urethra

English

The urethra is labelled in these diagrams of the female and male genitourinary systems

Etymology

A learned borrowing from Ancient Greek οὐρήθρα (ourḗthra, “the passage for urine”), from οὐρέω (ouréō, “to make water”). Recorded in English since 1634.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /jʊˈɹiːθɹə/

• Audio (Southern England)

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Noun

urethra (plural urethras or urethrae)

1. (anatomy) The tube through which urine exits the body and, in penises, through which semen is ejaculated.

Derived terms

• prostatic urethra
• urethritis

Translations

anatomical tube

• Albanian: uretër
• Arabic: إِحْلِيل m (ʔiḥlīl)

  Egyptian Arabic: إحليل m (ʔeḥlīl)

• Armenian: միզուկ (hy) (mizuk)
• Asturian: uretra (ast) f
• Bengali: মূত্রনালি (bn) (mutronali), মূত্রনালী (bn) (mutronali)
• Breton: kan-troazh (br) m
• Bulgarian: уретер m (ureter), пикочен канал m (pikočen kanal)
• Catalan: uretra (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 尿道 (niu⁶ dou⁶)

  Mandarin: 尿道 (zh) (niàodào)

• Czech: močová trubice (cs) f
• Danish: urinrør (da) n, urinveje
• Dhivehi: ކުޑަކަމުދާ ހޮޅި (kuḍakamudā hoḷi)
• Dutch: urinebuis (nl) c
• Esperanto: uretro
• Estonian: kusiti
• Faroese: vatnræsi n
• Finnish: virtsaputki (fi)
• French: urètre (fr) m, urèthre (fr) m
• Galician: uretra (gl) f
• Georgian: შარდსაწვეთი (šardsac̣veti)
• German: Harnröhre (de) f, (technical) Urethra (de) f
• Greek: ουρήθρα (el) f (ouríthra)

  Ancient: οὐρήθρα f (ourḗthra)

• Hebrew: שׁוֹפְכָה f (shofkhá)
• Hindi: मूत्रमार्ग (mūtramārg)
• Hungarian: húgycső (hu)
• Icelandic: þvagrás (is) f
• Ido: uretro (io)
• Indonesian: uretra (id)
• Inuktitut: ᖁᕐᕆᕕᒃ (qorrifik)
• Irish: úiréadra m
• Italian: uretra (it) f
• Japanese: 尿道 (ja) (にょうどう, nyōdō)
• Kazakh: зәр өзегі (zär özegı), несепшығар өзегі (nesepşyğar özegı)
• Korean: 요도(尿道) (ko) (yodo)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: mîzerê

• Latin: urethra f
• Lithuanian: šlaplė f
• Low German: Harnröhr
• Maori: pūaha mimi, taiawa mimi
• Newar: युरेथ्रा (yurethrā)
• Northern Sami: gožžaoarri
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: urinrør n, urinvei

  Nynorsk: urinveg

• Persian: میزراه
• Polish: cewka moczowa (pl) f
• Portuguese: uretra (pt) f
• Russian: мочеиспуска́тельный кана́л (ru) m (močeispuskátelʹnyj kanál), уре́тра (ru) f (urétra)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мокраћна цијев

  Roman: mokraćna cijev

• Slovak: močová rúra f
• Slovene: séčnica f, urétra f
• Spanish: uretra (es) f
• Sundanese: urétra
• Swedish: urinrör (sv) n
• Telugu: ప్రసేకం (prasēkaṁ)
• Thai: ท่อปัสสาวะ (tɔ̂ɔ-bpàt-sǎa-wá)
• Turkish: üretra (tr)
• Urdu: موترمارگ (mūtramārg)
• Vietnamese: ống đái, ống dẫn nước tiểu, niệu đạo (vi)
• Volapük: yurinatuib

See also

• ureter
• urinary tract

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ūrēthra, from Ancient Greek οὐρήθρα (ourḗthra).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌyˈreː.traː/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: ure‧thra

Noun

urethra f (plural urethrae or urethra's)

1. urethra

   Synonyms: urinebuis, urinekanaal, urineleider

Derived terms

• urethraal

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek οὐρήθρα (ourḗthra).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /uːˈreː.tʰra/, [uːˈreːt̪ʰrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /uˈre.tra/, [uˈrɛːt̪rä]

Noun

ūrēthra f (genitive ūrēthrae); first declension

1. (anatomy) urethra

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ūrēthra	ūrēthrae
Genitive	ūrēthrae	ūrēthrārum
Dative	ūrēthrae	ūrēthrīs
Accusative	ūrēthram	ūrēthrās
Ablative	ūrēthrā	ūrēthrīs
Vocative	ūrēthra	ūrēthrae

References

• “urethra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• urethra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.