urinal

See also: Urinal

English

A urinal in a public toilet with its cake in place.

Etymology

From Middle English urinal, urynal, orynal, from Old French urinal, orinal (“vessel for urination”), from Latin ūrīnālis (“urinary: related to piss”). Use for plumbing fixtures attested from 1851.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: yo͞o-rīʹnəl, IPA^(key): /juːˈɹaɪnəl/
• (US) enPR: yo͝orʹĭn-əl, yûrʹĭn-əl, IPA^(key): /ˈjʊɹɪnəl/, /ˈjɝɪnəl/
• (General Australian) enPR: yo͝orʹĭn-əl, IPA^(key): /ˈjʉːəɹɪnəl/
• Rhymes: -aɪnəl

Noun

urinal (plural urinals)

1. A device or fixture used for urination, particularly:
   1. (historical medicine and alchemy) A glass vial used for examining or storing urine.
   2. (obsolete) A chamber pot specially designed or considered as a device for urination.
   3. (obsolete) A device for urination worn by patients suffering incontinence.
   4. A plumbing fixture intended for standing urination, typically by men and boys.
2. (chemistry, obsolete) Any oblong glass vessel shaped like the old alchemist's urinal.
3. (obsolete) A room or structure used for urination: a latrine; an outhouse; a lavatory.

Synonyms

• (chamber pot): See Thesaurus:chamber pot
• (fixture): See Thesaurus:toilet
• (room or structure): See Thesaurus:bathroom

Derived terms

• urinal cake

Related terms

• urine, urinate, urination

Translations

a vessel specially used for urination — See also translations at chamber pot

• Dutch: urinaal (nl) n
• German: Ente (de) f
• Irish: fualán m

• Portuguese: mictório (pt) m
• Serbo-Croatian: ćurak (sh) m, curenje

fixture for standing urination

• Arabic: مِبْوَلَة‎ f (mibwala)
• Catalan: urinari m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 便池 (zh) (biànchí), 便器 (zh) (biànqì)

• Czech: pisoár (cs) m
• Danish: urinal (da) n, urinale n
• Dutch: urinoir (nl), pisbak (nl)
• Finnish: pisoaari (fi)
• French: urinoir (fr) m
• German: Urinal (de) n, Pissoir (de) n, Pinkelbecken n
• Greek: ουρητήριο (el) n (ouritírio)
• Hungarian: piszoár (hu)
• Icelandic: pissuskál f (informal), þvagskál f
• Irish: úirinéal m, fualán m
• Italian: orinatoio (it) m

• Japanese: 便器 (べんき, benki)
• Luxembourgish: Pissoir
• Macedonian: писоар m (pisoár)
• Maori: mīanga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: pissoar n, urinal n

  Nynorsk: pissoar n, urinal n

• Polish: pisuar (pl) m
• Portuguese: urinol (pt) m, mictório (pt) m
• Russian: писсуа́р (ru) m (pissuár)
• Spanish: urinario (es) m, mingitorio (es) m
• Swedish: urinoar c, pissoar (sv) c
• Tagalog: ihian
• Ukrainian: пісуа́р (uk) m (pisuár)
• Welsh: troethfa f

latrine — see latrine

outhouse — see outhouse

lavatory — see toilet

References

• "urinal, n.", in the Oxford English Dictionary (1926), Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for urinal in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

• Lurian, laurin, unrail

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Danish

Alternative forms

• urinale

Etymology

From Late Latin ūrīnāle, neuter of ūrīnālis (“pertaining to urine”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /urinaːl/, [uɐ̯iˈnæːˀl]

Noun

urinal n (singular definite urinalet, plural indefinite urinaler)

1. urinal (appliance for male restrooms)
2. urinal (small container to collect or measure urine)

Inflection

Declension of urinal

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	urinal	urinalet	urinaler	urinalerne
genitive	urinals	urinalets	urinalers	urinalernes

Further reading

• urinal on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uʀiˈnaːl/
• Rhymes: -aːl

Adjective

urinal (not comparable)

1. urinal, urinary

Declension

Declension of urinal

number & gender		singular			plural
		masculine	feminine	neuter	all genders
predicative		—	—	—	—
strong declension (without article)	nominative	urinaler	urinale	urinales	urinale
	genitive	urinalen	urinaler	urinalen	urinaler
	dative	urinalem	urinaler	urinalem	urinalen
	accusative	urinalen	urinale	urinales	urinale
weak declension (with definite article)	nominative	der urinale	die urinale	das urinale	die urinalen
	genitive	des urinalen	der urinalen	des urinalen	der urinalen
	dative	dem urinalen	der urinalen	dem urinalen	den urinalen
	accusative	den urinalen	die urinale	das urinale	die urinalen
mixed declension (with indefinite article)	nominative	ein urinaler	eine urinale	ein urinales	(keine) urinalen
	genitive	eines urinalen	einer urinalen	eines urinalen	(keiner) urinalen
	dative	einem urinalen	einer urinalen	einem urinalen	(keinen) urinalen
	accusative	einen urinalen	eine urinale	ein urinales	(keine) urinalen