nasal

See also: Nasal and n-asal

English

Etymology

From Middle English, from Medieval Latin nāsālis, from nāsus (“the nose”) +‎ -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix). Doublet of nasalis.

Pronunciation

• enPR: nā'zəl IPA^(key): /ˈneɪ.zəl/

  • Audio (RP)

    (file)

• Rhymes: -eɪzəl

Adjective

nasal (comparative more nasal, superlative most nasal)

1. (anatomy, relational) Of or pertaining to the nose or to the nasion.

   Synonyms: nosely, nosey

   • 2013 March, Nancy Langston, “Mining the Boreal North”, in American Scientist‎^[1], volume 101, number 2, page 98:

     Reindeer are well suited to the taiga’s frigid winters. They can maintain a thermogradient between body core and the environment of up to 100 degrees, in part because of insulation provided by their fur, and in part because of counter-current vascular heat exchange systems in their legs and nasal passages.

2. (phonetics) Having a sound imparted by means of the nose; and specifically, made by lowering the soft palate, in some cases with closure of the oral passage, the voice thus issuing (wholly or partially) through the nose, as in the consonants m, n, ng.

   nasal vowel

3. (phonetics) Characterized by resonance in the nasal passage.

   nasal utterance

   • 2016, A.K. Brown, Jumpstart (Champagne Universe Series: Book 1), page 2:

     "Are you sure you're OK?" she said with a nasal Australian accent.

4. (music) Sharp, penetrating.

Derived terms

• alinasal
• antronasal
• basinasal
• binasal
• bucconasal
• circumnasal
• craniofrontonasal
• denasal
• dorsonasal
• endonasal
• epinasal
• ethmonasal
• extranasal
• frontonasal
• hypernasal
• hyponasal
• inferonasal
• infranasal
• internasal
• intranasal
• labionasal
• lacrimonasal
• linguonasal
• maxillonasal
• mesonasal
• muconasal
• nasalance
• nasal bone
• nasal cannula
• nasal capsule
• nasal cavity
• nasal concha
• nasal congestion
• nasal consonant
• nasal cycle
• nasal fossa
• nasal index
• nasal irrigation
• nasalism
• nasality
• nasalize, nasalise
• nasally
• nasal mutation
• nasalness
• nasal obstruction
• nasal polyp
• nasal septum
• nasal spray
• nasal tampon
• nasal vowel
• nasalward, nasalwards
• naso-
• nonnasal
• occipitonasal
• oculonasal
• orbitonasal
• oronasal, oralnasal
• orthonasal
• palatonasal
• palpebronasal
• paranasal
• perinasal
• pharyngonasal
• postnasal
• prenasal
• retronasal
• rostronasal
• septonasal
• sinonasal, sinusonasal
• subnasal
• superonasal
• supranasal
• temporonasal
• tracheonasal
• transnasal
• ventronasal
• vomeronasal

 

Translations

pertaining to the nose

• Asturian: nasal (ast)
• Belarusian: насавы́ (nasavý), наза́льны (nazálʹny)
• Catalan: nasal (ca)
• Czech: nosní (cs) m
• Finnish: nenä- (fi), nenän
• French: nasal (fr)
• Galician: nasal (gl)
• German: nasal (de)
• Hungarian: orr- (hu)
• Ido: nazala (io)
• Irish: srónach
• Italian: nasale (it)

• Mongolian: хамрын (hamrïn)
• Norwegian: nasal

  Bokmål: nese-

  Nynorsk: nase-

• Occitan: nasal
• Polish: nosowy (pl) m
• Portuguese: nasal (pt)
• Russian: носово́й (ru) (nosovój), (medical) наза́льный (ru) (nazálʹnyj)
• Spanish: nasal (es)
• Swedish: nasal (sv), näs- (sv)
• Turkish: genizsil (tr), nazal (tr)
• Ukrainian: носови́й (nosovýj), наза́льний (nazálʹnyj)

having a quality imparted by means of the nose

• Armenian: ռնգական (hy) (ṙngakan)
• Asturian: nasal (ast)
• Bikol Central: pungag (bcl)
• Catalan: nasal (ca)
• Dutch: nasaal (nl)
• Finnish: nasaalinen, nasaali- (fi)
• French: nasal (fr)
• Galician: nasal (gl)
• German: nasal (de)
• Greek: έρρινος (el) (érrinos)
• Hungarian: nazális (hu), orr- (hu)
• Ido: nazala (io)
• Irish: srónach
• Italian: nasale (it)

• Latvian: nazāls
• Maori: whango
• Navajo: chį́į́shyol, háchį́shtahdę́ę́ʼ
• Norwegian: nasal
• Polish: nosowy (pl) m
• Portuguese: nasal (pt)
• Russian: носово́й (ru) (nosovój), (uncommon) наза́льный (ru) (nazálʹnyj)
• Spanish: nasal (es)
• Telugu: అనునాసికము (te) (anunāsikamu)
• Turkish: nazal (tr), genizsil (tr)
• Urdu: غُنّائی‎ (ġunnāī)
• Welsh: trwynol (cy)

Noun

nasal (plural nasals)

1. (medicine, archaic) A medicine that operates through the nose; an errhine.
2. (phonetics) Ellipsis of nasal consonant..

   Hyponym: velar nasal

3. (phonetics) Ellipsis of nasal vowel..
4. (historical) The part of a helmet projecting to protect the nose; a nose guard.
   • 1909, Charles Henry Ashdown, European Arms & Armor, page 78:

     The nasal continued in use until about 1140, when it was generally discarded, but isolated examples may be found in every succeeding century down to the seventeenth.

