vagina

See also: Vagina, vágina, vagína, vagīnā, vagīna, vaġina, and Appendix:Variations of "vagina"

English

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin vāgīna (“sheath”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: vəjīʹnə, IPA^(key): /vəˈdʒaɪnə/

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• Rhymes: -aɪnə
• Hyphenation: va‧gi‧na

Noun

vagina (plural vaginas or vaginae or vaginæ)

1. (anatomy) The passage leading from the opening of the vulva to the cervix of the uterus for copulation and childbirth in female mammals.
   • 1991, Mark M. Jones, Human Reproductive Biology (page 61)

     The epithelial lining of the vagina consists of many layers of flattened cells. Changes in the condition of these cells during the menstrual cycle can be detected by swabbing the lining and looking at the cells under a microscope.

2. (zoology) A similar part in some invertebrates.
3. (botany) A sheath-like structure, such as the leaf of a grass that surrounds a stem.
4. (colloquial) The vulva.

Usage notes

Vagina in colloquial use refers to the vulva or female genitalia generally, but in anatomy the vagina is a wholly internal structure and calling the vulva the vagina is analogous to calling the lips the mouth or throat.

Synonyms

• (anatomical passage or canal): See also Wikisaurus:vagina
• (vulva): See also Wikisaurus:vulva
• (botany): sheath

Hypernyms

• genitals

Derived terms

Terms derived from "vagina"

• invaginate
• vagina dentata
• vaginal

• vaginally
• vaginamoney
• vaginate

• vaginectomy
• vaginismus
• vaginitis
• vaginologist

Translations

See also: Wikisaurus:vagina/translations

anatomical sense

• Afrikaans: vagina
• Albanian: vaginë f, vagjinë f
• Amharic: እምስ (ʾəms)
• Ancient Greek: μυχὴ (mukhḕ)
• Arabic: مَهْبَل‏‎ m (mahbal), مَهْبِل‏‎ m (mahbil)

  Egyptian Arabic: ڤاچاينا‏‎ (vādžāynā)

• Aragonese: vachina
• Armenian: (formal) հեշտոց (hy) (heštocʿ), (vulgar) պուց (pucʿ)
• Asturian: vaxina (ast) f
• Azeri: vagina (az), uşaqlıq yolu
• Bavarian: fud
• Belarusian: по́хва f (póxva), вагі́на f (vahína)
• Bengali: যোনি (yoni)
• Breton: gouhin
• Bulgarian: ваги́на (bg) f (vagína), влага́лище (bg) n (vlagálište)
• Burmese: ယောနိ (my) (yau:ni.)
• Catalan: vagina (ca)
• Chamicuro: shaki
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 陰道, 阴道 (jam¹ dou⁶)

  Mandarin: 陰道 (zh), 阴道 (zh) (yīndào)

  Min Nan: 陰道, 阴道 (im-tō)

• Czech: pochva (cs) f, vagína (cs) f
• Danish: vagina (da), skede (da) c
• Dutch: vagina (nl) f, schede (nl) f (never used)
• Esperanto: vagino
• Estonian: tupp, vagiina (et)
• Faroese: skeið f
• Finnish: emätin (fi), vagina (fi)
• French: vagin (fr) m
• Galician: vaxina (gl) f
• Georgian: ვაგინა (vagina), საშო (sašo)
• German: Scheide (de) f, Vagina (de) f
• Greek: κόλπος (el) m (kólpos), κολεός (el) m (koleós)
• Greenlandic: naalungiarsuup aqqutaa
• Guaraní: rako, tako (gn)
• Guerrero Amuzgo: jne
• Hawaiian: kohe
• Hebrew: נַרְתִּיק‏‎ (he) m (nartik)
• Hindi: योनि (hi) f (yoni) (formal, standard), बुर (hi) (bur) (nonstandard, informal), चूत (hi) f (cūt) (vulgar)
• Hungarian: hüvely (hu), vagina (hu)
• Icelandic: leggöng (is) n pl, skeið (is) f, slíður n
• Ido: vagino (io)
• Indonesian: vagina (id), puki (id), farji (id)
• Irish: faighin
• Italian: vagina (it) f
• Japanese: 膣 (ja) (ちつ, chitsu), ワギナ (wagina), バギナ (bagina)
• Kannada: ತುಲ್ಲು (kn) (tullu), ಯೋನಿ (kn) (yōni)
• Kazakh: қынап (qınap), влагалище (vlagalïşşe)
• Khmer: យោនី (km) (younii)
• Korean: 보지 (ko) (boji), 질 (ko) (jil) (膣 (ko)), 바기나 (bagina)
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: quz (ku) m, vajîna (ku)

• Kyrgyz: влагалище (vlagalişçe), ийин (ky) (iyin), жыныс коңулу (cınıs koñulu)
• Lao: ຊ່ອງຄອດ (sǭng khǭt), ຫີ (hī), ໂຍນີ (nyō nī)

