vagina

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

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna (“a sheath, scabbard; a covering, sheath, holder”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vəˈdʒaɪ.nə/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -aɪnə

Noun

vagina (plural vaginas or vaginae or (obsolete) 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.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vagina

   • 1991, Richard Evan Jones, Human Reproductive Biology, →ISBN, 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.

   1. (zootomy) A similar part in some invertebrates.
2. (botany) A sheathlike structure, such as the leaf of a grass that surrounds a stem.

   Synonym: sheath

3. (colloquial) The vulva, or the vulva and the vaginal passage collectively.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vulva

   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:vagina.

Usage notes

• In technical discussions of anatomy, the vagina is a wholly internal structure and the vulva is wholly external, but in common use (since at least the 1930s), vagina can refer to the vulva or function as a general term for the entire genitalia.

Hypernyms

• genitals

Derived terms

• neovagina
• vagina envy
• vaginaless
• vaginalike
• vagina lips
• vaginamoney
• vaginamony
• vaginaphobia
• vaginaphobic
• vaginize
• vaginoid
• vagino-, vagin-
• vajacial
• vajazzle
• vajungle
• vattoo

 

Related terms

• invaginate
• per vagina
• vagina dentata
• vaginal
• vaginally
• vaginant
• vaginaphobic
• vaginate
• vagina tendinis
• vaginismus

 

Translations

See also: Thesaurus:vagina/translations

anatomical sense

• Afrikaans: vagina
• Albanian: vaginë f, vagjinë f
• Amharic: እምስ (ʾəms)
• Arabic: مَهْبَل‎ m (mahbal), مَهْبِل‎ m (mahbil), فَرْج‎ (ar) m (farj)

  Egyptian Arabic: ڤاچاينا‎ f (vāžāynā)

• Aragonese: vachina
• Armenian: հեշտոց (hy) (heštocʿ) (formal), պուց (pucʿ) (vulgar)
• Asturian: vaxina (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: vagina (az), vajina (az), uşaqlıq yolu, am (vulgar)
• Bavarian: fud
• Belarusian: по́хва f (póxva), вагі́на f (vahína), пізда́ f (pizdá) (vulgar)
• Bengali: যোনি (bn) (joni)
• Breton: gouhin
• Bulgarian: ваги́на (bg) f (vagína), влага́лище (bg) n (vlagálište), пу́тка f (pútka) (vulgar)
• Burmese: ယောနိ (my) (yau:ni.), သားအိမ်လမ်းကြောင်း (sa:imlam:kraung:)
• Catalan: vagina (ca)
• Cebuano: bilat, buto (vulgar)
• Chamicuro: shaki
• Cherokee: ᎤᎴᏍᏓᎸᎢ (ulesdalvi)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 陰道, 阴道 (jam¹ dou⁶)

  Mandarin: 陰道 (zh), 阴道 (zh) (yīndào)

  Min Nan: 陰道, 阴道 (im-tō)

• Cornish: kons f
• Czech: pochva (cs) f, vagína (cs) f
• Danish: vagina (da) c, skede (da) c
• Dutch: vagina (nl) f, schede (nl) f (formal)
• Egyptian: (kꜣt f)
• Esperanto: vagino
• Estonian: tupp (et), 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)

  Ancient: μυχή (mukhḗ)

• Greenlandic: naalungiarsuup aqqutaa
• Guaraní: rako, tako (gn)
• Guerrero Amuzgo: jne
• Gujarati: યોનિ f (yoni), યોની f (yonī)
• 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 f
• 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) (yoonii)
• Korean: 보지 (ko) (boji), 질(膣) (ko) (jil), 바기나 (bagina)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: quz (ku) m, vajîna (ku), zê (ku) f

• Kyrgyz: влагалище (vlağalişçe), ийин (ky) (iyin), жыныс коңулу (jınıs qoñulu)
• Lao: ຊ່ອງຄອດ (sǭng khǭt), ຫີ (hī), ໂຍນີ (nyō nī)
• Latin: vās muliebre n

• Latvian: vagīna f, maksts (lv) m
• Lithuanian: makštis f
• Macedonian: родница f (rodnica), ваги́на f (vagína), пичка f (pička) (vulgar)
• Malay: faraj (ms), vagina, liang peranakan
• Malayalam: യോനി (ml) (yōni)
• Maltese: vaġina f
• Mandinka: bee
• Manx: fine
• Marathi: योनी (yonī)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: эм бэлэг эрхтэн (em beleg erkhten), үтрээ (mn) (ütree)

  Uyghurjin: ᠦᠲᠦᠷᠦᠭᠡ (ütürüge)

