navel

English

Wikipedia

A navel.

Alternative forms

• navil (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English, navel, navele, from Old English nafela, from Proto-Germanic *nabalô (compare West Frisian nâle, Dutch navel, German Nabel), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃nobʰilos (compare Irish imleac, Latin umbilicus, Ancient Greek ὀμφαλός (omphalós)), diminutive of *h₃nobʰ- (compare English nave). More at nave.

Pronunciation

• enPR: nā'vəl, IPA: /ˈneɪvəl/, X-SAMPA: /"neIv@l/
• Rhymes: -eɪvəl
• Homophone: naval

Noun

navel (plural navels)

1. (anatomy) The indentation or bump remaining in the abdomen of mammals where the umbilical cord was attached before birth.
2. The central part or point of anything; the middle.

   Within the navel of this hideous wood, / Immured in cypress shades, a sorcerer dwells. — Milton.

Synonyms

• belly button (colloquial)
• umbilicus

Derived terms

• navel-gazing
• navel orange

See also

• innie
• outie

Translations

remnant of umbilical cord

• Albanian: kërthizë (sq) f
• Arabic: سُرّة (ar) (súrra) f

  Egyptian Arabic: سرة (sora) f

• Armenian: պորտ (hy) (port)
• Aromanian: buric (rup)
• Asturian: embeligru (ast) m, ombligu (ast) m
• Aymara: kururu (ay)
• Baluchi: ناپگ (nápag)
• Berber:

  Tashelhit: abuḍ m

• Borôro: künabo
• Breton: begel
• Catalan: melic m, llombrígol m
• Chamicuro: mocho
• Chichewa: mchombo
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 肚臍 (cmn), 肚脐 (cmn) (dùqí), 臍 (cmn), 脐 (cmn) (qí)

• Coptic: ϧⲉⲗⲡⲓ (xelbi, xelpi) f
• Cornish: begel (kw) m
• Czech: pupek (cs) m
• Danish: navle (da) c
• Dutch: navel (nl) m
• Esperanto: umbiliko (eo)
• Estonian: naba (et)
• Fijian: vico
• Finnish: napa (fi)
• French: nombril (fr) m
• Friulian: umbričon
• Galician: embigo m
• Georgian: ჭიპი (ka) (čʻipi)
• German: Bauchnabel (de) m, Nabel (de) m
• Greek: ομφαλός (el) (omfalós) m, (colloquial) αφαλός (el) (afalós) m
• Guaraní: puru'â (gn)
• Gujarati: નાભિ (gu) (nābhi)
• Hawaiian: piko
• Hebrew: טבור (he) (tabúr)
• Hindi: नाभि (hi) (nābhi) f, नाफ़ (hi) (nāf) f
• Hungarian: köldök (hu)
• Icelandic: nafli (is) m
• Ilocano: puseg
• Indonesian: pusat (id), pusar (id)
• Irish: imleac (ga) f
• Ishkashimi: ناف (nāf)
• Italian: ombelico (it) m, (unusual) onfalo (it) m

• Japanese: 臍 (ja) (へそ, heso)
• Korean: 배꼽 (ko) (baekkop)
• Kurdish: navik (ku) f
• Latgalian: pupona
• Latin: umbilicus (la) m
• Latvian: naba (lv)
• Lithuanian: bamba (lt)
• Livonian: nabā
• Lule Sami: náhpe
• Macedonian: папок (mk) (papok) m
• Malay: pusat (ms), pusar (ms), pusar (ms)
• Maori: pito (mi), ihonga (mi)
• Mongolian: хүйс (mn) (hüjs)
• Navajo: atsʼééʼ
• Ngarrindjeri: pulanggi
• Norwegian: navle (no) m
• Occitan: embonilh (oc), monilh (oc)
• Ottoman Turkish: ناف (nâf), گوبك (göbek)
• Persian: ناف (nâf)
• Polish: pępek (pl) m
• Portuguese: umbigo (pt) m
• Romanian: buric (ro) n
• Russian: пупок (ru) (pupók) m
• Sanskrit: नाभि (sa) (nābhi) f
• Sardinian: imbílicu (sc), imbírigu (sc)
• Scottish Gaelic: imleag (gd) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пу̏пак (sh) m

  Roman: pȕpak (sh) m

• Slovak: pupok (sk) m
• Slovene: pópek (sl) m
• Spanish: ombligo (es) m
• Swahili: kitovu (noun 7/8)
• Swedish: navel (sv) c
• Tamil: தொப்புள் (ta) (toppul)
• Telugu: నాభి (te) (nAbhi), బొడ్డు (te) (boDDu)
• Turkish: göbek (tr)
• Tuvan: хиндик (khindik)
• Ukrainian: пупок (uk) (pupók) m
• Urdu: نابھی (ur) (nābhi) f, ناف (ur) (nāf) f
• Veps: naba
• Vietnamese: rốn (vi), rún (vi)
• Volapük: numbril (vo)
• Võro: naba
• Welsh: bogail (cy)

Anagrams

• Alven, venal

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Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch navele, navel, from Old Dutch *navalo, from Proto-Germanic *nabalô.

Pronunciation

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Noun

navel m (plural navels, diminutive naveltje)

1. navel

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Swedish

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Noun

navel c

1. navel

Declension

Declension of navel

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	navel	naveln	navlar	navlarna
genitive	navels	navelns	navlars	navlarnas