flatulence

English

Etymology

From French flatulence, ultimately from Latin flō (“breathe, blow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈflæt͡ʃələns/, /ˈflæt͡ʃʊləns/, /ˈflæt(j)ʊləns/

  • Audio (Southern England)

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• Hyphenation: flat‧u‧lence
• Rhymes: -ætʃələns, -ætʃʊləns, -æt(j)ʊləns

Noun

flatulence (countable and uncountable, plural flatulences)

1. The state of having gas, often smelly, trapped (and when released, frequently with noise) in the digestive system of a human and some other animals; wind; and when released, a flatus, a fart.
2. The release of such gas; breaking wind.

Usage notes

A formal Latinate term, used in medical and scientific discourse, but also euphemistically to avoid crude terms such as fart. Compare excrement.

Coordinate terms

• queef

Derived terms

• flatulence tax
• vaginal flatulence

Related terms

• See also Thesaurus:flatulence
• afflatus

Translations

state of having gas in digestive system

• Arabic: نَفْخ m (nafḵ), نَفْخَة f (nafḵa), فسوة f (faswa)
• Bikol Central: sudol
• Cebuano: butod
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 屁 (zh) (pì), 脹氣／胀气 (zhàngqì)

• Czech: plynatost f
• Danish: fjært (old-fashioned); vind (da) (medical); fis (vulgar)
• Finnish: ilmavaivat (fi) pl
• French: flatulence (fr) f
• Galician: flatulencia f, ventosidade (gl) f, peido m
• German: Flatulenz (de) f
• Greek: μετεωρισμός (el) m (meteorismós)
• Hiligaynon: butod
• Hungarian: felfúvódás (hu), felpuffadás (hu), flatulencia
• Ilocano: agbu
• Interlingua: flatulentia
• Irish: gaofaireacht f

  Middle Irish: gáethamlacht f, gáethmairecht f

• Italian: flatulenza (it) f, flato (it) m, peto (it) m, scoreggia (it) f
• Japanese: 屁 (ja) (へ, he), 鼓腸 (ja) (こちょう, kochō)
• Kapampangan: atut
• Korean: 방귀 (ko) (banggwi)
• Maranao: tamnok
• Old English: wind
• Pangasinan: lebag
• Polish: gazy nvir, wiatry nvir
• Portuguese: flatulência (pt) f, peido (pt) m (vulgar), pum (pt) m (vulgar)
• Romanian: flatulență f
• Russian: метеори́зм (ru) m (meteorízm), скопле́ние га́зов n (skoplénije gázov), флатуле́нция (ru) f (flatuléncija)
• Scottish Gaelic: gaoth f, bramasag f
• Spanish: flatulencia (es) f, ventosidad (es) f, flato (es) m, pedo (es) m, cuesco (es) m (Spain)
• Swedish: väderspänning c, gaser (sv) c pl, flatulens (sv) c
• Tagalog: kabag
• Thai: ท้องอืด, ท้องเฟ้อ
• Waray-Waray: lagdos

French

Etymology

From flatulent +‎ -ence.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fla.ty.lɑ̃s/

• Audio

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Noun

flatulence f (plural flatulences)

1. flatulence

See also

• ballonnement
• pet

Further reading

• “flatulence”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.