prepuce

See also prépuce

English

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• præpuce (obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin praeputium.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈpriːpjuːs/

Noun

prepuce (plural prepuces)

1. (anatomy) The foreskin, or retractable fold of tissue covering the tip (glans) of the penis.

   1922, Jehovah, collector of prepuces, is no more. — James Joyce, Ulysses

   1985, But there are a fair number of halfway Jews – you know, those who want God without having to have their prepuces torn off to get him. — Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked

2. (anatomy) The corresponding part of the clitoris.

Synonyms

• foreskin
• preputium
• akroposthion
• (part of the clitoris): clitoral hood
• See also Wikisaurus:foreskin

Translations

prepuce

Afrikaans: voorhuid (af) Albanian: lafshë (sq) f. Arabic: قلفة (ar) (qálfa) f. Armenian: թլիփ (hy) (t’lip’) Azeri: please add this translation if you can Basque: please add this translation if you can Belarusian: крайняя плоць (be) (krájnjaja ploc') f. Bulgarian: препуциум (bg) (preputsium) m. Catalan: prepuci (ca) Chinese: Cantonese: 包皮 (baau1 pei4) Mandarin: 包皮 (cmn) (bāopí) Czech: předkožka (cs) f. Danish: forhud (da) c. Dhivehi: ފިރިހެން ހަށީގެ ބޯ ނިވައިކޮށްދޭ ހަންކޮޅު (dv) Dutch: voorhuid (nl) f. Esperanto: prepucio (eo) Estonian: eesnahk (et) Finnish: esinahka (fi) French: prépuce (fr) m. Georgian: ჩუჩი (ka) (č’uč’i) German: Präputium (de) m., Vorhaut (de) n. Greek: ακροποσθία (el) f. Hebrew: עוֹרְלָה (he) (orla) f. Hindi: please add this translation if you can Hungarian: fityma (hu), előbőr (hu)

Icelandic: forhúð (is) f. Ido: prepuco (io) Irish: forchraiceann (ga) m. Italian: prepuzio (it) m. Japanese: 包皮 (ja) (ほうひ, hōhi) Korean: 포피 (ko) (popi) Latin: praeputium (la) n. Latvian: priekšāda (lv) f. Lithuanian: apyvarpė (lt) Maltese: prepuzju (mt) m. Norwegian: forhud (no) m. Persian: پوست ختنه گاه (fa) Polish: napletek (pl) m. Portuguese: prepúcio (pt) m. Romanian: prepuț (ro) n. Russian: крайняя плоть (ru) (krájnjaja plot') f., препуций (ru) (prepúcij) m. Serbo-Croatian: prepucij (sh) m., prepucijum (sh) m., predkožica (sh) f., obrezak (sh) m. Slovak: predkožka (sk) f. Slovene: prepucij (sl) m. Spanish: prepucio (es) m. Swedish: förhud (sv) c. Thai: หนังหุ้มปลายองคชาติ (th) (năng hôom bplaai ongkáchâat) Turkish: sünnet derisi (tr) Ukrainian: крайня плоть (uk) (krájnja plot’) f., препуцій (uk) (prepúcij) m. Urdu: please add this translation if you can Vietnamese: bao quy đầu (vi)

Derived terms

• preputiotomy

See also

• circumcise, circumcision

Anagrams

• creep up

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Middle French

Noun

prepuce m. (plural prepuces)

1. foreskin