shinbone

English

Etymology

From Middle English schinboon, schineboon, from Old English sċinbān (“shin, shinbone”), from Proto-Germanic *skinōbainą, equivalent to shin +‎ bone. Cognate with Dutch scheenbeen (“shinbone”), German Schienbein (“shinbone”), Danish skinneben (“shin, shinbone”), Swedish skenben (“shinbone”).

Noun

shinbone (plural shinbones)

1. (anatomy) The inner and usually the larger of the two bones of the leg or hind limb below the knee
2. (zoology) A segment of an insect's leg.

Synonyms

• tibia, shankbone

Derived terms

• Shinboner

Translations

inner bone of the hind limb below the knee

• Arabic: قَصَبَة f (qaṣaba)

  Egyptian Arabic: قصبة الرجل f (ʾaṣabet er-regl)

• Armenian: ոլոք (hy) (olokʻ)
• Aromanian: fluir n, aridã f, cãlami f, chilunghi f
• Bau Bidayuh: togeg
• Bulgarian: голям пищял m (goljam pištjal), костен гонг m (kosten gong)
• Catalan: tíbia f
• Central Melanau: wud
• Chamicuro: to'sona
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 脛骨／胫骨 (zh) (jìnggǔ), 胫骨 (zh) (jìnggǔ)

• Czech: holenní kost f
• Danish: skinneben n
• Dutch: scheenbeen (nl) n
• Esperanto: tibio (eo)
• Finnish: sääriluu (fi)
• French: tibia (fr) m
• Georgian: წვივი (c̣vivi)
• German: Schienbein (de) n

  Alemannic German: Schinbein

• Greek:

  Ancient: προκνήμιον n (proknḗmion)

• Gujarati: નળો m (naḷo)
• Hungarian: sípcsont (hu)
• Ido: tibio (io)
• Indonesian: tulang kering (id), tibia
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• Italian: tibia (it) f
• Japanese: 脛骨 (ja) (けいこつ, keikotsu)
• Kapampangan: lulud
• Korean: 정강이뼈 (ko) (jeonggang'ippyeo)
• Latin: gongus osseus, tibia
• Lithuanian: blauzdikaulis
• Macedonian: цеваница f (cevanica)
• Malay: tulang kering, tulang betis, tibia
• Manx: craue lurgey
• Maori: takakaha
• Norwegian: skinneben
• Old English: sċinbān n
• Polish: kość piszczelowa
• Portuguese: tíbia f
• Romanian: tibia (ro) f, fluier (ro) n (popular)
• Russian: большеберцо́вая кость f (bolʹšebercóvaja kostʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: cnàimh-mòr-na-lurgainn m
• Serbo-Croatian: golen f, golenica f, cevanica (sh) f
• Slovene: golenica (sl) f
• Spanish: tibia (es) f
• Swedish: skenben (sv)
• Tagalog: butunlulod
• Thai: กระดูกแข้ง (grà-dùuk-kɛ̂ng)
• Ukrainian: велика гомілкова кістка f (velyka homilkova kistka), великогомілкова кістка f (velykohomilkova kistka)
• Volapük: tibiad

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