English [ edit ] Stomach (with mucosal surface partly exposed)
Alternative forms [ edit ] Etymology [ edit ] From Middle English stomak Old French estomac Latin stomachus Ancient Greek στόμαχος ( stómakhos ) , from στόμα ( stóma , “ mouth ” ) . Displaced native Middle English mawe ( “ stomach, maw ” ) (from Old English maga bouk, buc ( “ belly, stomach ” ) (from Old English buc ( “ belly, stomach ” ) , see bucket
Pronunciation [ edit ] stomach (countable and uncountable plural stomachs
An organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion .
( informal ) The belly .
Synonyms: belly abdomen tummy bouk ( obsolete ) , gut guts maw ( archaic ) ( uncountable , obsolete ) Pride , haughtiness .
1590 , Edmund Spenser , The Faerie Queene 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 He was a man / Of an unbounded stomach , ever ranking / Himself with princes; (Can we date this quote?) 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
1591 , William Shakespeare , The Comedy of Errors You come not home because you have no stomach . / You have no stomach , having broke your fast. 1595 , George Peele , The Old Wives’ Tale [1] HOST . How say you sir, doo you please to sit downe?
EUMENIDES . Hostes I thanke you, I haue no great stomack . 1621 , Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton ], The Anatomy of Melancholy OCLC 216894069 The Anatomy of Melancholy: [ … ] , 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970 (please specify |partition=1, 2, or 3) :If after seven hours' tarrying he shall have no stomach , let him defer his meal, or eat very little at his ordinary time of repast. ( figuratively ) Desire , appetite (for something abstract).
I have no stomach for a fight today.
Derived terms [ edit ] Related terms [ edit ] Translations [ edit ]
digestive organ
Afar: please add this translation if you can
Afrikaans: maag (af)
Albanian: mullë (sq) , zgrof (sq) , stomak (sq)
Amharic: ጨጓራ m ( č̣ägʷara )
Arabic: مَعِدَة (ar) f ( maʿida ) , مِعْدَة (ar) f ( miʿda )
Egyptian Arabic: معدة f ( meʿda )
Aragonese: estomago m
Aramaic:
Hebrew: אסטומכא m ( ’isṬōmkā’ )
Syriac: ܐܣܛܘܡܟܐ m ( ’isṬōmkā’ )
Armenian: ստամոքս (hy) ( stamokʿs )
Assamese: please add this translation if you can
Asturian: estómagu (ast) m
Aymara: puraka
Azerbaijani: mədə (az) , qarın (az)
Balinese: ᬩᬲᬂ ( basang )
Bashkir: ашҡаҙан ( ašqaðan )
Basque: urdail (eu)
Bau Bidayuh: toin kubuoi
Belarusian: стра́ўнік m ( stráŭnik )
Bengali: পাকস্থলী ( pakôsthlī )
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
Chechen: please add this translation if you can
Chichewa: please add this translation if you can
Chinese:
Cantonese: 胃 ( wai6 )
Mandarin: 胃 (zh) ( wèi ) , 肚子 (zh) ( dùzi )
Chuvash: please add this translation if you can
Corsican: please add this translation if you can
Crimean Tatar: mide aşqazan
Czech: žaludek (cs) m
Danish: mave (da) c
Dhivehi: މައިދާ ( maidā )
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: στόμαχος m ( stómakhos ) , γαστήρ m ( gastḗr )
Gujarati: જઠર (gu) m ( jaṭhar ) , પેટ ( peṭ )
Hausa: please add this translation if you can
Hawaiian: ʻōpū
Hebrew: קיבה \ קֵבָה (he) f ( kevá )
Hindi: अमाशय m ( amāśay )
Hungarian: gyomor (hu)
Icelandic: magi (is) m
Ido: stomako (io)
Igbo: please add this translation if you can
Indonesian: lambung (id) , maag (id) ( informal )
Interlingua: stomacho
Interlingue: stomac
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 )
Kashubian: please add this translation if you can
Kazakh: асқазан (kk) ( asqazan )
Khmer: ក្រពះ (km) ( krɑpeah )
Kimaragang: tiyan
Komi-Permyak: please add this translation if you can
Korean: 위 (ko) ( wi ) (胃 (ko) )
Kyrgyz: ашказан ( aşkazan )
Lao: ກະເພາະ (lo) ( ka phǫ )
Latgalian: pasirds
Latin: alvus m venter m stomachus m
Latvian: kuņģis m
Ligurian: stéumago m
Lithuanian: skrandis (lt) m
Lotud: tian
Low German: Maag m
Luganda: please add this translation if you can
Luo: ich
Luxembourgish: Mo m
Macedonian: желудник m ( želudnik ) , стомак m ( stomak )
Malay: perut
Malayalam: please add this translation if you can
Maltese: stonku m
Manchu: ᡤᡠᠸᡝᠵᡳᡥᡝ ( guwejihe )
Mandinka: konoo
Marathi: जठर ( jaṭhar )
Mongolian: гэдэс (mn) ( gedes )
Navajo: abid
Nepali: please add this translation if you can
Norman: estonma m ( Jersey ) , estouma m ( Guernsey ) , estuma m ( Sark )
