teat

§English

§Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiːt/
• Rhymes: -iːt

§Etymology

From Old French tete (“teat”), (compare French tette), from Frankish *titta. It replaced Old English titt, which survives as English tit. Confer Dutch tiet and German Zitze (“teat”).

§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)

• Czech: bradavka f
• Dutch: tepel (nl) c
• Esperanto: cico, mampinto
• Finnish: nänni (fi)
• French: trayon (fr) m
• German: Brustwarze (de) f
• Greek: θηλή (el) f (thilí)
• Hungarian: mellbimbó (hu)
• Ido: mameto (io)
• 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: сосо́к (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)

feeding 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: со́ска (ru) f (sóska)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: цуцла f

  Roman: cucla (sh) f

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

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.

Translations to be checked

• Erzya: ^{(please verify)} поте (pote)
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} capezzolo m

• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 젖꼭지 (jeotkkokji)
• Thai: ^{(please verify)} หัวนม (hua nom) (literally, head-milk)

§See also

• breast, mammary gland, tit, udder

§Anagrams

• aett
• Etta