# nostril
## English
### Alternative forms

* nosethirl (now Britain regional, archaic)

### Etymology

From Middle English nostrille, from Old English nosþȳrel, equivalent to nose +‎ thirl (“hole”). Compare Old Frisian nosterle (“nostril”), modern West Frisian noaster (“nostrill”). Compare also Middle Low German noster (“nostril”), from Proto-Germanic *nustriz (“nostril”).

### Pronunciation

* enPR: nŏs'trəl
** (UK) IPA: /ˈnɒs.tɹɪl/, /ˈnɒs.tɹəl/
*** Audio (Southern England):(file)
** (US, Canada) IPA: /ˈnɑ.stɹəl/
** (General Australian) IPA: /ˈnɔs.tɹəl/
* Rhymes: -ɒstɹəl
* Hyphenation: nos‧tril

### Noun

nostril (plural nostrils)
* Either of the two orifices located on the nose (or on the beak of a bird); used as a passage for air and other gases to travel the nasal passages.
    Synonyms: intake, nare, naris, nosehole
** 1601, Plinius Secundus, translated by Philemon Holland, The Hiſtorie of the World. Commonly Called, the Naturall Hiſtorie […] ‎, London: Impenſis G. B, Book L, Chapter XIII, page 58:[…] whether it bee that they bee broken winded and purſiue, or otherwiſe bitten and ſtung with venomous beaſts; in which caſes, there muſt be an injection made vp into the noſthrils, of the juice of Rue in wine.

#### Derived terms

* horsenostrilled
* internostril
* nostrilful
* nostrility
* nostrilled

#### Translations

Afrikaans: neusgat (af)
Albanian: flegër (sq) f
Arabic: مَنْخَر m (manḵar)
Egyptian Arabic: فتحة منخير f (fatḥet manaḵyir)
Armenian: քթանցք (hy) (kʻtʻancʻkʻ), քթածակ (hy) (kʻtʻacak), ռունգ (hy) (ṙung)
Old Armenian: ռունգն (ṙungn)
Azerbaijani: burun deşiyi
Belarusian: но́здра f (nózdra)
Bengali: নাসারন্ধ্র (bn) (naśarondhro)
Bulgarian: но́здра (bg) f (nózdra), но́здря f (nózdrja)
Burmese: နှာခေါင်းပေါက် (my) (hnahkaung:pauk)
Catalan: nariu (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 鼻哥窿 (bei$^6$ go$^1$ lung$^{4-1}$)
Mandarin: 鼻孔 (zh) (bíkǒng), 鼻子眼 (bíziyǎn)
Coptic: ϫⲉϥϣⲁⲓ m or f (čefšai)
Cornish: frig m
Corsican: naru m
Czech: nozdra (cs) f, nosní dírka f
Danish: næsebor (da) n
Dutch: neusgat (nl) n
Egyptian: (msꜣḏt f)
Esperanto: naztruo (eo)
Estonian: sõõre, ninasõõre
Finnish: sierain (fi)
French: narine (fr) f, (unformally) trou de nez (fr) m, (for animals) naseau (fr) m
Friulian: narile f
Galician: narno f, ventá (gl) f, venta (gl) f, nares m pl (archaic)
Georgian: ნესტო (nesṭo)
German: Nasenloch (de) n, (of animals) Nüster (de) f
Greek: ρουθούνι (el) n (routhoúni)
Ancient: μυκτήρ m (muktḗr), ῥώθων m (rhṓthōn)
Greenlandic: sorluk
Gujarati: નસકોરું n (naskorũ)
Hebrew: נְחִיר (he) m (nekhir)
Hindi: नथना (hi) (nathnā), नथुना (hi) (nathunā), नासापुट (hi) (nāsāpuṭ)
Hungarian: orrlyuk (hu)
Icelandic: nös (is) f
Ido: nazotruo (io)
Indonesian: lubang hidung (id)
Ingrian: nenähooku
Italian: narice (it) f
Japanese: 鼻孔 (ja) (びこう, bikō), 鼻の穴 (はなのあな, hana no ana)
Kazakh: танау (tanau)
Khiamniungan Naga: ngākhà
Khmer: រន្ឋច្រមុះ (rʊən crɑmoh), ប្រហោងច្រមុះ (prɑhaoŋ crɑmoh)
Korean: 콧구멍 (ko) (kotgumeong)
Kumyk: танав (tanaw)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: کونەلووت (kunelût)
Northern Kurdish: kunê difinê m, firnik (ku) f
Kyrgyz: таноо (ky) (tanoo)
Lao: ຮູດັງ (hū dang)
Latgalian: nuoste f
Latin: nāris f
Latvian: nāss (lv) m
Lithuanian: šnervė f
Lü: please add this translation if you can
Macedonian: но́здра f (nózdra)
Malay: lubang hidung (ms)
Maori: pongāihu, putaaihu, pongaponga
Marathi: नाकपुडी (mr) f (nākpuḍī)
Mongolian: хамрын нүх (xamryn nüx)
Navajo: ánííʼ
Nepali: नासिका विवर (nāsikā viwar), नाके टोड्को (nāke ṭoḍko), नाकको प्वाल (nākko pwāl)
Norman: nâsille f (Jersey)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nesebor n
Occitan: nasica (oc) f
Old English: nosþȳrel n
Persian: سوراخ بینی (surâx bini), بینی‌دره sg (bīnīdare), نای بینی sg (nāy-e bīnī)
Polish: nozdrze (pl) n
Portuguese: narina (pt) f
Punjabi:
Gurmukhi: ਨਾਸ f (nās), ਨਥਨਾ m (nathnā)
Shahmukhi: ناس f (nās), نَتْھنا m (nathnā)
Romanian: nară (ro)
Russian: ноздря́ (ru) f (nozdrjá)
Scottish Gaelic: cuinnean m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ноздрва f, носница f, ноздра f
Roman: nȍzdrva (sh) f, nosnica (sh) f, nozdra f
Shan: please add this translation if you can
Sicilian: nasca (scn) f
Slovak: nozdra (sk) f, nosová dierka f
Slovene: nosnica (sl) f
Southern Altai: тану (tanu)
Spanish: narina (es) f, ventana (es) f (literally “window”)
Swahili: tundu la pua
Swedish: näsborre (sv) c
Tagalog: butas-ilong
Tajik: сурохи бинй (surox-i biny)
Telugu: ముక్కురంధ్రం (mukkurandhraṁ)
Thai: รูจมูก (ruu-jà-mùuk)
Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: burun deliği (tr)
Turkmen: burun deşigi
Ukrainian: ні́здря (uk) f (nízdrja)
Urdu: نَتْھنا m (nathnā)
Uzbek: burun teshigi
Vietnamese: lỗ mũi
Volapük: nudahog
Welsh: ffroen f
West Frisian: noaster, noasgat
White Hmong: qhov ntswg
Yakut: таныы (tanıı)
Yiddish: נאָזלאָך n (nozlokh)
Zhuang: conghndaeng
Zulu: ikhala (zu) class 5/6 :

### References

* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “nostril”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
* “nostril”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* nitrols, trilons