Northern Sami: čoavji
Norwegian:
Bokmål: mage (no) m magesekk (no) m mavesekk m
Nynorsk: mage m magesekk m
Novial: please add this translation if you can
Occitan: estomac (oc) m
Old English: maga m
Old Turkic: 𐰴𐰆𐰺𐰆𐰍𐰽𐰴 ( quruɣsaq )
Oriya: please add this translation if you can
Ossetian: please add this translation if you can
Ottoman Turkish: قورساق ( qursaq )
Pashto: معده f ( me'dá ) , ګېډه f ( géḍa )
Persian: معده (fa) ( me'de )
Piedmontese: please add this translation if you can
Pitjantjatjara: tjuni kata
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
Shan: တွင်ႉ ( tô̰ang )
Sicilian: stòmmacu m
Sindhi: please add this translation if you can
Sinhalese: බඩ (si) ( baḍa )
Slovak: žalúdok (sk) m
Slovene: želodec (sl) m
Somali: calool
Sorbian:
Lower: žołdk m
Upper: žołdk m
Spanish: estómago (es) m
Sundanese: ᮘᮥᮛᮤᮂ ( burih )
Swahili: utumbo (sw) class 5 /6
Swedish: mage (sv) c
Tagal Murut: tinaai
Tagalog: tiyan (tl) , sikmura
Tajik: меъда (tg) ( meʾda )
Tambunan Dusun: tian
Tamil: இரைப்பை (ta) ( iraippai )
Taos: thį̀ę’éna
Tatar: ашказан ( aşkazan )
Telugu: జీర్ణకోశము ( jīrṇakōśamu ) , జీర్ణాశయము (te) ( jīrṇāśayamu )
Thai: ท้อง (th) ( tɔ́ɔng ) , กระเพาะ (th) ( grà-pɔ́ ) , กระเพาะอาหาร ( grà-pɔ́-aa-hǎan )
Tibetan: གྲོད་ཁོག ( grod khog )
Timugon Murut: tinaie
Turkish: mide (tr) , karın (tr) , aşkazan
Turkmen: garyn aşgazan (tk)
Tuvan: ижин ( ïžïn )
Ukrainian: шлу́нок (uk) m ( šlúnok )
Urdu: معدہ f ( ma'da )
Uyghur: ئاشقازان (ug) ( ashqazan )
Uzbek: qorin (uz) , oshqozon (uz)
Venetian: stòmego m
Vietnamese: dạ dày (vi) , bao tử (vi)
Vilamovian: maoga
Volapük: stomäg (vo)
Walloon: stoumak (wa)
Welsh: bola (cy)
West Coast Bajau: betong
West Frisian: mage
White Hmong: please add this translation if you can
Wiradhuri: binji
Wolof: biir bàq (wo)
Xhosa: please add this translation if you can
Yakut: please add this translation if you can
Yami: vitoka
Yiddish: מאָגן m ( mogn )
Yoruba: please add this translation if you can
Yup'ik: aqsaq
Zhuang: dungx
Zulu: isisu (zu) class 7 /8
belly
Afrikaans: buik (af)
Albanian: bark (sq)
Arabic: مَعِدَة (ar) f ( maʿida ) , مِعْدَة (ar) f ( miʿda ) , بَطْن m ( baṭn )
Aramaic:
Hebrew: כרסא f ( karsā’ )
Syriac: ܟܪܣܐ f ( karsā’ )
Armenian: փոր (hy) ( pʿor )
Asturian: barriga (ast) f
Azerbaijani: qarın (az)
Baluchi: لاپ ( láp )
Bashkir: эс ( es ) , ҡорһаҡ ( qorhaq ) , ҡарын ( qarïn )
Belarusian: жыво́т m ( žyvót ) , чэ́рава n ( čérava )
Bengali: পেট ( peṭ )
Bulgarian: коре́м (bg) m ( korém ) , шкембе (bg) ( škembe )
Burmese: ဗိုက် (my) ( buik )
Catalan: panxa (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 腹部 (zh) ( fùbù ) , 肚子 (zh) ( dùzi )
Czech: břicho (cs) n
Danish: bug c
Dutch: buik (nl) m
Erzya: пеке ( peke )
Esperanto: ventro (eo)
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 ( peṭ )
Hungarian: has (hu)
Indonesian: perut (id)
Interlingue: panse
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 )
Kapampangan: atyan atian
Kazakh: қарын (kk) ( qarın ) , іш ( iş )
Khmer: ក្បាលពោះ ( kbaal pʊəh )
Kikuyu: nda
Korean: 배 (ko) ( bae )
Kurdish:
Sorani: زگ ( zig ) , ورگ (ku) ( wirg )
Kyrgyz: карын (ky) ( karın ) , курсак (ky) ( kursak ) , ич (ky) ( iç )
Latgalian: vādars m
Latvian: vēders m
Lithuanian: pilvas m
Low German: Buuk (nds) m
Luhya: enda
Luxembourgish: Bauch m
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
Old Turkic: 𐰴𐰺𐰣 ( qarïn )
Pashto: خېټه (ps) f ( xéṭa )
Persian: شکم (fa) ( šekam )
Pitjantjatjara: tjuni
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 (sk) n
Slovene: trebuh (sl) m
Spanish: barriga (es) f vientre (es) m
Sundanese: patuangan
Swahili: tumbo (sw)
Swedish: buk (sv) , mage (sv) c
Tagalog: tiyan (tl)
Tajik: шикам (tg) ( šikam )
Telugu: పొట్ట (te) ( poṭṭa ) , కడుపు (te) ( kaḍupu )
Thai: ท้อง (th) ( tɔ́ɔng )
Tok Pisin: bel (tpi)
Turkish: karın (tr)
Turkmen: garyn
Tuvan: хырын ( hırın )
Ukrainian: живі́т m ( žyvít ) , че́рево n ( čérevo )
Urdu: پیٹ m ( pēṭ )
Uzbek: qorin (uz)
Vietnamese: bụng (vi)
Volapük: bälid (vo)
Welsh: bol (cy) m
Yiddish: בויך m ( boykh )
Zulu: isisu (zu) class 7 /8
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 .
Synonyms [ edit ] Derived terms [ edit ] Translations [ edit ]
to tolerate or accept something
Anagrams [ edit ] Middle English [ edit ] stomach
Alternative form of stomak 
