pubic hair

English

Noun

pubic hair (countable and uncountable, plural pubic hairs)

1. (collectively) The hair that grows in the pubic region from puberty.

   Synonyms: netherhair, bush, short and curlies, short hairs, pubes

   • 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 161:

     The method of the root's use was pure sorcery; the powder being burned over a fire, with some of the operator's pubic hair and characteristic secretions.

   • 1959, William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, page 67

     Negroes (teeth, fingers, toe nails and pubic hair gilded), Japanese boys smooth and white as china, Titian-haired Venetian lads, Americans with blond or black curls falling across the forehead (the guests tenderly shove it back), sulky blond Polacks with animal brown eyes, Arab and Spanish street boys, Austrian boys pink and delicate with a faint shadow of blond pubic hair, sneering German youths with bright blue eyes scream "Heil Hitler!" as the trap falls under them. Sollubis shit and whimper.

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2. (in the singular) a single hair growing in the pubic region

Synonyms

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Related terms

• pubarche

Translations

collectively

• Amharic: ጭገር (č̣əgär)
• Arabic: شَعْر اَلْعَانَة m pl (šaʕr al-ʕāna)

  Egyptian Arabic: شعرة f pl (šeʕra) (vulgar)

• Assamese: বাল (bal) (vulgar), গুপ্তকেশ (guptkex)
• Bengali: (vulgar) বাল (bn) (bal)
• Bhojpuri: (vulgar) 𑂥𑂰𑂩 (bār)
• Bikol Central: bulbol
• Catalan: pèl púbic m
• Cebuano: bulbol
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 陰毛／阴毛 (jam¹ mou⁴), 阴毛 (jam¹ mou⁴)

  Mandarin: 陰毛／阴毛 (zh) (yīnmáo), 阴毛 (zh) (yīnmáo)

  Min Nan: 陰毛／阴毛, 阴毛 (im-mn̂g, im-mô͘), 膣屄毛 (chi-bai-mn̂g) (female), 𡳞蔓 (zh-min-nan) (lān-mōa) (male)

• Czech: pubické ochlupení n
• Danish: kønshår n, kønsbehåring (da) c
• Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
• Dupaningan Agta: sabut
• Dutch: schaamhaar (nl) n
• Esperanto: pubvilo, pubhararo
• Estonian: häbemekarvad
• Finnish: häpykarvoitus (fi)
• French: poils pubiens (fr) m pl, pilosité pubienne f
• Galician: pentello m
• Georgian: ფაჩარი (pačari)
• German: Schamhaar (de) n
• Greenlandic: tingi
• Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
• Hebrew: שְׂעַר הָעֶרְוָוה f
• Hindi: (vulgar) झाँट (hi) (jhā̃ṭ)
• Icelandic: skapahár n pl, kynhár n pl, hreðjaskegg n
• Indonesian: jembut (id) (bad language), bulu kemaluan (id), rambut kemaluan
• Iranun: please add this translation if you can
• Irish: bruis f, caithir f, stothóg f
• Isnag: bulbul
• Italian: pelo pubico m
• Japanese: 陰毛 (ja) (いんもう, inmō)
• Javanese: please add this translation if you can
• Kannada: ಶಾಟ (kn) (śāṭa)
• Kazakh: please add this translation if you can
• Konkani: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 음모(陰毛) (ko) (eummo), 거웃 (ko) (geout)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: rêw (ku)

• Lithuanian: gaktos plaukai m pl
• Macedonian: срамни влакна m pl (sramni vlakna)
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• Magahi: (vulgar) 𑂥𑂰𑂩 (bār)
• Maguindanao: benget
• Malayalam: മയിർ (ml) (mayiṟ) (vulgar)
• Manchu: ᠰᠠᠪᡠᠯᠠ (sabula)
• Maori: puke huruhuru (of a woman)
• Maranao: benget
• Marathi: पौगंड-कुंतल (paugaṇḍa-kuntal), सुघट-कुंतल (sughaṭ-kuntal), योनिपुष्ठ-कुंतल (yonipuṣṭha-kuntal), पौगंड-केस (paugaṇḍa-kes), सुघट-केस (sughaṭ-kes), योनिपुष्ठ-केस (yonipuṣṭha-kes), पौगंड-बाल (paugaṇḍa-bāl), सुघट-केश (sughaṭ-keś), योनिपुष्ठ-केश (yonipuṣṭha-keś), सुघट-बाल (sughaṭ-bāl), योनिपुष्ठ-बाल (yonipuṣṭha-bāl), झाटा (jhāṭā) (slang)
• Minangkabau: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Northern Sami: siehppa
• Norwegian: bellehår

  Bokmål: kjønnshår n

  Nynorsk: kjønnshår n

• Oriya: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: موی زهار
• Polish: owłosienie łonowe pl
• Portuguese: pelos púbicos m pl, pelos pubianos m pl, pentelhos m pl
• Rohingya: please add this translation if you can
• Romanian: floci m pl (slang)
• Russian: лобко́вые во́лосы m pl (lobkóvyje vólosy), (slang, also "excessive body hair") волосня́ (ru) f (volosnjá)
• Serbo-Croatian: stidne dlake f pl
• Slovene: sramne dlake f pl
• Spanish: vello púbico m, vello pubiano m, pelo púbico m
• Swahili: vinyuzi (sw), mavuzi class 6
• Swedish: könshår (sv) n, pubeshår (sv) n, pubishår n
• Sylheti: please add this translation if you can
• Tagalog: bulbol, bulbul
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Tausug: ulalang
• Telugu: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: หมอย (th) (mɔ̌ɔi)
• Turkish: kasık kılı
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: lông mu
• Welsh: blew cedor m pl
• Yakan: ulalang
• Yámana: alačun
• Zhuang: mi

singular

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 陰毛／阴毛 (jam¹ mou⁴), 阴毛 (jam¹ mou⁴)

  Mandarin: 陰毛／阴毛 (zh) (yīnmáo), 阴毛 (zh) (yīnmáo)

• Dutch: schaamhaar (nl) n
• Esperanto: pubharo
• Finnish: häpykarva (fi)
• French: poil pubien (fr) m
• Galician: pentello m
• German: Schamhaar (de) n
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Icelandic: skapahár n
• Irish: ribe caithre m
• Japanese: 陰毛 (ja) (いんもう, inmō)
• Kazakh: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: gaktos plaukas m
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• Macedonian: срамно влакно n (sramno vlakno)
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: pelo púbico m, pelo pubiano m, pentelho (pt) m
• Romanian: floc (ro) m (slang)
• Russian: лобко́вый во́лос m (lobkóvyj vólos)
• Serbo-Croatian: stidna dlaka f
• Slovene: sramna dlaka f
• Spanish: pendejo (es) m
• Swahili: vuzi (sw) class 5/6
• Swedish: könshår (sv) n
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: หมอย (th) (mɔ̌ɔi)
• Turkish: kasık kılı
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: cedoren f

See also

• axillary hair