udder

English

A cow's udder

Etymology

From Middle English udder, uddyr (also as uther, iddyr), from Old English ūder (“udder; breast”), from Proto-Germanic *ūdarą, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ówHdʰr̥ (“udder”).

Cognate with Saterland Frisian Jadder (“udder”), Dutch uier (“udder”), German Euter (“udder”), Swedish juver (“udder”), Icelandic júgur (“udder”), Vedic Sanskrit ऊधर् (ū́dhar), Ancient Greek οὖθαρ (oûthar), Latin ūber.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈʌdə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈʌdɚ/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -ʌdə(ɹ)
• Homophones: other (th-stopping), utter (flapping)

Noun

udder (plural udders)

1. An organ formed of the mammary glands of female quadruped mammals, particularly ruminants such as cattle, goats, sheep and deer.

   Meronym: teat

   squeeze the udder to get milk

   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 60:

     The udder of the hyena, tied on the left arm, enticed the affection of any desired woman.

2. (slang, impolite) A woman's breast.

Translations

organ formed of the mammary glands of female quadruped mammals

• Albanian: sisë (sq) f
• Arabic: ضَرْع m (ḍarʕ)

  Moroccan Arabic: ضرع m (ḍarʕ)

• Archi: хъвал (qʷal)
• Armenian: կուրծ (hy) (kurc)
• Aromanian: udzir, udzãre
• Avar: гьвари (hʷari)
• Azerbaijani: yelin, məmə, əmcək
• Bakhtiari: گوهان (gūhān)
• Baluchi: گودان (gōdān ~ gwadān)
• Bashkir: елен (yelen)
• Basque: errape
• Belarusian: вы́мя n (výmja)
• Bengali: বাঁট (bn) (bãṭ)
• Breton: tezh (br) m
• Bulgarian: ви́ме n (víme)
• Burmese: နို့အုံ (nui.um)
• Buryat: дэлэн (delen)
• Catalan: braguer (ca) m, mamella (ca) f
• Chichewa: bere
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 乳房 (jyu⁵ fong⁴)

  Dungan: нэпон (nepon), нэту (netu)

  Hokkien: 乳房 (lú-pâng / jí-pông)

  Mandarin: 乳房 (zh) (rǔfáng)

• Crimean Tatar: yelin
• Czech: vemeno (cs) n
• Danish: yver (da) n
• Daur: deling, jiejing
• Dongxiang: jielien
• Dutch: uier (nl) m
• Esperanto: mamo
• Estonian: udar (et)
• Faroese: júgur n
• Finnish: utare (fi)
• French: pis (fr) m, tétine (fr), mamelle (fr)
• Friulian: luvri
• Galician: ubre (gl) m, remollo (gl) m
• Georgian: ცური (curi)
• German: Euter (de) n
• Greek: μαστάρι (el) n (mastári)

  Ancient: οὖθαρ n (oûthar)

• Gujarati: આંચળ m (ā̃caḷ), આઉ (gu) n (āu)
• Hawaiian: ū
• Hebrew: עטין (he) m (atín)
• Hindi: थन (hi) f (than)
• Hungarian: tőgy (hu), (breast) emlő (hu)
• Icelandic: júgur (is) n
• Indonesian: ambing (id)
• Ingrian: uar
• Irish: úth m
• Italian: mammella (it) f
• Japanese: 乳房 (ja) (ちぶさ, chibusa, にゅうぼう, nyūbō)
• Kalmyk: делң (delñ)
• Kazakh: желін (jelın)
• Khmer: ដោះ (km) (dɑh), ថនៈ (km) (thaʼnaʼ)
• Kikuyu: mũkamo class 3
• Korean: 유방(乳房) (ko) (yubang)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: گوان (gwan)

  Northern Kurdish: guhan (ku)

  Southern Kurdish: گوان (ku) (gwan)

• Kyrgyz: желин (ky) (jelin)
• Lak: къар (q:ar)
• Lao: ເຕົ້າ (tao)
• Latin: ūber (la) n, rūma f, sūmen n
• Latvian: tesmenis m
• Lithuanian: tešmuo m
• Low German:

  German Low German: Jidder (nds) n

• Luxembourgish: Auder
• Macedonian: виме n (vime)
• Malay: ambing
• Malayalam: അകിട് (ml) (akiṭŭ)
• Manchu: ᡩᡝᠯᡝᠨ (delen)
• Maori: ū
• Mongolian: дэлэн (mn) (delen)
• Navajo: abeʼastseʼ
• Northern Sami: ruoksi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: jur (no) n

• Nǀuu: ǃʻum
• Occitan: teta (oc) f, braguièr m
• Old East Slavic: вꙑмѧ n (vymę)
• Old English: ūder n
• Ossetian: фӕзгон (fæzgon)
• Pashto: غولانځه (ps) f (γwәlānja)
• Persian: پستان (fa) (pestân)

  Iranian Persian: گولان (gūlān) (Isfahani dialect)

• Plautdietsch: Ieda n
• Polish: wymię (pl) n
• Portuguese: úbere (pt)
• Romanian: uger (ro)
• Romansch: iver, eiver, üver
• Russian: вы́мя (ru) n (výmja)
• Sanskrit: ऊधर् n (ūdhar), ऊधस् (sa) m (ūdhas), आपीन (sa) n (āpīna)
• Sardinian: tita f
• Scottish Gaelic: ùth
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ви̏ме n

  Roman: vȉme (sh) n

• Slovak: vemeno n
• Slovene: vime n
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: wumje n

  Upper Sorbian: wumjo n

• Spanish: ubre (es) f
• Swahili: kiwele
• Swedish: juver (sv) n
• Tajik: пистон (piston)
• Tamil: மடி (ta) (maṭi)
• Tarifit: ḏamaẓẓaɣṯ f, tinɣi f
• Tatar: җилен (tt) (cilen)
• Telugu: పొదుగు (te) (podugu), ఊధస్సు (te) (ūdhassu)
• Thai: เต้า (dtâo)
• Turkish: meme (tr)
• Turkmen: emjek
• Ukrainian: ви́м'я n (výmʺja)
• Urdu: تھن f (than)
• Uyghur: ئەمچەك (emchek), يېلىن (yëlin)
• Uzbek: yelin (uz), yelim (uz), emchak (uz)
• Vietnamese: bầu vú
• Walloon: pés (wa) m
• Welsh: piw m, pwrs (cy), cadair (cy) f
• West Frisian: jaar c
• Yakut: сирин (sirin)
• Yiddish: אײַטער (ayter)
• Zazaki: guwan (diq), giwûn, guhan
• Zhuang: cij, aencij
• Zulu: ibele class 5/6

Anagrams

• dured

Middle English

Alternative forms

• uddyr, iddyr, uther

Etymology

From Old English ūder, from Proto-Germanic *ūdarą, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ówHdʰr̥.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈudər/, /ˈuðər/

Noun

udder (plural uddres)

1. udder (mammary gland of an animal)
2. (rare) The udder when served as food.

Descendants

• English: udder
• Scots: udder, uther, ether

References

• “udder, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 17 July 2018.

Old Swedish

Alternative forms

• odder

Etymology

From Old Norse oddr, from Proto-Germanic *uzdaz.

Noun

udder m

1. sharp point

Declension

Declension of udder (strong a-stem)

masculine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	udder	uddrin	uddar	uddanir, uddaner
accusative	udd	uddin	udda	uddana
dative	uddi, udde	uddinum, uddenom	uddum, uddom	uddumin, uddomen
genitive	udds	uddsins	udda	uddanna

Descendants

• Swedish: udd