English [edit]
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Etymology [edit]
From Middle English stomak, from Old French estomac, from Latin stomachus, from Ancient Greek στόμαχος (stomakhos), from στόμα (stoma, “mouth”). Displaced native Middle English mawe (“stomach, maw”) (from Old English maga), Middle English bouk, buc (“belly, stomach”) (from Old English buc (“belly, stomach”), see bucket).
Pronunciation [edit]
stomach (plural stomachs)
- An organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion.
- (informal) The belly.
- (obsolete) Pride, haughtiness.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii:
- Sterne was his looke, and full of stomacke vaine, / His portaunce terrible, and stature tall [...].
- (obsolete) Appetite.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.ii.1.2:
- If after seven hours' tarrying he shall have no stomach, let him defer his meal, or eat very little at his ordinary time of repast.
- (figuratively) Desire, appetite (for something abstract).
- I have no stomach for a fight today.
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Derived terms [edit]
Terms derived from the noun "stomach"
Translations [edit]
digestive organ
- Afar: please add this translation if you can
- Afrikaans: maag (af)
- Albanian: stomak (sq)
- Amharic: please add this translation if you can
- Arabic: معدة (ar) (máʕida, míʕda) f
- Egyptian Arabic: معدة (meʕda) f
- Aragonese: please add this translation if you can
- Aramaic:
- Syriac: ܐܣܛܘܡܟܐ (’isṬōmkā’) m
- Hebrew: אסטומכא (’isṬōmkā’) m
- Armenian: ստամոքս (hy) (stamok's)
- Assamese: please add this translation if you can
- Asturian: estómagu (ast) m
- Aymara: please add this translation if you can
- Azeri: mədə (az), qarın (az)
- Belarusian: страўнік (be) (stráŭnik) m
- Bengali: পাকস্থলী (bn) (pakôsthôli)
- Breton: stomog (br) m
- Bulgarian: стомах (bg) (stomáh) m
- Burmese: ဝမ်း (my) (wun:)
- Catalan: estómac (ca) m
- Chamicuro: knani
- Chichewa: please add this translation if you can
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 胃 (wai6)
- Mandarin: 胃 (cmn) (wèi), 肚子 (cmn) (dùzi)
- Czech: žaludek (cs) m
- Danish: bug (da) c
- Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
- Dutch: maag (nl) f
- Esperanto: stomako (eo)
- Estonian: kõht (et), magu (et)
- Ewe: please add this translation if you can
- Extremaduran: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: mahalaukku (fi), vatsalaukku (fi)
- French: estomac (fr) m
- Friulian: please add this translation if you can
- Galician: estómago (gl) m
- Georgian: კუჭი (ka) (kuči)
- German: Magen (de) m
- Greek: στομάχι (el) (stomáchi) n , στόμαχος (el) (stómachos) m
- Ancient Greek: στόμαχος (stómachos) m, γαστήρ (ɣastír) m
- Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
- Hausa: please add this translation if you can
- Hawaiian: ʻōpū
- Hebrew: קיבה (he) (qebah) f
- Hindi: अमाशय (hi) (amāśay) m
- Hungarian: gyomor (hu)
- Icelandic: magi (is) m
- Ido: stomako (io)
- Igbo: please add this translation if you can
- Indonesian: perut (id)
- Interlingua: please add this translation if you can
- Interlingue: please add this translation if you can
- Italian: stomaco (it) m
- Japanese: 胃 (ja) (い, i), お腹 (ja) (おなか, o-naka), 腹 (ja) (はら, hara)
- Javanese: please add this translation if you can
- Kazakh: асқазан (kk) (asqazan)
- Khmer: ក្រពះ (km) (krɑpeah)
