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English
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Etymology
From Middle English throte, from Old English þrote, þrota, þrotu (“throat”), from Proto-Germanic *þrutō (“throat”), from Proto-Indo-European *trud- (“to swell, become stiff”). Cognate with Dutch strot (“throat”), German Drossel (“throttle, gorge of game (wild animals)”) (etymology 2), Icelandic þroti (“swelling”), Swedish trut.
Pronunciation
Noun
throat (plural throats)
- The front part of the neck.
The wild pitch bounced and hit the catcher in the throat.
1910, Emerson Hough, chapter 1, in The Purchase Price:Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. […] She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.
- The gullet or windpipe.
As I swallowed I felt something strange in my throat.
- A narrow opening in a vessel.
The water leaked out from the throat of the bottle.
- Station throat.
- The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue.
1796, Benjamin Count of Rumford, “Of Chimney Fire-places”, in Essays, Political, Economical and Philosophical, page 332:By the throat of a Chimney, I mean the lower extremity of its canal, where it unites with the upper part of its open Fire-place.
1816, Encyclopaedia Perthensis:This course of bricks will be upon a level for instance, higher than this part, otherwise the with the top of the door-way left for the chimney throat of the chimney will not be properly form.
- (nautical) The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.
- (nautical) That end of a gaff which is next to the mast.
- (nautical) The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank.
1868, “Glover's Safety Anchors”, in Hunt's Yachting Magazine:The shoe iron must then become a mere loose piece of iron, and be found, on the heaving up of the anchor, to have lain on the surface of the soil between it and immediately under the throat of the anchor
- (shipbuilding) The inside of a timber knee.
- (botany) The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces.
Synonyms
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- (antonym(s) of "end of a gaff next to the mast"): peak
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Translations
front part of the neck
- Abkhaz: ахәламшәа (axʷlamŝʷa)
- Afrikaans: keel (af)
- Akkadian: 𒍣 f (ZI /napištu/)
- Albanian: fyt (sq) m, grykë (sq) f
- Arabic: حَلْق (ar) m (ḥalq), حُلْقُوم m (ḥulqūm)
- Egyptian Arabic: زور m (zōr), حلق m (ḥalʔ), حنجرة f (ḥangara)
- Hijazi Arabic: حَلْق m (ḥalg), زور m (zōr)
- Iraqi Arabic: زردوم m (zardūm)
- South Levantine Arabic: حلق m (ḥalʔ)
- Armenian: կոկորդ (hy) (kokord)
- Assamese: গল (gol)
- Asturian: gargüelu (ast) m
- Azerbaijani: boğaz (az)
- Bashkir: тамаҡ (tamaq)
- Belarusian: го́рла (be) n (hórla)
- Bengali: গলা (bn) (gola), ওলকম (ōlokom), হলকুম (holokum)
- Biatah Bidayuh: gunggong
- Bikol Central: halunan
- Binukid: bakeleng
- Bulgarian: шия (bg) f (šija), гу́ша (bg) f (gúša)
- Burmese: လည်ချောင်း (my) (lanyhkyaung:)
- Catalan: gola (ca) f
- Cebuano: tutunlan
- Chamicuro: nu'pijkaplejcha
- Chechen: please add this translation if you can
- Cherokee: ᎠᏴᏤᏂ (ayvtseni)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 嗓子 (zh) (sǎngzi), 喉嚨/喉咙 (zh) (hóulóng)
- Chuvash: пыр (pyr)
- Czech: hrdlo (cs) n
- Dalmatian: gaula f
- Danish: hals (da)
- Dutch: keel (nl)
- Eastern Arrernte: ahentye
- Esperanto: gorĝo
- Estonian: kurk (et)
- Even: билга (ʙilga)
- Evenki: моңон
- Faroese: hálsur (fo) m
- Finnish: kurkku (fi)
- French: gorge (fr) f
- Friulian: gole f
- Galician: garganta (gl) f, gorxa (gl) f
- Georgian: ყელი (ka) (q̇eli)
- German: Kehle (de) f
- Alemannic German: Chrache m
- Greek: λαιμός (el) m (laimós)
- Ancient: φάρυγξ f (phárunx)
- Guaraní: ahy'o
