vagina

See also vagína, vaġina, vágina, and Vagina

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Latin vāgīna (“sheath”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: vəjīʹnə, IPA: /vəˈdʒaɪnə/

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• Rhymes: -aɪnə

Noun

vagina (plural vaginas or vaginae or vaginæ)

1. (anatomy) The passage leading from the opening of the vulva to the cervix of the uterus in female mammals.
2. (zoology) A similar part in some invertebrates.
3. (botany) A sheath-like structure, such as the leaf of a grass that surrounds a stem.
4. (colloquial) The vulva.

Synonyms

• (anatomical passage or canal): See also Wikisaurus:vagina
• (vulva): See also Wikisaurus:vulva
• (botany): sheath

Derived terms

Terms derived from "vagina"

invaginate vagina dentata vaginal

vaginally vaginate vaginectomy

vaginismus vaginitis

Translations

anatomical sense

Albanian: vaginë (sq) f., vagjinë (sq) f. Amharic: እምስ (am) (əms) Amuzgo: jne Ancient Greek: μυχὴ Arabic: مهبل (ar) (máhbal, máhbil) m. Egyptian Arabic: ڤاچاينا (vādžāynā) Aragonese: vachina (an) Armenian: (formal) հեշտոց (hy) (heštoc’), (vulgar) պուց (hy) (puc’) Asturian: vaxina (ast) f. Azeri: vagina (az), uşaqlıq yolu (az) Bavarian: fud Belarusian: похва (be) (póxva) f. Breton: gouhin (br) Burmese: ယောနိ (my) (jo: ni.) Catalan: vagina (ca) Chamicuro: shaki Chinese: Cantonese: 陰道, 阴道 (jam1 dou6) Mandarin: 陰道 (zh), 阴道 (zh) (yīndào) Czech: pochva (cs) f., vagína (cs) f. Dutch: vagina (nl) f., schede (nl) f. (never used) Esperanto: vagino (eo) Estonian: tupp (et), vagiina (et) Finnish: emätin (fi) French: vagin (fr) m. Galician: vaxina (gl) f. Georgian: ვაგინა (ka) (vagina) German: Scheide (de) f., Vagina (de) f. Greek: κόλπος (el) (kolpos) m. Guaraní: rako (gn), tako (gn) Hebrew: נרתיק (he) (nartik) m. Hindi: यॊऩि (hi) (yoṉi) (formal, standard); बुर (hi) (bura) (substandard, informal), (common) योनि (hi) (yoni) f., चूत (hi) (cūt) f. (vulgar) Hungarian: hüvely (hu), vagina (hu) Icelandic: leggöng (is) n. pl., skeið (is) f., slíður (is) n. Ido: vagino (io) Indonesian: vagina (id), puki (id) Irish: faighin (ga) Italian: vagina (it) f. Japanese: 膣 (ja) (ちつ, chitsu), ワギナ (ja) (wagina) Kannada: ತುಲ್ಲು (kn) Khmer: យោនី (km) (younii) Korean: 보지 (ko) (boji), 질 (ko) (膣 (ko) (jil)) Kurdish: vajîna (ku) Lao: ຊ່ອງຄອດ (lo) (söung-khöut), ຫີ (lo) (hĭː), ໂຍນີ (lo) (ɲóː níː) Latvian: vagīna (lv) f., maksts (lv) m.

Lithuanian: makštis (lt) f. Lojban: vibna (jbo) Macedonian: родница (mk) (ródnica) f., вагина (mk) (vagína) f. Malay: faraj (ms) Malayalam: യോനി (ml) (yOni) Maltese: vaġina (mt) f. Mandinka: bee Manx: fine (gv) Marathi: योनी (mr) (yonī) Mongolian: эм бэлгэ эрхтэн (mn) (em belge erhten) Nepali: पुति (ne) (Puti) (vulgar), योनीमार्ग (ne) Northern Sami: cin'ná, viigá Norwegian: skjede (no) m. Bokmål: vagina (nb) Nynorsk: vagina (nn) Persian: نیام (fa) (niyâm) Polish: pochwa (pl) f. Portuguese: vagina (pt) f. Romani: mizh f. Russian: влагалище (ru) (vlagálišče) n., женский половой орган (ru) (žénskij polovój órgan) m., вагина (ru) (vagína) f. Sanskrit: योनिः (sa) (yoniḥ) Scottish Gaelic: faighean (gd) m., truiteag (gd) f., geobag (gd) f., duillef (gd) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ваги́на (sh) f., ро̏дница (sh) f. Roman: vagína (sh) f., rȍdnica (sh) f. Slovak: pošva (sk), vagína (sk) Slovene: vagína (sl) f., nóžnica (sl) f. Spanish: vagina (es) f. Swahili: kuma (sw) Tagalog: puki (tl), pekpek (tl) Tamil: யோனி (ta) (yOni), பெண்குறி (ta) (penkuri), (vulgar) புண்டை (ta) (pundai) Telugu: యోని (te) (yOni) Thai: ช่องคลอด (th) (chông-klôt) Turkish: vajina (tr) Ukrainian: піхва (uk) (píxva) f. Urdu: چوت (ur) (cūt) f. (vulgar); پھدی (ur) (phuddi) (vulgar) Vietnamese: âm đạo (vi) (陰道 (vi)) Volapük: vagin (vo) West Frisian: fagina (fy), skie (fy) Wiradhuri: binij Yiddish: שייד (yi) (sheyd, schejd) f., וואַגינע (yi) (vagine, wagine) f., מוטערשייד (yi) (mutersheyd, muterschejd) f.

zoological sense

botanical sense

Estonian: tupp (et) Finnish: tuppi (fi)

Italian: guaina (it) f.

vulva — see vulva

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Catalan

Wikipedia ^ca

Etymology

From Latin vāgīna.

