navel

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EnglishEdit

Wikipedia

A navel.

Alternative formsEdit

• navil (obsolete)

EtymologyEdit

From Middle English navel, navele, from Old English nafela, from Proto-Germanic *nabalô (compare West Frisian nâle, Dutch navel, German Nabel), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃nobʰilos (compare Irish imleac, Latin umbilicus, Ancient Greek ὀμφαλός ‎(omphalós)), diminutive of *h₃nobʰ- (compare English nave). More at nave.

PronunciationEdit

• enPR: nā'vəl, IPA^(key): /ˈneɪvəl/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -eɪvəl
• Homophone: naval

NounEdit

navel ‎(plural navels)

1. (anatomy) The indentation or bump remaining in the abdomen of mammals where the umbilical cord was attached before birth.
2. The central part or point of anything; the middle.
   • John Milton

     Within the navel of this hideous wood,
     Immured in cypress shades, a sorcerer dwells.

   • 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

     We sat alfresco on the edge of a “square,” in reality a pond of cobbly mud with a plinth plonked in its navel […]

3. (historical) An eye on the underside of a carronade for securing it to a carriage.

SynonymsEdit

• belly button, nave (obsolete), umbilicus, see also Wikisaurus:navel

Derived termsEdit

• navel-gazing
• navel orange

See alsoEdit

• innie
• outie

TranslationsEdit

remnant of umbilical cord

• Adyghe: шдиху ‎(šdix°)
• Albanian: kërthizë (sq) f
• Arabic: سُرَّة f ‎(surra)

  Egyptian Arabic: سرة f ‎(sora)

• Armenian: պորտ (hy) ‎(port)
• Aromanian: buric
• Asturian: embeligru (ast) m, ombligu (ast) m
• Avar: цӀин ‎(cӀin)
• Aymara: kururu
• Azeri: göbək (az)
• Baluchi: ناپگ ‎(nápag)
• Bashkir: кендек ‎(kendek)
• Belarusian: пупо́к m ‎(pupók), пуп m ‎(pup)
• Bengali: নাভি ‎(nabhi)
• Berber:

  Tashelhit: abuḍ m

• Borôro: künabo
• Breton: begel (br)
• Bulgarian: пъп m ‎(pǎp)
• Burmese: ချက် (my) ‎(hkyak)
• Catalan: melic (ca) m, llombrígol (ca) m
• Chamicuro: mocho
• Chechen: цӀонга ‎(cʿonga)
• Chichewa: mchombo
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 肚臍 (zh), 肚脐 (zh) ‎(dùqí), 臍 (zh), 脐 (zh) ‎(qí)

• Coptic: ϧⲉⲗⲡⲓ f ‎(xelbi, xelpi)
• Cornish: begel m
• Czech: pupek (cs) m
• Danish: navle (da) c
• Dupaninan Agta: pusad
• Dutch: navel (nl) m
• Erzya: почо ‎(počo)
• Esperanto: umbiliko (eo)
• Estonian: naba (et)
• Faroese: nalvi m
• Fijian: vico
• Finnish: napa (fi)
• French: nombril (fr) m
• Friulian: umbriçon m, umbričon, bugnigul m
• Galician: embigo (gl) m
• Georgian: ჭიპი ‎(č̣iṗi)
• German: Bauchnabel (de) m, Nabel (de) m
• Greek: ομφαλός (el) m ‎(omfalós)
• Guaraní: puru'â
• Gujarati: નાભિ (gu) ‎(nābhi)
• Hawaiian: piko
• Hebrew: טבור (he) ‎(tabúr)
• Hindi: नाभि (hi) f ‎(nābhi), नाफ़ f ‎(nāf)
• Hungarian: köldök (hu)
• Icelandic: nafli (is) m
• Ido: umbiliko (io)
• Ilocano: puseg
• Indonesian: pusat (id), pusar (id)
• Irish: imleac f
• Ishkashimi: ناف ‎(nāf)
• Italian: ombelico (it) m, (unusual) onfalo m
• Japanese: 臍 (ja) ‎(へそ, heso)
• Kannada: ನಾಭಿ (kn) ‎(nābhi)
• Kazakh: кіндік ‎(kindik)
• Khmer: ផ្ចិត (km) ‎(pcət)
• Korean: 배꼽 (ko) ‎(baekkop)