• Latvian: vagīna f, maksts (lv) m
• Lithuanian: makštis f
• Lojban: vibna
• Macedonian: родница f (rodnica), ваги́на f (vagína)
• Malay: faraj (ms), vagina, liang peranakan
• Malayalam: യോനി (ml) (yōni)
• Maltese: vaġina f
• Mandinka: bee
• Manx: fine
• Marathi: योनी (yonī)
• Mongolian: эм бэлгэ эрхтэн (em belge erhten)
• Navajo: ajóózh
• Nepali: पुति (puti) (vulgar), योनीमार्ग (yonīmārga)
• Northern Sami: cin'ná, viigá
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: vagina (no) m, skjede m

  Nynorsk: vagina m, skjede m

• Okinawan: 陰目 (ほーみー, hōmī)
• Persian: واژن‏‎ (fa) (vâžan), مهبل‏‎ (fa) (mahbal)
• Polish: pochwa (pl) f
• Portuguese: vagina (pt) f
• Romani: mizh f
• Romanian: vagin (ro) n
• Russian: влага́лище (ru) n (vlagálišče), же́нский полово́й о́рган m (žénskij polovój órgan), ваги́на (ru) f (vagína), пизда́ (ru) f (pizdá) (vulgar)
• Sanskrit: योनिः (sa) f (yoniḥ), योनि (sa) f (yoni)
• Scottish Gaelic: faighean m, truiteag f, geobag f, duillef
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ваги́на f, ро̏дница f

  Roman: vagína (sh) f, rȍdnica (sh) f

• Sinhalese: යෝනි (yōni)
• Slovak: pošva (sk) f, vagína f
• Slovene: vagína (sl) f, nóžnica (sl) f
• Spanish: vagina (es) f
• Swahili: kuma (sw)
• Swedish: slida (sv) c, vagina (sv)
• Tagalog: kaluban, puki (tl), kiki, pekpek, daang-bata
• Tajik: маҳбал (mahbal)
• Tamil: யோனி (ta) (yōṉi), பெண்குறி (ta) (peṇkuṟi), (vulgar) புண்டை (ta) (puṇṭai)
• Telugu: యోని (te) (yōni)
• Thai: ช่องคลอด (chɔ̂ng-klɔ̂ɔt), โยนี (th) (yoo-nii)
• Tibetan: སྟུ (stu), མོ་མཚན (mo mtshan)
• Tigrinya: ጉሕጓሕ (guḥgʷaḥ)
• Turkish: vajina (tr), am (tr)
• Turkmen: wlagalişe
• Ukrainian: пі́хва f (píxva), вагі́на (uk) f (vahína)
• Urdu: چوت‏‎ f (cūt) (vulgar), پھدی‏‎ (ur) (phuddi) (vulgar)
• Uyghur: جىنسىي يول‏‎ (jinsiy yol)
• Uzbek: qin (uz), diloq, vagina
• Vietnamese: âm đạo (vi) (陰道), lồn (vi) (slang, vulgar)
• Volapük: vagin
• Welsh: gwain f
• West Frisian: fagina, skie
• Wiradhuri: binij
• Yiddish: שייד‏‎ f (sheyd), וואַגינע‏‎ f (vagine), מוטערשייד‏‎ f (mutersheyd)

zoological sense

• Catalan: vagina (ca) f

• Czech: vagina (cs) f

botanical sense

• Estonian: tupp
• Finnish: tuppi (fi)

• Italian: guaina (it) f

vulva — see vulva

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Catalan

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin vāgīna. Compare the inherited doublet beina.

Noun

vagina f (plural vagines)

1. (anatomy) vagina

Related terms

• vaginal

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvaːɣinaː/

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• Hyphenation: va‧gi‧na

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin vāgīna.

Noun

vagina f (plural vagina's, diminutive vaginaatje n)

1. (anatomy) vagina

Synonyms

• schede

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Esperanto

Etymology

vagino +‎ -a

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vaˈɡina/

Adjective

vagina (accusative singular vaginan, plural vaginaj, accusative plural vaginajn)

1. vaginal

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Finnish

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin vāgīna.

Noun

vagina

1. (anatomy) vagina

Declension

Inflection of vagina (Kotus type 13/katiska, no gradation)
nominative		vagina	vaginat
genitive		vaginan	vaginoiden vaginoitten vaginojen
partitive		vaginaa	vaginoita vaginoja
illative		vaginaan	vaginoihin
		singular	plural
nominative		vagina	vaginat
accusative	nom.	vagina	vaginat
	gen.	vaginan
genitive		vaginan	vaginoiden vaginoitten vaginojen vaginainrare
partitive		vaginaa	vaginoita vaginoja
inessive		vaginassa	vaginoissa
elative		vaginasta	vaginoista
illative		vaginaan	vaginoihin
adessive		vaginalla	vaginoilla
ablative		vaginalta	vaginoilta
allative		vaginalle	vaginoille
essive		vaginana	vaginoina
translative		vaginaksi	vaginoiksi
instructive		—	vaginoin
abessive		vaginatta	vaginoitta
comitative		—	vaginoineen

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin vāgīna. Compare the inherited doublet guaina.

