labia

See also: Labia and lábia

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin labia (“lips”), plural of labium (“lip”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: lā'bē-ə IPA^(key): /leɪbi.ə/
• IPA^(key): /læbi.ə/
• Rhymes: -eɪbiə, -æbiə

Noun

1. (anatomy) The folds of tissue at the opening of the vulva.

Usage notes

Though usually used as a plural, this noun is also attested as a singular with plural labias or labiae.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:labia

Hypernyms

• genitals

Related terms

• labia majora
• labia minora
• labial
• labium

Translations

folds of tissue at opening of vulva

• Arabic: شَفْر m (šafr)

  Egyptian Arabic: شفة f (šeffa)

• Bulgarian: у́стни (bg) f pl (ústni)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 陰脣／阴唇 (jam¹ seon⁴), 阴唇 (jam¹ seon⁴)

  Mandarin: 陰脣／阴唇 (zh) (yīnchún), 阴唇 (zh) (yīnchún)

  Wu: 陰脣／阴唇 (jam¹ seon⁴), 阴唇 (in¹ zen¹)

• Classical Nahuatl: pīccatl
• Danish: skamlæber c pl, kusselæber c pl
• Dutch: (-en) schaamlip (nl)
• Estonian: häbememokad pl
• Finnish: häpyhuulet (fi) pl
• French: lèvres (fr) f pl, lèvres de la vulve f pl
• German: Labia pl, Schamlippen (de) f pl
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hungarian: szeméremajkak (hu) pl
• Japanese: 陰唇 (いんしん, inshin)
• Korean: 음순 (ko) (eumsun) (陰脣 (ko))
• Lithuanian: lytinės lūpos pl
• Luxembourgish: Schimtlëpsen pl
• Macedonian: усни f pl (usni)
• Maori: hangutu, werewere (labia minora)
• Norwegian: kjønnslepper c pl
• Polish: wargi sromowe f pl
• Portuguese: lábios m pl
• Russian: гу́бы (ru) f pl (gúby), половы́е гу́бы f pl (polovýje gúby)
• Spanish: labios (es) m pl, labios de la vulva m pl
• Swedish: blygdläppar (sv) c pl
• Volapük: kunudalips

Anagrams

• Abila, Alabi, baila

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈla.bi.a/, [ˈɫ̪äbiä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈla.bi.a/, [ˈläːbiä]

Noun

labia f (genitive labiae); first declension

1. lip

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	labia	labiae
Genitive	labiae	labiārum
Dative	labiae	labiīs
Accusative	labiam	labiās
Ablative	labiā	labiīs
Vocative	labia	labiae

Noun

(deprecated template usage) labia

1. nominative plural of labium
2. accusative plural of labium
3. vocative plural of labium

References

• “labia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• labia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin labia.

Noun

labia oblique singular, f (oblique plural labias, nominative singular labia, nominative plural labias)

1. (10th century) lip

   • circa 980, La Vie de Saint Léger

     La labia li ad restaurat

     He [=God] restored his lip to him

Usage notes

• The Vie de Saint Léger citation is the only known recorded usage of the term.

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Spanish

Noun

labia f (plural labias)

1. gift of the gab