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Stomach (with mucosal surface partly exposed)
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Etymology[edit]
From Middle English stomak, from Old French estomac, from Latin stomachus, from Ancient Greek στόμαχος (stómakhos), from στόμα (stóma, “mouth”). Displaced native Middle English mawe (“stomach, maw”) (from Old English maga), Middle English bouk, buc (“belly, stomach”) (from Old English buc (“belly, stomach”), see bucket).
Pronunciation[edit]
stomach (plural stomachs)
- An organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion.
- (informal) The belly.
- (obsolete) Pride, haughtiness.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii:
- Sterne was his looke, and full of stomacke vaine, / His portaunce terrible, and stature tall […].
- 1613, William Shakespeare, The Life of King Henry the Eighth, IV. ii. 34:
- He was a man / Of an unbounded stomach, ever ranking / Himself with princes;
- John Locke
- This sort of crying proceeding from pride, obstinacy, and stomach, the will, where the fault lies, must be bent.
- (obsolete) Appetite.
- a good stomach for roast beef
- (figuratively) Desire, appetite (for something abstract).
- I have no stomach for a fight today.
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Terms derived from stomach (noun)
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Translations[edit]
digestive organ
- Afar: please add this translation if you can
- Afrikaans: maag
- Albanian: stomak (sq)
- Amharic: ጨጓራ m (č̣ägʷara)
- Arabic: مَعِدَة f (maʿida), مِعْدَة f (miʿda)
- Egyptian Arabic: معدة f (meʕda)
- Aragonese: estomago (an) m
- Aramaic:
- Syriac: ܐܣܛܘܡܟܐ (’isṬōmkā’) m
- Hebrew: אסטומכא (’isṬōmkā’) m
- Armenian: ստամոքս (hy) (stamokʿs)
- Assamese: please add this translation if you can
- Asturian: estómagu (ast) m
- Aymara: puraka (ay)
- Azeri: mədə (az), qarın (az)
- Bashkir: ашҡаҙан (ašqaðan)
- Bau Bidayuh: toin, kubuoi
- Belarusian: стра́ўнік m (stráŭnik)
- Bengali: পাকস্থলী (pakôsthôli)
- Breton: stomog (br) m
- Bulgarian: стома́х (bg) m (stomáh)
- Burmese: ဝမ်း (my) (wam:)
- Catalan: estómac (ca) m
- Central Melanau: pait
- Chakma: 𑄞𑄢𑄣𑄴 (bhārāl)
- Chamicuro: knani
- Chichewa: please add this translation if you can
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 胃 (wai6)
- Mandarin: 胃 (zh) (wèi), 肚子 (zh) (dùzi)
- Crimean Tatar: mide, aşqazan
- Czech: žaludek (cs) m
- Danish: bug c
- Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
- Dutch: maag (nl) f
- Erzya: пеке (peke)
- Esperanto: stomako
- Estonian: kõht (et), magu
- Ewe: please add this translation if you can
- Extremaduran: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: mahalaukku (fi), vatsalaukku (fi)
- French: estomac (fr) m
- Friulian: stomi m
- Galician: estómago (gl) m
- Georgian: კუჭი (ḳuč̣i), სტომაქი (sṭomaki), სტვამაქი (sṭvamaki)
- German: Magen (de) m
- Greek: στομάχι (el) n (stomáchi)
- Ancient Greek: στόμαχος m (stómakhos), γαστήρ m (gastḗr)
- Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
- Hausa: please add this translation if you can
- Hawaiian: ʻōpū
- Hebrew: קיבה (he) f (qebah)
- Hindi: अमाशय m (amāśay)
- Hungarian: gyomor (hu)
- Icelandic: magi (is) m
- Ido: stomako (io)
- Igbo: please add this translation if you can
- Indonesian: perut (id)
- Interlingua: please add this translation if you can
- Interlingue: please add this translation if you can
- Iranun: tian
