English
Stomach (with mucosal surface partly exposed)
Etymology
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 , maghe , maȝe ( “ stomach, maw ” ) from Old English maga ( “ stomach, maw ” ) , Middle English bouk , buc ( “ belly, stomach ” ) from Old English būc ( “ belly, stomach ” ) , see bucket .
Pronunciation
Noun
stomach (countable and uncountable , plural stomaches )
An organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion .
( informal ) The belly .
Synonyms: belly , abdomen , tummy , ( obsolete ) bouk , gut , guts , ( archaic ) maw
( uncountable , 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;
(Can we date this quote by John Locke and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
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 , I. ii. 50:
You come not home because you have no stomach . / You have no stomach , having broke your fast.
1595 , George Peele , The Old Wives’ Tale , The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 920-922,[1]
HOST . How say you sir, doo you please to sit downe?
EUMENIDES . Hostes I thanke you, I haue no great stomack .
Template:RQ:RBrtn AntmyMlncly , II.ii.1.2:
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
Translations
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 ( maʕida ) , مِعْدَة (ar) f ( miʕda )
Egyptian Arabic: معدة f ( meʕda )
Aragonese: estomago m
Aramaic:
Hebrew: אסטומכא m ( ’isṬōmkā’ )
Syriac: ܐܣܛܘܡܟܐ m ( ’isṬōmkā’ )
Armenian: ստամոքս (hy) ( stamokʻs )
Assamese: পাকস্থলী ( pakostholi )
Asturian: estómagu (ast) m
Aymara: puraka
Azerbaijani: mədə (az) , qarın (az)
Balinese: ᬩᬲᬂ ( basang )
Bashkir: ашҡаҙан ( aşqaźan )
Basque: urdail (eu)
Bau Bidayuh: toin , kubuoi
Belarusian: стра́ўнік m ( stráŭnik ) , жалу́дак m ( žalúdak ) ( dialectal )
Bengali: পাকস্থলী ( pakostholi )
Breton: stomog (br) m
Brunei Malay: parut
Bulgarian: стома́х (bg) m ( stomáh ) , желъ̀дък m ( želǎ̀dǎk )
Burmese: ဝမ်း (my) ( wam: )
Catalan: estómac (ca) m
Central Melanau: pait
Chakma: 𑄞𑄢𑄣𑄴 ( bhārāl )
Chamicuro: knani
Chechen: хьер ( ḥʳer ) , зорх ( zorx )
Chichewa: chifu
Chinese:
Cantonese: 胃 ( wai6 )
Dungan: дўзы ( dwzɨ )
Hakka: 胃 ( vi )
Mandarin: 胃 (zh) ( wèi ) , 肚子 (zh) ( dùzi )
Min Dong: 胃 ( ôi )
Min Nan: 胃 (zh-min-nan) ( ūi / ui )
Wu: 胃 ( hhue )
Chuvash: хырӑм ( hyrăm )
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
Haitian Creole: vant
Hawaiian: ʻōpū
Hebrew: קיבה \ קֵבָה (he) f ( kevá )
Hindi: अमाशय m ( amāśay ) , पेट (hi) m ( peṭ ) , उदर (hi) m ( udar )
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
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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 )
Kannada: ಹೊಟ್ಟೆ (kn) ( hoṭṭe ) , ಉದರ (kn) ( udara )
Kashubian: please add this translation if you can
Kazakh: асқазан (kk) ( asqazan )
Khmer: ក្រពះ (km) ( krɑpĕəh )
Kimaragang: tiyan
Komi-Permyak: please add this translation if you can
Korean: 위 (ko) ( wi ) (胃 (ko) )
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Kyrgyz: ашказан ( aşkazan )
Lao: ກະເພາະ (lo) ( ka phǫ ) , ທ້ອງ ( thǭng )
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 ) , мев m ( mev )
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Malay: perut
Malayalam: ആമാശയം (ml) ( āmāśayaṁ )
Maltese: stonku m
Manchu: ᡤᡠᠸᡝᠵᡳᡥᡝ ( guwejihe )
Mandinka: konoo
Marathi: जठर ( jaṭhar )
Middle Persian: 𐭪𐭥𐭬𐭡 ( kumb ) , 𐭪𐭥𐭬𐭩𐭪𐭩 ( kumīg )
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 Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: желудъкъ m ( želudŭkŭ )
