# anal
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ānālis.
Psychological sense shortened from anal-retentive.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈeɪ.nəl/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -eɪnəl

### Adjective

anal (comparative more anal, superlative most anal)
* (not comparable) Of, related to, intended for or involving the anus. [from 18th c.]
    anal thermometer
    an anal examination
    anal sex
* (psychoanalysis) Of the stage in psychosexual development when the child's interest is alleged to be concentrated on the anal region. [from 20th c.]
* (psychology, also vulgar informal) Of a person, compulsive and stubborn, obsessed with neatness and accuracy, supposedly from not having progressed beyond the anal stage. [from 20th c.]
    Please don't touch his furniture, as he can get very anal about things like that.
** 1995, Leonard Shengold, Delusions of Everyday Life, page 39:He was a model of anal defensiveness: fastidious in his dress and appearance, a collector and putter of things in order, a classifier and labeler.
* (informal, vulgar) Of tasks, questions, subject matter, etc., obsessively fussy or precise.
    This questionnaire goes into the most ridiculous amount of detail. It's totally anal.
* (entomology, of a vein) Proximate to the thorax.

#### Synonyms

* (compulsive and stubborn): fussy, pernickety, picky, anal-retentive

#### Derived terms

* abanal
* adanal
* anal beads
* anal cleft
* anal-erotic
* anal expulsive, anal-expulsive
* anal fin
* anal fissure
* anal fistula
* anal gland
* anal glaucoma
* anal hook
* anal intercourse
* anality
* analize
* anally
* anal marriage
* anal pore
* anal retentive, anal-retentive
* anal-retentiveness
* anal sac
* anal sadism
* anal-sadistic
* anal sex
* anal sphincter
* anal vein
* analward
* anilingus
* circumanal
* coloanal
* endoanal
* genitoanal
* ileoanal
* ischioanal
* oroanal
* painal
* paranal
* perianal
* postanal
* preanal
* pre-anal
* puboanal
* rectoanal
* subanal
* supraanal
* suranal
* transanal
* ventrianal
* vesicoanal

#### Related terms

* anus

#### See also

* oral

### Noun

anal (countable and uncountable, plural anals)
* (countable) Any of the anal scales of a reptile.
* (uncountable, informal) Anal sex.
    In the right mood, I'll accept anal.
    I'll do anything except anal.

### Verb

anal (third-person singular simple present anals, present participle (US) analing or (Commonwealth) analling, simple past and past participle (US) analed or (Commonwealth) analled)
* (transitive, slang, rare, chiefly in pornography) To penetrate anally.
    The man with the huge cock analed the hot chick.
** 2011, “L.E.S.”, in Camp, performed by Childish Gambino:Analling anyone is the plan for the evening / I'm kidding, stop

### Anagrams

* Alan, Lana, Nala, alan, lana, nala

## Breton
### Noun

anal f (plural analioù)
* breath

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [əˈnal]
* IPA: (Valencia) [aˈnal]

### Adjective

anal m or f (masculine and feminine plural anals)
* anal

#### Derived terms

* sexe anal

#### Related terms

* anus

### Further reading

* “anal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “anal”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “anal” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “anal” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## French
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ānālis, or coined in French from anus +‎ -al.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /a.nal/
* Audio:(file)
* Homophones: anale, anales, annal, annale, annales

### Adjective

anal (feminine anale, masculine plural anaux, feminine plural anales)
* (relational) anus; anal

#### Derived terms

* nageoire anale
* sexe anal
* stade anal

### Noun

anal m (uncountable)
* (informal) Ellipsis of sexe anal.

### Further reading

* “anal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Galician
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aˈnal/ [aˈnɑɫ]
* Rhymes: -al
* Hyphenation: a‧nal

### Adjective

anal m or f (plural anais)
* anal

### Further reading

* “anal”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

## German
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ānālis.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aˈnaːl/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -aːl

### Adjective

anal (strong nominative masculine singular analer, not comparable)
* anal

#### Derived terms

* perianal

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From Dutch anaal, from French anal, from Latin ānālis.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈanal]
* Hyphenation: anal

### Adjective

anal
* anal: of, related to, intended for or involving the anus.

#### Related terms

* anus

### Further reading

* “anal” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Polish
### Etymology

Back-formation from analny.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈa.nal/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -anal
* Syllabification: a‧nal

### Noun

anal m inan
* (colloquial, vulgar) anal (anal sex)
    Coordinate term: oral

#### Declension
### Further reading

* anal in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /aˈnaw/ [aˈnaʊ̯]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ɐˈnal/ [ɐˈnaɫ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ɐˈnal/ [ɐˈnaɫ]
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /ɐˈna.li/
* Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
* Hyphenation: a‧nal

### Etymology 1

From Latin annālis. By surface analysis, ano +‎ al.

#### Alternative forms

* annal (pre-standardization spelling)

#### Noun

anal m (plural anais)
* (chiefly in the plural) annal (record of events)
    Os anais da história não registam este facto. ― The annals of history have no record of this fact.

#### Adjective

anal m or f (plural anais)
* (obsolete) annual, yearly (happening once a year)
    Synonym: anual

### Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Latin ānālis.

#### Adjective

anal m or f (plural anais, not comparable)
* anal

##### Derived terms

* analmente
* sexo anal

##### Related terms

* ânus

#### Noun

anal m (plural anais)
* Ellipsis of sexo anal.

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French anal, Latin ānālis.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [aˈnal]

### Adjective

anal m or n (feminine singular anală, masculine plural anali, feminine and neuter plural anale)
* anal

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aˈnal/ [aˈnal]
* Rhymes: -al
* Syllabification: a‧nal

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin ānālis.

#### Adjective

anal m or f (masculine and feminine plural anales)
* anal

##### Derived terms

* aleta anal
* analmente
* cuentas anales
* sexo anal
* tapón anal

##### Related terms

* ano

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin annālis. Doublet of añal.

#### Noun

anal m (plural anales)
* annal
** NRV XXI, 2 Kings 10:34
    Los demás hechos de Jehú ... están escritos en los anales de los reyes de Israel.The other deeds of Jehu ... are written in the annals of the kings of Israel.

##### Related terms

* anual
* año

### Further reading

* “anal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Swedish
### Etymology

From New Latin analis

### Adjective

anal (not comparable)
* anal (of or related to the anus)

#### Declension

$^1$ The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. $^2$ Dated or archaic. $^3$ Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

#### Derived terms

* analblekning (“anal bleaching”)
* analfena (“anal fin”)
* analfissur (“anal fissure”)
* analplugg (“butt plug”)
* analpropp (“anal plug”)
* analkula (“anal bead”)
* analsex (“anal sex”)
* analsond (“anal probe”)
* analtampong (“anal tampon”)
* analöppning (“anus”)

#### See also

* anilingus
* anus

### References

* anal in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* anal in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* anal in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)