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Webster 1913 Edition

Vulva

Vul′va

Noun.

[L.

vulva

volva

, from

volvere

to roll.]

(Anat.)

The external parts of the female genital organs; sometimes, the opening between the projecting parts of the external organs.

(Zool.)

The orifice of the oviduct of an insect or other invertebrate.

Definition 2024

Vulva

****

See also: **** and vulvă

German

Noun

**** f

**** (collectively the external female sexual organs)

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vulva

****

See also: vulvă and ****

English

Illustration of a ****.

Noun

**** ‎(plural vulvas or vulvae or vulvæ)

(anatomy) The external female sexual organs, collectively.

Usage notes

See usage notes at **** for the difference between **** and ****.

Hypernyms

genitals

Synonyms

See also Wikisaurus:****

Derived terms

Terms derived from ****

multivulva
vulval
vulvaless

vulvar
vulvate
vulvectomy

Translations

collectively the external female sexual organs

Ancient Greek: αἰδοῖον n ‎(aidoîon)
Arabic: فَرْج (ar) m ‎(farj), حِرّ (ar) m ‎(ḥirr), فَالْفَا f ‎(fālfā)
Armenian: բունոց (hy) ‎(bunocʿ), ամոթույք (hy) ‎(amotʿuykʿ)
Belarusian: вульва f ‎(vúlʹva)
Bengali: ভালভা ‎(valva)
Bulgarian: вулва f ‎(vúlva)
Burmese: ယောနိ (my) ‎(yau:ni.)
Catalan: **** (ca) f, cony (ca) m
Chinese:

Mandarin: 外陰, 外阴 ‎(wàiyīn), 陰門 (zh), 阴门 (zh) ‎(yīnmén), 女陰 (zh), 女阴 (zh) ‎(nǚyīn), 陰戶 (zh), 阴户 (zh) ‎(yīnhù)

Min Nan: 陰門, 阴门 ‎(im-mn̂g), 外阴 ‎(gue7-im1)
Czech: **** (cs) f
Danish: **** c, tissekone c
Dutch: **** (nl) f
Esperanto: vulvo
Estonian: häbe, **** (et)
Finnish: häpy (fi), ulkosynnyttimet (fi) pl, **** (fi)
French: vulve (fr) f
Galician: **** (gl) f
Georgian: ვულვა ‎(****)
German: **** (de) f, Scham (de) f
Greek: αιδοίο (el) n ‎(aidoío)
Greenlandic: utsuit, utsuut pl
Hebrew: פות (he) ‎(pot)
Hindi: योनि (hi) f ‎(yoni), योनी (hi) ‎(yonī), भग (hi) m ‎(bhag)
Hungarian: szeméremtest (hu)
Icelandic: píka (is), kvensköp, sköp (is)
Irish: pit f
Italian: **** (it) f
Japanese: 陰門 ‎(いんもん, inmon)
Khmer: យោនី (km) ‎(younii)
Korean: 보지 (ko) ‎(boji), 씹 (ko) ‎(ssip), 외음부 ‎(oeeumbu), 음문 (ko) ‎(eummun) (陰門 (ko))
Lao: ໂຍນີ ‎(nyō nī)
Latin: cunnus (la), **** f
Latvian: **** f

Lithuanian: putė f
Macedonian: срамница f ‎(srámnica), вулва f ‎(vúlva)
Maori: teke, puapua, toke (mi)
Marathi: उल्वा f ‎(ulva), बाह्य जननेंद्रिय ‎(bāhya jannendriy), अपत्यपथ ‎(apatyapath), जन्मपथ ‎(janmapath), गभ ‎(gabh), कन्दर्पकूप ‎(kandarpakūp), जघन ‎(jaghan),
Nahuatl: tepilli, nenetl (nah)
Navajo: atsxil
Northern Sami: heahpadat pl
Norwegian: ****
Old English: mæġþblæd n
Persian: فرج (fa) ‎(farj), (vulgar) کس (fa) f ‎(kos)
Polish: srom (pl) m
Portuguese: cona (pt), **** (pt) f
Russian: ву́льва (ru) f ‎(vúlʹva), нару́жные же́нские половы́е о́рганы m pl ‎(narúžnyje žénskije polovýje órgany)
Sanskrit: योनि (sa) f ‎(yoni), भग (sa) m ‎(bhága)
Scottish Gaelic: pit f
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: стидница f

Roman: stidnica (sh) f
Slovak: **** (sk) f
Slovene: **** f
Spanish: **** (es) f, coño (es)
Sundanese: ᮠᮩᮔ᮪ᮎᮩᮒ᮪ ‎(heunceut)
Swahili: uke (sw)
Swedish: blygd (sv) c, **** (sv) c
Tagalog: bulba, pekpek, kiki
Taos: kə́na
Thai: โยนี (th) ‎(yoh-nee), อวัยวะสืบพันธุ์สตรีด้านนอก ‎(a-wai-wá sèup pan sàt-dtree dâan nôk)
Turkish: **** (tr), ferç (tr)
Udmurt: кызян ‎(kyzjan)
Ukrainian: вульва f ‎(vúlʹva)
Vietnamese: âm hộ (vi)
Vilamovian: pić f
Volapük: kunud
Yámana: wahar

Galician

Etymology

From Latin ****.

Noun

**** f ‎(plural vulvas)

****

Italian

Etymology

From Latin ****, from earlier volva, from the Proto-Indo-European root *welH- ‎(“to turn, wind”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈvul.va/, [ˈvul̺vä]
Hyphenation: vùl‧va

Noun

**** f ‎(plural vulve)

(anatomy) The external female genitalia; ****
(by extension, slang, humorous) ****

Derived terms

Latin

Etymology

From the Proto-Indo-European root *welH- ‎(“to turn, wind”). Cognates include Sanskrit उल्ब ‎(ulba).

Pronunciation 1

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈwul.wa/, [ˈwʊɫ.wa]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvul.va/

Noun

**** f ‎(genitive vulvae); first declension

(anatomy) ****
(anatomy) womb
- Vulgate Genesis 20,18:
  concluserat enim Deus omnem vulvam domus Abimilech propter Sarram uxorem Abraham.
vocative singular of ****

Inflection

First declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	********	vulvae
genitive	vulvae	vulvārum
dative	vulvae	vulvīs
accusative	vulvam	vulvās
ablative	vulvā	vulvīs
vocative	********	vulvae

Alternative forms

volva

Pronunciation 2

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈwul.waː/, [ˈwʊɫ.waː]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvul.va/

Noun

vulvā

ablative singular of ****

References

**** in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Félix Gaffiot (1934), “****”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

Portuguese

Noun

**** f (plural vulvas)

(anatomy) **** (the external female sexual organs)

Synonyms

cona (vulgar)

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Webster 1913 Edition

Vulva

Vul′va

Definition 2024

Vulva

****

German

Noun

vulva

****

English

Noun

Usage notes

Hypernyms

Synonyms

Derived terms

Translations

Galician

Etymology

Noun

Italian

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Derived terms

See also

Latin

Etymology

Pronunciation 1

Noun

Inflection

Alternative forms

Pronunciation 2

Noun

References

Portuguese

Noun

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