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English
Noun
small of the back
- (anatomy) The relatively narrow, lumbar region of the back.
1984, William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl; book 1), New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 9:He remembered the smell of her skin in the overheated darkness of a coffin near the port, her fingers locked across the small of his back.
Translations
lumbar region of the back
- Arabic: مُسْتَدَقّ اَلظَّهْر m (mustadaqq aẓ-ẓahr)
- Egyptian Arabic: خربة f (xorba)
- Azerbaijani: bel (az)
- Bashkir: бил (bil)
- Belarusian: паясні́ца f (pajasníca), крыж m (kryž), крыжаві́на f (kryžavína)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: (formal) 腰骶部 (yāodǐbù), (informal) 腰部 (zh) (yāobù)
- Finnish: lanneselkä
- French: cambrure (des reins) (fr) f
- Galician: rens m pl, rexión lumbar f, cadrís m pl
- (deprecated template usage)
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- German: Kreuz (de) n
- Greek: οσφύς (el) f (osfýs)
- Norwegian: korsrygg m
- Portuguese: região lombar f
- Russian: поясни́ца (ru) f (pojasníca), (archaic) чре́сла (ru) n pl (črésla), че́ресла n pl (čéresla) (dialectal), чересла́ n pl (čereslá) (dialectal)
- Spanish: región lumbar f
- Swedish: ländrygg (sv), korsrygg (sv) c
- Talysh: çobənd
- Ukrainian: по́перек m (póperek), попере́к m (poperék), кри́жі m pl (krýži) (dialectal), че́ресла n pl (čéresla) (dialectal)
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