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malacostracé
noun, masculine
malacostracan
malade
adjective
ill, unwell, sick; Mentally disturbed; crazy; nuts; mental
malade
noun, masculine/feminine
an ill or sick person; a patient; someone who is crazy; a nutcase; nut (extreme enthusiast)
sick as a dog, sick as a parrot
trigger-happy (with firearms)
malade de la gâchette
noun, masculine/feminine
a trigger-happy person (with firearms)
malade mental
noun, masculine
madman, fool; mentally ill person
malade mental
adjective
crazy, sick; mentally ill
maladie
noun, feminine
illness, disease
maladie cœliaque
noun, feminine
coeliac disease (auto-immune disease characterised by sensitivity of the lining of the small intestine to gluten, causing a failure to digest food properly)
maladie d'Alzheimer
noun, feminine
Alzheimer's disease
maladie d'Heberden
noun, feminine
angina pectoris
maladie de Canavan
noun, feminine
Canavan disease
maladie de Capdepont
noun, feminine
dentinogenesis imperfecta
maladie de Charcot
noun, feminine
Lou Gehrig's disease
maladie de Dupuytren
noun, feminine
Dupuytren's contracture
maladie de Hansen
noun, feminine
Hansen's disease
mad cow disease
maladie des Vikings
noun, feminine
synonym of maladie de Dupuytren (“Viking disease”)
maladie des caissons
noun, feminine
caisson disease, decompression sickness, divers' disease
brittle bone disease, osteogenesis imperfecta (hereditary disease characterized by brittle bones that easily fracture)
maladie du cocher
noun, feminine
synonym of maladie de Dupuytren
maladie du pays
noun, feminine
homesickness (nostalgia)
maladie du sommeil
noun, feminine
sleeping sickness (any of several diseases of which lethargy is a major symptom); African sleeping sickness (an endemic infectious disease of humans and animals in tropical Africa, caused by a parasitic trypanosome, transmitted by the tsetse fly and characterized by fever, severe headache, joint pains and lymph node swelling in the early stages, followed by a neurological phase of extreme weakness, sleepiness, and deep coma leading to death)
maladie infectieuse
noun, feminine
infectious disease
maladie mentale
noun, feminine
mental illness
maladie orpheline
noun, feminine
orphan disease
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
maladie rare
noun, feminine
rare disease
sexually transmitted disease
maladif
adjective
sickly (habitually sick); poorly (not well, sick); pathological; diseased (having ill character)
sickly; pathologically
maladrerie
noun, feminine
leprosarium
maladresse
noun, feminine
clumsiness; tactlessness; awkwardness; mistake, blunder
maladroit
adjective
awkward; clumsy; maladroit
awkwardly; maladroitly
malaga
noun, masculine
Malaga (grape or wine)
malaire
adjective
malar
malais
adjective
Malay
malais
noun, masculine
Malay language
malaisant
adjective
cringey, cringeworthy, awkward
malaise
noun, masculine
malaise, uneasiness, cringe; episode of being taken ill, especially suddenly
malaisien
adjective
Malaysian
malaisé
adjective
difficult, awkward
uneasily
malandre
noun, feminine
malanders; leprosy
malandrin
noun, masculine
brigand; robber
malappris
adjective
uncivilized, uneducated, ill-mannered
malappris
noun, masculine
rascal, troublemaker
malard
noun, masculine
drake
malaria
noun, feminine
malaria
malart
noun, masculine
alternative spelling of malard
malavisé
adjective
unwise, injudicious, unadvised
unwisely, injudiciously, unadvisedly
malawien
adjective
Malawian
malawite
adjective
Malawian
malaxage
noun, masculine
malaxage
to knead; to massage
malaxeur
noun, masculine
malaxator, mixer
malayalam
noun, masculine
Malayalam (language)