• Navajo: ajóózh
• Nepali: पुति (puti) (vulgar), योनीमार्ग (yonīmārga)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: vagina (no) m, skjede m

  Nynorsk: vagina m, skjede m

• Okinawan: 陰目 (ほーみー, hōmī)
• Pashto: مهبل‎ m (mahbal), فرج‎ m (farǰ)
• Persian: واژن‎ (fa) (vâžan), مهبل‎ (fa) (mahbel), فرج‎ (fa) (farj)
• Polish: pochwa (pl) f
• Portuguese: vagina (pt) f
• Romani: mizh f
• Romanian: vagin (ro) n
• Russian: влага́лище (ru) n (vlagálišče), же́нский полово́й о́рган (ru) m (žénskij polovój órgan), ваги́на (ru) f (vagína), пизда́ (ru) f (pizdá) (vulgar)
• Sami:

  Inari: iämádâh

  Northern: cinˈná, viigá

  Skolt: njuõckkčoodd

• Sanskrit: योनिः (sa) f (yoniḥ), योनि (sa) f (yoni), स्त्रीन्द्रिय​ n (strīndriya​)
• 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: puki (tl), kiki, pekpek, daang-bata
• Tajik: маҳбал (mahbal), фарҷ (farj)
• Tamil: யோனி (ta) (yōṉi), பெண்குறி (ta) (peṇkuṟi), (vulgar) புண்டை (ta) (puṇṭai)
• Tatar: дымлык (dımlıq)
• Telugu: యోని (te) (yōni)
• Thai: ช่องคลอด (th) (chɔ̂ng-klɔ̂ɔt), โยนี (th) (yoo-nii)
• Tibetan: སྟུ (stu), མོ་མཚན (mo mtshan), གསོལ་སྟུ (gsol stu)
• Tigrinya: ጉሕጓሕ (guḥgʷaḥ)
• Tocharian B: strīndri
• Turkish: vajina (tr), am (tr)
• Turkmen: wlagalişe, am
• Ukrainian: пі́хва f (píxva), вагі́на (uk) f (vahína), пизда́ f (pyzdá) (vulgar)
• Urdu: چوت‎ (ur) f (cūt) (vulgar), پھدی‎ (ur) (phuddi) (vulgar), فرج‎ (farj), وجائنا‎ (vajā'inā)
• 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)

zootomical sense

• Catalan: vagina (ca) f

• Czech: vagina (cs) f

botanical sense

• Estonian: tupp (et)
• Finnish: tuppi (fi)

• Italian: guaina (it) f

vulva — see vulva

Further reading

• “vagina”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “vagina”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary.

Anagrams

• Gavina

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Catalan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna. Doublet of beina.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /vəˈʒi.nə/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /bəˈʒi.nə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /vaˈd͡ʒi.na/

• Audio

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Noun

vagina f (plural vagines)

1. (anatomy) vagina

Related terms

• vaginal

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Danish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna.

Noun

vagina c (singular definite vaginaen, plural indefinite vaginaer)

1. (anatomy) vagina

Synonyms

• (female genitalia): fisse, kusse, skede (clinical), tissekone (childish), fjams, fissehul (derogatory)

Derived terms

• vaginalsekret
• vaginose

 

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Dutch

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvaːɣinaː/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: va‧gi‧na

Noun

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

1. (anatomy) vagina

   Synonym: schede

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Esperanto

Etymology

From vagino +‎ -a.

Pronunciation

• Audio

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• IPA^(key): [vaˈɡina]
• Rhymes: -ina
• Hyphenation: va‧gin‧a

Adjective

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

1. vaginal

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Finnish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋɑɡinɑ/, [ˈʋɑɡinɑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑɡinɑ
• Syllabification: va‧gi‧na

Noun

vagina

1. (anatomy) vagina

   Synonym: emätin

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

Possessive forms of vagina (type katiska)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	vaginani	vaginamme
2nd person	vaginasi	vaginanne
3rd person	vaginansa

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Interlingua

Noun

vagina (plural vaginas)

1. vagina

Related terms

• vaginal

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Italian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna. Doublet of guaina.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vaˈd͡ʒi.na/
• Rhymes: -ina
• Hyphenation: va‧gì‧na

Noun

vagina f (plural vagine)

1. (anatomy) vagina

Derived terms

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

 

See also

• cervice
• vulva

Anagrams

• gavina, ignava, naviga, vangai

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Latin

Alternative forms

• uāgīna

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *wāgīnā (“sheath, scabbard”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *wag- (“sheath, cover”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /u̯aːˈɡiː.na/, [u̯äːˈɡiːnä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /vaˈd͡ʒi.na/, [väˈd͡ʒiːnä]

Noun

vāgīna f (genitive vāgīnae); first declension

1. (literally) a sheath, scabbard
   • c. 52 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 vāginā proripere. ― To draw a sword from the sheath hastily.

