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English
Etymology
From eye + socket.
Pronunciation
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Noun
eye socket (plural eye sockets)
- (anatomy, ophthalmology) The bony cavity which contains the eyeball and its associated muscles, vessels, and nerves. In humans, seven bones make up each bony orbit.
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Translations
socket of eye
- Arabic: مِحْجَر m (miḥjar), حَجَاج m (ḥajāj)
- Armenian: ակնակապիճ (hy) (aknakapič)
- Azerbaijani: göz yuvası, hədəqə (az), göz çuxuru
- Basque: betzulo, begi-zulo
- Bulgarian: о́чна кухина́ f (óčna kuhiná)
- Catalan: conca (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Hokkien: 目空 (zh-min-nan) (ba̍k-khang)
- Mandarin: 眼窩 / 眼窝 (zh) (yǎnwō), 眶 (zh) (kuàng, kuāng)
- Cornish: kraw lagas m
- Czech: oční důlek m, očnice f, oční jamka f
- Danish: øjenhule c
- Dutch: oogkas (nl) f, oogholte (nl)
- Esperanto: kavo (eo)
- Erzya: сельмеваря (seľmevaŕa)
- Estonian: silmaauk, silmakoobas
- Finnish: silmäkuoppa (fi), silmäaukko
- French: orbite (fr) f, cavité oculaire f, orbite crânienne f, orbite de l'œil f
- Galician: cunca (gl) f
- German: Augenhöhle (de) f; Orbita f (scientific)
- Greek: οφθαλμικός κόγχος m (ofthalmikós kónchos)
- Hebrew: אֲרֻבַּת עַיִן f (arubát 'áin)
- Hungarian: szemüreg (hu), szemgödör (hu)
- Ido: orbito (io)
- Indonesian: orbita (id)
- Irish: log súile m
- Japanese: 眼窩 (ja) (がんか, ganka)
- Korean: 눈구멍 (ko) (nun'gumeong), 안와 (ko) (anwa)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: کاڵانە (kallane)
- Northern Kurdish: kunka çavî
- Southern Kurdish: بِلیاق (bilyaq)
- Latin: orbita ocularis
- Latvian: acs dobums m, orbīta f
- Lithuanian: akiduobė (lt) f
- Manchu: ᠶᠠᠰᠠ ᡳ
ᡥᡡᠨᡨᠠᡥᠠᠨ (yasa-i hūntahan)
- Maori: kape
- Marathi: नेत्रगुहा f (netraguhā)
- Mari:
- Eastern Mari: орбите (orbite), шинчалаке (šinčalake), шинчарож (šinčarož)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: øyehule m or f
- Nynorsk: augehole f
- Persian: چشمخانه (fa) sg (čašmxāne), حدقه (fa) sg (hadaqe), کاسهٔ چشم sg (kāse-ye čašm)
- Polish: oczodół (pl) m
- Portuguese: órbita (pt) f, cavidade ocular f
- Romanian: orbită (ro) f, găvan (ro) n
- Russian: глазна́я впа́дина f (glaznája vpádina), орби́та (ru) f (orbíta), глазни́ца (ru) f (glazníca)
- Sorbian:
- Upper Sorbian: wóčnica f
- Spanish: cuenca (es) f
- Sundanese: kongkolak
- Swedish: ögonhåla (sv) c
- Turkish: göz çukuru (tr)
- Vietnamese: ổ mắt (vi)
- Volapük: logakev (vo)
- Welsh: pwll y llygad m, crau'r llygad m
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