urethra

English

The urethra is labelled in these diagrams of the female and male genitourinary systems

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek οὐρήθρα (ourḗthra, “the passage for urine”), from οὐρέω (ouréō, “to make water”). Recorded in English since 1634.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /jʊəˈɹiːθɹə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /jʊˈɹiθɹə/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

urethra (plural urethras or urethrae)

1. (anatomy) The tube through which urine exits the body and, in male placental mammals, through which semen is ejaculated.

Hypernyms

• urogenital sinus - embryological precursor

Derived terms

• prostatic urethra
• urethritis

Translations

anatomical tube

• Albanian: uretër, ujëhollënxjerrës m
• Arabic: إِحْلِيل m (ʔiḥlīl)

  Egyptian Arabic: إحليل m (ʔeḥlīl)

• Armenian: միզուկ (hy) (mizuk)
• Asturian: uretra (ast) f
• Bengali: মূত্রনালি (bn) (mutronali), মূত্রনালী (bn) (mutronali)
• Breton: kan-troazh (br) m
• Bulgarian: уретер m (ureter), пикочен канал m (pikočen kanal)
• Catalan: uretra (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 尿道 (niu⁶ dou⁶)

  Mandarin: 尿道 (zh) (niàodào)

• Czech: močová trubice (cs) f
• Danish: urinrør (da) n, urinveje
• Dhivehi: ކުޑަކަމުދާ ހޮޅި (kuḍakamudā hoḷi)
• Dutch: urinebuis (nl) c
• Esperanto: uretro
• Estonian: kusiti
• Faroese: vatnræsi n
• Finnish: virtsaputki (fi)
• French: urètre (fr) m, urèthre (fr) m
• Galician: uretra (gl) f
• Georgian: შარდსაწვეთი (šardsac̣veti)
• German: Harnröhre (de) f, (technical) Urethra (de) f
• Greek: ουρήθρα (el) f (ouríthra)

  Ancient: οὐρήθρα f (ourḗthra)

• Hebrew: שׁוֹפְכָה f (shofkhá)
• Hindi: मूत्रमार्ग (hi) m (mūtramārg)
• Hungarian: húgycső (hu)
• Icelandic: þvagrás (is) f
• Ido: uretro (io)
• Indonesian: uretra (id)
• Inuktitut: ᖁᕐᕆᕕᒃ (qorrifik)
• Irish: úiréadra m
• Italian: uretra (it) f
• Japanese: 尿道 (ja) (にょうどう, nyōdō)
• Kazakh: зәр өзегі (zär özegı), несепшығар өзегі (nesepşyğar özegı)
• Korean: 요도(尿道) (ko) (yodo)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: mîzerê

• Latin: urethra f
• Lithuanian: šlaplė f
• Low German: Harnröhr
• Maori: pūaha mimi, taiawa mimi
• Newar: युरेथ्रा (yurethrā)
• Northern Sami: gožžaoarri
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: urinrør n, urinvei

  Nynorsk: urinveg

• Ottoman Turkish: سیدك یولی (sidik yolu)
• Persian: میزراه
• Polish: cewka moczowa (pl) f
• Portuguese: uretra (pt) f
• Russian: мочеиспуска́тельный кана́л (ru) m (močeispuskátelʹnyj kanál), уре́тра (ru) f (urétra)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мокраћна цијев

  Roman: mokraćna cijev

• Slovak: močová rúra f
• Slovene: séčnica f, urétra f
• Spanish: uretra (es) f
• Sundanese: urétra
• Swahili: mrija wa mkojo
• Swedish: urinrör (sv) n
• Telugu: ప్రసేకం (prasēkaṁ)
• Thai: ท่อปัสสาวะ (tɔ̂ɔ-bpàt-sǎa-wá)
• Turkish: üretra (tr), sidik yolu (tr)
• Urdu: موترمارگ (mūtramārg)
• Vietnamese: ống đái, ống dẫn nước tiểu, niệu đạo (vi)
• Volapük: yurinatuib

See also

• ureter
• urinary tract

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ūrēthra, from Ancient Greek οὐρήθρα (ourḗthra).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌyˈreː.traː/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: ure‧thra

Noun

urethra f (plural urethrae or urethra's, no diminutive)

1. urethra

   Synonyms: urinebuis, urinekanaal, urineleider

Derived terms

• urethraal

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek οὐρήθρα (ourḗthra).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [uːˈreː.tʰra]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [uˈrɛː.tra]

Noun

ūrēthra f (genitive ūrēthrae); first declension

1. (anatomy) urethra

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	ūrēthra	ūrēthrae
genitive	ūrēthrae	ūrēthrārum
dative	ūrēthrae	ūrēthrīs
accusative	ūrēthram	ūrēthrās
ablative	ūrēthrā	ūrēthrīs
vocative	ūrēthra	ūrēthrae

References

• “urethra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “urethra”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.