bulimia

From Ancient Greek βουλιμία (boulimía, “ravenous hunger”), from βοῦς (boûs, “cow, ox”) +‎ λῑμός (līmós, “hunger”).

• IPA^(key): /bjuˈlimi.ə/, /bjuˈlɪmi.ə/, /buˈlimi.ə/, /buˈlɪmi.ə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɪmiə, -iːmiə

bulimia (countable and uncountable, plural bulimias)

1. (pathology) A chronic eating disorder characterized by a binge-and-purge cycle: extreme overeating followed by self-induced vomiting.
   • 1989, Daniel Waters, Heathers, spoken by Heather Chandler:

     Grow up, Heather, bulimia is so '87.

2. (pathology, obsolete) Excessive hunger.

• bulimia nervosa

From Ancient Greek βουλιμία (boulimía).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbulimiɑ/, [ˈbuliˌmiɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -iɑ
• Syllabification^(key): bu‧li‧mi‧a
• Hyphenation^(key): bu‧li‧mia

bulimia

1. (pathology) bulimia

• ahmimishäiriö
• bulimia nervosa (medical professional language)

• “bulimia”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

Internationalism, Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek βουλιμία (boulimía, “ravenous hunger”), from βοῦς (boûs, “cow, ox”) +‎ λῑμός (līmós, “hunger”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /buliˈmia/ [bu.liˈmi.a]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: bu‧li‧mi‧a

bulimia (uncountable)

1. (pathology) bulimia

• “bulimia” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

bulimia f (plural bulimie)

1. bulimia, binge eating disorder

• bulimia nervosa
• bulimico

Internationalism; compare English bulimia, French boulimie, German Bulimie, ultimately from Ancient Greek βουλιμία (boulimía).

• IPA^(key): /buˈli.mja/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -imja
• Syllabification: bu‧li‧mia

bulimia f (related adjective bulimiczny)

1. (pathology) bulimia (chronic eating disorder characterized by a binge-and-purge cycle: extreme overeating followed by self-induced vomiting)

   Synonym: żarłoczność psychiczna

• bulimia in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• bulimia in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• bulimia in PWN's encyclopedia

• Hyphenation: bu‧li‧mi‧a

bulimia f (plural bulimias)

1. (pathology) bulimia

   Synonyms: cinorexia, hiperorexia, licorexia

• IPA^(key): /buˈlimja/ [buˈli.mja]
• Rhymes: -imja
• Syllabification: bu‧li‧mia

bulimia f (plural bulimias)

1. (pathology) bulimia

• “bulimia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024