udder

English

A cow's udders

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈʌdɚ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈʌdə/

• Audio (AU):

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• Rhymes: -ʌdə(ɹ)

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.
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: ضْرع m (ḍrəʿ)

• Armenian: կուրծ (hy) (kurc)
• Aromanian: udzir, udzãre
• Azerbaijani: yelin, məmə, əmcək
• Bashkir: елен (yelen)
• Basque: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: вы́мя n (výmja)
• Bengali: বাঁট (bãṭ)
• Bulgarian: ви́ме n (víme)
• Burmese: နို့အုံ (nui.um)
• Buryat: дэлэн (delen)
• Catalan: braguer m, mamella (ca) f
• Chichewa: bere
• Chinese:

  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
• Faroese: júgur n
• Finnish: utare (fi)
• French: pis (fr) m, tétine (fr), mamelle (fr)
• Friulian: luvri
• Galician: ubre (gl) m
• Georgian: ცური (curi)
• German: Euter (de) m
• Greek: μαστάρι (el) n (mastári)

  Ancient: οὖθαρ n (oûthar)

• Hawaiian: please add this translation if you can
• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• Hindi: थन (hi) f (than)
• Hungarian: tőgy (hu), emlő (hu)
• Icelandic: júgur (is) n
• Indonesian: ambing (id)
• Irish: úth m
• Italian: mammella (it) f
• Japanese: 乳房 (ちぶさ, chibusa, にゅうぼう, nyūbō)
• Kalmyk: делң (delñ)
• Kazakh: желін (jelın)
• Khmer: ដោះ (km) (dɑh), ថនៈ (km) (tʰaʔnaʔ)
• Kikuyu: mũkamo class 3
• Korean: 유방 (ko) (yubang) (乳房 (ko))
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: گوان (gwan)

  Northern Kurdish: guhan (ku)

  Southern Kurdish: گوان (gwan)

• Kyrgyz: желин (ky) (jelin)
• Lao: ເຕົ້າ (tao)
• Latin: ūber (la) n
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• Latvian: tesmenis m
• Lithuanian: tešmuo m
• Low German:

  German Low German: Jidder (nds) n

• Macedonian: виме n (vime)
• Malay: ambing
• Malayalam: അകിട് (ml) (akiṭŭ)
• Maori: ū
• Mongolian: дэлэн (mn) (delen)
• Moroccan Amazigh: ⵜⵉⵎⴰⵥⵥⴰⴳⵉⵏ f pl (timaẓẓagin) (South East)
• Navajo: abeʼ astseʼ
• Northern Sami: ruoksi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: jur (no) n

• Occitan: teta (oc) f, braguièr m
• Old East Slavic: вымя n (vymja)
• Old English: ūder n
• Persian: پستان (fa) (pestân)
• 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
• 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: please add this translation if you can
• 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)
• West Frisian: jaar c
• Yakut: сирин (sirin)
• Yiddish: אײַטער (ayter)
• Zulu: ibele class 5/6

Anagrams

• dured

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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 2018-07-17.

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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