hygiene
• oral hygiene
• personal hygiene
• racial hygiene
• sleep hygiene
• social hygiene

 

Translations

science of health

• Arabic: عِلْم الصِّحَّة m (ʕilm aṣ-ṣiḥḥa), عِلْم حِفْظ الصِّحَّة m (ʕilm ḥifẓ aṣ-ṣiḥḥa)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 衛生學／卫生学 (zh) (wèishēngxué)

• Japanese: 衛生学 (ja) (えいせいがく, eiseigaku)
• Korean: 위생학(衛生學) (ko) (wisaenghak)
• Russian: гигие́на (ru) (gigijéna)
• Thai: สุขศึกษา (th) (sùk-kà-sʉ̀k-sǎa)

conditions and practices that promote and preserve health

• Afrikaans: higiëne
• Albanian: higjienë (sq) f
• Arabic: نَظَافَة f (naẓāfa), حِفْظ الصِّحَّة m (ḥifẓ aṣ-ṣiḥḥa)
• Armenian: հիգիենա (hy) (higiena)
• Asturian: hixene f
• Azerbaijani: gigiyena (az)
• Belarusian: гігіе́на f (hihijéna)
• Bengali: স্বাস্থ্যবিধি (śastthobidhi), স্বাস্থ্যবিজ্ঞান (śastthobiggên)
• Bulgarian: хигие́на (bg) f (higiéna)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: higiene (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 衛生／卫生 (zh) (wèishēng)

• Czech: hygiena (cs) f
• Danish: hygiejne (da) c
• Dutch: hygiëne (nl) f
• Esperanto: higieno
• Estonian: hügieen
• Finnish: hygienia (fi)
• French: hygiène (fr) f
• Galician: hixiene f
• Georgian: ჰიგიენა (ka) (higiena)
• German: Hygiene (de) f
• Greek: υγιεινή (el) f (ygieiní)
• Gujarati: સ્વચ્છતા (svacchatā)
• Hebrew: גֵהוּת f (gehút), הִיגְיֶנָה \ היגיינה f (higyéna)
• Hindi: स्वच्छता (hi) m (svacchatā)
• Hungarian: higiénia (hu)
• Icelandic: hreinlæti (is) n
• Indonesian: kebersihan (id)
• Irish: sláinteachas m
• Italian: igiene (it) f, salubrità f
• Japanese: 衛生 (ja) (えいせい, eisei)
• Kazakh: гигиена (gigiena)
• Khmer: អនាម័យ (ʼaʼnaamay)
• Korean: 위생(衛生) (ko) (wisaeng)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: hîjyen (ku)

• Kyrgyz: гигиена (ky) (gigiyena)
• Lao: ອະນາໄມ (ʼa nā mai)
• Latvian: higiēna f
• Lithuanian: higiena f
• Macedonian: хигие́на f (higiéna)
• Malay: kebersihan (ms), higin
• Malayalam: ശുചി (ml) (śuci), ശുചിതപരിപാലനം (śucitaparipālanaṁ)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: эрүүл ахуй (erüül axuj)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hygiene (no) m

  Nynorsk: hygiene m

• Occitan: igièna (oc) f
• Pashto: حفظ الصحه (ps) f (hefz ol-seha)
• Persian: بهداشت (fa) (behdâšt), حفظ الصحه (hefz ol-seha) (Dari)
• Polish: higiena (pl) f
• Portuguese: higiene (pt) f
• Romanian: igienă (ro) f
• Russian: гигие́на (ru) f (gigijéna)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хигије́на f

  Roman: higijéna (sh) f

• Sinhalese: ස්වස්ථතාව (swasthatāwa)
• Slovak: hygiena (sk) f
• Slovene: higiena f
• Spanish: higiene (es) f
• Swedish: hygien (sv) c
• Tagalog: palalusugan
• Tajik: гигиена (gigiyena), беҳдошт (behdošt)
• Tatar: гигиена (gigiyena)
• Thai: สุขลักษณะ (sùk-lák-sà-nà), อนามัย (th) (à-naa-mai)
• Turkish: hijyen (tr)
• Turkmen: gigiýena
• Ukrainian: гігіє́на f (hihijéna)
• Urdu: حِفْظانِ صِحَت (ur) (hifzān-e sehat)
• Uyghur: تازىلىق (taziliq)
• Uzbek: gigiyena (uz)
• Vietnamese: vệ sinh (vi) (衛生)
• Yiddish: היגיענע f (higyene)

Further reading

• “hygiene”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “hygiene”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

hygiene m (definite singular hygienen) (uncountable)

1. hygiene

Derived terms

• munnhygiene

Related terms

• hygienisk

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

hygiene m (definite singular hygienen) (uncountable)

1. hygiene

Derived terms

• munnhygiene

Related terms

• hygienisk