# abdomen
## English

Picture dictionary :
abdomen :
* digestive tractdigestive tract
* rectus abdominis musclerectus abdominis muscle
* navelnavel

### Etymology

First attested in 1541. Borrowed from Middle French abdomen, from Latin abdomen, possibly from abdō (“conceal”), from ab (“away”) + -dō (“put, place”).

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈæb.də.mən/, /æbˈdəʊ.mən/
* (US) IPA: /ˈæb.də.mən/, /æbˈdoʊ.mən/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Audio (Canada):(file)
* Rhymes: -əʊmən

### Noun

abdomen (plural abdomens or abdomina)
* (obsolete) The fat surrounding the belly. [mid 16th c. – late 17th c.]
* (anatomy) The belly, or that part of the body between the thorax and the pelvis, not including the back; or in some lower vertebrates, the portion between the cardiac and caudal regions. [from early 17th c.]
    Synonyms: belly, tummy, (informal) stomach; see also Thesaurus:belly
* (anatomy) The cavity of the belly, which is lined by the peritoneum, and contains the viscera; often restricted in humans to the part between the diaphragm and the commencement of the pelvis, the remainder being called the pelvic cavity. [from early 17th c.]
    He was all bent over complaining of pains in the abdomen.
* (zoology, entomology) The posterior section of the body, behind the thorax, in insects, crustaceans, and other Arthropoda. [from late 18th c.]

#### Derived terms

* acute abdomen
* boat-shaped abdomen
* carinate abdomen
* hemiabdomen
* navicular abdomen
* obstipum abdomen
* pendulous abdomen
* postabdomen
* preabdomen
* scaphoid abdomen
* surgical abdomen

