semen

See also: semèn and sêmen

English

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Etymology

From Latin sēmen (“seed”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsiːmən/

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• Rhymes: -iːmən
• Homophone: seamen

Noun

Semen

semen (uncountable)

1. A slimy, milky fluid produced in male reproductive organs that contains the reproductive cells.
   • 1959, William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, page 68

     Sharp protein odor of semen fills the air.

Synonyms

• (Male reproductory fluid): ejaculate, sperm; (slang): jissom, jism, jizz, spunk, cum, seed, spurt, spooge, load
• See also Wikisaurus:semen

Translations

male reproductory fluid

• Albanian: spermë f, lëng seminal m
• Arabic: منى m (máni)

  Egyptian Arabic: مني m (mani), لبن m (laban) (vulgar)

• Armenian: սերմ (serm), սերմնահեղուկ (sermnahełuk)
• Asturian: semen (ast) m
• Azeri: toxum
• Bashkir: мәней (mäney), аталыҡ орлоғо (atalïq orloğo)
• Basque: hazi
• Belarusian: сперма f (spjérma), семя (be) n (sjémja), кнура f (knurá), насенне n (nasjénnje)
• Bengali: বীর্য (birjô)
• Bulgarian: спéрма f (spérma), семенна течност f (semenna tečnost)
• Catalan: esperma (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 精液 (zing1 jik6)

  Mandarin: 精液 (zh) (jīngyè)

  Min Nan: 精水 (cheng-chúi), 潲 (zh-min-nan) (siâu)

• Czech: semeno n, ejakulát (cs) m, sperma (cs) n
• Danish: sæd (da)
• Dutch: sperma (nl)
• Esperanto: ejakulaĵo, spermo
• Estonian: seemnevedelik, sperma (et)
• Faroese: sáð n, spin n
• Finnish: siemenneste (fi), sperma (fi)
• French: semence (fr) f, sperme (fr) m
• Galician: seme (gl) m
• Georgian: თესლი (ka) (t’esli), სპერმა (sperma)
• German: Samen (de) m
• Greek: σπέρμα (el) n (spérma)
• Gujarati: વીર્ય (vīrya)
• Hebrew: זֶרַע (he) m (zera'), זִרְמָה f (zirma)
• Hindi: वीर्य m (vīrya), शुक्र (hi) m (śukra)
• Hungarian: ondó (hu)
• Icelandic: sæði n, sáð n, sáðvökvi m, brundur m
• Indonesian: air mani
• Irish: seamhan m, síol m

• Italian: seme (it) m
• Japanese: 精液 (ja) (せいえき, seieki), ザーメン (zāmen)
• Khmer: ទឹកកាម (tɨk kaam)
• Korean: 정액 (ko) (jeong-aek) (精液 (ko)), (slang) 좆물 (jonmul),
• Kurdish: تۆو (ku), تۆماو, تۆم (ku), sperma (ku)
• Latin: sēmen n
• Latvian: sēkla (lv) f, sperma f
• Lithuanian: sperma f, sėkla (lt) f
• Malay: mani
• Malayalam: ശുക്ലം (ml) (śuklaṃ)
• Maori: waitātea
• Marathi: रेत (ret)
• Norwegian: sæd m
• Persian: منی (fa) (mani), اسپرم (fa) (esperm)

  Middle Persian: šuhr

• Polish: sperma (pl) f, nasienie (pl) n
• Portuguese: sêmen (pt) m
• Romanian: spermă (ro) f
• Russian: семя (ru) n (sémja), сперма (ru) f (spérma), эякулят (ru) m (ejakulját), молофья (ru) f (molofʹjá) (vulgar)
• Sanskrit: रेतस् n (retas)
• Slovene: séme n, spêrma f
• Spanish: semen (es) m
• Swedish: sädesvätska (sv), sperma (sv), sagge (sv) c
• Tagalog: punlay, tabod, tamod, semilya
• Tajik: тухмӣ (tuxmī)
• Tamil: விந்து (ta) (vintu)
• Telugu: వీర్యము (te) (vīryamu), రేతస్సు (te) (rētassu)
• Thai: น้ำอสุจิ (náam à-sù-jì)
• Turkish: meni (tr), sperm (tr), döl (tr), atmık (tr)
• Ukrainian: сперма f (spérma), сім'я f (sím'ja), еякулят m (ejakulját), насіння n (nasínnja)
• Urdu: ویریہ m (vīrya), منی
• Vietnamese: tinh dịch (vi)
• Yiddish: זרע (zre), זומען (zumen)

Anagrams

• mesne
• neems

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Asturian

Verb

semen

1. third-person plural present indicative of semar
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of semar

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Indonesian

Noun

semen

1. cement (a powdered substance)
2. The fluid, produced in male reproductive organs of an animal, that contains the reproductive cells.

This Indonesian entry was created from the translations listed at cement. It may be less reliable than other entries, and may be missing parts of speech or additional senses. Please also see semen in the Indonesian Wiktionary. This notice will be removed when the entry is checked. (more information) February 2010

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Latin

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Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *séh₁mn̥.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈseː.men/, [ˈseː.mẽ]

Noun

sēmen n (genitive sēminis); third declension

1. seed (of plants)

   Semen manu spargere. ― To scatter seed by hand.

2. semen
3. graft
4. offspring
5. cause
6. (poetic) seed (of the elements of other bodies (of fire, water, stones, etc.))
   • c. 99 BCE – 55 BCE, Lucretius, De rerum natura 6

     et ignis semina convolvunt e nubibus.

     and the seeds of fire roll from the clouds.

Inflection

Third declension neuter.

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	sēmen	sēmina
genitive	sēminis	sēminum
dative	sēminī	sēminibus
accusative	sēmen	sēmina
ablative	sēmine	sēminibus
vocative	sēmen	sēmina

Derived terms

• sēmentifer
• sēmentis
• sēminālia
• sēminālis
• sēminārium
• sēminārius

• sēminātiō
• sēminātor
• sēminium
• sēminiverbius
• sēminō
• sēminōsus

Descendants

• English: semen
• Italian: seme
• Spanish: semen

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Middle English

Verb

semen

1. to seem
   • 14^th Century, Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Knight's Tale

     The brighte swerdes wenten to and fro
     So hidously þat with þe leste strook
     That it semeþ þat it wolde felle an ook

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Spanish

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sēmen.

Noun

semen m (uncountable)

1. semen, sperm

Related terms

• semilla
• inseminar