teat

See also: teát

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French tete (“teat”) (compare French tette), from Frankish *titta, from Germanic. It replaced Old English titt, which survives as tit. Confer Dutch tiet and German Zitze (“teat”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tiːt/
Rhymes: -iːt

Noun

teat (plural teats)

The projection of a mammary gland from which, on female mammals, milk is secreted.
An artificial nipple used for bottle-feeding infants.

Synonyms

(mammary nipple): tit
(artificial nipple): nipple

Translations

projection of mammary gland

Arabic: حَلَمَة‎ f (ḥalama), خِلْف‎ m (ḵilf)
Aromanian: tsãtsã f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 奶頭 (zh), 奶头 (zh) (nǎitóu), 乳頭 (zh), 乳头 (zh) (rǔtóu)
Czech: struk (cs) m, bradavka f
Dutch: tepel (nl) c
Esperanto: cico, mampinto (eo)
Finnish: nänni (fi)
French: trayon (fr) m
German: Brustwarze (de) f
Greek: θηλή (el) f (thilí)
Hittite: 𒋼𒂊𒋫𒀭 (te-e-ta-an)
Hungarian: mellbimbó (hu)
Ido: mameto (io)
Italian: tettarella, capezzolo (it) m

Japanese: 乳首 (ちくび, chikubi, ちちくび, chichikubi), 乳頭 (にゅうとう, nyūtō), ニップル (nippuru)
Malay: puting
Maori: ū, titi
Norwegian: brystvorte m
Polish: sutek (pl) m, sutka (pl) f, brodawka sutkowa (pl) f
Portuguese: mamilo (pt) m, bico do peito (pt) m, mamá m
Romanian: sfârc (ro), țâță (ro)
Russian: сосо́к (ru) m (sosók)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: си̏са f

Roman: sȉsa (sh) f
Spanish: pezón (es) m
Swedish: bröstvårta (sv) c
Turkish: meme başı (tr)
Volapük: blötatät (vo)

feeding bottle top

Burmese: နို့ပုံ (my) (nui.pum), နို့သီးခေါင်း (my) (nui.si:hkaung:)
Dutch: speen (nl) m
Esperanto: cicumo
Finnish: tutti (fi)
French: tétine (fr) f
German: Sauger m
Greek: θηλή (el) f (thilí)
Italian: tettarella f
Japanese: おしゃぶり (oshaburi)
Maori: titi
Norwegian:
Bokmål: smokk (no) m

Nynorsk: smokk m

Polish: smoczek (pl)
Portuguese: chupeta (pt) f, bico (pt) m
Romanian: tetină (ro) f
Russian: со́ска (ru) f (sóska)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: цуцла f

Roman: cucla (sh) f
Spanish: chupete (es) m
Swedish: tuta (sv) c
Turkish: biberon emziği

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

Erzya: ^{(please verify)} поте (pote)
Italian: ^{(please verify)} capezzolo (it) m

Korean: ^{(please verify)} 젖꼭지 (ko) (jeotkkokji)
Thai: ^{(please verify)} หัวนม (th) (hua nom) (literally, head-milk)

Anagrams

Etta, Tate, aett

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