- Hawaiian: puʻu, puʻumoni, puʻumoniʻai, kaniʻāʻī, puanaʻī (front of throat)
- Hebrew: גָּרוֹן (he) m (garon)
- Hindi: गला (hi) m (galā)
- Hungarian: torok (hu)
- Icelandic: háls (is) m
- Ilocano: karabukob
- Indonesian: tenggorok (id), tekak (id)
- Irish: scornach (ga) f
- Istro-Romanian: bericåtĕ
- Italian: gola (it) f
- Ivatan: tetehnan
- Japanese: 喉 (ja) (のど, nodo)
- Jeju: 모감지 (mogamji)
- Kannada: ಗೋಣು (kn) (gōṇu)
- Kazakh: тамақ (kk) (tamaq)
- Khmer: បំពង់ក (km) (bɑmpŭəng kɑɑ)
- Korean: 멱 (myeok), 멱살 (myeoksal)
- Kumyk: тамакъ (tamaq)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: قورگ (qurg), گەروو (gerû), گەلوو (gelû)
- Northern Kurdish: gewrî (ku) f, hefik (ku) f, qirik (ku) f
- Kyrgyz: тамак (ky) (tamak), богуз (ky) (boguz), булуң (ky) (buluŋ)
- Lao: ລຳຄໍ (lam khǭ)
- Latgalian: reikle, gerkle
- Latin: guttur m, gula
- Latvian: rīkle f
- Lithuanian: gerklė (lt) f
- Macedonian: грло n (grlo)
- Malagasy: tenda (mg)
- Malay: tekak (ms), kerongkong (ms)
- Malayalam: തൊണ്ട (ml) (toṇṭa)
- Maltese: gerżuma f
- Manchu: ᠪᡳᠯᡥᠠ (bilha)
- Mongolian: хоолой (mn) (xooloj)
- Nanai: билга (bilga)
- Navajo: ayaayááh (external)
- Neapolitan: cannarone m
- Nepali: घाँटी (ne) (ghā̃ṭī)
- Norman: gorge f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: hals (no) m, strupe (no) m
- Nynorsk: hals m, strupe m
- Occitan: gargamèla (oc) f, garganta (oc) f
- Okinawan: 喉 (ぬーでぃー, nūdī)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: гръло n (grŭlo)
- Old English: þrote f
- Ossetian: хъуыр (qwyr)
- Ottoman Turkish: بوغاز (boğaz)
- Pashto: حلق (ps) m (halq), رغندى m (rǧə́nday)
- Persian: گلو (fa) (galu)
- Polish: gardło (pl) n
- Portuguese: garganta (pt) f
- Punjabi: ਸੰਘ (pa) (saṅgh)
- Quechua: kunka (qu)
- Romagnol: gôla f
- Romanian: gât (ro) n
- Russian: го́рло (ru) n (górlo), гло́тка (ru) f (glótka)
- Sanskrit: गल (sa) m (gala)
- Scottish Gaelic: sgòrnan m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: гр̏ло n, гр̏к m, гр̀кљан m, гу̏ша f
- Roman: gȑlo (sh) n, gȑk (sh) m, gr̀kljan (sh) m, gȕša (sh) f
- Sicilian: ula (scn) f
- Slovak: hrdlo (sk) n
- Slovene: grlo (sl) n
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: gjardło n
- Upper Sorbian: hordło n
- Southern Altai: боос (boos), тамак (tamak)
- Spanish: garganta (es) f
- Sudovian: gurkle f
- Swazi: umphimbo
- Swedish: hals (sv) c, strupe (sv)
- Tagalog: lalamunan
- Tajik: гулӯ (tg) (gulü)
- Tamil: தொண்டை (ta) (toṇṭai)
- Tarifit: tmijja f
- Tatar: бугаз (tt) (buğaz)
- Telugu: గొంతు (te) (gontu)
- Thai: ลำคอ (lam-kɔɔ)
- Tibetan: སྐེ (ske), སྐེ་མདུན (ske mdun), མགུལ (mgul)
- Tocharian B: kor, ṣankw
- Turkish: boğaz (tr)
- Turkmen: bogaz (tk), damak, bokurdak (tk), bokyrdak
- Tuvan: боостаа (boostaa)
- Ukrainian: го́рло n (hórlo)
- Urdu: گلا m (galā), حلق (halq)
- Uyghur: تاماق (ug) (tamaq)
- Uzbek: tomoq (uz), halqum (uz), boʻgʻiz (uz), boʻgʻoz (uz)
- Venetian: goła f, gola (vec)
- Vietnamese: cuống họng (vi), họng (vi)
- Vilamovian: gügl
- Volapük: gug (vo)
- Welsh: gwddf (cy) m
- West Frisian: kiel, strôt
- White Hmong: caj pas, qhov qa
- Wiradjuri: gaddai, gadhaay
- Yakut: күөмэй (küömey)
- Yoruba: ọ̀fun, ọ̀nà-ọ̀fun
- Zazaki: qır f
- Zhuang: lajhoz
- Zulu: umphimbo (zu) class 3/4
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gullet or windpipe
- Armenian: կոկորդ (hy) (kokord)
- Aymara: mallq'a
- Bengali: ওলকম (ōlokom)
- Bikol Central: halunan
- Bulgarian: гъ́рло (bg) n (gǎ́rlo), гръкля́н (bg) m (grǎklján)
- Catalan: gola (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 喉嚨/喉咙 (hau4 lung4)
- Hokkien: 嚨喉/咙喉 (zh-min-nan) (nâ-âu)
- Mandarin: 喉嚨/喉咙 (zh) (hóulóng)
- Czech: hrdlo (cs), krk (cs)
- Danish: svælg (da), hals (da)
- Dutch: keel (nl)
- Egyptian: (ḥtyt)
- Estonian: kõri (et)
- Finnish: kurkku (fi)
