pharynx

English

Pharynx in context

Parts of the pharynx

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  pharynx, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek φάρυγξ (phárunx, “throat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfæɹɪŋks/

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

• glossopharynx
• nasopharynx
• oropharynx
• laryngopharynx
• velopharynx

Derived terms

• actinopharynx
• buccopharynx
• cytopharynx
• epipharynx
• glossopharynx
• hypopharynx
• laryngopharynx
• nasopharynx
• oropharynx
• pharyngeal
• pharyngectomy
• pharyngitis
• pharyngological
• pharyngologist
• pharyngology
• pharyngoscope
• pharyngotomy
• retropharynx
• velopharynx

 

Translations

part of alimentary canal

• Arabic: بُلْعُوم m (bulʕūm)

  Egyptian Arabic: بلعوم m (bulʕuum), لغلوغ m (lağluğ)

  Hijazi Arabic: بَلْعوم m (balʿūm)

• Armenian: ըմպան (hy) (əmpan), կոկորդաբերան (hy) (kokordaberan)
• Asturian: farinxe (ast) f
• Bengali: গলবিল (golbil)
• Catalan: faringe (ca) f
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: hltan (cs) m
• Danish: svælg (da) n
• Dutch: farynx (nl) m
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: nielu (fi), farynks
• French: pharynx (fr) m
• 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 (beit habli'á)
• Hungarian: garat (hu)
• Icelandic: kok (is) n
• Ido: faringo (io)
• Interlingua: pharynge
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Irish: faraing f
• Italian: faringe (it) m
• Japanese: 咽頭 (intō)
• Korean: 인두 (ko) (indu) (咽頭 (ko))
• Kurdish: ,
• Latin: pharynx m
• Maori: paeoro
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: svelg n

  Nynorsk: svelg n

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

  Cyrillic: ждријело n

  Roman: ždrijelo (sh) n

• Slovene: žrêlo n
• Spanish: faringe (es) m
• Swedish: svalg (sv) n
• Tagalog: lalagukan
• Turkish: yutak (tr)
• Volapük: farin

See also

• larynx

References

• “pharynx”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

Further reading

• “pharynx”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “pharynx”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa.ʁɛ̃ks/

Noun

pharynx m (uncountable)

1. (anatomy) pharynx

Derived terms

Derived terms

• nasopharynx
• oropharynx
• pharyngé

• pharyngien
• pharyngite
• pharyngolaryngite

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Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpʰa.rynks/, [ˈpʰärʏŋks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.rinks/, [ˈfäːriŋks]

Noun

pharynx m (genitive pharyngis); third declension

1. pharynx

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pharynx	pharyngēs
Genitive	pharyngis	pharyngum
Dative	pharyngī	pharyngibus
Accusative	pharyngem	pharyngēs
Ablative	pharynge	pharyngibus
Vocative	pharynx	pharyngēs