- Kinyarwanda: please add this translation if you can
- Kirundi: please add this translation if you can
- Korean: 위 (ko) (wi) (胃)
- Lao: ກະເພາະ (lo) (ka phǫ)
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belly
- Afrikaans: buik (af)
- Albanian: bark (sq)
- Arabic: معدة (ar) (máʿida, míʿda) f, بطن (ar) (baṭn) m
- Aramaic:
- Syriac: ܟܪܣܐ (karsā’) f
- Hebrew: כרסא (karsā’) f
- Armenian: փոր (hy) (p’or)
- Azeri: qarın (az)
- Baluchi: لاپ (láp)
- Belarusian: жывот (be) (žyvót) m , чэрава (be) (čérava) n
- Bengali: পেট (bn) (peţ)
- Bulgarian: корем (bg) (korém) m , шкембе (bg) (škembe)
- Burmese: ဗိုက် (my) (baik)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 腹部 (cmn) (fùbù), 肚子 (cmn) (dùzi)
- Czech: břicho (cs) n
- Dutch: buik (nl)
- Estonian: kõht (et), magu (et)
- Finnish: maha (fi), vatsa (fi)
- French: ventre (fr) m, bedon (fr) m (pot belly)
- Georgian: მუცელი (ka) (muc'eli)
- German: Bauch (de) m
- Greek: στομάχι (el) (stomáchi) n , κοιλιά (el) (koiliá) f
- Hebrew: בֶּטֶן (he) (béten) f
- Hindi: पेट (hi) (pēṭ) m
- Hungarian: has (hu)
- Indonesian: perut (id)
- Italian: pancia (it) f
- Japanese: お腹 (ja) (おなか, o-naka), 腹 (ja) (はら, hara)
- Kalenjin: moek
- Kazakh: қарын (kk) (qarın)
- Khmer: ក្បាលពោះ (km) (kbaal pʊəh)
- Korean: 배 (ko) (bae)
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: زگ (ku) (zig), ورگ (ku) (wirg)
- Kyrgyz: карын (ky) (qarın)
- Latgalian: vādars m
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- Latvian: vēders (lv) m
- Lithuanian: pilvas (lt) m
- Luhya: enda
- Macedonian: стомак (mk) (stómak) m, мев (mk) (mev) m
- Malay: perut (ms)
- Maltese: żaqq (mt) f
- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- Navajo: abid
- Norwegian: mage (no) m, buk (no) m
- Persian: شکم (fa) (šekam)
- Polish: brzuch (pl) m
- Portuguese: barriga (pt) f
- Russian: живот (ru) (živót) m , (disparaging) брюхо (ru) (brjúxo) n , пузо (ru) (púzo) n , (archaic, poetic, ironic) чрево (ru) (črévo) n
- Scottish Gaelic: brù (gd) f, balg (gd) m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: трбух (sh) m
- Roman: trbuh (sh) m
- Sicilian: panza f
- Slovak: brucho (sk) n
- Slovene: trebuh (sl) m
- Spanish: barriga (es) f, vientre (es) m
- Swahili: tumbo (sw)
- Swedish: buk (sv), mage (sv) c
- Tajik: шикам (tg) (šikam)
- Thai: ท้อง (th) (tóng)
- Tok Pisin: bel (tpi)
- Turkish: karın (tr)
- Turkmen: garyn (tk)
- Tuvan: хырын (khyryn)
- Ukrainian: живіт (uk) (žyvít) m , черево (uk) (čérevo) n
- Urdu: پیٹ (ur) (pēṭ) m
- Vietnamese: bụng (vi)
- Volapük: bälid (vo)
- Yiddish: בויך (yi) (boykh) m
- Zulu: isisu (zu) 7/8
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figuratively: desire, appetite
— see appetite
stomach (third-person singular simple present stomachs, present participle stomaching, simple past and past participle stomached)
- (transitive) To be able to tolerate (something), emotionally, physically, or mentally; to be able to stand or handle something.
- I really can’t stomach jobs involving that much paperwork, but some people seem to tolerate them.
- I can't stomach her cooking.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To be angry.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Hooker to this entry?)
Derived terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
to tolerate or accept something
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