#### Related terms

* abdominal
* abdominally
* abdominous

#### Translations

Afar: bágu
Afrikaans: buik (af), maag (af)
Albanian: abdomen m, bark (sq) m
Amharic: ሆድ (hod)
Arabic: بَطْن m (baṭn), جَوْف (ar) m (jawf)
Egyptian Arabic: بطن f (baṭn)
Armenian: որովայն (hy) (orovayn), փոր (hy) (pʻor)
Asturian: abdome (ast) m
Azerbaijani: qarın (az)
Baluchi: لاپ (láp)
Basque: sabel, sabelalde, abdomen
Belarusian: жыво́т m (žyvót)
Bengali: উদর (bn) (udor), পেট (bn) (peṭ)
Bulgarian: коре́м (bg) m (korém)
Burmese: ဝမ်း (my) (wam:)
Catalan: abdomen (ca) m, buc (ca) m, panxa (ca) f, ventre (ca) m
Chamicuro: sye'ki
Cherokee: ᎤᏍᏉᎵ (chr) (usquoli)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 腹部 (fuk$^1$ bou$^6$), 腹 (fuk$^1$)
Hokkien: 腹 (zh-min-nan) (pak)
Mandarin: 腹部 (zh) (fùbù), 腹 (zh) (fù)
Coptic: ϩⲏ (hē)
Czech: břicho (cs) n
Danish: bug c, mave (da) c
Dutch: onderbuik (nl) m, abdomen (nl) n
Egyptian: (ẖt)
Esperanto: ventro (eo)
Estonian: kõht (et)
Finnish: vatsa (fi)
French: abdomen (fr) m
Galician: abdome (gl) m
Georgian: მუცელი (ka) (muceli)
German: Bauch (de) m, Unterleib (de) m
Greek: κοιλία (el) f (koilía), κοιλιά (el) f (koiliá)
Ancient: ἦτρον n (êtron)
Gujarati: ઉદર (udar)
Haitian Creole: vant
Hebrew: בֶּטֶן (he) f
Hindi: उदर (hi) m (udar), पेट (hi) m (peṭ)
Hungarian: has (hu)
Icelandic: kvið n, magi (is) m
Ido: abdomino (io)
Indonesian: perut (id), abdomen (id)
Ingrian: vatsa
Interlingua: abdomine
Iranun: tian
Irish: abdóman m, bolg m
Italian: addome (it) m
Japanese: 腹 (ja) (はら, hara), 腹部 (ja) (ふくぶ, fuku-bu)
Kapampangan: atian, atyan
Kazakh: іш (ış), құрсақ (qūrsaq)
Khiamniungan Naga: thāithá, thāi
Khmer: ពោះ (km) (pŭəh), ក្រពះ (km) (krɑpĕəh), ពុង (km) (pung)
Korean: 배 (ko) (bae), 복(腹) (ko) (bok)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: سِک (sik), زِک (zik), زِگ (ckb) (zig)
Northern Kurdish: zik (ku), zig (ku)
Southern Kurdish: زِگ (ku) (zig)
Kyrgyz: курсак (ky) (kursak)
Lao: ທ້ອງ (thǭng)
Latin: abdōmen n
Latvian: vēders (lv) m
Lithuanian: pilvas m
Luxembourgish: Ënnerläif m
Macedonian: мев (mev), стомак (mk) m (stomak)
Malay: abdomen (ms), perut (ms)
Malayalam: വയറ് (ml) (vayaṟŭ), അടിവയർ (aṭivayaṟ)
Maltese: żaqq (mt)
Manx: bolg
Maori: pūuruuru, kona
Mongolian: гэдэс (mn) (gedes)
Navajo: abid, adidlą́
Norwegian:
Bokmål: buk (no) m, mage (no) m, mave (no) m, abdomen n
Nynorsk: buk m, mage m, abdomen n
Occitan: abdomèn (oc) m
Ottoman Turkish: قارن (karn, karın), شكم (şikem), بطن (batın)
Pashto: بطن (ps) m (batn), نس (ps) m (nas), خېټه (ps) f (xeṭa)
Pennsylvania German: Bauch m
Persian: شکم (fa) (šekam), کم (fa) (kom) (dialectal)
Plautdietsch: Buck (nds) m
Polish: brzuch (pl) m inan, abdomen (pl) m
Portuguese:
Brazilian: abdômen (pt) m
European: abdómen (pt) m
Romanian: abdomen (ro) n, burtă (ro) f
Russian: живо́т (ru) m (živót)
Sami:
Inari: čuávji
Northern: čoavji
Skolt: čåu´jj
Southern: tjåejjie
Sanskrit: उदर (sa) m (udara)
Serbo-Croatian: abdomen m
Cyrillic: тр̀бух m
Roman: tr̀buh (sh)
Slovak: brucho (sk) n
Slovene: trebuh (sl) m, abdomen m
Sotho: mpa
Spanish: abdomen (es) m, vientre (es) m
Sranan Tongo: ondrobere
Swedish: buk (sv)
Tajik: шикам (tg) (šikam)
Tamil: வயிறு (ta) (vayiṟu)
Tarifit: aɛeddis m
Telugu: కడుపు (te) (kaḍupu)
Thai: ท้อง (th) (tɔ́ɔng)
Tocharian B: katso
Tooro: enda
Turkish: karın (tr)
Turkmen: garyn
Tuvan: хырын (xırın)
Ukrainian: живі́т (uk) m (žyvít), че́рево n (čérevo)
Urdu: پیٹ m (peṭ)
Uyghur: قورساق (qorsaq)
Uzbek: qorin (uz)
Vietnamese: bụng (vi)
Volapük: bälid (vo), götöp (earlier term), lugötöp (earlier term), diskoap (earlier term)
Welsh: tor f, bol (cy) m
West Frisian: bûk
Woiwurrung: boojin
Xhosa: isisu
Yiddish: בויך m (boykh)
Zhuang: dungx
Zulu: isisu (zu) class 7/8 :

### References

* 1 2 Elliott K. Dobbie, C. William Dunmore, Robert K. Barnhart, et al. (editors), Chambers Dictionary of Etymology (Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 2004 [1998], →ISBN), page 2
* 1 2 3 4 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abdomen”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 3.

