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Borrowed from Late Latin ūvula, diminutive of ūva (“grape”).
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈjuː.vjʊl.ə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈju.vjəl.ə/
- Homophone: uvular (non-rhotic)
uvula (plural uvulae or uvulas or (obsolete) uvulæ)
- (anatomy) Ellipsis of palatine uvula.: the fleshy appendage that hangs from the back of the soft palate, that closes the nasopharynx during swallowing
- Synonym: staphyle
- (anatomy) the slight elevation in the mucous membrane immediately behind the internal urethral orifice of the urinary bladder, caused by the middle lobe of the prostate
- (music) an object so suspended inside a bell that it may hit the bell and cause it to ring; a clapper
- The Oxford English Dictionary (second edition, 1989) marks this word as not naturalized in English.
appendage that hangs from the palate
- Adyghe: бзэгужъый (bzɛgʷuẑəj)
- Arabic: لَهَاة f (lahāh)
- Egyptian Arabic: لغلوغة f (laḡlūḡa)
- Aragonese: please add this translation if you can
- Armenian: լեզվակ (hy) (lezvak)
- Assamese: আলজিভা (alzibha)
- Asturian: campanín m
- Azerbaijani: dilçək
- Belarusian: язычо́к m (jazyčók)
- Breton: hugenn f, hogedenn m
- Bulgarian: мъже́ц m (mǎžéc)
- Catalan: úvula (ca) f, llengüeta (ca) f, neulella (ca) f, garganxó (ca) m
- Central Melanau: aneak tengad
- Cherokee: please add this translation if you can
- Chinese:
- Czech: čípek (cs) m
- Danish: drøbel (da) c
- Dutch: huig (nl)
- Esperanto: uvulo
- Estonian: kurgunibu
- Faroese: úlvsur m, úlvur m
- Finnish: kitakieleke (fi)
- French: luette (fr) f, uvule (fr) f, uvula (fr) f
- Galician: úvula f, campaíña f, pinguel m, galiño m, galillo m, pingallón m
- Georgian: ენის კლიტე (enis ḳliṭe), ნაქი (naki), სასის ნაქი (sasis naki)
- German: Gaumenzäpfchen n, Uvula (de) f
- Greek: σταφυλή (el) f (stafylí)
- Ancient: γαργαρεών m (gargareṓn)
- Gujarati: પડજીભ (paḍjībh)
- Hebrew: ענבל (he) (inbál)
- Hindi: अलिजिह्वा (hi) (alijihvā)
- Hungarian: nyelvcsap (hu), uvula (hu), ínyvitorla (hu)
- Icelandic: úfur (is) m
- Ido: uvulo (io)
- Indonesian: anak lidah (id), anak tekak (id), uvula (id)
- Iranun: mananalu
- Irish: sine siain f
- Italian: ugola (it) f
- Japanese: 口蓋垂 (ja) (こうがいすい, kōgaisui), 懸壅垂 (ja) (けんようすい, ken'yōsui) (rare), のどちんこ (ja) (nodochinko)
- Kazakh: тілше (tılşe)
- Khmer: កន្លើត (km) (kɑnlaət)
- Kimaragang: langguk
- Korean: 목젖 (ko) (mokjeot)
- Kurdish:
- Lotud: landuk, angguk-angguk
- Macedonian: у́вула (úvula)
- Malay: anak lidah (ms), anak tekak, uvula (ms)
- Manchu: ᡳᠯᠮᠠᡥᠠ (ilmaha)
- Maori: miramira, toke (mi)
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: хүүхэн хэл (xüüxen xel)
- Navajo: adáziz
- Norwegian: drøvel (no)
- Occitan: uvula f, uèla f, luseta (oc) f
- Persian: ملازه (fa) (malâze), زبان کوچک (zabân-e kučak)
- Polish: języczek (pl) m
- Portuguese: úvula (pt) f
- Punjabi: ਕਾਂ (pa) m (kā̃)
- Romanian: uvulă (ro) f, omușor (ro) m
- Romansch: please add this translation if you can
- Rungus: llangguk
- Russian: язычо́к (ru) m (jazyčók), нёбный язычо́к m (njóbnyj jazyčók), у́вула f (úvula), нёбная заве́са f (njóbnaja zavésa)
- Saanich: MELḰ
- Scottish Gaelic: cìoch-shlugain f
- Serbo-Croatian: ȕvula (sh) f, увула f
- Slovak: čapík m
- Slovene: uvula f
- Spanish: úvula (es) f, campanilla (es) f
- Swahili: kilimi
- Swedish: gomspene (sv) c, tungspene c
- Tagal Murut: taruk tantalanan
- Tagalog: kuntil, tilao
- Tamil: please add this translation if you can
- Telugu: చిరునాలుక (te) (cirunāluka), కొండనాలుక (te) (koṇḍanāluka)
- Thai: ลิ้นไก่ (th) (lín gài)
- Timugon Murut: taruk tantalanan
- Turkish: küçük dil (tr)
- Ukrainian: язичо́к (uk) m (jazyčók)
- Urdu: please add this translation if you can
- Uyghur: كىچىك تىل (kichik til)
- Vietnamese: lưỡi gà (vi)
- Volapük: lüät
- Welsh: tafodig m, tafod bach m
- West Coast Bajau: pegad
- West Frisian: hûch
- Yiddish: אוּוווּלע f (uvule)
- Zhuang: linxgaeq
- “uvula”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “uvula”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
Unadapted borrowing from Late Latin ūvula (“small grape”), diminutive of Latin ūva. Doublet of uvule, another borrowing.
uvula f (plural uvulas)
From ūva (“a grape”) + -ula (“diminutive suffix”).
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈuː.u̯u.la/, [ˈuːu̯ʊɫ̪ä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈu.vu.la/, [ˈuːvulä]
ūvula f (genitive ūvulae); first declension (Late Latin)
- diminutive of ūva.
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | ūvula | ūvulae |
Genitive | ūvulae | ūvulārum |
Dative | ūvulae | ūvulīs |
Accusative | ūvulam | ūvulās |
Ablative | ūvulā | ūvulīs |
Vocative | ūvula | ūvulae |
- → Catalan: úvula
- → English: uvula
- → French: uvula, uvule
- → Galician: úvula
- → German: Uvula
- → Hungarian: uvula
- Italian: ugola
- → Indonesian: uvula
- → Malay: uvula
- → Macedonian: у́вула (úvula)
- → Occitan: uvula
- → Portuguese: úvula
- → Romanian: uvulă
- → Russian: у́вула (úvula)
- → Serbo-Croatian: ȕvula, увула
- Sicilian: ùvula
- → Slovene: uvula
- → Spanish: úvula
- → Yiddish: אוּוווּלע (uvule)
From Late Latin ūvula (“little grape”), diminutive of Latin ūva (“grape”).
uvula (Jawi spelling اوۏولا, plural uvula-uvula, informal 1st possessive uvulaku, 2nd possessive uvulamu, 3rd possessive uvulanya)