From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
[wikipedia]
*** Etymology
[en], probably from [en]. Attested with its current anatomical meaning since
1300. A diminutive form of what is presumably the Old English precursor of
[en].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] Each of the two large fleshy halves of the posterior part of the body between the base of the back , the perineum [,] and the top of the legs .
2. * [page=61]
3. [en] The convexity of a ship behind , under the stern .
4. * [en]
**** Usage notes
- The plural form is usually used in the singular sense for a single person's posterior , often informally called [en] (North America) or [en] (Britain). It is rarer to refer to only a single buttock, which is then usually specified as left or right.
**** Derived terms
{{col|en|buttock cleavage |buttock-clenching |buttocked |buttocker
|buttockless |buttocklike |buttock line |buttock mail |buttocky |cross-buttock
|fat-buttocked |mouse buttock |quakebuttock }}
**** Translations
[each of the two large fleshy halves of the posterior part of the body]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar] , [ar] , [ar] , [ar] [buttocks]
- Armenian: [hy] , [hy] , [buttocks] [hy]
- Assamese: [as] , [as] , [as]
- Asturian: [ast] , [ast]
- Azerbaijani: [az] , [az]
- Bashkir: [ba] [also the whole butt]
- Basque: [eu]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be] , [be] , [be]
- Bengali: [bn] , [bn]
- Bikol Central: [bcl]
- Breton: [br] , [br] , [br]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Burmese: [my] , [my] , [my]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chichewa: [ny]
- Chichonyi-Chidzihana-Chikauma: [coh]
- Chinese:
- Coptic: [cop] , [cop] , [cop]
- Cornish: [kw]
- Czech: [cs] [though singular, used for "buttocks"] , [cs] , [cs]
- Danish: [da] , [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo] , [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Faroese: [fo] , [fo] , [fo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de] , [colloquial] [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el] , [el] , [el] [buttocks]
- Gujarati: [gu] , [gu] , [gu]
- Haitian Creole: [ht]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi] , [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Ido: [io] , [io]
- Ingrian: [izh] [formal] , [izh] , [izh] , [izh] [vulgar]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it] , [it] , [it] , [it] , [it] , [it] , [it] , [it] , [it]
- Ivatan: [ivv]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Kabyle: [kab]
- Kapampangan: [pam]
- Kazakh: [kk] , [kk] , [kk]
- Khmer: [km] , [km]
- Kikuyu: [ki]
- Kituba: [ktu]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko] , [ko] , [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: [ky] , [ky]
- Ladino: [lad] , [lad]
- Lao: [lo] , [lo] , [lo]
- Latin: [la] , [la]
- Latvian: [lv] [used for "buttocks"] , [lv]
- Laz: [lzz]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Lombard: [lmo]
- Luhya: [luy]
- Lushootseed: [lut]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Malay: [ms]
- Malayalam: [ml] , [ml] , [ml] , [ml]
- Maltese: [mt] , [mt]
- Manchu: [mnc]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi] , [mi] , [mi] , [mi]
- Mingrelian: [xmf]
- Mongolian: [mn] , [mn]
- Navajo: [nv]
- Nepali: [ne] , [ne]
- Norman: [nrf] [Jersey]
- Occitan: [oc]
- Old Tupi: [tpw]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota] , [ota] , [ota] , [ota] , [ota]
- Persian: [fa]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt] , [pt]
- Rapa Nui: [rap]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] [sg. used for "buttocks"] , [ru] [sg. used for "buttocks"] , [ru] , [ru] [sg. used for "buttocks"]
- Sanskrit: [sa]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl] [buttocks]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swahili: [sw] , [sw]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Sylheti: [syl]
- Tabaru: [tby]
- Tagalog: [tl] , [tl]
- Tajik: [tg]
- Tarifit: [rif] , [rif]
- Tausug: [tsg]
- Telugu: [te] , [te]
- Ternate: [tft]
- Thai: [th]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr] , [tr] [also the whole butt]
- Turkmen: [tk]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Urdu: [ur] , [ur]
- Uzbek: [uz]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Volapük: [vo] , [vo] [older term]
- Walloon: [wa]
- Waray-Waray: [war]
- Welsh: [cy]
- White Hmong: [mww]
- Woiwurrung: [wyi]
- Yami: [tao]
- Yiddish: [yi]
- Zhuang: [za]
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*** See also
- [en] / [en]
- [en]
*** Further reading
- [year=1967]
- [R:Online Etymology Dictionary]
[en]