shinbone

English

Etymology

From Middle English schinboon, schineboon, from Old English scinbān (“shin, shinbone”), equivalent to shin +‎ bone. Cognate with Dutch scheenbeen (“shinbone”), German Schienbein (“shinbone”), Danish skinneben (“shin, shinbone”), Swedish skenben (“shinbone”).

Noun

shinbone (plural shinbones)

1. (anatomy) The tibia.

Translations

tibia

• Arabic: قصبة (ar) (qáSaba) f

  Egyptian Arabic: قصبة الرجل (ʔaṣabet e-regl) f

• Armenian: ոլոք (hy) (olokʻ) 
• Chamicuro: to'sona
• Czech: holenní kost (cs) f
• Danish: skinneben (da) n
• Dutch: scheenbeen (nl) n
• Esperanto: tibio (eo)
• Finnish: sääriluu (fi)
• Georgian: წვივი (ka) (tsʻvivi) 
• German: Schienbein (de) n

• Hungarian: sípcsont (hu)
• Japanese: 脛骨 (けいこつ, keikotsu)
• Korean: 정강이뼈 (jeonggangippyeo)
• Lithuanian: blauzdikaulis
• Manx: craue lurgey (gv)
• Norwegian: skinneben
• Polish: kość piszczelowa
• Portuguese: tíbia (pt) f
• Spanish: tibia (es) f
• Swedish: skenben (sv)

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