glans penis

English

Etymology

From New Latin glāns pēnis (“glans of the penis”), pēnis being a genitive.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɡlænz ˈpiːnɪs/

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Noun

glans penis (plural glans penises or glandes penis or glandes penium or (misconstruction) glans penes or (misconstruction) glandes penes)

2. (anatomy) A conical vascularized body forming the extremity of the penis.

   Synonyms: penile glans; see also Thesaurus:glans penis

   Hypernym: glans

   Holonym: penis

   Meronym: corona glandis penis

   Comeronyms: corpus cavernosum penis, praeputium penis

   Coordinate term: glans clitoridis

   • 1941, George Ryley Scott, Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the Present Day, London: T. Werner Laurie, page 31:

     The tortoise, possessing, like the serpent, the power of retaining life in its limbs after mutilation or decapitation, became a symbol of androgynity as well as of immortality. Its protruding head, probably because of a resemblance to the glans penis, was looked upon as a phallic symbol.

Translations

conical vascularized body forming the extremity of the penis — see also glans

• Arabic: حَشَفَة الْقَضِيب f (ḥašafat al-qaḍīb)

  Egyptian Arabic: راس الزب f (rās ez-zeb)

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Azerbaijani: penis başı
• Basque: zakil-moko
• Belarusian: гало́ўка палаво́га чле́на f (halówka palavóha čljéna), (by ellipsis) гало́ўка f (halówka), (vulgar) залу́па f (zalúpa)
• Bikol:

  Central Bikol: payupayo

• Catalan: gland del penis m, (by ellipsis) gland (ca) m
• Cebuano: ulok
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 龜頭 / 龟头 (gwai¹ tau⁴)

  Mandarin: 龜頭 / 龟头 (zh) (guītóu)

• Czech: žalud (cs) m
• Danish: agernet (da) n, pikhoved n
• Dhivehi: އޮމާމަސް (omāmas)
• Dutch: eikel (nl) m
• Esperanto: glano (eo)
• Estonian: sugutilukk, sugutipea
• Finnish: terska (fi)
• French: gland du pénis (fr) m, gland pénien (fr) m, (by ellipsis) gland (fr) m
• Georgian: ასოს თავი (asos tavi), პენისის თავი (ṗenisis tavi), ყლისთავი (q̇listavi) (vulgar)
• German: Peniseichel f, (by ellipsis) Eichel (de) f

  Old High German: druos ?

• Greek: βάλανος (el) f (válanos)

  Ancient Greek: βάλανος f (bálanos)

• Hebrew: עֲטָרָה (he) f (atará), ראש הפין m (rosh ha-pin), קצה הפין m (qatse ha-pin), (slang) כיפה (he) f (kipa)
• Hindi: शिश्नमुंड m (śiśnamuṇḍ)
• Hungarian: makk (hu)
• Ido: glano (io)
• Ilocano: lukdit
• Irish: breall f
• Italian: glande del pene m, (by ellipsis) glande (it) m
• Japanese: 陰茎亀頭 (ja) (いんけいきとう, inkei kitō), 亀頭 (ja) (きとう, kitō)
• Javanese: kasapah, gathèl (jv)
• Karok: vûutrav
• Korean: 귀두(龜頭) (ko) (gwidu)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: gopika çûk f, ser çûk ?

• Latin: (New Latin) glāns pēnis f
• Latvian: dzimumlocekļa galviņa f
• Lithuanian: varpos galva f, varpos galvutė f
• Malay: kepala zakar, kepala butuh (ms)
• Manx: kione y woid m
• Māori: tehe
• Nahuatl:

  Classical Nahuatl: tepōlcuāxipeuhcatl

• Navajo: ííchʼah
• Norwegian: glanspenis m, penishode n
• Persian: حشفه (fa) (hašafe), سر کیر (sar-e kir)
• Polish: żołądź (pl) f
• Portuguese: glande do pênis f, (by ellipsis) glande (pt) f
• Romanian: glandul penisului n
• Romansh: glonda f
• Russian: голо́вка полово́го чле́на (ru) f (golóvka polovóvo čléna), (by ellipsis) голо́вка (ru) f (golóvka), (vulgar) залу́па (ru) f (zalúpa)
• Sami:

  Inari Sami: terska

  Northern Sami: návleoaivi, cihppaoaivi

  Skolt Sami: cuʹssǩieʹčč, terska

• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гла̀вӣћ m

  Latin: glàvīć m

• Slovak: žaluď m
• Slovene: bulbus penisa m, glavica penisa f
• Spanish: glande del pene m, bálano peniano m, balano peneano m, bellota fálica f
• Swedish: penisollon, (by ellipsis) ollon (sv) n
• Tagalog: ulo ng titi, ulo ng tunod
• Tamil: ஆண்குறி மொட்டு (āṇkuṟi moṭṭu)
• Thai: หัวควย (hǔua-kuai), หัวองคชาต (hǔua-ong-ká-châat)
• Tooro: omutwe gw'emboro class 3
• Turkish: penis başı, haşefe (tr), başçık (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: حشفه (haşefe)

• Ukrainian: голі́вка стате́вого чле́на f (holívka statévoho čléna), (by ellipsis) голі́вка f (holívka), (vulgar) залу́па f (zalúpa)
• Urdu: حشفہ m (haśafa)
• Vietnamese: quy đầu (vi) (龜頭)
• Welsh: pen pidyn m, blaen cala m
• Yucatec Maya: pool keep

Latin

Noun

glāns pēnis f (genitive glandis pēnis); third declension

1. (New Latin, anatomy) glans penis

Declension

Third-declension noun with an indeclinable portion.

	singular	plural
nominative	glāns pēnis	glandēs pēnis
genitive	glandis pēnis	glandum pēnis
dative	glandī pēnis	glandibus pēnis
accusative	glandem pēnis	glandēs pēnis
ablative	glande pēnis	glandibus pēnis
vocative	glāns pēnis	glandēs pēnis

Descendants

• English: glans penis