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English
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Latin scrōtum .
Pronunciation
Noun
scrotum (plural scrotums or scrota )
( anatomy ) The sac of skin and muscle that contains the testicles in most mammals .
The female labia majora are homologous to the male scrotum .
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Translations
the bag of the skin and muscle that contains the testicles
Albanian: qese e herdheve f
Arabic: صَفَن m ( ṣafan ) , كِيس اَلصَّفَن m ( kīs aṣ-ṣafan ) , كِيس (ar) m ( kīs )
Egyptian Arabic: صفن m ( ṣafan )
Aragonese: escroto m
Armenian: ամորձապարկ ( amorjapark ) , փոշտ (hy) ( pʻošt ) , ( slang, vulgar ) պլոր (hy) ( plor )
Asturian: escrotu (ast) m
Azerbaijani: xayalıq , xaya torbası
Bashkir: тоҡсай ( toqsay )
Belarusian: машо́нка f ( mašónka )
Bengali: অন্ডকোষ (bn) ( onḍokōś ) , অণ্ডকোষ (bn) ( onḍokōś )
Bulgarian: скротум m ( skrotum )
Catalan: escrot (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 春袋 ( ceon1 doi6 ) , 陰囊 / 阴囊 ( jam1 nong4 )
Hokkien: 陰囊 / 阴囊 ( im-lông ) , 𡳞脬 (zh-min-nan) , 𡳞胞 ( lān-pha ) , 胞囊 ( phau-lông )
Mandarin: 陰囊 / 阴囊 (zh) ( yīnnáng )
Czech: šourek (cs) m
Danish: skrotum ( clinic ) , pung (da) c , bollerne c pl ( slang )
Dutch: scrotum (nl) n , balzak (nl) m
Esperanto: skroto , testikujo
Estonian: munandikott , ( vulgar ) munn (et)
Faroese: skólpur m , pungur m
Finnish: kivespussi (fi)
French: scrotum (fr) m
Friulian: scrot m
Galician: escroto (gl) m
German: Skrotum (de) n , Hodensack (de) m
Greek: όσχεο (el) ( óscheo )
Ancient: ὄσχη f ( óskhē )
Gujarati: અંડકોશ ( aṇḍakoś )
Hebrew: כיס האשכים , שַׂק הָאֲשָׁכִים m ( sak ha-ashakhim )
Hindi: अंडकोष (hi) m ( aṇḍkoṣ )
Hungarian: herezacskó (hu)
Icelandic: pungur (is) m
Ido: skroto (io)
Indonesian: kantong pelir , skrotum (id)
Irish: bosán m , cadairne m , cochall m ( of animal )
Italian: scroto (it) m
Japanese: 陰嚢 (ja) ( いんのう, innō )
Javanese: ꦏꦺꦴꦤ꧀ꦛꦺꦴꦭ꧀ ( konthol )
Kannada: ಅಂಡಾಶಯ (kn) ( aṇḍāśaya )
Kazakh: ұма ( ūma )
Khmer: ក្រសោមស្វាស ( krɑsaom svaah ) , ប្លោក (km) ( plaok )
Korean: 불 (ko) ( bul ) , 음낭(陰囊) (ko) ( eumnang )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: گوندێن ( gundên )
Northern Kurdish: tûrikê gun m
Latin: scrōtum n , ( vulgar ) culleus m
Latvian: sēklinieku maisiņš m
Lithuanian: kapšelis m , sėklidžių kapšelis m
Low German: Klötensack , Skrotum
Macedonian: скротум ( skrotum )
Malay: kantung buah zakar , kerandut buah pelir , skrotum , kerandut buah zakar
Malayalam: വൃഷണസഞ്ചി ( vr̥ṣaṇasañci )
Manchu: ᡠᡥᠠᠯᠠ ( uhala )
Maori: pūkoro raho
Marathi: वृषण ( vŕṣaṇ )
Nandi: lato , kâp-lat ( when castrated )
Navajo: achoʼ , achoʼ bizis , achoʼayęęzhii bizis , ayęęzhii bizis
Norwegian:
Bokmål: pung m , skrotum
Nynorsk: pung m , skrotum
Omaha-Ponca: shoⁿdé
Persian: پوست بیضه ( pust-e beyze ) , کیسه بیضه ( kise-ye beyze ) , کیسه خایه ( kise-ye xâye )
Plautdietsch: Hoodensak m
Polish: moszna (pl) f , worek mosznowy m
Portuguese: escroto (pt) m
Romanian: scrot (ro) n
Russian: мошо́нка (ru) f ( mošónka )
Saaroa: 'aricuru
Sami:
Inari: kuolâpursâ
Northern: buđˈđá , bálˈloseahkka
Skolt: kuõllsiâkk
Sanskrit: अण्डकोष (sa) ( aṇḍakoṣa )
Serbo-Croatian: mòšnja (sh) f , mȍšnice (sh) f pl , mȍšnička f
Sicilian: scrotu m
Slovak: miešok (sk) m , skrótum n , ( slang, vulgar ) gule f pl , ( slang, vulgar ) vajcia n pl
Slovene: modnik m , mošnja f , skrotum m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: měch m
Spanish: escroto (es) m
Sundanese: ᮊᮔ᮪ᮏᮥᮒ᮪ ( kanjut )
Swahili: korodani
Swedish: pung (sv) c , scrotum (sv) , skrotum (sv)
Tagalog: balat-bayag , eskroto , kasuputan
Tamil: விதைப்பை (ta) ( vitaippai )
Telugu: వృషణం (te) ( vr̥ṣaṇaṁ ) , అండకోశము (te) ( aṇḍakōśamu ) , బీజావయవము ( bījāvayavamu )
Thai: ถุงอัณฑะ
Tongan: laho
Turkish: skrotum (tr)
Ukrainian: мошо́нка f ( mošónka ) , кали́тка f ( kalýtka )
Urdu: صفن ( sufan )
Uyghur: please add this translation if you can
Uzbek: yorgʻoq (uz)
Vietnamese: dái (vi) , bìu dái (vi) , bìu (vi)
Volapük: skrot
Welsh: ceillgwd m , sgrotwm m , cwdyn (cy) m ( colloquial ) , cwd m ( colloquial )
Yucatec Maya: chiim
Záparo: riaha
ǃXóõ: ǂqhàn-tê
Dutch
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin scrōtum .
Pronunciation
Noun
scrotum n (plural scrota or scrotums )
( anatomy , medicine ) scrotum
Synonym: balzak
French
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Latin scrōtum .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /skʁɔ.tɔm/ , /skʁo.tɔm/
Noun
scrotum m (plural scrotums )
scrotum
Le scrotum est un sac de peau et de tissu fibromusculaire situé à la racine du pénis qui soutient les testicules et les maintient à une température stable. The scrotum is a sack of skin and fibromuscular tissue at the base of the penis that supports the testicles and keeps them at a stable temperature.
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Further reading
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- ( “ to cut ” ) . See also Latin scortum , scrautum , corium , Proto-Germanic *skeraną (whence English shear ), Ancient Greek κείρω ( keírō , “ I cut off ” ) , Albanian harr ( “ to cut, to mow ” ) , Lithuanian skìrti ( “ separate ” ) , Welsh ysgar ( “ separate ” ) , Old Armenian քերեմ ( kʻerem , “ to scrape, scratch ” ) .
Pronunciation
Noun
scrōtum n (genitive scrōtī ) ; second declension ( Late Latin , Medieval Latin , New Latin )
( anatomy ) scrotum
Scrōtum est membrum gignendī hominis et animālis in fōrmam saccī, quod testēs continet et prōtegit.The scrotum is a human and animal body part for procreation in the form of a sack, which contains and protects the testes.
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Descendants
References
“scrotum ”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879 ) A Latin Dictionary , Oxford: Clarendon Press
scrotum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934 ) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français , Hachette, page 1407 .
scrotum in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918 ) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch , 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 2547