anal

See also: Anal, anál, añal, and -anál

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ānālis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈeɪ.nəl/
• Rhymes: -eɪnəl

Adjective

anal (comparative more anal, superlative most anal)

1. (not comparable) of, related to, intended for or involving the anus.

   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.
3. (psychology) Of a person, compulsive and stubborn, obsessed with neatness and accuracy, supposedly from not having progressed beyond the anal stage.

   Please don't touch his furniture, as he can get very anal about things like that.

4. (entomology, of a vein) Proximate to the thorax.

Synonyms

• (compulsive and stubborn): fussy, pernickety, picky, anal-retentive

Derived terms

• anal beads
• anal cleft
• anal fin
• anal fissure
• anal fistula
• anality
• anally
• anal pore
• anal-retentive
• anal sex
• anal sphincter
• anilingus
• perianal

 

Related terms

• anus

Translations

of, related to, intended for or involving the anus

• Arabic: شَرَجِيّ (šarajiyy)
• Armenian: սրբանային (hy) (srbanayin), հետանցքային (hy) (hetancʻkʻayin)
• Belarusian: ана́льны (análʹny)
• Bulgarian: ана́лен (análen)
• Catalan: anal (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 肛門／肛门 (zh) (gāngmén), 肛门 (zh) (gāngmén)

• Czech: anální (cs)
• Esperanto: anusa
• Estonian: anaalne
• Finnish: anaalinen (fi)
• French: anal (fr)
• Galician: anal (gl)
• German: anal (de)
• Greek: πρωκτικός (el) (proktikós)
• Hindi: गुदा (hi) m (gudā)
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• Interlingue:
• Irish: anasach, tóna
• Italian: anale (it)
• Japanese: 尻 (ja) (しり, shiri)
• Latvian: anāls
• Lithuanian: analinis
• Persian: مقعدی (fa) (maq'adi)
• Polish: odbytniczy, analny (pl)
• Portuguese: anal (pt)
• Russian: ана́льный (ru) (análʹnyj)
• Samogitian: analėnės
• Sanskrit: भसद्य (sa) (bhasadya)
• Slovene: analen (sl)
• Spanish: anal (es)
• Turkish: anal (tr)
• Ukrainian: ана́льний (uk) (análʹnyj)
• Urdu: گدا m (gudā)

of the stage in psychosexual development

• Catalan: anal (ca)
• Finnish: anaalinen (fi)
• French: anal (fr)
• Italian: anale (it)
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• Portuguese: anal (pt)
• Spanish: anal (es)
• Turkish: anal (tr)

of a person, compulsive and stubborn

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 吹毛求疵的 (chuīmáoqiúcīde)

• Finnish: anaalinen (fi)
• German: zwanghaft (de), stur (de), pingelig (de), kleinlich (de), pedantisch (de), etepetete (de), heikel (de), eigen (de), zimperlich (de), übergenau (de), überkorrekt
• Lithuanian: smulkmeniškas
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• Polish: pedantyczny (pl)
• Russian: буквое́д (ru) (bukvojéd)
• Spanish: fastidioso (es)

See also

• oral

Noun

anal (countable and uncountable, plural anals)

1. Any of the anal scales of a reptile.
2. (informal) Anal sex.

   In the right mood, I'll accept anal.

   I'll do anything except anal.

Anagrams

• Alan, Lana, Nala, alan, lana, nala

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Breton

Noun

anal f (plural analioù)

1. breath

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əˈnal]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [aˈnal]

Adjective

anal m or f (masculine and feminine plural anals)

1. anal

Related terms

• anus

Further reading

• “anal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “anal”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “anal” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “anal” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.nal/

• Audio:

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• Homophones: anale, anales, annal, annale, annales

Adjective

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

1. anal (relating to the anus)

Further reading

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

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German

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ānālis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈnaːl/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -aːl

Adjective

anal (not comparable)

1. anal

Derived terms

• perianal

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Portuguese

Etymology 1

From Latin annālis; equivalent to ano +‎ -al.

Adjective

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

   Synonym: anual

Noun

anal m (plural anais)

1. (obsolete) something that happens once a year

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin ānālis.

Adjective

1. anal

Noun

anal m (plural anais)

1. anal (anal sex)

Related terms

• ânus

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French anal, Latin ānālis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [aˈnal]

Adjective

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

1. anal

Declension

Declension of anal

		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

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈnal/ [aˈnal]
• Rhymes: -al

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin ānālis.

Adjective

anal m or f (masculine and feminine plural anales)

1. anal

Derived terms

• cuentas anales
• sexo anal

 

Related terms

• ano

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin annālis. Doublet of añal.

Noun

anal m (plural anales)

1. annal

   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. 2 Kings 10:34 NRV XXI

Related terms

• año
• anual

Further reading

• “anal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014