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From Latin, borrowed from Ancient Greek σμῆγμα (smêgma), alternative form of σμῆμα (smêma, “soap, detergent”), from σμάω (smáō, “I wipe, clean”).
smegma (countable and uncountable, plural smegmata or smegmas)
- A whitish sebaceous secretion that collects between the glans penis and foreskin or in the vulva.
1979, J.G. Ballard, The Unlimited Dream Company, chapter 30:
I saw Mrs St Cloud wander happily through the flower-filled streets, her belly smeared with smegma, breasts bruised by the hands of boys.
- cheese (slang), cock cheese (vulgar slang), dick cheese (vulgar slang), knob cheese (vulgar slang)
sebaceous secretion
- Arabic: لَخَن m (laḵan)
- Armenian: սմեգմա (smegma)
- Basque: esmegma
- Belarusian: смегма (smjehma)
- Bikol Central: sapal (bcl)
- Bulgarian: смегма (smegma)
- Catalan: esmegma
- Chinese:
- Czech: smegma n
- Danish: nakkeost c, smegma n
- Dutch: smegma (nl) n
- Esperanto: smegmo (eo)
- Estonian: smegma (et)
- Finnish: esinahkatali
- French: smegma (fr) m
- German: Smegma (de) n
- Greek: σμήγμα (el) n (smígma)
- Hebrew: סמגמה (he) f
- Hindi: शिश्नमल (śiśnamal)
- Icelandic: reðurfarði m, limfarði m, ostur (is) m
- Italian: smegma (it) m
- Japanese: 恥垢 (ja) (ちこう, chikō), チンカス (chinkasu) (penile, vulgar)
- Korean: 귀두(龜頭)지 (gwiduji) (penile), 치구(恥垢) (chigu), 스메그마 (seumegeuma), 좆밥 (jotbap) (penile, vulgar)
- Lithuanian: smegma f
- Macedonian: смегма f (smegma), (slang) урда f (urda)
- Maltese: ġobon il-ġarretta
- Maori: paraheka, ngahu
- Polish: mastka f
- Portuguese: esmegma (pt) m
- Russian: смегма (ru) (smegma)
- Sicilian: smemma m, smegma m, ricotta f
- Spanish: esmegma (es) m
- Swahili: pumba (sw)
- Swedish: smegma (sv) c, (vulgar) flensost (sv) c, kukost c (vulgar)
- Tagalog: kupal (tl) (male), hima (female)
- Thai: ขี้เปียก (kîi-bpìiak)
- Turkish: smegma
- Ukrainian: смегма (smehma)
- Vietnamese: bựa (vi), bựa sinh dục, pho mát (vi) (slang)
- West Frisian: smegma
- Yiddish: סמעגמע (smegme), שמוּק שמוּץ class Slang (Shmuck shmutz, literally “Penis filth”)
- Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “smegma”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
smegma n
smegma n (singular definite smegmaet, not used in plural form)
Borrowed from Latin smēgma, from Ancient Greek σμῆγμα (smêgma).
smegma n (uncountable)
Internationalism (see English smegma), ultimately from Ancient Greek σμῆγμα (smêgma).
smegma
Inflection of smegma (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | smegma | smegmat | |
genitive | smegman | smegmojen | |
partitive | smegmaa | smegmoja | |
illative | smegmaan | smegmoihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | smegma | smegmat | |
accusative | nom. | smegma | smegmat |
gen. | smegman | ||
genitive | smegman | smegmojen smegmain rare | |
partitive | smegmaa | smegmoja | |
inessive | smegmassa | smegmoissa | |
elative | smegmasta | smegmoista | |
illative | smegmaan | smegmoihin | |
adessive | smegmalla | smegmoilla | |
ablative | smegmalta | smegmoilta | |
allative | smegmalle | smegmoille | |
essive | smegmana | smegmoina | |
translative | smegmaksi | smegmoiksi | |
abessive | smegmatta | smegmoitta | |
instructive | — | smegmoin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
smegma m (plural smegmas)
- Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition
From Ancient Greek σμῆγμα (smêgma), alternative spelling of σμῆμα (smêma, “soap, detergent”), from σμάω (smáō, “I wipe, clean”).
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈsmeːɡ.ma/, [ˈs̠meːɡmä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈsmeɡ.ma/, [ˈzmɛɡmä]
smēgma n (genitive smēgmatis); third declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | smēgma | smēgmata |
Genitive | smēgmatis | smēgmatum |
Dative | smēgmatī | smēgmatibus |
Accusative | smēgma | smēgmata |
Ablative | smēgmate | smēgmatibus |
Vocative | smēgma | smēgmata |
- “smegma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- smegma in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
smegma f
Borrowed from Ancient Greek σμῆγμα (smêgma), alternative form of σμῆμα (smêma, “soap, detergent”), from σμάω (smáō, “I wipe, clean”).
smegma c
Declension of smegma | ||||
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Uncountable | ||||
Indefinite | Definite | |||
Nominative | smegma | smegman | — | — |
Genitive | smegmas | smegmans | — | — |