2. (transferred sense) the covering, sheath, holder of anything

   Omnia principalia viscera membranis propriis ac velut vaginis inclusit natura.

   (please add an English translation of this usage example)

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

   (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   1. the hull, husk
   2. (anatomy) the vagina
   3. (zootomy, in cats) the sheath of a claw

Usage notes

Not used medically/anatomically during classical times.

Inflection

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	vāgīna	vāgīnae
Genitive	vāgīnae	vāgīnārum
Dative	vāgīnae	vāgīnīs
Accusative	vāgīnam	vāgīnās
Ablative	vāgīnā	vāgīnīs
Vocative	vāgīna	vāgīnae

Derived terms

• ēvāgīnō (verb)
• vāgīnālis (adjective)
• vāgīnula (diminutive)

Related terms

• ēvaginātiō

Descendants

Descendants of vāgīna in other languages

• → Afrikaans: vagina
• → Albanian: vaginë, vagjinë
• → Aragonese: vachina
• → Asturian: vaxina
• → Azerbaijani: vagina
• → Belarusian: вагіна (vahina)
• → Bulgarian: вагина (vagina)
• → Catalan: vagina
• → Czech: vagína
• → Danish: vagina
• → Dutch: vagina
• → English: vagina
• → Finnish: vagina
• → French: vagin
  • → Persian: واژن‎ (vâžan)
  • → Romanian: vagin
• → Friulian: vagine, vazine
• → Galician: vaxina
• → Georgian: ვაგინა (vagina)
• → German: Vagina
• Italian: guaina, → vagina
• → Japanese: ワギナ (wagina)
• → Korean: 바기나 (bagina)
• → Northern Kurdish: vajîna
• → Latvian: vagīna
• → Macedonian: вагина (vagina)
• → Maltese: vaġina
• → Norwegian Bokmål: vagina
• → Occitan: vagina
• Old French: guaïne
  • French: gaine
• → Old Irish: faigen
  • Irish: faighin
  • Manx: fine
  • Scottish Gaelic: faighean
• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: vaina
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: beina
• Old Portuguese: baynna, vaynna
  • Galician: vaíña, baíña; vaxa, gaxa, vaixa, varxa
  • Portuguese: bainha; vagem
• Old Spanish:
  • Spanish: vaina
• → Portuguese: vagina
• → Proto-Brythonic: *gwėɣin
  • Middle Breton: gouhin
    • Breton: gouin
      • →? French: gouine
  • Old Cornish: guein
    • Middle Cornish: goyn, gon
      • Cornish: goen
  • Middle Welsh: gwein
    • Welsh: gwain
• → Russian: ваги́на (vagína)
• → Serbo-Croatian:
  • Cyrillic: вагина
  • Latin: vagina
• Sicilian: guaina, vajina, → vagina
• → Slovak: vagína
• → Slovene: vagina
• → Spanish: vagina
• → Swedish: vagina
• → Turkish: vajina
• → Ukrainian: вагіна (vahina)
• → Uzbek: vagina
• → Venetian: vaxina, vazina
• → West Frisian: fagina
• → Yiddish: וואַגינע‎ (vagine)

References

• “vagina”, in Charlton T[homas] Lewis; Charles [Lancaster] Short (1879) […] A New Latin Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company; Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• “vagina”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vagina in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• vagina in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• 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
• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “vagina”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna. Doublet of vanilje.

Noun

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

1. (anatomy) vagina

   Synonym: skjede

Derived terms

• vaginose

References

• “vagina” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna.

Noun

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

1. (anatomy) vagina

   Synonym: skjede

Derived terms

• vaginose

References

• “vagina” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Occitan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Béarn)

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Noun

vagina f (plural vaginas)

1. (anatomy) vagina

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Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna. Doublet of bainha and vagem.

Noun

vagina f (plural vaginas)

1. (anatomy) vagina

Related terms

• vaginal

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

vagína f (Cyrillic spelling ваги́на)

1. (anatomy) vagina

   Synonym: rȍdnica

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

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Slovene

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʋaɡíːna/

Noun

vagȋna f

1. (anatomy) vagina

Inflection

Feminine, a-stem
nom. sing.	vagína
gen. sing.	vagíne
	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

Further reading

• “vagina”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

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Spanish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna. Doublet of vaina.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baˈxina/, [baˈxi.na]

Noun

vagina f (plural vaginas)

1. vagina

Related terms

• vaginal

Further reading

• “vagina”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014