• Kumyk: гинник ‎(ginnik)
• Kurdish: navik (ku) f
• Kyrgyz: киндик ‎(kindik)
• Lao: ສາຍບື (lo) ‎(sāi bư̄)
• Latgalian: pupona
• Latin: umbilicus m
• Latvian: naba
• Lithuanian: bamba
• Livonian: nabā
• Lule Sami: náhpe
• Macedonian: папок m ‎(papok)
• Malay: pusat, pusar, pusar
• Malayalam: പൊക്കിള്‍ ‎(pokkiḷ‍)
• Maltese: żokra f
• Maori: pito, ihonga
• Mongolian: хүйс (mn) ‎(hüjs), хүй (mn) ‎(hüj)
• Navajo: atsʼééʼ
• Nepali: नाइटो ‎(nāiṭo)
• Ngarrindjeri: pulanggi
• Norman: nombrîn m (Jersey), naombrin m (Guernsey), nõmbri m (Sark)
• Norwegian: navle m
• Occitan: embonilh (oc), monilh (oc), embonígol
• Ottoman Turkish: ناف ‎(nâf), گوبك ‎(göbek)
• Persian: ناف (fa) ‎(nâf)
• Polish: pępek (pl) m
• Portuguese: umbigo (pt) m
• Quechua: puti
• Romanian: buric (ro) n
• Russian: пупо́к (ru) m ‎(pupók), пуп (ru) m ‎(pup)
• Sanskrit: नाभि (sa) f ‎(nābhi), नाभी (sa) f ‎(nābhī)
• Sardinian: imbílicu, imbírigu
• Scottish Gaelic: imleag f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пу̏пак m

  Roman: pȕpak (sh) m

• Slovak: pupok m
• Slovene: pópek (sl) m
• Spanish: ombligo (es) m
• Swahili: ^{(please verify)} kitovu (sw) class 7/8
• Swedish: navel (sv) c
• Tagalog: pusod
• Tajik: ноф ‎(nof)
• Tamil: தொப்புள் (ta) ‎(toppuḷ)
• Tatar: кендек (tt) ‎(kendek)
• Telugu: నాభి (te) ‎(nābhi), బొడ్డు (te) ‎(boḍḍu)
• Thai: สะดือ (th) ‎(sà-deu)
• Turkish: göbek (tr)
• Turkmen: göbek
• Tuvan: хиндик ‎(hïndïk)
• Udmurt: гогы ‎(gogy)
• Ukrainian: пупо́к m ‎(pupók), пуп m ‎(pup)
• Urdu: نابھی f ‎(nābhi), ناف f ‎(nāf)
• Uzbek: kindik (uz)
• Venetian: bonigolo m, bonigol, bunigolo m, bunigol, bonigoło
• Veps: naba
• Vietnamese: rốn (vi), rún (vi)
• Vilamovian: nowuł m
• Volapük: numbril
• Võro: naba
• Welsh: bogail
• Yakut: киин ‎(kiin)
• Yiddish: פּופּיק m ‎(pupik), נאָפּל m ‎(popl)

AnagramsEdit

• Alven, venal

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DutchEdit

PronunciationEdit

• audio

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EtymologyEdit

From Middle Dutch navele, navel, from Old Dutch *navalo, from Proto-Germanic *nabalô.

NounEdit

navel m ‎(plural navels, diminutive naveltje n)

1. navel

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SwedishEdit

Wikipedia ^sv

EtymologyEdit

From Old Norse nafli.

NounEdit

navel c

1. navel

DeclensionEdit

Declension of navel

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	navel	naveln	navlar	navlarna
genitive	navels	navelns	navlars	navlarnas