gonad

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek γονή (gonḗ, “seed, begetting, birth, offspring”), from γίγνεσθαι (gígnesthai, “be born”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡəʊ.næd/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -əʊnæd

Noun

gonad (plural gonads)

1. (anatomy) A sex organ that produces gametes; specifically, a testicle or ovary.
   1. (slang, chiefly in the plural) A testicle.

Synonyms

• (sex gland): sex gland

Derived terms

• gonadal
• gonadectomy
• gonadic
• gonadoblastoma
• nad

 

Translations

sex gland

• Arabic: غُدَّة تَناسُلِيَّة f (ḡudda(t) tanāsuliyya)
• Armenian: գոնադ (gonad)
• Basque: gonada (eu)
• Catalan: gònada f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 生殖腺 (zh) (shēngzhíxiàn), 性腺 (zh) (xìngxiàn)

• Czech: gonáda
• Danish: gonade
• Dutch: gonade (nl)
• Esperanto: gonado
• Estonian: sugunääre
• Finnish: sukupuolirauhanen (fi)
• French: gonade (fr) f
• Galician: gónada (gl)
• German: Gonade (de) f, Geschlechtsdrüse (de) f, Keimdrüse (de) f
• Greek: γονάδα f (gonáda), γεννητικός αδένας m (gennitikós adénas)
• Hungarian: ivarmirigy (hu)
• Icelandic: kynkirtill m, æxlunarkirtill m
• Ido: gonado (io)
• Indonesian: gonad (id)
• Irish: gónad
• Italian: gonade (it) f
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Kazakh: жыныс бездері pl (jynys bezderı)
• Korean: 생식샘(生殖腺) (ko) (saengsiksaem)
• Latvian: dzimumdziedzeris m
• Persian: گند (fa) (gond)
• Polish: gonada (pl)
• Portuguese:

  Brazilian: gônada f

  European: gónada f

• Russian: гона́да (ru) f (gonáda)
• Spanish: gónada (es) f
• Swedish: könskörtel (sv) c, gonad (sv) c
• Turkish: gonad
• Ukrainian: гонада f (honada)
• Welsh: gonad

slang, testicles

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: ձվեր (jver)
• Catalan: collons (ca) m pl
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蛋蛋 (zh) (dàndan)

• Czech: koule (cs)
• Finnish: pallit pl
• French: couille (fr) f, couillon (fr) m
• German: Eier (de) n pl
• Greek: αρχίδια (el) n pl (archídia)
• Icelandic: eistu (is) n pl
• Italian: coglioni (it) m pl
• Persian: گند (fa) (gond)
• Russian: я́йца (ru) n pl (jájca)
• Spanish: huevos (es) m pl, cojones (es) m pl
• Swedish: ballar (sv) c pl

Further reading

• Gonad and Sex organ on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “gonad”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• Dagon, Dogan, Gonda, dango, dogan, donga, goand