pubis

English

Etymology

Genitive of Latin pubes (“pubes”); see pubes.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpju.bɪs/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

pubis (plural pubes)

1. The pubic bone; the part of the hipbone forming the front arch of the pelvis.

   Synonym: pubic bone

Coordinate terms

• ilium
• ischium

Related terms

• epipubis
• mons pubis
• osteitis pubis
• symphysis pubis

Translations

the pubic bone

• Arabic: عَانَة f (ʕāna)

  Egyptian Arabic: عانة f (ʕana), سيوة f (seūwa)

• Bulgarian: срамна кост f (sramna kost)
• Catalan: pubis (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 恥骨 / 耻骨 (zh) (chǐgǔ)

• Czech: stydká kost f
• Danish: skamben n, kønsben n
• Dutch: schaambeen (nl) n
• Esperanto: pubosto
• Faroese: kokubein n
• Finnish: häpyluu (fi)
• French: pubis (fr) m
• Galician: pube (gl) f
• Georgian: ბოქვენის ძვალი (bokvenis ʒvali)
• German: Schambein (de) n, Schamknochen m
• Greek: εφήβαιο (el) n (efívaio)
• Hungarian: szeméremcsont (hu)
• Icelandic: lífbein (is) n
• Ido: pubio (io)
• Irish: púbas m, cnámh phúbasach f
• Italian: pube (it) m, osso pubico m
• Japanese: 恥骨 (ja) (ちこつ, chikotsu)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: hestiyê rûv

• Latin: os pubis n
• Lithuanian: gaktikaulis, gakta
• Low German: Schaambeen n
• Maori: puke (mi)
• Navajo: ʼá naníʼaʼ
• Norwegian: skamben n, kjønnsben n, venusben n
• Polish: kość łonowa f
• Portuguese: púbis (pt) m, osso púbico m
• Russian: лобо́к (ru) m (lobók)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: stidna kost f, preponjača

• Spanish: pubis (es) m, hueso del pubis m
• Swedish: blygdben (sv) n
• Telugu: జఘనాస్థి (te) (jaghanāsthi)
• Tocharian B: yoñiye
• Tooro: ekiinyi class 7
• Turkish: kasık kemiği, çatı kemiği
• Ukrainian: лобкова кістка (lobkova kistka)
• Volapük: pubid

See also

• bone

Further reading

• “pubis”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “pubis”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Albanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /puˈbis/

Noun

pubis m

1. pubic hair

Estonian

Noun

pubis

1. inessive singular of pubi

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pubis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /py.bis/

• Audio:

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Noun

pubis m (plural pubis)

1. pubis; pubes

Further reading

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

Latin

Noun

pūbis

1. genitive singular of pūbēs

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French pubis.

Noun

pubis n (plural pubise)

1. pubis

Declension

Declension of pubis

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	pubis	pubisul		pubise	pubisele
genitive-dative	pubis	pubisului		pubise	pubiselor
vocative	pubisule			pubiselor

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpubis/ [ˈpu.β̞is]
• Rhymes: -ubis
• Syllabification: pu‧bis

Noun

pubis m (plural pubis)

1. pubis

Further reading

• “pubis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10