pharynx

See also: Pharynx

English

Pharynx in context

Parts of the pharynx

Etymology

Etymology tree

Ancient Greek φάρυγξ (phárunx)bor.

New Latin pharynxbor.

English pharynx

Borrowing from New Latin pharynx, from Ancient Greek φᾰ́ρῠγξ (phắrŭnx, “throat”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.ɹɪŋks/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfɛɹ.ɪŋks/, /ˈfæɹ.ɪŋks/
• Rhymes: -æɹɪŋks, -ɛəɹɪŋks

Noun

pharynx (plural pharynges or pharynxes)

1. (anatomy) The part of the alimentary canal and respiratory tract that extends from the back of the mouth and nasal cavity to the larynx and esophagus.

   Meronyms: nasopharynx, oropharynx, laryngopharynx, velopharynx, glossopharynx

2. (zootomy) The part of the alimentary canal immediately behind the mouth in invertebrates that may be thickened and muscular, eversible and toothed, or adapted as a suctorial organ.

Derived terms

• actinopharynx
• buccopharynx
• craniopharyngioma
• cytopharynx
• epipharynx
• glossopharynx
• hypopharynx
• laryngopharynx
• mesopharynx
• nasopharynx
• neopharynx
• oropharynx
• palatopharynx
• pharyngal
• pharyngotomy
• retropharynx
• rhinopharynx
• velopharynx

Related terms

• pharyngeal
• pharyngo-, pharyng-

Translations

part of the alimentary canal

• Arabic: بُلْعُوم m (bulʕūm)

  Egyptian Arabic: بَلعوم m (balʕūm, balʕōm), لغلوغ m (laḡlūḡ)

  Hijazi Arabic: بَلْعوم m (balʕūm)

• Armenian: ըմպան (hy) (əmpan), կոկորդաբերան (hy) (kokordaberan)
• Asturian: farinxe (ast) f
• Bengali: গলবিল (bn) (golbil)
• Bulgarian: глътка (bg) f (glǎtka), фаринкс m (farinks)
• Catalan: faringe (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 咽頭 / 咽头 (zh) (yāntóu), 咽 (zh) (yān)

• Czech: hltan (cs) m
• Danish: svælg (da) n
• Dutch: farynx (nl) m
• Esperanto: faringo
• Estonian: neel, faarünks
• Faroese: svølg n, svølgrúm n
• Finnish: nielu (fi), farynks
• French: pharynx (fr) m
• Friulian: faringje m or f
• Galician: farinxe (gl) f
• German: Rachen (de) m; Pharynx (de) m
• Greek: φάρυγγας (el) m (fáryngas)
• Hebrew: לֹעַ (he) m (lóa), בֵּית הַבְּלִיעָה (he) m (bet habli'á)
• Hungarian: garat (hu)
• Icelandic: kok (is) n
• Ido: faringo (io)
• Interlingua: pharynge
• Irish: faraing f
• Italian: faringe (it) m
• Japanese: 咽頭 (ja) (intō)
• Korean: 인두(咽頭) (ko) (indu)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: gewrî (ku) f, gerû (ku) f

• Latin: pharynx m
• Macedonian: го́лтник m (góltnik), ждре́ло n (ždrélo)
• Malay: farinks
• Māori: paeoro
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: svelg n

  Nynorsk: svelg n

• Occitan: faringe (oc) f
• Persian: حلق (fa) (halq), نای‌گلو (nây-gelu)
• Polish: gardło (pl) n
• Portuguese: faringe (pt) f
• Romanian: faringe (ro) n
• Russian: фа́ринкс m (fárinks), зев (ru) m (zev), гло́тка (ru) f (glótka), горта́нь (ru) f (gortánʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ждријело n

  Latin: ždrijelo (sh) n

• Slovak: hltan (sk) m
• Slovene: žrêlo n
• Spanish: faringe (es) f
• Swedish: svalg (sv) n
• Tagalog: lalagukan
• Tamil: தொண்டைப்புரை (toṇṭaippurai)
• Thai: คอหอย (th) (kɔɔ-hɔ̌i), ช่องคอ (chɔ̂ng-kɔɔ)
• Turkish: yutak (tr)
• Vietnamese: yết hầu (vi)
• Volapük: farin

See also

• larynx

References

• “pharynx”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “pharynx”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “pharynx”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “pharynx”, in The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “pharynx”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa.ʁɛ̃ks/

• Audio (France (Brétigny-sur-Orge)):

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Noun

pharynx m (uncountable)

1. (anatomy) pharynx

Derived terms

• nasopharynx
• oropharynx
• pharyngé
• pharyngien
• pharyngite
• pharyngolaryngite

Further reading

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

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek φάρυγξ (phárunx, “throat, gullet”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpʰa.ryŋks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfaː.riŋks]

Noun

pharynx f (genitive pharyngis); third declension (New Latin)

1. (anatomy) the pharynx

Inflection

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	pharynx	pharyngēs
genitive	pharyngis	pharyngum
dative	pharyngī	pharyngibus
accusative	pharyngem	pharyngēs
ablative	pharynge	pharyngibus
vocative	pharynx	pharyngēs

Derived terms

• pharyngeus (adjective)

Related terms

• pharyngeālis

Descendants

• → English: pharynx