Gedärm

German[edit]

Gedärm n (strong, genitive Gedärmes or Gedärms, plural Gedärme)

the whole of an organism's intestines, guts, insides
- 1914, Artur Landsberger, “A. S. Rabinowicz: Der Rabbi im Kerker”, in David Rothblum, transl., Das Ghettobuch‎^[1]:
  Die Trauer verschlang ihn wie eine schwere Flut, in der sich seine Seele verfing wie Jonas im Gedärm des Walfisches.
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Though already a collective, the word is predominantly used in the plural.
Gedärm(e) has a somewhat coarse or intensive tone to it. One context in which it is often used is that of visible intestines (as e.g. in a slain soldier).

Declension of Gedärm [neuter, strong]

¹Now rare, see notes.