Old English: maga m , wamb f , būc m
Old Turkic: 𐰴𐰆𐰺𐰆𐰍𐰽𐰴 ( quruɣsaq )
Oriya: ଫଣ୍ଡ (or) ( phôṇḍô )
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 ) , کم (fa) ( kom )
Piedmontese: please add this translation if you can
Pitjantjatjara: tjuni kata
Polish: żołądek (pl) m
Portuguese: estômago (pt) m
Punjabi: ਪੇਟ ( peṭ )
Rajasthani: please add this translation if you can
Romanian: stomac (ro) n
Rungus: tizan
Russian: желу́док (ru) m ( želúdok ) , живо́т (ru) m ( živót )
Rusyn: жалу́док m ( žalúdok )
Sabah Bisaya: tinai'
Sanskrit: उदरम् (sa) n ( udaram ) , उदर (sa) m ( udara )
Sardinian: please add this translation if you can
Scottish Gaelic: stamag f , brù f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: желудац m , стомак m
Roman: želudac (sh) m , stomak (sh) m
Shan: တွင်ႉ ( tâ̰ung )
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 )
Tigrinya: ከስዐ ( käsʿä )
Timugon Murut: tinaie
Turkish: mide (tr) , karın (tr) , aşkazan
Turkmen: garyn , aşgazan (tk)
Tuvan: ижин ( ijin )
Ukrainian: шлу́нок (uk) m ( šlúnok ) , желу́док m ( želúdok ) ( dialectal ) , жолу́док m ( žolúdok ) ( dialectal )
Urdu: معدہ f ( ma'da ) , پیٹ m ( peṭ )
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 ( maʕida ) , مِعْدَة (ar) f ( miʕda ) , بَطْن m ( baṭn )
Aramaic:
Hebrew: כרסא f ( karsā’ )
Syriac: ܟܪܣܐ f ( karsā’ )
Armenian: փոր (hy) ( pʻor )
Asturian: barriga (ast) f
Azerbaijani: qarın (az)
Baluchi: لاپ ( láp )
Bashkir: эс ( es ) , ҡорһаҡ ( qorhaq ) , ҡарын ( qarın )
Belarusian: жыво́т m ( žyvót ) , чэ́рава n ( čérava )
Bengali: পেট ( peṭ )
Brunei Malay: parut
Bulgarian: коре́м (bg) m ( korém ) , шкембе (bg) ( škembe )
Burmese: ဗိုက် (my) ( buik )
Catalan: panxa (ca) f
Chichewa: mimba
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 )
Ancient: γαστήρ f ( gastḗr )
Haitian Creole: vant
Hebrew: בֶּטֶן (he) f ( béten )
Hindi: पेट (hi) m ( peṭ ) , उदर (hi) m ( udar )
Hungarian: has (hu)
Indonesian: perut (id)
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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) ( qaryn ) , іш ( ış )
Khmer: ក្បាលពោះ ( kbaal pʊəh )
Kikuyu: nda
Korean: 배 (ko) ( bae )
Kurdish:
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Kyrgyz: карын (ky) ( karın ) , курсак (ky) ( kursak ) , ич (ky) ( ic )
Latgalian: vādars m
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Latin: alvus m , venter 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 )
Northern Ohlone: hút̄u
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 , żywot (pl) m ( outdated )
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 )
Sanskrit: उदर (sa) m ( udara )
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 ( xırın )
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
Verb
stomach (third-person singular simple present stomaches , 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.
(Can we date this quote by L'Estrange and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
The lion began to show his teeth, and to stomach the affront.
(Can we date this quote by John Milton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
The Parliament sit in that body [ …] to be his counsellors and dictators, though he stomach it.
( obsolete , transitive ) To turn the stomach of; to sicken or repel .
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
to tolerate or accept something
Anagrams
Middle English
Noun
stomach
Alternative form of stomak