disabled

English

Etymology

From disable +‎ -ed.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): [dɪsˈeɪbəɫd]

• Audio (US):

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Adjective

disabled (comparative more disabled, superlative most disabled)

1. Made incapable of use or action.
   • 1911 March, “From Brittania Lodge, No. 361”, in Railway Carmen's Journal, volume 16, number 3, page 129:

     In the car department we would repair cars that were disabled and placed in bad order by a bunch of scalies taking the place of striking switchmen, engineers, Firemen, etc.

2. Having a disability.
3. (law) Legally disqualified.

Synonyms

• incapacitated
• indisposed
• invalid

 

Antonyms

• abled
• enabled

 

Derived terms

• antidisabled
• disabledness
• multidisabled
• neurodisabled
• nondisabled
• predisabled
• semidisabled
• undisabled

 

Compound words

• intellectually disabled
• learning-disabled
• print-disabled (or print disabled)

 

Expressions

• disabled list
• disabled sport

 

Translations

made incapable of use or action

• Bulgarian: изключен (izključen)
• Catalan: invàlid
• Danish: ubrugelig (da), ukampdygtig
• Dutch: onklaar (nl), uitgeschakeld (nl)
• Finnish: toimintakyvytön, käyttökelvoton (fi)
• German: gesperrt (de), deaktiviert (de)
• Hungarian: üzemképtelen (hu)
• Irish: díchumasaithe
• Italian: disabilitato (it)
• Norwegian: bevegelseshemmet
• Polish: wyłączony, zdezaktywowany
• Portuguese: desativado (pt), desabilitado (pt)
• Romanian: dezactivat m
• Russian: отклю́ченный (ru) (otkljúčennyj), деактиви́рованный (ru) (deaktivírovannyj)
• Swedish: deaktiverad, avaktiverad, avstängd (sv)

having a disability

• Arabic: مُعَوَّق (muʕawwaq)
• Armenian: հաշմանդամ (hy) (hašmandam)
• Bulgarian: недъгав (bg) (nedǎgav), инвалиден (invaliden)
• Burmese: ဒုက္ခိတ (my) (dukhki.ta.)
• Catalan: minusvàlid (ca), discapacitat (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 殘疾的 / 残疾的 (zh) (cánjí de)

• Czech: postižený (cs) m, invalidní (cs)
• Danish: handicappet
• Dutch: gehandicapt (nl), invalide (nl), mindervalide (nl)
• Esperanto: invalida (eo), labornekapabla, labormaltaŭga, malkapabla, handikapita
• Finnish: vammainen (fi), invalidi (fi), toimintarajoitteinen (fi)
• French: handicapé (fr) m, handicapée (fr) f, infirme (fr) m or f, invalide (fr) m or f
• Georgian: ინვალიდი (invalidi), შეზღუდული შესაძლებლობების მქონე პირი (šezɣuduli šesaʒleblobebis mkone ṗiri)
• German: behindert (de)
• Greek: ανάπηρος (el) (anápiros)
• Hebrew: נָכֶה (he) m (naché), מנוטרל (menutrál)
• Hungarian: mozgáskorlátozott (hu), mozgássérült (hu), fogyatékkal élő, (dated) rokkant (hu), (possibly offensive) fogyatékos (hu)
• Icelandic: fatlaður
• Interlingua: dishabile
• Irish: faoi mhíchumas
• Italian: disabile (it)
• Kazakh: мүгедек (mügedek)
• Latin: debilis
• Macedonian: инвали́д m (invalíd), хендикепирано лице n (hendikepirano lice)
• Maori: hauā
• Norwegian: bevegelseshemmet

  Bokmål: ufør, funksjonshemmet

  Nynorsk: ufør

• Persian: معلول (fa) (ma'lul)
• Polish: niepełnosprawny (pl)
• Portuguese: deficiente (pt), inválido (pt)
• Russian: инвали́д (ru) m (invalíd) (noun), нетрудоспосо́бный (ru) (netrudosposóbnyj), неработоспосо́бный (ru) (nerabotosposóbnyj)
• Spanish: discapacitado (es), minusválido
• Swedish: funktionshindrad (sv), handikappad (sv), invalid (sv) (dated)
• Thai: พิการ (th) (pí-gaan)
• Turkish: çolak (tr), sakat (tr)
• Urdu: مَعْذُور (maʻẕūr)

for the use of people with physical disabilities

• Bulgarian: инвалиден (invaliden)
• Catalan: minusvàlid (ca)
• Danish: handicap-
• Dutch: gehandicapten-
• Finnish: vammaisten, vammais-
• German: behinderten-
• Hungarian: (applicable without restriction) akadálymentes (hu), (slightly colloquial) mozgássérült- (hu), mozgáskorlátozottak számára/​részére készült/​tervezett/​kijelölt/​kialakított/​fenntartott
• Icelandic: fötlunar-, örorku-, fyrir fatlaða
• Irish: inrochtana
• Italian: per i disabili
• Russian: инвали́дный (ru) (invalídnyj)
• Spanish: para discapacitados
• Urdu: مَعْذُور (maʻẕūr)

legally disqualified

• Finnish: pätemätön (fi)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Luxembourgish: ^{(please verify)} invalid
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} minusválido

Noun

disabled (plural disabled or disableds)

1. (nonstandard) One who is disabled. (often used collectively as the disabled, but sometimes also singular)

Translations

disabled one

• Apache:

  Western Apache: baa dahgoz’áni

• Belarusian: інвалі́д m (invalíd), інвалі́дка f (invalídka)
• Bulgarian: инвали́д (bg) m (invalíd)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 傷殘人 / 伤残人 (shāngcánrén)

• Danish: handicappet c
• Dutch: persoon met een beperking m (d), gehandicapte (nl) c (informal)
• Finnish: invalidi (fi), vammainen (fi)
• German: Mensch mit Behinderung m, der/die Behinderte (de) (informal)
• Icelandic: öryrki m
• Irish: duine faoi mhíchumas m
• Italian: disabile (it) m or f
• Japanese: 障害者 (ja) (しょうがいしゃ, shōgaisha)
• Korean: 장애인(障礙人) (ko) (jang'aein)
• Polish: inwalida (pl) m, inwalidka f
• Russian: инвали́д (ru) m (invalíd), инвали́дка (ru) f (invalídka)
• Spanish: minusválido m, discapacitado (es) m
• Ukrainian: інвалі́д m (invalíd), інвалі́дка f (invalídka)
• Yiddish: אינוואַליד m (invalid)

the disabled collectively

• Danish: handicappede c pl
• Dutch: invaliden (nl), (no indefinite article) gehandicapten (nl)
• Finnish: invalidit pl, vammaiset pl
• Italian: disabili (it) pl
• Japanese: 障害者 (ja) (しょうがいしゃ, shōgaisha)
• Korean: 장애인(障礙人) (ko) (jang'aein)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: (de) uføre

  Nynorsk: (dei) uføre

• Russian: инвали́ды (ru) m pl (invalídy)
• Somali: naafo (so)

Verb

disabled

1. simple past and past participle of disable