gonad

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek γονή (gonḗ, “seed, begetting, birth, offspring”), from γίγνεσθαι (gígnesthai, “be born”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “which meaning of -ad does this pertain to? OED doesnt help”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡəʊ.næd/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -əʊnæd

Noun

gonad (plural gonads)

1. (anatomy) A sex organ that produces gametes; specifically, a testicle or ovary.
   • 2008, Denis Beckett, “Explaining prawns”, in Magenta, Scottsville, Pietermaritzburg: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press; Johannesburg: Saga Press, →ISBN, page 82:

     The shape of his gonads must set the ambit of his emotions? No. […] What Bart feels like is mother.

   1. (slang, chiefly in the plural) A testicle.

Synonyms

• (sex gland): sex gland

Derived terms

• gonadal
• gonadial
• gonadic
• gonadless
• gonado-
• gonadodysgenesis
• gonadogenesis
• gonadotrophic
• gonadotropic
• -gov-
• nad

Translations

sex gland

• Arabic: غُدَّة تَناسُلِيَّة f (ḡudda(t) tanāsuliyya)
• 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 (jynys bezderı)
• Korean: 생식샘(生殖腺) (ko) (saengsiksaem)
• Latvian: dzimumdziedzeris m
• Persian: گند (fa) (gond)
• Polish: gonada (pl)
• Portuguese:

  Brazilian: gônada f

  European: gónada f

• Russian: гона́да (ru) f (gonáda)
• Spanish: gónada (es) f
• Swedish: könskörtel (sv) c, gonad (sv) c
• Turkish: gonad
• Ukrainian: гонада f (honada)
• 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

• Gonad and Sex organ on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “gonad”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

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