tastebud

English

Etymology

From taste +‎ bud.

Noun

tastebud (plural tastebuds)

1. (anatomy) Any of the small organs on the tongue used for tasting.

Translations

a small organ on the tongue used for tasting

• Arabic: بُرْعُم تَذَوُّق m (burʕum taḏawwuq), بُرْعُم ذَوْقِيّ m (burʕum ḏawqiyy)
• Catalan: papil·la gustativa f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 味蕾 (zh) (wèilěi)

• Dutch: smaakpapil (nl) c
• Finnish: makusilmu (fi)
• French: papille gustative f, (colloquial, by ellipsis) papille (fr) f
• German: Geschmacksknospe (de) f
• Hungarian: ízlelőszemölcs, ízlelőbimbó (hu)
• Irish: blaslóg f
• Italian: papilla gustativa f
• Japanese: 味蕾 (ja) (みらい, mirai)
• Korean: 미뢰(味蕾) (miroe)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: çêjegopke f, gopikên tamê f

• Malay:

  Rumi: tunas rasa (ms)

• Maori: paerongo tāwara
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: амтлах хөхөнцөр (amtlax xöxöncör), амтны цоморлог (amtny comorlog) (China)

• Norwegian: smaksløk m
• Polish: kubek smakowy m
• Portuguese: papila gustativa f
• Romanian: papilă gustativă f
• Russian: вкусово́й сосо́чек m (vkusovój sosóček)
• Spanish: papila gustativa f
• Swedish: smaklök (sv) c
• Thai: ตุ่มรับรส (dtùm-ráp-rót)
• Turkish: tat tomurcuğu
• Ukrainian: смакови́й сосо́чок m (smakovýj sosóčok)
• Welsh: blasbwynt (cy)