prostate

See also: prostrate and pro-state

English

Etymology 1

From Middle French prostate, from Medieval Latin prostata, from Ancient Greek προστάτης (prostátēs, “one who stands before, protector, guardian”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɒsteɪt/
• Hyphenation: pros‧tate

Noun

prostate (plural prostates)

1. (anatomy) The prostate gland. [from 1646]
   • 2022 August 24, Pip Dunn, “A Life Remembered: Paul Taylor - February 9 1971-August 9 2022”, in RAIL, number 964, page 24:

     Finally, Paul made me get my prostate checked. As I say, he's already left a legacy. But if you haven't chaps, please get yourself checked over - it's worth it.

Derived terms

• prostatic
• prostatitis
• prostate cancer
• prostatectomy
• prostate massage

Descendants

• → Hindi: प्रोस्टेट (prosṭeṭ)
• → Urdu: پروسٹیٹ (prosṭeṭ)

Translations

prostate gland

• Arabic: بْرُوسْتَات m (brustāt), بَرُوسْتَات m (barustāt), بْرُوسْتَات m (brostāt), مُوثَة f (mūṯa)

  Egyptian Arabic: بروستاتة f (brustāta)

• Armenian: շագանակագեղձ (hy) (šaganakageġj)
• Aromanian: prustat m
• Bengali: প্রোস্টেট (prōsṭeṭ), প্রোস্টেট গ্রন্থি (prōsṭeṭ gronthi)
• Bulgarian: простата (bg) f (prostata)
• Catalan: pròstata (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 前列腺 (cin⁴ lit⁶ sin³)

  Mandarin: 前列腺 (zh) (qiánlièxiàn), 攝護腺／摄护腺 (zh) (shèhùxiàn), 摄护腺 (zh) (shèhùxiàn)

  Min Nan: 攝護腺／摄护腺, 摄护腺 (liap-hō͘-sòaⁿ)

• Czech: předstojná žláza (cs) f, prostata (cs) f
• Danish: blærehalskirtel c, prostata c
• Dutch: prostaat (nl) m
• Esperanto: prostato
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: eturauhanen (fi)
• French: prostate (fr) f
• Friulian: prostate f
• Galician: próstata (gl) f
• Georgian: პროსტატა (ṗrosṭaṭa)
• German: Prostata (de) f, Vorsteherdrüse (de) f
• Greek: προστάτης (el) m (prostátis)
• Hebrew: בַּלּוּטַת הָעַרְמוֹנִית (he) f
• Hindi: प्रोस्टेट m (prosṭeṭ)
• Hungarian: prosztata (hu)
• Icelandic: hvekkur, blöðruhálskirtill (is)
• Indonesian: prostat (id)
• Irish: próstatach m, faireog phróstatach f
• Italian: prostata (it) f
• Japanese: 前立腺 (ぜんりつせん, zenritsusen)
• Kazakh: қуықалды без (quyqaldy bez)
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• Korean: 전립선(前立腺) (ko) (jeonnipseon)
• Lithuanian: prostata f, priešinė liauka f
• Maori: repe tātea, repe ure
• Mongolian:

  түрүү булчирхай (türüü bulčirxaj) ᠲᠦᠷᠦᠭᠦᠦ
  ᠪᠤᠯᠴᠢᠷᠬᠠᠢ (türügüü bulčirqai)

  урьд булчирхай (urʹd bulčirxaj) ᠤᠷᠢᠳᠤ
  ᠪᠤᠯᠴᠢᠷᠬᠠᠢ (uridu bulčirqai) (Inner Mongolia)

• Navajo: alizh bikááz
• Northern Sami: ovdaráksá
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: prostata m

  Nynorsk: prostata m

• Occitan: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: پروستات (fa) (prostât)
• Polish: prostata (pl) f
• Portuguese: próstata (pt) f
• Romanian: prostată (ro) f
• Russian: предста́тельная железа́ (ru) f (predstátelʹnaja železá), проста́та (ru) f (prostáta)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: простата f, корењача f

  Roman: prostata (sh) f, korenjača f

• Slovene: prostata (sl) f, obsečnica f
• Spanish: próstata (es) f, glándula prostática f
• Swedish: prostata (sv), blåshalskörtel (sv) c
• Turkish: prostat (tr)
• Ukrainian: проста́та f (prostáta), передміху́рова за́лоза f (peredmixúrova záloza)
• Urdu: پروسٹیٹ m (prosṭeṭ)
• Vietnamese: nhiếp hộ tuyến, tuyến tiền liệt (vi)
• Volapük: prostat (vo)
• Welsh: prostad f, chwarren brostad f

Adjective

prostate (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to the prostate gland.

Etymology 2

From pro- +‎ state.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɹəʊˈsteɪt/
• Hyphenation: pro‧state

Adjective

prostate (comparative more prostate, superlative most prostate)

1. Alternative spelling of pro-state

Further reading

• prostate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Italian

Noun

prostate f

1. plural of prostata

Anagrams

• Serpotta, aspretto, portaste, prestato, protesta, sportate, spretato, sterpato, traposte

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) prōstāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of prōstō

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French

Noun

prostate f (plural prostates)

1. prostate

Further reading

• “prostate”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.