   • 1999, George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam Books, published 2011, page 463:

     Rorge had donned a black halfhelm with a broad iron nasal that made it hard to see that he did not have a nose.

5. (anatomy) Ellipsis of nasal bone..
6. (zootomy) A plate, or scale, on the nose of a fish, etc.

Translations

errhine

• Finnish: intranasaalinen lääke

vowel or consonant

• Armenian: ռնգական (hy) (ṙngakan), ռնգային (hy) (ṙngayin)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鼻音 (zh) (bíyīn)

• Dutch: neusklank (nl) c
• Finnish: nenä-äänne (fi), nasaali (fi)
• Galician: nasal (gl)
• Georgian: ცხვირისმიერი (cxvirismieri), ცხვირისმიერი ბგერა (cxvirismieri bgera), ნაზალური (nazaluri), ნაზალური ბგერა (nazaluri bgera)
• German: Nasenlaut (de); Nasallaut (de), Nasal (de) m, Nasalis f
• Hungarian: nazális hang, orrhang (hu)
• Ido: nazalo (io)
• Irish: srónach m

• Japanese: 鼻音 (ja) (びおん, bion)
• Latvian: nāsenis m (consonant)
• Navajo: chį́į́shtah diitsʼaʼígíí
• Portuguese: nasal (pt)
• Russian: носово́й звук m (nosovój zvuk)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: назал m, носник m

  Roman: nazal (sh) m, nosnik m

• Slovene: nósnik m
• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} näsljud, ^{(please verify)} nasalljud
• Telugu: అనునాసికము (te) (anunāsikamu)
• Urdu: غُنَّہ‎ m (ġunna), غُنَّہ پَن‎ m (ġunna pan)

noseguard

• Finnish: nenäsuoja, nasaali (fi)

nasal bone

• Finnish: nenän luu

References

• “nasal”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “nasal”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary

Anagrams

• -salan, Alans, Anals, NALSA, alans, anals, nalas

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Asturian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /naˈsal/, [naˈsal]

Adjective

nasal (epicene, plural nasales)

1. nasal

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /nəˈzal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /naˈzal/

Adjective

nasal (masculine and feminine plural nasals)

1. nasal

Derived terms

• nasalment

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin nāsālis, from Latin nāsus (“nose”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /na.zal/

• Audio

  (file)

Adjective

nasal (feminine nasale, masculine plural nasaux, feminine plural nasales)

1. nasal
2. (phonetics, phonology) nasal

Derived terms

• os nasal

Related terms

Related terms

• nasale
• nasalisation
• nasaliser

• naseau
• nasiller
• nez

Further reading

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

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Galician

Adjective

nasal m or f (plural nasais)

1. nasal

Further reading

• “nasal” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

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German

Etymology

From Latin nasalis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /naˈzaːl/

• Audio

  (file)

Adjective

nasal (strong nominative masculine singular nasaler, not comparable)

1. nasal

Declension

Positive forms of nasal (uncomparable)

number & gender		singular			plural
		masculine	feminine	neuter	all genders
predicative		er ist nasal	sie ist nasal	es ist nasal	sie sind nasal
strong declension (without article)	nominative	nasaler	nasale	nasales	nasale
	genitive	nasalen	nasaler	nasalen	nasaler
	dative	nasalem	nasaler	nasalem	nasalen
	accusative	nasalen	nasale	nasales	nasale
weak declension (with definite article)	nominative	der nasale	die nasale	das nasale	die nasalen
	genitive	des nasalen	der nasalen	des nasalen	der nasalen
	dative	dem nasalen	der nasalen	dem nasalen	den nasalen
	accusative	den nasalen	die nasale	das nasale	die nasalen
mixed declension (with indefinite article)	nominative	ein nasaler	eine nasale	ein nasales	(keine) nasalen
	genitive	eines nasalen	einer nasalen	eines nasalen	(keiner) nasalen
	dative	einem nasalen	einer nasalen	einem nasalen	(keinen) nasalen
	accusative	einen nasalen	eine nasale	ein nasales	(keine) nasalen

Derived terms

• Nasalbuchstabe
• nasalieren
• Nasalierung
• Nasalität
• Nasallaut

 

Further reading

• “nasal” in Duden online
• “nasal” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

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Interlingua

Adjective

nasal (not comparable)

1. nasal

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Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /naˈzal/
• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

nasal

1. nasal

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Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin nasalis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Brazil) /naˈzaw/, [naˈzaʊ̯]

• IPA^(key): (Portugal) /nɐˈzal/, [nɐˈzaɫ]

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
• Hyphenation: na‧sal

Adjective

nasal m or f (plural nasais, not comparable)

1. nasal

Derived terms

• nasalmente

Noun

nasal f (plural nasais)

1. nasal consonant

Noun

nasal m (plural nasais)

1. nasal bone

Related terms

Related terms

• nariz
• nasalação

• nasalar
• nasalidade

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Spanish

Etymology

From Late Latin nāsālis, from Latin nāsus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /naˈsal/, [naˈsal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Hyphenation: na‧sal

Adjective

nasal (plural nasales)

1. nasal

Derived terms

• endonasal
• fosa nasal
• tabique nasal

 

Noun

nasal f (plural nasales)

1. nasal, nasal consonant

Related terms

Related terms

• nariz
• nasalidad

• nasalización
• nasalizar

Further reading

• “nasal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014