hymen

See also: Hymen

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

hymen (plural hymens)

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

Synonyms

• maidenhead
• virginal membrane

Derived terms

Derived terms

• hymenal
• hymenate
• hymenoplasty

• hymenorrhaphy
• hymenotomy
• imperforate hymen

Translations

membrane which occludes the vagina

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

  Egyptian Arabic: غشاء البكارة‎ m (ḡešāʾ el-bakāra)

• 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 or 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 بکارت‎ (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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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɦɪmɛn]

Etymology 1

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

Noun

hymen m

1. hymen

Etymology 2

Noun

hymen

1. genitive plural of hymna

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Finnish

Etymology

< Ancient Greek ὑμήν (humḗn, “hymen”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhy(ː)men/, [ˈhy(ː)me̞n]
• Rhymes: -ymen
• Syllabification: hy‧men

Noun

hymen

1. (anatomy, rare) hymen

Declension

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

Possessive forms of hymen (type paperi)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	hymenini	hymenimme
2nd person	hymenisi	hymeninne
3rd person	hymeninsä

Synonyms

• immenkalvo

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French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.mɛn/

Noun

hymen m (plural hymens)

1. (anatomy) hymen
2. marriage

Further reading

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

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Slovak

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɦimen]

Noun

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

1. hymen

Declension

Declension of hymen

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

Synonyms

• panenská blana f

Derived terms

• hymenálny
• hymenový

References

• hymen in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk