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[edit] Etymology
Probably from Old English buttuc (“end, short piece of land”), attested since circa 1300, presumed cognate with butt.
[edit] Pronunciation
- (US) IPA: /ˈbʌ.tək/, [ˈbʌ.ɾək]
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buttock (plural buttocks)
- (usually in the plural) Each of the two large fleshy halves of the posterior part of the body between the base of the back and the top of the legs.
[edit] Usage notes
The plural form is usually used in the singular sense for a single person's posterior, often called butt. It is rarer to refer to only a single buttock, which is then usually specified as left or right.
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[edit] Translations
each of the two large fleshy halves of the posterior part of the body
- Afrikaans: boude
- Albanian: prapanicë (sq) f.
- Ancient Greek: πυγή
- Arabic: دُبْر (ar) (dubr) m., رِدْف (ar) (ridf) m., رِدْفان (ar) (ridfān) m.
- Armenian: հետույք (hy) (hetuyk’)
- Bulgarian: бут (bg) m.
- Catalan: natja (ca) f.
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 籮有 (loryau) or 屎忽 (sifucd)
- Mandarin: 屁股 (cmn) (pìgu), 臀部 (cmn) (túnbù)
- Czech: zadek m. (though singular, used for "buttocks")
- Danish: balde (da) c., balle (da) c.
- Dutch: bil (nl) f.
- Esperanto: sidvango
- Finnish: pakara (fi)
- French: fesse (fr) f.
- Georgian: დუნდულოი (ka) (dunduloi)
- German: Hinterbacke (de) f., (colloquial) Pobacke (de) f., Backe (de) f.
- Greek: γλουτός (el) (gloutós) m.
- Hebrew: עכוז (he) (akuz) m.
- Hungarian: fenék (hu)
- Icelandic: rasskinn (is) f.
- Italian: gluteo (it) m., natica (it) f., deretano (it), sedere (it), chiappe (it)
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- Japanese: 尻 (ja) (しり, shiri)
- Korean: 궁둥이 (ko) (gungdung-i), 엉덩이 (ko) (eongdeong-i), 볼기 (ko) (bolgi)
- Kurdish: قن
- Latin: natis (la), clūnis (la)
- Latvian: sēžamvieta f. (used for "buttocks"), vaigs (lv)
- Luhya: litakho
- Malay: buntut (ms)
- Malayalam: ചന്തി (chanthi), നിതംബം (nithambam), പൃഷ്ഠം (ml) (prushTam)
- Polish: pośladek (pl) m., pośladki (pl) pl.
- Portuguese: nádega f., traseiro m., fundilhos m. pl.
- Romanian: bucă (ro) f., buci (ro) f. pl.
- Russian: ягодица (ru) (jágodica) f. (plural: ягодицы (ru) (jágodicy) f. pl.), попа (ru) (pópa) f. (sg. used for buttocks)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic spelling: гуз (sh) m.
- Roman spelling: guz (sh) m.
- Spanish: nalga (es) f.
- Swahili: tako (sw)
- Swedish: skinka (sv)
- Tagalog: puwit
- Turkish: makat, kaba et, kalça (also the whole butt)
- Volapük: glüet (vo)
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[edit] References
- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
- “buttock” in the Online Etymology Dictionary, Douglas Harper, 2001