### Further reading

* Abdomen in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
* “abdomen”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

## Afrikaans
### Etymology

Ultimately from Latin abdōmen.
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### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: abdo‧men

### Noun

abdomen (plural abdomina or abdomens, diminutive abdomentjie)
* (anatomy) abdomen

## Basque
### Etymology

From Spanish abdomen (“abdomen”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /abdomen/ [aβ̞.ð̞o.mẽn]
* Rhymes: -omen, -en
* Hyphenation: ab‧do‧men

### Noun

abdomen inan
* (anatomy) abdomen
    Synonym: sabelalde

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “abdomen”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin abdōmen.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [əbˈdɔ.mən]
* IPA: (Valencia) [abˈdɔ.men]

### Noun

abdomen m (plural abdòmens)
* abdomen

#### Derived terms

* abdominal

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin abdōmen.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ab.dɔ.mɛn/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

abdomen m (plural abdomens)
* abdomen

#### Derived terms

* abdominal

### Further reading

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

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From Dutch abdomen, from Middle French abdomen, from Latin abdōmen.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Indonesian)
** IPA: /abˈdomən/ [ap̚ˈdo.mən]
** IPA: /abˈdomen/ [ap̚ˈdo.men]
*** Audio:(file)
* Syllabification: ab‧do‧men

### Noun

abdomên or abdomen
* abdomen (the belly, or any of the similar part, not including the back)
    Synonym: perut
* abdomen (the cavity of such part)
* (entomology) abdomen (the posterior section of an arthropod's body)

#### Compounds

* abdomen akut (“acute abdomen”)

#### Related terms

* abdominal

### Further reading

* “abdomen” 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.

## Latin
### Etymology

Of unclear origin; often suggested to be from abdō (“to hide, conceal”) +‎ -men, though de Vaan doesn't find this convincing.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /abˈdoː.men/, [äbˈd̪oːmɛn]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /abˈdo.men/, [äbˈd̪ɔːmen]

### Noun

abdōmen n (genitive abdōminis); third declension
* (anatomy) belly, abdomen
* (by extension of meaning) gluttony

#### Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

#### Derived terms

* abdōminālis

#### Descendants

* → Catalan: abdomen
* → English: abdomen
* → French: abdomen
* → Galician: abdome
* → German: Abdomen
* → Italian: addome
* → Occitan: abdomèn
* → Norwegian Bokmål: abdomen
* → Norwegian Nynorsk: abdomen
* → Portuguese: abdómen, abdome
* → Romanian: abdomen
* → Spanish: abdomen

### References

* “abdomen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “abdomen”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* abdomen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

## Malay
### Etymology

Borrowed from English abdomen, from Middle French abdomen, from Latin abdomen, possibly from abdō (“conceal”), from ab (“away”) + -dō (“put, place”).

### Pronunciation

* (English-based) IPA: [ɛp̚.do.mən]
** Audio (Malaysia):(file)
* (spelling-based) IPA: [ap̚.do.mən]
** Audio (Malaysia):(file)
* Rhymes: -mən, -ən
* Hyphenation: ab‧do‧men

### Noun

abdomen (Jawi spelling ابدومن)
* abdomen (the belly, or any of the similar part, not including the back)
    Synonym: perut
* abdomen (the cavity of such part)
* (entomology) abdomen (the posterior section of an arthropod's body).

