larynx

English

Larynx

Etymology

From Middle French larynx, from Ancient Greek λάρυγξ (lárunx).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlæ.ɹɪŋks/

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Noun

larynx (plural larynges or larynxes)

1. An organ of the neck of mammals involved in breath control, protection of the trachea and sound production, housing the vocal cords, and that is situated at the point where the upper tract splits into the trachea and the oesophagus/esophagus.

Synonyms

• voice box (informal)

Derived terms

• electrolarynx
• endolarynx
• hyolarynx
• laryngeal
• laryngectomy
• laryngitis
• laryngological
• laryngologist
• laryngology
• mechanical larynx

 

Translations

the organ

• Arabic: حَنْجَرَة f (ḥanjara)

  Egyptian Arabic: حنجرة f (ḥangara)

  Hijazi Arabic: حَنْجَرة f (ḥanjara)

• Armenian: կոկորդ (hy) (kokord), խռչակ (hy) (xṙčʻak)
• Asturian: larinxe (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: qırtlaq
• Belarusian: гарта́нь f (hartánʹ)
• Bulgarian: гръкля́н (bg) m (grǎklján), ларинкс (bg) m (larinks)
• Catalan: laringe f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 喉 (zh) (hóu), 喉頭／喉头 (zh) (hóutóu), 喉头 (zh) (hóutóu), (informal) 嗓子 (zh) (sǎngzi)

• Cornish: aval briansen m
• Czech: hrtan (cs) m
• Danish: strubehoved n
• Dutch: strottenhoofd (nl)
• Esperanto: laringo
• Estonian: kõri (et)
• Faroese: barkakýli n, barkaknøttur m, barkaknetti n
• Finnish: kurkunpää (fi)
• French: larynx (fr) m
• Galician: larinxe (gl) f
• Georgian: ხორხი (xorxi)
• German: Kehlkopf (de) m
• Greek: λάρυγγας (el) (láryngas)

  Ancient: λάρυγξ m (lárunx)

• Hebrew: בית הקול (he)
• Hindi: स्वरग्रंथि f (svaragranthi), स्वरयंत्र (svaryantra)
• Hungarian: gége (hu)
• Icelandic: barkakýli (is) n
• Ido: laringo (io)
• Indonesian: laring (id)
• Irish: laraing f
• Italian: laringe (it) f
• Japanese: 喉頭 (こうとう, kōtō)
• Kannada: please add this translation if you can
• Kazakh: көмей (kömei), көмекей (kömekei)
• Khmer: ឃោសិត្រ (kʰooset), បំពង់កក្នុង (bɑmpʊəŋ kɑɑ knoŋ)
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• Korean: 후두 (ko) (hudu) (喉頭 (ko))
• Kurdish:
• Kyrgyz: кекиртек (ky) (kekirtek)
• Latin: ^{(please verify)} larynx (la), ^{(please verify)} laryngis (genitive)
• Latvian: balsene
• Lithuanian: gerklos
• Macedonian: грклан m (grklan)
• Maltese: please add this translation if you can
• Manx: aahjioogh f, goolag f
• Maori: paeoro
• Norwegian: strupehode
• Persian: حنجره (fa) (hanjare), خشکنای (fa) (xošknây)
• Polish: krtań (pl) f
• Portuguese: laringe (pt) f
• Romanian: laringe (ro) n
• Russian: горта́нь (ru) f (gortánʹ), гло́тка (ru) f (glótka)
• Scottish Gaelic: guthlag f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гр̀кљан m

  Roman: gr̀kljan (sh) m

• Slovak: hrtan (sk) m
• Slovene: grlo (sl) n
• Spanish: laringe (es) f
• Swahili: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: struphuvud (sv) n, larynx (sv) n
• Tagalog: tatagukan, patinigan
• Tamil: குரல்வளை (ta) (kuralvaḷai)
• Thai: กล่องเสียง (th) (glɔ̀ng-sǐiang)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: gırtlak (tr)
• Turkmen: kekirdek
• Ukrainian: горта́нь f (hortánʹ), гло́тка f (hlótka)
• Uzbek: kekirdak (uz)
• Vietnamese: thanh quản (vi)
• Volapük: larin (vo)
• Welsh: laryncs m, corn gwddf m
• Zulu: please add this translation if you can

See also

• pharynx
• larynx on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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Czech

Noun

1. larynx

   Synonym: hrtan

Further reading

• Template:R:PSJC
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French

Etymology

From Ancient Greek λάρυγξ (lárunx).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la.ʁɛ̃ks/

Noun

larynx m (plural larynx)

1. larynx

Further reading

• “larynx”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈla.rynks/, [ˈɫ̪ärʏŋks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈla.rinks/, [ˈläːriŋks]

Noun

larynx m (genitive laryngis); third declension

1. larynx

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	larynx	laryngēs
Genitive	laryngis	laryngum
Dative	laryngī	laryngibus
Accusative	laryngem	laryngēs
Ablative	larynge	laryngibus
Vocative	larynx	laryngēs