groin

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groin

Pronunciation edit

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IPA^(key): /ɡɹɔɪn/
Rhymes: -ɔɪn
Homophone: groyne

Etymology 1 edit

From earlier grine, from Middle English grinde, grynde, from Old English grynde (“abyss”) (perhaps also "depression, hollow"), probably related to Proto-Germanic *grunduz; see ground. Later altered under the influence of loin.

Noun edit

groin (plural groins)

The crease or depression of the human body at the junction of the trunk and the thigh, together with the surrounding region.
- 2011 October 15, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 1 - 1 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:
  The Mexican levelled nine minutes from time after Steven Gerrard, making his first start since undergoing groin surgery in April, put Liverpool ahead with a 68th-minute free-kick.
The area adjoining this fold or depression.
He pulled a muscle in his groin.
(architecture) The projecting solid angle formed by the meeting of two vaults
(euphemistic) The genitals.
He got kicked in the groin and was writhing in pain.
(geometry) The surface formed by two such vaults.
(marine engineering) A rigid hydraulic structure built perpendicularly from an ocean shore or a river bank, interrupting water flow and limiting the movement of sediment.

Coordinate terms edit

inguinal

Derived terms edit

Translations edit

long narrow depression of the human body that separates the trunk from the legs

Afrikaans: lies (af)
Albanian: rrëzë e kofshës
Arabic: أُرْبِيَّة f (ʔurbiyya), مَغْبَن m (maḡban)
Egyptian Arabic: خن الرجل m (xonn e-regl), خن الفخد m (xonn el faxd)
Armenian: աճուկ (hy) (ačuk)
Azerbaijani: qasıq (az)
Basque: iztai (eu)
Belarusian: пахві́на f (paxvína)
Bengali: কুঁচকি (bn) (kũcoki)
Bulgarian: слабина (bg) f (slabina)
Burmese: ပေါင်ခြံ (my) (paunghkram)
Catalan: engonal m, entrecuix m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 腹股溝／腹股沟 (zh) (fùgǔgōu), 鼠蹊 (zh) (shǔxī)
Classical Nahuatl: quēxilli
Czech: rozkrok (cs) m, tříslo (cs) n
Danish: lyske c, skridt n
Dutch: lies (nl) f
Esperanto: ingveno (eo)
Estonian: kube (et)
Finnish: nivuset (fi)
French: aine (fr) f
Galician: virilla (gl) f, ingua (gl) f
Georgian: საზარდული (sazarduli)
German: Leiste (de) f
Greek: βουβώνας (el) m (vouvónas), αχαμνά (el) n (achamná)
Ancient: βουβών m (boubṓn)
Greenlandic: imeqqutak
Hebrew: מפשעה (he) f (mifsa'a)
Hindi: ऊसन्धि f (ūsandhi), उरुसंधि f (urusandhi)
Hungarian: ágyék (hu)
Ido: inguino (io)
Irish: bléin f
Italian: inguine (it) m
Japanese: 脚の付け根 (あしのつけね, ashi no tsukene), 鼠蹊部 (ja) (そけいぶ, sokeibu), 鼠蹊 (ja) (そけい, sokei), 股 (ja) (また, mata)
Javanese: wlakang (jv)
Kalmyk: цәв (tsäv)
Kazakh: айырт (aiyrt), шап (şap)
Khmer: ក្រលៀន (km) (krɑlien)
Korean: 샅 (ko) (sat), 가랑이 (ko) (garang'i), 서혜 (ko) (seohye), 서혜부 (ko) (seohyebu)
Kyrgyz: чап (ky) (cap)
Lao: ໜ້າຂາ (nā khā)
Latin: inguen n
Latvian: cirksnis m
Lithuanian: kirkšnis m
Macedonian: слабина f (slabina)
Maori: tapatapa, tapa o te kūhā
Mongolian: цавь (mn) (cavʹ)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: lyske
Ottoman Turkish: قاصق (kasık)
Persian: کشاله ران (kašâle-ye rân), کشاله (fa) (kašâle)
Polish: pachwina (pl) f
Portuguese: virilha (pt) f
Romanian: stinghie (ro) f, joncțiunea dintre coapsă și trunchi, regiunea inghinală
Russian: пах (ru) m (pax)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: препоне f pl

Roman: prepone (sh) f pl
Slovak: slabina (sk) f
Slovene: dimlje (sl)
Spanish: ingle (es) f
Swedish: ljumske (sv) c
Tagalog: puklo
Tajik: қадкашак (qadkašak)
Tashelhiyt: awlal, wa-, awlaln m
Tatar: касык (tt) (qasıq)
Thai: หน้าขา, ขาหนีบ (th), ง่ามขา
Tibetan: རྒྱུད་སྨད (rgyud smad)
Tocharian B: yoñiye
Tooro: erimpwapwa class 5
Turkish: kasık (tr)
Turkmen: gasyk
Ukrainian: пахви́на f (paxvýna)
Uzbek: chov (uz)
Vietnamese: háng (vi), vùng bẹn, bẹn (vi)

anatomical feature

Maori: tapa o te kūhā, tapatapa
Romanian: regiunea inghinală, joncțiunea dintre coapsă și trunchi
Spanish: entrepierna (es) f

Verb edit

groin (third-person singular simple present groins, present participle groining, simple past and past participle groined)

To deliver a blow to the genitals of.
In the scrum he somehow got groined.

She groined him and ran to the car.
(architecture) To build with groins.
(literary, transitive) To hollow out; to excavate.
- 1918, Wilfred Owen, Strange Meeting:
  Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped / Through granites which titanic wars had groined.

Etymology 2 edit

From Middle English groynen, from a mixture of Old French groignier, grougnier (from Latin grunniō) and Old English grunnian (from Proto-Germanic *grunnōną).

Verb edit

groin (third-person singular simple present groins, present participle groining, simple past and past participle groined)

To grunt; to growl; to snarl; to murmur.
- c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.:
  Such tunges ſhuld be torne out by the harde rootes,
  Hoyning like hogges that groynis and wrotes.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 27:
  Beares, that groynd continually