### References

* “abdomen” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Latin abdōmen (“belly, abdomen; gluttony”), possibly from both abdō (“I hide, conceal”), from ab- (“from, away, off”), from ab (“from, away from, on, in”), from Proto-Italic *ab, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó (“off, away”) (+ the ending *dō (“put”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to do, put, place”)) + and from -men (forms neuter nouns), from Proto-Italic *-men, from Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ (creates action nouns or result nouns).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /abˈduːmən/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ən
* Hyphenation: ab‧do‧men

### Noun

abdomen n (definite singular abdomenet, indefinite plural abdomen or abdomina, definite plural abdomena or abdomenene or abdominaene)
* (anatomy, entomology) abdomen, belly (or that part of the body between the thorax and the pelvis)
    Synonyms: buk, underliv
** 2005 April 7, tidsskriftet.no (Tidsskrift for Den norske lægeforening):computertomografi ved akutt abdomencomputed tomography of the acute abdomen
** 1974, Knut Faldbakken, Uår. Aftenlandet, page 175:Mary Diamonds tronende abdomenMary Diamonds enthroned abdomen
** 1997, Liv Køltzow, Verden forsvinner, page 98:en henvisning til ultralyd abdomen og nyrera reference to ultrasound of the abdomen and kidneys
* (zoology, entomology) abdomen (the posterior section of the body, behind the thorax, in insects, crustaceans, and other Arthropoda)
    Synonym: bakkropp

#### Derived terms

* abdominal

### References

* “abdomen” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
* “abdomen” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
* “abdomen” in Store medisinske leksikon
* “abdomen (zoology)” in Store norske leksikon

## Polish
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin abdōmen. First attested in 1791.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /abˈdɔ.mɛn/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔmɛn
* Syllabification: ab‧do‧men

### Noun

abdomen m inan
* abdomen (of a person)
    Synonym: brzuch
* (arthropod anatomy) abdomen (of an insect)
    Synonym: odwłok

#### Related terms

* abdominalny
* abdominoplastyka

### References

* ↑ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “abdomen”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
* ↑ Pierre-François Nicolas (1791) Dykcyonarz Powszechny Medyki, Chirurgii, i Sztuki Hodowania Bydląt Czyli Lekarz Wieyski Zawieraiący Rozciągłe wiadomości wszystkich części sztuki Lekarskiey ... Dzieło pożyteczne wszystkim klassom Obywatelow i do ich poiętności przystosowane przez Towarzystwo Lekarzow Francuzkich. T. 6‎, page 33

### Further reading

* abdomen in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin abdōmen.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /abdoˈmen/
* Rhymes: -en
* Hyphenation: ab‧do‧mén

### Noun

abdomen n (plural abdomene)
* (anatomy) abdomen, belly
    Synonyms: burtă, pântece, vintre

#### Related terms

* abdominal

### See also

* stomac

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin abdōmen.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /abdǒːmen/
* Hyphenation: ab‧do‧men

### Noun

abdómen m (Cyrillic spelling абдо́мен)
* abdomen
    Synonym: tr̀buh (“stomach”)

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin abdōmen.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /abˈdomen/ [aβ̞ˈð̞o.mẽn]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -omen
* Syllabification: ab‧do‧men

### Noun

abdomen m (plural abdómenes)
* abdomen
    Synonym: vientre

#### Related terms

* abdominal

### Further reading

* “abdomen”, 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

## Tagalog
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish abdomen, from Latin abdōmen.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog)
** IPA: /ʔabˈdomen/ [ʔɐbˈd̪oː.mɛn̪]
*** Rhymes: -omen
** IPA: /ˈʔabdomen/ [ˌʔab.d̪oˈmɛn̪] (English influence)
*** Rhymes: -abdomen
* Syllabification: ab‧do‧men

### Noun

abdomen or ábdomén (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜊ᜔ᜇᜓᜋᜒᜈ᜔) (uncommon)
* abdomen
    Synonyms: tiyan, sikmura

#### Related terms

* abdominal

### Further reading

* “abdomen”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
* “abdomen”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
* Cuadrado Muñiz, Adolfo (1972) Hispanismos en el tagalo: diccionario de vocablos de origen español vigentes en esta lengua filipina, Madrid: Oficina de Educación Iberoamericana, page 2

## Turkish
### Etymology

From Latin abdōmen.

### Noun

abdomen (definite accusative abdomeni, plural abdomenler)
* abdomen

#### Derived terms

* abdominal

### References

Nişanyan Sözlük: "abdomen"