gonad

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek γονή (gonḗ, “seed, begetting, birth, offspring”), from γίγνεσθαι (gígnesthai, “be born”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡəʊ.næd/

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Noun

gonad (plural gonads)

1. (anatomy) A sex organ that produces gametes; specifically, a testicle or ovary.
2. (slang, chiefly in the plural) The testicles.

Synonyms

• (sex gland): sex gland

Derived terms

• gonadal
• gonadectomy
• gonadic
• gonadoblastoma
• nad

Translations

sex gland

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: գոնադ (gonad)
• Basque: gonada (eu)
• Catalan: gònada f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 生殖腺 (zh) (shēngzhíxiàn), 性腺 (zh) (xìngxiàn)

• Czech: gonáda
• Danish: gonade
• Dutch: gonade (nl)
• Esperanto: gonado
• Estonian: sugunääre
• Finnish: sukupuolirauhanen (fi)
• French: gonade (fr) f
• Galician: gónada (gl)
• German: Gonade (de) f, Geschlechtsdrüse (de) f, Keimdrüse (de) f
• Greek: γονάδα f (gonáda), γεννητικός αδένας m (gennitikós adénas)
• Hungarian: ivarmirigy (hu)
• Icelandic: kynkirtill m, æxlunarkirtill m

• Ido: gonado (io)
• Indonesian: gonad (id)
• Irish: gónad
• Italian: gonade (it) f
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Kazakh: жыныс бездері pl (jınıs bezderi)
• Korean: 생식샘 (ko) (saengsiksaem) (生殖腺 (ko))
• Latvian: dzimumdziedzeris m
• Persian: گند‎ (fa) (gond)
• Polish: gonada (pl)
• Portuguese: gónada f (Portugal), gônada f (Brazil)
• Russian: гона́да (ru) f (gonáda)
• Spanish: gónada (es) f
• Swedish: könskörtel (sv) c, gonad (sv) c
• Turkish: gonad
• Ukrainian: гонади (honady)
• Welsh: gonad

slang, testicles

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: ձվեր (jver)
• Catalan: collons (ca) m pl
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蛋蛋 (zh) (dàndan)

• Czech: koule (cs)
• Finnish: pallit pl
• French: couille (fr) f, couillon (fr) m

• German: Eier (de) n pl
• Greek: αρχίδια (el) n pl (archídia)
• Icelandic: eistu (is) n pl
• Italian: coglioni (it) m pl
• Persian: گند‎ (fa) (gond)
• Russian: я́йца (ru) n pl (jájca)
• Spanish: huevos (es) m pl, cojones (es) m pl
• Swedish: ballar (sv) c pl

Further reading

• Sex organ on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• gonad at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Dagon, Dogan, Gonda, dango, dogan, donga, goand