missionary position

English

A painting of a couple in the missionary position

Etymology

Supposed to have been originated by natives of the Trobriand Islands (who considered it improper), popularized by Alfred Kinsey.

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Noun

missionary position (plural missionary positions)

1. A position for sexual intercourse in which the man and woman face each other, with the man on top.

   Synonym: (slang) mish

Translations

position for sexual intercourse

• Bikol Central: sinangkaka
• Bulgarian: мисионерска поза f (misionerska poza)
• Catalan: posició del missioner f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 傳教士體位／传教士体位 (cyun⁴ gaau³ si⁶ tai² wai⁶)

  Mandarin: 傳教士體位／传教士体位 (zh) (chuánjiàoshì tǐwèi), 龍翻／龙翻 (lóngfān) (literary), 男上位 (nánshàngwèi)

• Czech: misionářská poloha f, misionářská pozice f
• Danish: missionærstilling c
• Dutch: missionarishouding f
• Esperanto: misiista pozicio
• Estonian: misjonäriasend, misjonäripoos
• Finnish: lähetyssaarnaaja-asento (fi)
• French: position du missionnaire (fr) f
• Galician: posición do misioneiro f
• German: Missionarsstellung (de) f
• Greek: ιεραποστολικό (el) n (ierapostolikó)
• Hungarian: misszionárius póz (hu)
• Icelandic: trúboðastelling f
• Irish: suíomh misinéireachta
• Italian: posizione del missionario f
• Japanese: 正常位 (せいじょうい, seijōi)
• Korean: 정상위(正常位) (jeongsang'wi)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: pozîsyona mîsyoneran

• Latvian: misionāru poza f
• Lithuanian: misionieriaus poza f
• Luxembourgish: Missionärpositioun f
• Macedonian: мисионерска поза f (misionerska poza)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: misjonærstilling m or f

  Nynorsk: misjonærstilling c

• Polish: pozycja misjonarska (pl) f
• Portuguese: posição de missionário f, posição papai e mamãe f
• Russian: миссионерская позиция (ru) f (missionerskaja pozicija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мисионарска поза f

  Roman: misionarska poza f

• Sinhalese: මිෂනරි පිහිටුව (miṣanari pihiṭuwa)
• Slovak: misionárska poloha f
• Slovene: misijonarski položaj m
• Spanish: postura del misionero f
• Swedish: missionären (sv) c, missionärsställning c
• Turkish: misyoner pozisyonu
• Ukrainian: місіонерська позиція f (misionersʹka pozycija)

Further reading

• missionary position on Wikipedia.Wikipedia