Noun

vagina f. (plural vagines)

1. (anatomy) vagina

Derived terms

• vaginal

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Dutch

Wikipedia ^nl

Etymology

From Latin vāgīna.

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Noun

vagina f. (plural vagina's, diminutive vaginaatje)

1. (anatomy) vagina

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Esperanto

Etymology

vagino +‎ -a

Pronunciation

• IPA: /vaˈɡina/

Adjective

vagina (plural vaginaj, accusative singular vaginan, accusative plural vaginajn)

1. vaginal

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Finnish

Etymology

From Latin vāgīna.

Noun

vagina

1. (anatomy) vagina

Declension

Declension of vagina (type katiska) singular plural nominative vagina vaginat genitive vaginan vaginoiden vaginoitten vaginojen vaginain1 partitive vaginaa vaginoita vaginoja accusative vagina vaginan vaginat inessive vaginassa vaginoissa elative vaginasta vaginoista illative vaginaan vaginoihin adessive vaginalla vaginoilla ablative vaginalta vaginoilta allative vaginalle vaginoille essive vaginana vaginoina translative vaginaksi vaginoiksi instructive – vaginoin abessive vaginatta vaginoitta comitative – vaginoineen 1) Rare.

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin vāgīna.

Noun

vagina f. (plural vagine)

1. (anatomy) vagina

Derived terms

• invaginare
• vaginale
• vaginalite
• vaginalmente
• vaginismo
• vaginite
• vulvovaginale
• vulvovaginite

See also

• cervice
• vulva

Anagrams

• ignava, naviga, vangai

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Latin

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Alternative forms

• uāgīna

Pronunciation 1

• (Classical) IPA: /waːˈɡiː.na/

Noun

vāgīna (genitive vāgīnae); f, first declension

1. sheath, scabbard

   Mitte gladium in vaginam.

   Put the sword into its sheath.

   • From the Gallic War by C. Julius Caesar (XLIV)

     Avertit hic casus vaginam et gladium educere conanti dextram moratur manum, impeditumque hostes circumsistunt.

     This circumstance turns aside his scabbard and obstructs his right hand when attempting to draw his sword: the enemy crowd around him when [thus] embarrassed.

   • From Aeneid by P. Vergilius Maro

     Dixit, vaginaque eripit ensem fulmineum, strictoque ferit retinacula ferro.

     He said, and from its scabbard forth he flashed the lightning of his sword, with his sword he struck the hawsers.

   Gladium vāgina proripere.

   To draw a sword from the sheath hastily.

2. covering, sheath, holder of any thing

   Omnia principalia viscera membranis propriis ac velut vaginis inclusit natura.

   Cremato eo (corpore), inimici ... remeanti animae veluti vaginam ademerint.

3. sheath of an ear of grain, etc., the hull, husk
4. female vagina
5. sheath of a claw, in cats
6. vocative singular of vāgīna

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	vāgīna	vāgīnae
genitive	vāgīnae	vāgīnārum
dative	vāgīnae	vāgīnīs
accusative	vāgīnam	vāgīnās
ablative	vāgīnā	vāgīnīs
vocative	vāgīna	vāgīnae

Descendants

• English: vagina
• French: gaine
• German: Vagina
• Irish: faighin
• Spanish: vaina

Pronunciation 2

• (Classical) IPA: /waːˈɡiː.naː/

Noun

vāgīnā f.

1. ablative singular of vāgīna

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Norwegian

Etymology

From Latin.

Noun

vagina m.

1. (anatomy) vagina

Inflection

    Inflection of vagina

	indefinite singular	definite singular	indefinite plural	definite plural
Bokmål m	vagina	vaginaen	vaginaer	vaginaene
Nynorsk m	vagina	vaginaen	vaginaer	vaginaene

Synonyms

• skjede

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Occitan

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Etymology

From Latin vāgīna.

Noun

vagina f.

1. (anatomy) vagina

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Portuguese

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Etymology

From Latin vāgīna.

Noun

vagina f. (plural vaginas)

1. (anatomy) vagina

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Latin vāgīna.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ʋaɡǐːna/
• Hyphenation: va‧gi‧na

Noun

vagína f. (Cyrillic spelling ваги́на)

1. (anatomy) vagina

Declension

    declension of vagina

	singular	plural
nominative	vagína	vagine
genitive	vagine	vagina
dative	vagini	vaginama
accusative	vaginu	vagine
vocative	vagino	vagine
locative	vagini	vaginama
instrumental	vaginom	vaginama

Synonyms

• rȍdnica

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Slovene

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Etymology

From Latin vāgīna.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ʋaɡiːna/

Noun

vagína f.

1. (anatomy) vagina

Derived terms

• vaginálen

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin vāgīna.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /baˈxina/

Noun

vagina f. (plural vaginas)

1. vagina