gland

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ɡlænd/
• Rhymes: -ænd

Etymology 1

From Latin glāns (“acorn”).

Noun

gland (plural glands)

1. (zoology) An organ that synthesizes a substance, such as hormones or breast milk, and releases it, often into the bloodstream (endocrine gland) or into cavities inside the body or its outer surface (exocrine gland).
2. (botany) A secretory structure on the surface of an organ.

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:gland

Derived terms

Terms derived from gland

• adrenal gland
• endocrine gland
• exocrine gland
• glanders

• glandular
• glandule
• glandulous
• mammary gland

• pituitary gland
• sweat gland
• thyroid gland

Translations

organ that synthesizes and secretes substance

• Albanian: gjendër f
• Arabic: غُدَّة‎‎ f (ḡudda)

  Egyptian Arabic: غدة‎‎ f (ḡudda)

  Hijazi Arabic: غُدَّة‎‎ f (ḡudda)

• Armenian: գեղձ (hy) (gełj)
• Asturian: glándula f
• Azerbaijani: vəzi
• Basque: guruin
• Belarusian: зало́за f (zalóza)
• Bengali: গ্রন্থি (grônthi)
• Bulgarian: жлеза́ f (žlezá)
• Burmese: ဂလင်း (ga.lang:)
• Catalan: glàndula f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 腺 (zh) (xiàn)

• Czech: žláza (cs) f
• Danish: kirtel (da) c
• Dutch: klier (nl) f, m
• Esperanto: glando
• Estonian: nääre
• Finnish: rauhanen (fi)
• French: glande (fr) f
• Galician: glándula (gl) f
• Georgian: ჯირკვალი (ǯirḳvali)
• German: Drüse (de) f, (scent) Stinkdrüse f
• Greek: αδένας (el) m (adénas)

  Ancient: ἀδήν m, f (adḗn)

• Hebrew: בַּלּוּטָה‎‎ f (balutá)
• Hindi: ग्रंथि (hi) f (granthi)
• Hungarian: mirigy (hu)
• Icelandic: kirtill (is) m
• Ido: glando (io)
• Irish: faireog f
• Italian: ghiandola (it) f
• Japanese: 腺 (ja) (せん, sen), グランド (gurando)
• Karachay-Balkar: без (bez)
• Kazakh: без (bez)
• Khmer: ក្លង់ (klɑng), គ្រន្ថី (krŭənthəy), ក្រពេញ (km) (krɑpɨñ)
• Korean: 선 (ko) (seon) (腺)
• Kyrgyz: без (ky) (bez)

• Lao: ຕ່ອມ (tǭm)
• Latvian: dziedzeris m
• Lithuanian: liauka f
• Macedonian: жлезда f (žlezda)
• Malay: kelenjar
• Maori: repe
• Marathi: ग्रंथी f (granthī)
• Mongolian: булчирхай (mn) (bulčirhaj)
• Navajo: akááz
• Nogai: без (bez)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kjertel (no) m

  Nynorsk: kjertel m

• Pashto: غده‎‎ f (ǧodá)
• Persian: غده‎‎ (fa) (ğodde)
• Polish: gruczoł (pl) m
• Portuguese: glândula (pt) f
• Romanian: glandă (ro) f
• Russian: железа́ (ru) f (železá)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: жлезда f, жлијезда f

  Roman: žlezda (sh) f, žlijezda (sh) f

• Slovak: žľaza f
• Slovene: žleza (sl) f
• Spanish: glándula (es) f
• Swedish: körtel (sv) c
• Tagalog: katasan
• Tajik: ғадуд (tg) (ġadud), ғудда (ġudda)
• Thai: ต่อม (th) (dtɔ̀m)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: bez (tr), salgı bezi
• Turkmen: mäz
• Ukrainian: за́лоза f (záloza)
• Urdu: غدہ‎‎ (ġudda)
• Uyghur: بەز‎‎ (bez)
• Uzbek: bez (uz)
• Vietnamese: tuyến (vi) (腺)
• Volapük: glan (vo), (scent) mismelaglan
• Westrobothnian: bress

secretory structure on the surface of an organ

• Dutch: klier (nl) f, m
• German: Drüse (de) f
• Ido: glando (io)
• Irish: faireog f
• Italian: ghiandola (it) f
• Russian: железа́ (ru) f (železá)

• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: жлезда f, жлијезда f

  Roman: žlezda (sh) f, žlijezda (sh) f

• Tagalog: katasan
• Ukrainian: з́алоза f (źaloza)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Chinese: 封墊, 封垫 (fēng diàn); 腺体 (xiàn tǐ)
• Danish: kirtel (da) c, glandel c
• Esperanto: glando
• Galician: glándula (gl) f
• Indonesian: kelenjar (id)
• Interlingua: glandula, aden
• Korean: 동맥 (ko) (dongmaek)

• Lithuanian: liauka f
• Macedonian: жлезда (žlezda) f
• Portuguese: glândula (pt) f
• Romanian: glandă (ro) f
• Slovene: žleza (sl) f
• Spanish: glándula (es) f

See also

• organ

Etymology 2

19th century. Etymology unknown.

Noun

gland (plural glands)

1. (mechanical) A compressable cylindrical case and its contents around a shaft where it passes through a barrier, intended to prevent the passage of a fluid past the barrier, such as:
   1. A gland used around a ship’s propeller shaft.
   2. A gland used around a tap, valve or faucet.

Translations

cylindrical case used for straining

• Bulgarian: са́лник m (sálnik)
• Greek: στυπιοθλήπτης m (stypiothlíptis)

• Russian: са́льник (ru) m (sálʹnik)

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French

Etymology

From Old French glant, from Latin glādem, accusative singular of glāns, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelh₂- (“acorn”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡlɑ̃/

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Noun

gland m (plural glands)

1. acorn
2. (anatomy) glans
   • 1785, Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, Les 120 journées de Sodome, ou l'École du libertinage

     Brise-cul, vingt-huit ans, l'air d un satyre, son vit est tortu; la tête ou le gland en est énorme: il a huit pouces trois lignes de tour, et le corps du vit huit pouces sur seize de long; ce vit majestueux est absolument cambré.

3. tassel
4. (vulgar, slang) (of a person) prick, wanker, bell end

Derived terms

• glander

Related terms

• glande

Further reading

• “gland” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Friulian

Alternative forms

• glant

Etymology

From Latin glāndem, accusative of glāns.

Noun

gland m (plural glands)

1. acorn

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French gland, from Latin glans, glandis. Doublet of the inherited ghindă.

Noun

gland n (plural glanduri)

1. (anatomy) glans penis

Declension

declension of gland

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) gland	glandul	(niște) glanduri	glandurile
genitive/dative	(unui) gland	glandului	(unor) glanduri	glandurilor
vocative	glandule		glandurilor