labia majora

English

Etymology

From Latin (meaning “larger lips”).

Noun

labia majora pl (normally plural, singular labium majus)

1. (anatomy, primatology) The two outer rounded folds of adipose tissue that lie on either side of the opening of the vagina.
   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 162:

     A new technology has enabled man to take gardening away from women and turn it into agriculture; the plow is the great phallus that separates the labia majora of the furrows of earth, and the plow is under the majesty of Enki.

Hypernyms

• labioscrotal swelling

Translations

outer folds of vulva

• Bengali: লেবিয়া মেজরা (lebiẏa mejra), বহিস্থ যোনিওষ্ঠ (bohistho jōniōśṭho), বৃহদোষ্ঠ (brihodōśṭho)
• Catalan: llavis majors m pl
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 大陰脣／大阴唇 (daai⁶ jam¹ seon⁴)

  Mandarin: 大陰脣／大阴唇 (zh) (dàyīnchún)

• Estonian: suured häbememokad pl
• Finnish: isot häpyhuulet pl, ulommat häpyhuulet pl
• French: grandes lèvres (fr) f pl, lèvres externes f pl
• German: große Schamlippen f pl
• Hebrew: שפתיים גדולות f pl
• Hindi: वृहत् भगोष्ठ (vŕhat bhagoṣṭh)
• Hungarian: nagyajkak pl
• Italian: grandi labbra f
• Japanese: 大陰唇 (ja) (だいいんしん, daiinshin)
• Korean: 대음순(大陰脣) (daeeumsun)
• Malayalam: ഭഗോഷ്ഠം (bhagōṣṭhaṁ)
• Maori: raho
• Marathi: प्रथमद्वीदला (prathmadvīdlā), प्रथमाजिवणी (prathmājivṇī), बाह्यजिवणी (bāhyajivṇī), बाह्यचीरी (bāhyacīrī), बाह्यभेगा (bāhyabhegā), बाह्यद्वीदला (bāhyadvīdlā), अग्रजिवणी (agrajivṇī), अग्रचीरी (agracīrī), अग्रभेगा (agrabhegā), अग्रद्वीदला (agradvīdlā), जिवणी (jivṇī), चीरी (cīrī), भेगा (bhegā), द्वीदला (dvīdlā), बाह्यभेगोष्ठ (bāhyabhegoṣṭha)
• Persian: لب‌های بزرگ (lab-hâ-ye bozorg)
• Polish: wargi sromowe większe f pl
• Portuguese: lábios maiores m pl
• Russian: больши́е половы́е гу́бы (ru) f pl (bolʹšíje polovýje gúby)
• Spanish: labios mayores m
• Swedish: yttre blygdläpparna c pl
• Tagalog: labing panlabas
• Turkish: dış dudaklar pl
• Ukrainian: вели́кі стате́ві гу́би f pl (velýki statévi húby)
• Vietnamese: môi lớn

See also

• labia minora