gullet

English

WOTD – 4 May 2009    

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA: /ˈɡʌl.ɪt/, /ˈɡʌl.ət/

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• Rhymes: -ʌlɪt
• Rhymes: -ʌlət

Etymology

From Old English golet, Old French goulet, from Latin gula.

Noun

gullet (plural gullets)

1. The throat or esophagus.
2. (cytology) The cytopharynx of a ciliate, through which food is ingested.
3. The space between the teeth of a saw blade.
4. A channel for water.
5. A preparatory cut or channel in excavations, of sufficient width for the passage of earth wagons.

Synonyms

• (throat or esophagus): gorge
• (cytopharynx): cytopharynx

Translations

the throat or esophagus

• Catalan: esòfag (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 食道 (cmn) (shídào), 食管 (cmn) (shíguǎn)

• Czech: jícen (cs) m
• Dutch: slokdarm (nl) m
• Finnish: kurkku (fi)
• French: œsophage (fr) m, gosier (fr) m
• German: Speiseröhre (de) f
• Hungarian: garat (hu), nyelőcső (hu)
• Italian: esofago (it) m
• Japanese: 食道 (ja) (しょくどう, shokudō)
• Korean: 밥줄 (ko) (babjul, bapjul), 식도 (ko) (sigdo, sikdo) (食道 (ko))

• Latin: gula (la), gurgulio (la), guttur (la)
• Navajo: azágí
• Norwegian: spiserør (no) n
• Persian: گلو (fa) (galu)
• Polish: przełyk (pl) m
• Portuguese: goela (pt) f
• Russian: пищевод (ru) (piščevód) m 
• Scottish Gaelic: slugan (gd) m, sgòrnan (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гркљан (sh) m, једњак (sh) m

  Roman: grkljan (sh) m, jednjak (sh) m

• Spanish: esófago (es) m
• Swedish: matstrupe (sv)
• Tok Pisin: mambu bilong nek (tpi)

cytopharynx — see cytopharynx

See also

craw crop esophagus

throat trachea windpipe

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Norwegian

Noun

gullet

1. Definite singular of gull

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Swedish

Noun

gullet

1. definite singular of gull