sodomy

English

Etymology

From Sodom, where the Bible, in Genesis chapters 18 and 19 and elsewhere, suggests sexual depravity.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈsɒdəmi/

Noun

sodomy (uncountable)

Wikipedia

1. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) Immorality in general.
2. Any of several forms of sexual intercourse held to be unnatural, particularly bestiality, but also (sometimes) anal or oral sex.
   • 2007, Christopher Berry-Dee, Serial Killers Up Close and Personal, page 12:

     […] engaged her in conversation as to where she was going, stated that he would take her to her destination directly, forced her to commit oral sodomy upon him […]

   They jailed her immediately after she was convicted of sodomy.

3. (in particular) anal sex

Synonyms

• (bestiality): bestiality, zoophilia
• (anal sex): anal sex, buggery

Coordinate terms

• scissoring

Derived terms

• sodomise, sodomize
• sodomy law
• sodomite

Translations

sex held to be unnatural

• Arabic: لواط (ar) (liwāṭ) m
• Catalan: sodomia (ca) f
• Finnish: sodomia (fi)
• German: Sodomie f (bestiality)
• Hungarian: szodómia (hu)
• Italian: sodomia (it) f

• Norwegian: sodomi (bestiality)
• Polish: sodomia (pl) f
• Romanian: sodomie (ro) f
• Russian: содомия (ru) (sodomíja) f
• Serbo-Croatian: sodòmija (sh) f, skotolòštvo (sh) n

anal sex — See also translations at : anal sex

Catalan: sodomia (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 雞姦 (cmn), 鸡奸 (cmn) (jījiān) Finnish: sodomia (fi) French: sodomie (fr) f German: Analverkehr (de) m, Sodomie (de) f (archaic in this sense) Greek: σοδομία (el) (sodomía) f Hungarian: szodómia (hu)

Italian: sodomia (it) f Japanese: 男色 (ja) (だんしょく, danshoku, なんしょく, nanshoku), 肛門性交 (ja) (こうもんせいこう, kōmon seisō), ソドミー (ja) (sodomī) Maori: moe whakaeneene (mi) Romanian: sodomie (ro) f Russian: содомия (ru) (sodomíja) f Sanskrit: तिर्यग्योनिगमन (sa) (tiryagyonigamana) n Spanish: sodomía (es) f Turkish: livata (tr)

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• Dutch: sodomie