- Irish: goile m
- Italian: stomaco (it) m
- Japanese: 胃 (ja) (い, i), お腹 (ja) (おなか, o-naka), 腹 (ja) (はら, hara)
- Javanese: please add this translation if you can
- Kalmyk: гесн (gesn)
- Kazakh: асқазан (kk) (asqazan)
- Khmer: ក្រពះ (km) (krɑpeah)
- Kimaragang: tiyan
- Korean: 위 (ko) (wi) (胃)
- Lao: ກະເພາະ (lo) (ka phǫ)
- Latgalian: pasirds
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- Latin: stomachus m
- Latvian: kuņģis m
- Lithuanian: skrandis (lt) m
- Lotud: tian
- Lower Sorbian: žołdk m
- Luganda: please add this translation if you can
- Luo: ich
- Luxembourgish: please add this translation if you can
- Macedonian: желудник m (žéludnik), стомак m (stómak)
- Malay: perut
- Maltese: stonku m
- Manchu: ᡤᡠᠸᡝᠵᡳᡥᡝ (guwejihe)
- Mandinka: konoo
- Marathi: जठर (jaṭhar)
- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- Navajo: abid
- Norman: estonma m (Jersey), estouma m (Guernsey), estuma m (Sark)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: mage (no) m, magesekk (no) m, mavesekk m
- Nynorsk: mage m, magesekk m
- Novial: please add this translation if you can
- Old English: maga m
- Oriya: please add this translation if you can
- Pashto: please add this translation if you can
- Persian: معده (fa) (me'de)
- Polish: żołądek (pl) m
- Portuguese: estômago (pt) m
- Punjabi: please add this translation if you can
- Rajasthani: please add this translation if you can
- Romanian: stomac (ro) n
- Rungus: tizan
- Russian: желу́док (ru) m (želúdok), живо́т (ru) m (živót)
- Sabah Bisaya: tinai'
- Sardinian: please add this translation if you can
- Scottish Gaelic: brù f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: желудац m, стомак m
- Roman: želudac (sh) m, stomak (sh) m
- Sicilian: stòmmacu (scn) m
- Sindhi: please add this translation if you can
- Sinhalese: බඩ (si) (baḍa)
- Slovak: žalúdok m
- Slovene: želodec (sl) m
- Somali: calool
- Spanish: estómago (es) m
- Sundanese: ᮘᮥᮛᮤᮂ (burih)
- Swahili: utumbo (sw) class 5/6
- Swedish: mage (sv) c
- Tagal Murut: tinaai
- Tagalog: tiyan (tl)
- Tambunan Dusun: tian
- Tamil: இரைப்பை (ta) (iraippai)
- Taos: thį̀ę’éna
- Telugu: జీర్ణకోశము (jīrṇakōśamu), జీర్ణాశయము (te) (jīrṇāśayamu)
- Thai: ท้อง (th) (tóng)
- Timugon Murut: tinaie
- Turkish: mide (tr), karın (tr)
- Turkmen: garyn
- Tuvan: ижин (ïžïn)
- Ukrainian: шлу́нок (uk) m (šlúnok)
- Upper Sorbian: žołdk m
- Uzbek: qorin (uz)
- Venetian: stómego (vec) m
- Vietnamese: dạ dày (vi)
- Vilamovian: maoga
- Volapük: stomäg (vo)
- Walloon: please add this translation if you can
- Welsh: bola (cy)
- West Coast Bajau: betong
- West Frisian: mage
- Wiradhuri: binji
- Wolof: please add this translation if you can
- Xhosa: please add this translation if you can
- Yiddish: מאָגן m (mogn)
- Yoruba: please add this translation if you can
- Yup'ik: aqsaq
- Zulu: isisu (zu) class 7/8
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belly
- Afrikaans: buik
- Albanian: bark (sq)
- Arabic: مَعِدَة f (maʿida), مِعْدَة f (miʿda), بَطْن m (baṭn)
- Aramaic:
- Syriac: ܟܪܣܐ (karsā’) f
- Hebrew: כרסא (karsā’) f
- Armenian: փոր (hy) (pʿor)
- Asturian: barriga (ast) f
- Azeri: qarın (az)
- Baluchi: لاپ (láp)
- Bashkir: эс (es), ҡорһаҡ (qorhaq), ҡарын (qarïn)
- Belarusian: жыво́т m (žyvót), чэ́рава n (čérava)
- Bengali: পেট (peţ)
- Bulgarian: коре́м (bg) m (korém), шкембе (bg) (škembe)
- Burmese: ဗိုက် (my) (buik)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 腹部 (zh) (fùbù), 肚子 (zh) (dùzi)
