urethra

urethra

English

The urethra is labelled in these diagrams of the female and male genitourinary systems

Etymology

A learned borrowing from Ancient Greek οὐρήθρα (ourḗthra, “the passage for urine”), from οὐρέω (ouréō, “to make water”). Recorded in English since 1634.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /jʊˈɹiːθɹə/

Noun

urethra (plural urethras or urethrae)

1. (anatomy) The tube through which urine exits the body and, in penises, through which semen is ejaculated.

Derived terms

• urethritis

Translations

anatomical tube

Albanian: uretër Arabic: إِحْلِيل‎ m (ʾiḥlīl) Egyptian Arabic: إحليل‎ m (ʾeḥlīl) Armenian: միզուկ (hy) (mizuk) Asturian: uretra (ast) f Bengali: মূত্রনালি (bn) (mūtrônali), মূত্রনালী (bn) (mūtrônalī) Breton: kan-troazh (br) m Bulgarian: уретер m (ureter), пикочен канал m (pikočen kanal) Catalan: uretra (ca) f Chinese: Cantonese: 尿道 (niu6 dou6) Mandarin: 尿道 (zh) (niàodào) Czech: močová trubice (cs) f Danish: urinrør (da) n, urinveje Dhivehi: ކުޑަކަމުދާ ހޮޅި‎ (kuḍakamudā hoḷi) Dutch: urinebuis (nl) c Esperanto: uretro Estonian: kusiti Faroese: vatnræsi n Finnish: virtsaputki (fi) French: urètre (fr) m, urèthre (fr) m Galician: uretra (gl) f Georgian: შარდსაწვეთი (šardsac̣veti) German: Harnröhre (de) f, (technical) Urethra f Greek: ουρήθρα (el) f (ouríthra) Ancient: οὐρήθρα f (ourḗthra) Hebrew: שׁוֹפְכָה‎ f (shofkhá) Hindi: मूत्रमार्ग (mūtramārg) Hungarian: húgycső (hu) Icelandic: þvagrás (is) f Ido: uretro (io) Indonesian: uretra (id) Inuktitut: ᖁᕐᕆᕕᒃ (qorrifik) Irish: úiréadra m Italian: uretra (it) f Japanese: 尿道 (ja) (にょうどう, nyōdō) Kazakh: зәр өзегі (zär özegı), несепшығар өзегі (nesepşyğar özegı) Korean: 요도(尿道) (ko) (yodo) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: mîzerê Latin: urethra f Lithuanian: šlaplė f Low German: Harnröhr Maori: pūaha mimi, taiawa mimi Newar: युरेथ्रा (yurethrā) Northern Sami: gožžaoarri Norwegian: Bokmål: urinrør n, urinvei Nynorsk: urinveg Persian: میزراه‎ Polish: cewka moczowa (pl) f Portuguese: uretra (pt) f Russian: мочеиспуска́тельный кана́л m (močeispuskátelʹnyj kanál), уре́тра (ru) f (urétra) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: мокраћна цијев Roman: mokraćna cijev Slovak: močová rúra f Slovene: séčnica f, urétra f Spanish: uretra (es) f Sundanese: urétra Swedish: urinrör (sv) n Telugu: ప్రసేకం (prasēkaṁ) Thai: ท่อปัสสาวะ (tɔ̂ɔ-bpàt-sǎa-wá) Turkish: üretra (tr) Urdu: موترمارگ‎ (mūtramārg) Vietnamese: ống đái, ống dẫn nước tiểu, niệu đạo (vi) Volapük: yurinatuib

See also

• ureter
• urinary tract

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ūrēthra, from Ancient Greek οὐρήθρα (ourḗthra).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌyˈreː.traː/

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• Hyphenation: ure‧thra

Noun

urethra f (plural urethrae or urethra's)

1. urethra

   Synonyms: urinebuis, urinekanaal, urineleider

Derived terms

• urethraal

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Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek οὐρήθρα (ourḗthra).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /uːˈreː.tʰra/, [uːˈreːt̪ʰrä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /uˈre.tra/, [uˈrɛːt̪rä]

Noun

ūrēthra f (genitive ūrēthrae); first declension

1. (anatomy) urethra

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ūrēthra	ūrēthrae
Genitive	ūrēthrae	ūrēthrārum
Dative	ūrēthrae	ūrēthrīs
Accusative	ūrēthram	ūrēthrās
Ablative	ūrēthrā	ūrēthrīs
Vocative	ūrēthra	ūrēthrae

References

• “urethra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• urethra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette