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anal

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin ānālis.

Psychological sense shortened from anal-retentive.

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Adjective

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anal (comparative more anal, superlative most anal)

  1. (not comparable) Of, related to, intended for or involving the anus. [from 18th c.]
    anal thermometer
    an anal examination
    anal sex
  2. (psychoanalysis) Of the stage in psychosexual development when the child's interest is alleged to be concentrated on the anal region. [from 20th c.]
  3. (psychology, also vulgar informal) Of a person, compulsive and stubborn, obsessed with neatness and accuracy, supposedly from not having progressed beyond the anal stage. [from 20th c.]
    Please don't touch his furniture, as he can get very anal about things like that.
    • 1995, Leonard Shengold, Delusions of Everyday Life, page 39:
      He was a model of anal defensiveness: fastidious in his dress and appearance, a collector and putter of things in order, a classifier and labeler.
  4. (informal, vulgar) Of tasks, questions, subject matter, etc., obsessively fussy or precise.
    This questionnaire goes into the most ridiculous amount of detail. It's totally anal.
  5. (entomology, of a vein) Proximate to the thorax.

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Noun

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anal (countable and uncountable, plural anals)

  1. (countable) Any of the anal scales of a reptile.
  2. (uncountable, informal) Anal sex.
    In the right mood, I'll accept anal.
    I'll do anything except anal.

Verb

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anal (third-person singular simple present anals, present participle (US) analing or (Commonwealth) analling, simple past and past participle (US) analed or (Commonwealth) analled)

  1. (transitive, slang, rare, chiefly in pornography) To penetrate anally.
    The man with the huge cock analed the hot chick.
    • 2011, “L.E.S.”, in Camp, performed by Childish Gambino:
      Analling anyone is the plan for the evening / I'm kidding, stop

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Breton

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Noun

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anal f (plural analioù)

  1. breath

Catalan

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Adjective

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anal m or f (masculine and feminine plural anals)

  1. anal

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French

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin ānālis, or coined in French from anus +‎ -al.

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anal (feminine anale, masculine plural anaux, feminine plural anales)

  1. (relational) anus; anal

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Noun

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anal m (uncountable)

  1. (informal) Ellipsis of sexe anal.

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Galician

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Etymology

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /aˈnal/ [aˈnɑɫ]
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Hyphenation: a‧nal

Adjective

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anal m or f (plural anais)

  1. anal

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German

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin ānālis.

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anal (strong nominative masculine singular analer, not comparable)

  1. anal

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Indonesian

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Etymology

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From Dutch anaal, from French anal, from Latin ānālis.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈanal]
  • Hyphenation: anal

Adjective

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anal

  1. anal: of, related to, intended for or involving the anus.
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Polish

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Etymology

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Back-formation from analny.

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Noun

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anal m inan

  1. (colloquial, vulgar) anal (anal sex)
    Coordinate term: oral

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Further reading

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  • anal in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN

Portuguese

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  • Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
  • Hyphenation: a‧nal

Etymology 1

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From Latin annālis. By surface analysis, ano +‎ al.

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Adjective

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anal m or f (plural anais)

  1. (obsolete) annual, yearly (happening once a year)
    Synonym: anual

Noun

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anal m (plural anais)

  1. (obsolete, usually in the plural) annal

Etymology 2

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Learned borrowing from Latin ānālis.

Adjective

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anal m or f (plural anais, not comparable)

  1. anal
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Noun

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anal m (plural anais)

  1. anal (anal sex)
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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French anal, Latin ānālis.

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Adjective

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anal m or n (feminine singular anală, masculine plural anali, feminine and neuter plural anale)

  1. anal

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singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative-
accusative
indefinite anal anală anali anale
definite analul anala analii analele
genitive-
dative
indefinite anal anale anali anale
definite analului analei analelor analilor

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /aˈnal/ [aˈnal]
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Syllabification: a‧nal

Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Latin ānālis.

Adjective

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anal m or f (masculine and feminine plural anales)

  1. anal
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Latin annālis. Doublet of añal.

Noun

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anal m (plural anales)

  1. annal
    • NRV XXI, 2 Kings 10:34
      Los demás hechos de Jehú ... están escritos en los anales de los reyes de Israel.
      The other deeds of Jehu ... are written in the annals of the kings of Israel.
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Swedish

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Etymology

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From New Latin analis

Adjective

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anal (not comparable)

  1. anal (of or related to the anus)

Declension

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Inflection of anal
Indefinite positive comparative superlative1
common singular anal
neuter singular analt
plural anala
masculine plural2 anale
Definite positive comparative superlative
masculine singular3 anale
all anala

1 The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
2 Dated or archaic.
3 Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

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