fanny pack

English

Woman wearing a fanny pack

Etymology

From fanny (“the backside”) + pack.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfæni pæk/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

fanny pack (plural fanny packs)

1. (Canada, US) A small fabric pouch secured with a zipper and worn at the waist by a strap around the hips.

   Synonyms: (US) belly bag, belt bag, (UK, Australia, New Zealand) bum bag, (South Africa) moon bag, waist bag

   She wears her fanny pack every day on her morning jog around Central Park.

Usage notes

• While fanny is acceptable in Canada and the US, the term can be misconstrued as offensive in other countries; see fanny (“female genitalia”).

Translations

small pouch worn at the waist

• Arabic: كمير
• Belarusian: шабета f (šabjeta)
• Breton: sac'h-gouriz
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 腰包 (zh) (yāobāo)

• Czech: ledvinka (cs) f
• Dutch: heuptas (nl) n
• Esperanto: koksosaketo
• Finnish: vyölaukku (fi)
• French: banane (fr) f
• Galician: faldriqueira (gl) f
• German: Gürteltasche (de) f, Bauchtasche f, Bauchbeutel m, Hüfttasche f
• Hebrew: פאוץ'
• Hungarian: övtáska (hu), hasitasi (informal)
• Italian: marsupio (it) m
• Maori: tātua pūpara
• Norwegian: rumpetaske (no) m or f
• Polish: nerka (pl) f, piterek (pl) m
• Portuguese: pochete (pt)
• Russian: поясная сумка (pojasnaja sumka)
• Slovak: ľadvinka f
• Spanish: banano (es) m (Chile), cangurera f (Mexico), cangura f (Costa Rica), canguro m (Colombia), koala m (Venezuela), riñonera f (Argentina, Spain, Uruguay), mariconera (es) f
• Swedish: magväska (sv) c, midjeväska (sv) c
• Turkish: bel çantası
• Ukrainian: поясна сумка (pojasna sumka)

References

• “fanny pack” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.