- Galician: garganta (gl) f, gorxa (gl) f
- German: Kehle (de) f, Rachen (de) m
- Greek: τραχεία (el) f (tracheía), λαιμός (el) m (laimós)
- Ancient: λαιμός m (laimós)
- Guaraní: asen'ó
- Japanese: 喉 (ja) (のど, nodo)
- Khmer: បំពង់កក្នុង (bâmpôngkâknŏng), គ្រសនី (krŭəhnii)
- Korean: 목구멍 (ko) (mokgumeong)
- Latin: guttur n, gula f
- Latvian: please add this translation if you can
- Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
- Mapudungun: peŀ
- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- Navajo: adáyiʼ
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: hals (no) m, svelg n, strupe (no) m
- Nynorsk: hals m, svelg n, strupe m
- Ojibwe: (my throat) ingondashkway
- Old English: wāsend m or f
- Ottoman Turkish: بوغاز (boğaz)
- Persian: گلو (fa) (galu)
- Portuguese: garganta (pt) f
- Quechua: tunqori (Bolivia), tuncuri (Ecuador)
- Romanian: gât (ro)
- Russian: го́рло (ru) n (górlo)
- Sanskrit: कण्ठ (sa) m (kaṇṭha)
- Scottish Gaelic: sgòrnan m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: гр̏ло n, гу̏ша f, ду̀шнӣк m
- Roman: gȑlo (sh) n, gȕša (sh) f, dùšnīk (sh) m
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: gjardło n
- Spanish: tráquea (es) f
- Swahili: koo (sw)
- Swedish: hals (sv) c
- Tarifit: tmijja f
- Telugu: గొంతు (te) (gontu)
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Tibetan: ལྐོག་མ (lkog ma), མིད་པ (mid pa)
- Tocharian B: kor, ṣankw
- Tuvan: боостаа (boostaa)
- West Frisian: kiel, strôt
- White Hmong: hlab pas, qa
- Zazaki: qırıq f
- Zhuang: conghhoz, hoz
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narrow opening in a vessel
the part of a chimney between the gathering and the flue
Translations to be checked
Verb
throat (third-person singular simple present throats, present participle throating, simple past and past participle throated)
- (now uncommon) To utter in or with the throat.
1911, Paul Wilstach, Thais, "the Story of a Sinner who Became a Saint and a Saint who Sinned": A Play in Four Acts, page 17:He beat about and pecked the net until his mate was liberated, and, throating a song of gratitude, the bird he freed flew to the sky.
1921, Harry Charles Witwer, The Rubyiat of a Freshman, page 31:As you know, I have gone in for the more manly athletics here with my visual enthusiasm, throating a nasty tenor on the Glee Club and shaking a vicious hoof on our dancing team. Well, last night the Intercollegiate Shimmy Contest with Goofy ...
2017, Alexis Debary, Arab Nights: Post 9/11 Thriller set in Tunisia, →ISBN:Tariq wants to be tactful and refrains from his natural impulse to throat his pain and curse her loudly in French. The girl looks devastated.
- to throat threats
, Homer, “Book XIII”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. , London: Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, , new edition, volume I, London: Charles Knight and Co., , 1843, →OCLC:So Hector hereto throated threats, to go to sea in blood
- (informal) To take into the throat. (Compare deepthroat.)
1995, Kyle Stone, Hot bauds: a selection of steamy BBS writings, Badboy:The Roman began to throat his rigid flagpole of a mancock, making groaning noises.
2017, Brian Patrick Davis, Songs About Boys, →ISBN:His head leaned back, water splashing his face as I throated his solid pipe. Those giant hands found the back of my head as he worked his hips back and forth to pump further and further into my mouth.
- (UK, dialect, obsolete) To mow (beans, etc.) in a direction against their bending.
Further reading
- throat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Throat (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “throat”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “throat”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.