glans

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Latin glans (“acorn”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ænz

Noun

glans (plural glans or glandes)

1. The vascular body which forms the apex of the penis.
2. The vascular body which forms the extremity of the clitoris.
3. The acorn or mast of the oak and similar fruits.
4. A goiter.
5. A pessary.
6. (rare) Plural form of glans

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:glans

Translations

vascular body which forms the apex of the penis

• Arabic: حشفة (ar) (ḥashafa) f
• Belarusian: галоўка палавога члена (be) f (haloŭka palavoha čljena)
• Cebuano: ulok
• Czech: žalud (cs) m
• Dutch: eikel (nl) m
• Esperanto: glano (eo)
• Finnish: terska (fi)
• German: Eichel (de) f
• Hebrew: עטרה (he)
• Hungarian: makk (hu)
• Irish: breall (ga) f
• Italian: glande (it) m

• Lithuanian: varpos galvutė (lt) f
• Manx: kione y woid (gv) m
• Maori: tehe (mi)
• Persian: ختنه‌گاه (fa)
• Polish: żołądź (pl) m
• Portuguese: glande (pt) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гла̀вӣћ (sh) m

  Roman: glàvīć (sh) m

• Swedish: ollon (sv)
• Turkish: glans (tr), penis başı (tr)

vascular body which forms the extremity of the clitoris

• Finnish: häpykielen (fi) pää (fi)
• Lithuanian: varputės galvutė (lt) f

• Turkish: klitoris başı (tr)

acorn or mast of the oak

• Czech: žalud (cs) m
• Dutch: eikel (nl) m
• Finnish: terho (fi)

• French: gland (fr) m
• German: Eichel (de) f

goiter — see goitre

pessary — see pessary

Anagrams

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Dutch

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɣlɑns/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ɑns

Noun

glans m (uncountable, diminutive glansje)

1. glistening, shimmer, shine
2. (optics) gloss

Verb

glans

1. first-person singular present indicative of glanzen
2. imperative of glanzen

Anagrams

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Icelandic

Noun

glans m (genitive singular glans, uncountable)

1. shine, lustre, sheen

Declension

declension of glans

m-s1	singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	glans	glansinn
accusative	glans	glansinn
dative	glans	glansinum
genitive	glans	glansins

Related terms

• glansa

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Latin

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Etymology

Compare Ancient Greek βάλανος (balanos, “acorn”).

Noun

glāns (genitive glāndis); f, third declension

1. acorn, nut; any acorn-shaped fruit; beechnut, chestnut
2. a round mass the size and shape of an acorn.

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	glāns	glāndēs
genitive	glāndis	glāndum
dative	glāndī	glāndibus
accusative	glāndem	glāndēs
ablative	glānde	glāndibus
vocative	glāns	glāndēs

Derived terms

• glāndula
• iūglāns

Descendants

Aromanian: gljindã Catalan: gla English: gland, glans French: gland, glande Friulian: gland Italian: ghianda Occitan: agland

Portuguese: glande, lande Romanian: ghindă Romansch: glogn, glonda, glànd, glanda Russian: гланды Sardinian: landha, landhe, landi Spanish: glande, lande, llande