teat

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiːt/
• Rhymes: -iːt

Etymology

From French tette, of Germanic origin. It replaced Old English titt, which survives as English tit. Confer Dutch tiet and German Zitze, "teat".

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Noun

teat (plural teats)

1. The projection of a mammary gland from which, on female mammals, milk is secreted.
2. An artificial nipple used for bottle-feeding infants.

Synonyms

• (mammary nipple): tit
• (artificial nipple): nipple

Translations

projection of mammary gland

• Arabic: حلمة f (Hálama), خلف m (khilf)
• Aromanian: tsãtsã f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 奶頭, 奶头 (zh) (nǎitóu), 乳頭, 乳头 (zh) (rǔtóu)

• Dutch: tepel (nl) c
• Esperanto: cico, mampinto
• Finnish: nänni (fi)
• French: trayon (fr) m
• German: Brustwarze (de) f
• Greek: ρώγα (el) f (róga) (1), θηλή (el) f (thilí) (formally)
• Hungarian: mellbimbó (hu)
• Italian: tettarella
• Japanese: 乳首 (ちくび, chikubi, ちちくび, chichikubi), 乳頭 (にゅうとう, nyūtō), ニップル (nippuru)

• Malay: puting
• Maori: ū
• Norwegian: brystvorte m
• Portuguese: mamilo (pt) m
• Romanian: sfârc (ro), țâță (ro)
• Russian: сосок (ru) m (sosók)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: си̏са f

  Roman: sȉsa f

• Spanish: pezón (es) m
• Swedish: bröstvårta (sv) c
• Turkish: meme başı (tr)
• Volapük: blötatät (vo)

bottle top

• Dutch: speen (nl) m
• Esperanto: cicumo
• Finnish: tutti (fi)
• French: tétine (fr) f
• German: Sauger m
• Greek: θηλή (el) f (thilí)
• Japanese: おしゃぶり (oshaburi)
• Norwegian: flaskesmokk m
• Polish: smoczek (pl)

• Portuguese: chupeta (pt) f, bico (pt) m
• Russian: соска (ru) f (sóska)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: цуцла f

  Roman: cucla f

• Spanish: chupete (es) m
• Swedish: tuta (sv) c
• Turkish: biberon emziği

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Translations to be checked

• Erzya: поте (pote)
• Greek: ρώγα f (rṓga)
• Italian: capezzolo m

• Korean: 젖꼭지
• Thai: หัวนม (hua nom, literally, head-milk)

See also

• breast, mammary gland, tit, udder

Anagrams

• aett
• Etta