foreskin

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From fore- + skin.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈfɔːskɪn/

Noun

foreskin (plural foreskins)

1. The retractable fold of skin encompassing the most nerve-dense tissue in the human male, which naturally covers and protects the head of the penis.

   And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.  — Genesis 17:14, the Christian Bible.

   In primates, the foreskin is present in the genitalia of both sexes and likely has been present for millions of years of evolution.

Synonyms

• prepuce
• See also Wikisaurus:foreskin

Translations

fold of skin

See also prepuce Arabic: قلفة (ar) (qálfa) f. Armenian: թլիփ (hy) (t’lip’) Catalan: prepuci (ca) Chinese: Cantonese: 包皮 (baau1 pei4) Mandarin: 包皮 (cmn) (bāopí) Danish: forhud (da) c. Dutch: voorhuid (nl) Estonian: eesnahk (et) Finnish: esinahka (fi) French: prépuce (fr) m. German: Vorhaut (de) f., Präputium (de) m. Hebrew: עָרְלָה, עוֹרְלָה Icelandic: forhúð (is) f. Ido: prepuco (io)

Igbo: àpị Indonesian: kulup (id) Italian: prepuzio (it) m. Japanese: 包皮 (ja) (ほうひ, hōhi) Korean: 포피 (ko) (popi) Maltese: prepuzju (mt) m. Northern Sami: ovdanáhkki Old English: filmen (ang) n. Polish: napletek (pl) m. Portuguese: prepúcio (pt) Romanian: prepuț (ro) n. Russian: крайняя плоть (ru) (krájnjaja plot'), препуций (ru) (prepúcij) m. Serbian: predkožica, obrezak m. Slovak: predkožka (sk) f. Spanish: prepucio (es) m. Swedish: förhud (sv) Turkish: sünnet derisi (tr), prepusyum (tr)

See also

• circumcise, circumcision