Noun

vagina f (plural vagine)

1. (anatomy) vagina

Derived terms

• invaginare
• vaginale
• vaginalite
• vaginalmente
• vaginismo
• vaginite
• vulvovaginale
• vulvovaginite

See also

• cervice
• vulva

Anagrams

• ignava, naviga, vangai

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Latin

Alternative forms

• uāgīna

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *wāgīnā (“sheath, scabbard”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /waːˈɡiː.na/

Noun

vāgīna f (genitive vāgīnae); first declension

1. sheath, scabbard
   • 100 BCE – 44 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 5.44

     Avertit hic casus vaginam et gladium educere conanti dextram moratur manum, impeditumque hostes circumsistunt.

     This circumstance turns aside his scabbard and obstructs his right hand when attempting to draw his sword: the enemy crowd around him when [thus] embarrassed.

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.579

     Dixit, vaginaque eripit ensem fulmineum, strictoque ferit retinacula ferro.

     He said, and from its scabbard forth he flashed the lightning of his sword, with his sword he struck the hawsers.

   Mitte gladium in vaginam. ― Put the sword into its sheath.

   Gladium vāgina proripere. ― To draw a sword from the sheath hastily.

2. covering, sheath, holder of any thing

   Omnia principalia viscera membranis propriis ac velut vaginis inclusit natura.

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   Cremato eo (corpore), inimici ... remeanti animae veluti vaginam ademerint.

   (please add an English translation of this usage example)

3. sheath of an ear of grain, etc., the hull, husk
4. female vagina
5. sheath of a claw, in cats

Usage notes

Not used medically/anatomically during classical times.

Inflection

First declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	vāgīna	vāgīnae
genitive	vāgīnae	vāgīnārum
dative	vāgīnae	vāgīnīs
accusative	vāgīnam	vāgīnās
ablative	vāgīnā	vāgīnīs
vocative	vāgīna	vāgīnae

Descendants

• Albanian: vaginë, vagjinë
• Asturian: vaxina, vaina
• Catalan: beina, vagina
• Czech: vagína
• Dutch: vagina
• English: vagina
• Finnish: vagina
• French: gaine, vagin
• Friulian: vagine, vazine
• Galician: vaxina, vaíña
• German: Vagina

• Irish: faighin
• Italian: guaina, vagina
• Japanese: ワギナ (wagina)
• Latvian: vagīna
• Macedonian: вагина (vagina)
• Maltese: vaġina
• Norwegian: vagina
• Occitan: vagina
• Portuguese: bainha, vagina, vagem
• Proto-Brythonic: *gwėɣin (see there for further descendants)
• Romanian: vagin

• Russian: ваги́на (vagína)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: вагина

  Roman: vagina

• Sicilian: guaina, vagina
• Slovak: vagína
• Slovene: vagina
• Spanish: vaina, vagina
• Swedish: vagina
• Turkish: vajina
• Venetian: vazina, vaxina

References

• vagina in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vagina in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• du Cange, Charles (1883), “vagina”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
• “vagina” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to sheath one's sword: gladium in vaginam recondere
    
• vagina in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vagina in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• “vagina” in John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors, The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, ISBN 978-0-19-861186-8.

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin vagina.

Noun

vagina m (definite singular vaginaen, indefinite plural vaginaer, definite plural vaginaene)

1. (anatomy) vagina

Synonyms

• skjede

References

• “vagina” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin vagina.

Noun

vagina m (definite singular vaginaen, indefinite plural vaginaer or vaginaar, definite plural vaginaene or vaginaane)

1. (anatomy) vagina

Synonyms

• skjede

References

• “vagina” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Occitan

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin vāgīna.

Noun

vagina f

1. (anatomy) vagina

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin vāgīna. Compare the inherited doublet bainha; compare also vagem.

Noun

vagina f (plural vaginas)

1. (anatomy) vagina

Related terms

• vaginal

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin vāgīna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʋaɡǐːna/
• Hyphenation: va‧gi‧na

Noun

vagína f (Cyrillic spelling ваги́на)

1. (anatomy) vagina

Declension

Declension of vagina

	singular	plural
nominative	vagína	vagine
genitive	vagine	vagina
dative	vagini	vaginama
accusative	vaginu	vagine
vocative	vagino	vagine
locative	vagini	vaginama
instrumental	vaginom	vaginama

Synonyms

• rȍdnica

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Slovene

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin vāgīna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʋaˈɡíːna/
• Tonal orthography: vagı̑na

Noun

vagína f (genitive vagíne, nominative plural vagíne)

1. (anatomy) vagina

Declension

Declension of vagína (feminine, a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	vagína	vagíni	vagíne
accusative	vagíno	vagíni	vagíne
genitive	vagíne	vagín	vagín
dative	vagíni	vagínama	vagínam
locative	vagíni	vagínah	vagínah
instrumental	vagíno	vagínama	vagínami

Derived terms

• vaginálen

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin vāgīna. Compare the inherited doublet vaina.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baˈxina/

Noun

vagina f (plural vaginas)

1. vagina

Related terms

• vaginal