hymen

See also: Hymen

Contents

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From French hymen, a borrowing from Ancient Greek ὑμήν (humḗn, “skin, membrane”).

PronunciationEdit

• enPR: hī'mən, IPA^(key): /ˈhaɪmən/
• Rhymes: -aɪmən

NounEdit

hymen (plural hymens)

1. (anatomy) A membrane which completely or partially occludes the vaginal opening in human females.
2. (figuratively) Marriage.

SynonymsEdit

• maidenhead
• virginal membrane

Derived termsEdit

Derived terms

• hymenal
• hymenoplasty
• hymenorrhaphy

• hymenotomy
• imperforate hymen

TranslationsEdit

membrane which occludes the vagina

• Arabic: غِشَاء اَلْبَكَارَة‎‎ m (ḡišāʾ al-bakāra)

  Egyptian Arabic: غشاء البكارة‎‎ m (ğešaaʔ el bakaara)

• Armenian: կուսաթաղանթ (kusatʿałantʿ)
• Asturian: himen m
• Bulgarian: девствена ципа f (devstvena cipa)
• Catalan: himen m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 處女膜 (zh), 处女膜 (zh) (chǔnǚmó)

• Czech: panenská blána f
• Danish: jomfruhinde, mødomshinde, mødom
• Dutch: maagdenvlies (nl) n
• Esperanto: himeno
• Estonian: hüümen, neitsinahk
• Finnish: immenkalvo (fi)
• French: hymen (fr) m
• Galician: hime (gl) m
• German: Hymen m, n, Jungfernhäutchen (de) n
• Greek: παρθενικός υμένας m (parthenikós yménas)
• Hebrew: קְרוּם הַבְּתוּלִין‎‎ m (qrum habetulín)
• Hindi: हैमेन (haimen)
• Hungarian: szűzhártya (hu)
• Icelandic: meyjarhaft n, meydómsmerki n
• Irish: himéin f, scannán óchta m, dlaoi f

• Italian: imene (it) m
• Japanese: 処女膜 (しょじょまく, shojomaku)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 처녀막 (ko) (cheonyeomak) (處女膜 (ko))
• Lithuanian: mergystės plėvė f
• Manx: moidynys f
• Maori: katitohe, kiritapu, taupā
• Marathi: उल्वाओढणी (ulvāoḍhṇī), योनिअंबर (yoniambar)
• Mongolian: онгон хальс (ongon halʹs)
• Norwegian: jomfruhinne f, skjedekrans m
• Occitan: imèn m
• Persian: پرده بكارت‎‎ (fa)
• Polish: błona dziewicza (pl) f
• Portuguese: hímen (pt) m
• Russian: де́вственная плева́ (ru) f (dévstvennaja plevá), гиме́н (ru) m (gimén)
• Scottish Gaelic: maighdeannas f, òigheachd f
• Serbo-Croatian: čednjak (sh), devičnjak
• Spanish: himen m
• Swedish: mödomshinna
• Tagalog: lamad
• Thai: เยื่อพรหมจารี
• Turkish: kızlık zarı (tr)
• Vietnamese: màng trinh (vi)

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CzechEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ɦɪmɛn/

Etymology 1Edit

From Ancient Greek ὑμήν (humḗn, “skin, membrane”).

NounEdit

hymen m

1. hymen

Etymology 2Edit

NounEdit

hymen

1. genitive plural of hymna

ReferencesEdit

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FinnishEdit

EtymologyEdit

< Ancient Greek ὑμήν (humḗn, “hymen”)

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ˈhyːmen/
• Hyphenation: hy‧men

NounEdit

hymen

1. (anatomy, rare) hymen

DeclensionEdit

Inflection of hymen (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation)
nominative		hymen	hymenit
genitive		hymenin	hymenien hymeneiden hymeneitten
partitive		hymeniä	hymeneitä hymenejä
illative		hymeniin	hymeneihin
		singular	plural
nominative		hymen	hymenit
accusative	nom.	hymen	hymenit
	gen.	hymenin
genitive		hymenin	hymenien hymeneiden hymeneitten
partitive		hymeniä	hymeneitä hymenejä
inessive		hymenissä	hymeneissä
elative		hymenistä	hymeneistä
illative		hymeniin	hymeneihin
adessive		hymenillä	hymeneillä
ablative		hymeniltä	hymeneiltä
allative		hymenille	hymeneille
essive		hymeninä	hymeneinä
translative		hymeniksi	hymeneiksi
instructive		—	hymenein
abessive		hymenittä	hymeneittä
comitative		—	hymeneineen

SynonymsEdit

• immenkalvo

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FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὑμήν (humḗn, “skin, membrane”).

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /i.mɛn/

NounEdit

hymen m (plural hymens)

1. (anatomy) hymen

Further readingEdit

• “hymen” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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SlovakEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Ancient Greek ὑμήν (humḗn, “skin, membrane”).

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ɦimɛn/

NounEdit

hymen m (genitive singular hymenu, nominative plural hymeny, genitive plural hymenov, declension pattern of dub)

1. hymen

DeclensionEdit

Declension of hymen

	singular	plural
nominative	hymen	hymeny
genitive	hymenu	hymenov
dative	hymenu	hymenom
accusative	hymen	hymeny
locative	hymene	hymenoch
instrumental	hymenom	hymenmi

SynonymsEdit

• panenská blana f

Derived termsEdit

• hymenálny
• hymenový

ReferencesEdit

• hymen in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk