See also: Anal, anál, añal, -anál, and aŋal

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Latin ānālis.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈeɪ.nəl/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -eɪnəl

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anal (comparative more anal, superlative most anal)

  1. (not comparable) Of, related to, intended for or involving the anus. [from 18th c.]
    anal thermometer
    an anal examination
    anal sex
  2. (psychoanalysis) Of the stage in psychosexual development when the child's interest is alleged to be concentrated on the anal region. [from 20th c.]
  3. (psychology) Of a person, compulsive and stubborn, obsessed with neatness and accuracy, supposedly from not having progressed beyond the anal stage. [from 20th c.]
    Please don't touch his furniture, as he can get very anal about things like that.
    • 1995, Leonard Shengold, Delusions of Everyday Life, page 39:
      He was a model of anal defensiveness: fastidious in his dress and appearance, a collector and putter of things in order, a classifier and labeler.
  4. (entomology, of a vein) Proximate to the thorax.

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anal (countable and uncountable, plural anals)

  1. (countable) Any of the anal scales of a reptile.
  2. (uncountable, informal) Anal sex.
    In the right mood, I'll accept anal.
    I'll do anything except anal.

VerbEdit

anal (third-person singular simple present anals, present participle (US) analing or (Commonwealth) analling, simple past and past participle (US) analed or (Commonwealth) analled)

  1. (transitive, slang, rare, chiefly in pornography) To penetrate anally.
    The man with the huge cock analed the hot chick.

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anal f (plural analioù)

  1. breath

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anal m or f (masculine and feminine plural anals)

  1. anal

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FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Latin ānālis, or coined in French from anus +‎ -al.

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anal (feminine anale, masculine plural anaux, feminine plural anales)

  1. (relational) anus; anal

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GermanEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Latin ānālis.

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anal (strong nominative masculine singular analer, not comparable)

  1. anal

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IndonesianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Dutch anaal, from French anal, from Latin ānālis.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): [ˈanal]
  • Hyphenation: anal

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anal

  1. anal: of, related to, intended for or involving the anus.

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PortugueseEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
  • Hyphenation: a‧nal

Etymology 1Edit

From Latin annālis. By surface analysis, ano +‎ al.

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anal m or f (plural anais)

  1. (obsolete) annual, yearly (happening once a year)
    Synonym: anual

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anal m (plural anais)

  1. (obsolete) something that happens once a year

Etymology 2Edit

Learned borrowing from Latin ānālis.

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anal m or f (plural anais, not comparable)

  1. anal
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anal m (plural anais)

  1. anal (anal sex)
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RomanianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from French anal, Latin ānālis.

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anal m or n (feminine singular anală, masculine plural anali, feminine and neuter plural anale)

  1. anal

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SpanishEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /aˈnal/ [aˈnal]
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Syllabification: a‧nal

Etymology 1Edit

Borrowed from Latin ānālis.

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anal (plural anales)

  1. anal
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Etymology 2Edit

Borrowed from Latin annālis. Doublet of añal.

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anal m (plural anales)

  1. annal
    • NRV XXI, 2 Kings 10:34
      Los demás hechos de Jehú ... están escritos en los anales de los reyes de Israel.
      The other deeds of Jehu ... are written in the annals of the kings of Israel.
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anal (not comparable)

  1. anal (of or related to the anus)

DeclensionEdit

Inflection of anal
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular anal
Neuter singular analt
Plural anala
Masculine plural3 anale
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 anale
All anala
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
3) Dated or archaic

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