throat

English

Etymology

From Middle English throte, from Old English þrote, þrota, þrotu (“throat”), from Proto-Germanic *þrutō (“throat”), from Proto-Indo-European *trud- (“to swell, become stiff”). Cognate with Dutch strot (“throat”), German Droß (“throat”), Icelandic þroti (“swelling”).

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /ˈθɹəʊt/, SAMPA: /"Tr@Ut/
• (GenAm) IPA: /ˈθɹoʊt/, SAMPA: /"TroUt/

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• Rhymes: -əʊt

Noun

throat (plural throats)

1. The front part of the neck.

   The wild pitch bounced and hit the catcher in the throat.

2. The gullet or windpipe.

   As I swallowed I felt something strange in my throat.

3. A narrow opening in a vessel.

   The water leaked out from the throat of the bottle.

4. station throat

Synonyms

• (gullet): esophagus (US), gullet, oesophagus (British)
• (windpipe): trachea, windpipe
• (narrow opening in a vessel): neck, bottleneck (of a bottle)

Translations

front part of the neck

Akkadian: 𒍣 (akk) (napištu, ZI) Arabic: حنجرة (ar) (Húnjura) f., حلقوم (ar) (Hulquum) m. Armenian: կոկորդ (hy) (kokord) Asturian: gargüelu (ast) m. Belarusian: горла (be) (hórla) n. Bulgarian: гърло (bg) (gǎrlo) n.,гръклян (bg) (grǎklján) m., гуша (bg) Catalan: gola (ca) f. Chamicuro: nu'pijkaplejcha Chinese: Mandarin: 嗓子 (zh) (sǎngzi), 喉嚨 (zh), 喉咙 (zh) (hóulóng) Czech: hrdlo (cs) n. Danish: hals (da) Dutch: keel (nl) Esperanto: gorĝo (eo) Estonian: kurk (et) Finnish: kurkku (fi) French: gorge (fr) f. Georgian: ყელი (ka) (qeli) German: Kehle (de) f. Greek: λαιμός (el) (lemós) m. Hebrew: גרון (he) (garon) Hindi: गला (hi) (galā) m. Hungarian: torok (hu) Italian: gola (it) f. Japanese: 喉 (ja) (のど, nodo) Kazakh: тамақ (kk) (tamaq)

Korean: 멱 (ko), 멱살 (ko) (myeoksal) Kurdish: قورگ (ku) (qurg), گه‌روو (ku) (gerú), گه‌لوو (ku) (gelú) Latvian: rīkle f. Malayalam: തൊണ്ട (thonta) Maltese: gerżuma (mt) f. Norwegian: hals (no) m. Occitan: gargamèla f., garganta f. Persian: گلو (fa) (galu) Polish: gardło (pl) n. Portuguese: garganta (pt) f. Romanian: gât (ro) n. Russian: горло (ru) (górlo) n. Scottish Gaelic: sgòrnan m. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: грло (sh) n., грк (sh) m., гркљан (sh) m., гуша (sh) f. Roman: grlo n., grk m., grkljan m., guša f. Sicilian: ula f. Slovak: hrdlo (sk) n. Spanish: garganta (es) f. Swedish: hals (sv) c., strupe (sv) Telugu: పీక (te) (pika) Thai: ลำคอ (th) (lamkor) Ukrainian: горло (uk) (hórlo) n. Urdu: گلا (ur) (galā) m. Vietnamese: cuống họng (vi), họng (vi) Volapük: gug (vo)

gullet or windpipe

Armenian: կոկորդ (hy) (kokord) Aymara: mallq'a (ay) Danish: svælg (da), hals (da) Dutch: keel (nl) Estonian: kõri (et) Finnish: kurkku (fi) German: Kehle (de) f., Rachen (de) m. Greek: τραχεία (el) (trahía) f., λαιμός (el) (lemós) m. Guaraní: asen'ó (gn) Korean: 목구멍 (ko) (mokgumeong) Mapudungun: peŀ (arn)

Norwegian: hals (no) m., svelg (no) n. Old English: wāsend (ang) m. and f. Portuguese: garganta (pt) f. Quechua: tunqori (qu) (Bolivia); tuncuri (qu) (Ecuador) Romanian: gât (ro) Russian: горло (ru) (górlo) n. Scottish Gaelic: sgòrnan (gd) m. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: грло (sh) n., гуша (sh) f., душник (sh) m. Roman: grlo (sh) n., guša (sh) f., dušnik (sh) m. Spanish: tráquea (es) f. Swedish: hals (sv) c. Telugu: గొంతు (te) (goṁtu)

narrow opening in a vessel

Danish: hals (da) Dutch: hals (nl) Estonian: kael (et) (of a bottle) Finnish: kaula (fi) (of a bottle) French: goulot (fr) m. (of a bottle) German: Hals (de) m., Flaschenhals (de) m. (of a bottle) Korean: 목 (ko) (mok)

Latvian: kakliņš (lv) m. Portuguese: gargalo (pt) m. Russian: горло (ru) (górlo) n., горлышко (ru) (górlyško) n. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: грло (sh) n., грлић (sh) m. Roman: grlo (sh) n., grlić (sh) m. Slovak: hrdlo (sl) n. Spanish: cuello (es) m. (of a bottle) Swedish: hals (sv) c., flaskhals (sv) c. (of a bottle)

station throat — see station throat

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Mandarin: 喉頭 (zh), 喉头 (zh) (hóu tóu), 喉 (zh) Italian: gola (it) f. Korean: 인후 (ko) (inhu)

Derived terms

• clear one's throat
• cutthroat
• deepthroat
• Deep Throat
• have a frog in one's throat
• sore throat
• station throat
• stick in one's throat
• throaty
• whitethroat

Related terms

• throttle

External links

• Throat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Throat (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Throat (disambiguation)
• throat in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• throat in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911