Etymology
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From French flatulence, ultimately from Latin flō (“breathe, blow”).
Pronunciation
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- IPA(key): /ˈflæt͡ʃʊləns/
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- Hyphenation: flat‧u‧lence
- Rhymes: -ætʃʊləns
flatulence (countable and uncountable, plural flatulences)
- The state of having gas, often smelly, trapped (and when released, frequently with noise) in the digestive system of a human and some other animals; wind; and when released, a flatus, a fart.
- The release of such gas; breaking wind.
Usage notes
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A formal Latinate term, used in medical and scientific discourse, but also euphemistically to avoid crude terms such as fart. Compare excrement.
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Translations
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state of having gas in digestive system
- Arabic: نَفْخ m (nafḵ), نَفْخَة f (nafḵa), فسوة f (faswa)
- Bikol Central: sudol
- Cebuano: butod
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 屁 (zh) (pì), 脹氣/胀气 (zhàngqì)
- Czech: plynatost f
- Danish: fjært (old-fashioned); vind (da) (medical); fis (vulgar)
- Finnish: ilmavaivat (fi) pl
- French: flatulence (fr) f
- Galician: flatulencia f, ventosidade (gl) f, peido m
- German: Flatulenz (de) f
- Greek: μετεωρισμός (el) m (meteorismós)
- Hiligaynon: butod
- Hungarian: felfúvódás (hu), felpuffadás (hu), flatulencia
- Ilocano: agbu
- Interlingua: flatulentia
- Irish: gaofaireacht f
- Middle Irish: gáethamlacht f, gáethmairecht f
- Italian: flatulenza (it) f, flato (it) m, peto (it) m, scoreggia (it) f
- Japanese: 屁 (ja) (へ, he), 鼓腸 (ja) (こちょう, kochō)
- Kapampangan: atut
- Korean: 방귀 (ko) (banggwi)
- Maranao: tamnok
- Old English: wind
- Pangasinan: lebag
- Polish: gazy nvir, wiatry nvir
- Portuguese: flatulência (pt) f, peido (pt) m (vulgar), pum (pt) m (vulgar)
- Romanian: flatulență f
- Russian: метеори́зм (ru) m (meteorízm), скопле́ние га́зов n (skoplénije gázov), флатуле́нция (ru) f (flatuléncija)
- Scottish Gaelic: gaoth f, bramasag f
- Spanish: flatulencia (es) f, ventosidad (es) f, flato (es) m, pedo (es) m, cuesco (es) m (Spain)
- Swedish: väderspänning c, gaser (sv) c pl, flatulens (sv) c
- Tagalog: kabag
- Thai: ท้องอืด, ท้องเฟ้อ
- Waray-Waray: lagdos
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