- Czech: břicho (cs) n
- Dutch: buik (nl)
- Erzya: пеке (peke)
- Esperanto: ventro
- Estonian: kõht (et), magu
- Finnish: maha (fi), vatsa (fi)
- French: ventre (fr) m, bedon (fr) m (pot belly)
- Georgian: მუცელი (muceli)
- German: Bauch (de) m
- Greek: στομάχι (el) n (stomáchi), κοιλιά (el) f (koiliá)
- Haitian Creole: vant
- Hebrew: בֶּטֶן (he) f (béten)
- Hindi: पेट (hi) m (pēṭ)
- Hungarian: has (hu)
- Indonesian: perut (id)
- Irish: bolg m
- Italian: pancia (it) f
- Japanese: お腹 (ja) (おなか, o-naka), 腹 (ja) (はら, hara)
- Kalenjin: moek
- Kalmyk: гесн (gesn)
- Kazakh: қарын (kk) (qarın)
- Khmer: ក្បាលពោះ (kbaal pʊəh)
- Kikuyu: nda
- Korean: 배 (ko) (bae)
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: زگ (zig), ورگ (ku) (wirg)
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- Kyrgyz: карын (ky) (karın)
- Latgalian: vādars m
- Latvian: vēders (lv) m
- Lithuanian: pilvas m
- Luhya: enda
- Macedonian: сто́мак m (stómak), мев m (mev)
- Malay: perut
- Maltese: żaqq (mt) f
- Marathi: पोट (poṭ)
- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- Navajo: abid
- Norman: ventre m (Jersey, Guernsey), vãtr m (Sa;rk), dare (continental Normandy)
- Norwegian: mage (no) m, buk (no) m
- Persian: شکم (fa) (šekam)
- Polish: brzuch (pl) m
- Portuguese: barriga (pt) f
- Romanian: burtă (ro) f
- Russian: живо́т (ru) m (živót), (disparaging) брю́хо (ru) n (brjúxo), пу́зо (ru) n (púzo), (archaic, poetic, ironic) чре́во (ru) n (črévo)
- Scottish Gaelic: brù f, balg m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: трбух m
- Roman: trbuh (sh) m
- Sicilian: panza (scn) f
- Slovak: brucho n
- Slovene: trebuh (sl) m
- Spanish: barriga (es) f, vientre (es) m
- Sundanese: patuangan
- Swahili: tumbo (sw)
- Swedish: buk (sv), mage (sv) c
- Tajik: шикам (tg) (šikam)
- Telugu: పొట్ట (te) (poṭṭa), కడుపు (te) (kaḍupu)
- Thai: ท้อง (th) (tóng)
- Tok Pisin: bel (tpi)
- Turkish: karın (tr)
- Turkmen: garyn
- Tuvan: хырын (hırın)
- Ukrainian: живі́т m (žyvít), че́рево n (čérevo)
- Urdu: پیٹ m (pēṭ)
- Vietnamese: bụng (vi)
- Volapük: bälid (vo)
- Welsh: bol (cy) m
- Yiddish: בויך m (boykh)
- Zulu: isisu (zu) class 7/8
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figuratively: desire, appetite
— see appetite
stomach (third-person singular simple present stomachs, present participle stomaching, simple past and past participle stomached)
- (transitive) To tolerate (something), emotionally, physically, or mentally; to stand or handle something.
- I really can’t stomach jobs involving that much paperwork, but some people seem to tolerate them.
- I can't stomach her cooking.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To be angry.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Hooker to this entry?)
- (obsolete, transitive) To resent; to remember with anger; to dislike.
- 1607, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra, III. iv. 12:
- O, my good lord, / Believe not all; or, if you must believe, / Stomach not all.
- L'Estrange
- The lion began to show his teeth, and to stomach the affront.
- Milton
- The Parliament sit in that body […] to be his counsellors and dictators, though he stomach it.
Adjective[edit]
stomach (comparative more stomach, superlative most stomach)
- Pertaining to the gastrointestinal tract
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Translations[edit]
to tolerate or accept something
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