tonsil

English

Etymology

From Latin tonsillae; compare French tonsille.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtɒn.səl/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈtɑn.səl/
Rhymes: -ɒnsəl

Noun

tonsil (plural tonsils)

(anatomy, immunology) Either of a pair of small masses of lymphoid tissue that lie on each side of the throat and that help protect the body against infection; palatine tonsil.
(anatomy, immunology) Any of various small masses of lymphoid tissues, including palatine tonsils, adenoids and lingual tonsils.

Synonyms

tonsilla

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations

palatine tonsil

Albanian: bajame (sq)
Arabic: لَوْزَة‎ f (lawza)
Armenian: նշիկ (hy) (nšik), նշագեղձ (hy) (nšagełj), (colloquial) գլանդ (gland)
Bulgarian: сливица f (slívica)
Catalan: amígdala (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 扁桃體 (zh), 扁桃体 (zh) (biǎntáotǐ), 扁桃腺 (zh) (biǎntáoxiàn)
Czech: krční mandle (cs) f
Danish: mandel (da) c
Dutch: keelamandel (nl) m or f, tonsil (nl) f
Esperanto: tonsilo
Finnish: nielurisa (fi)
French: amygdale (fr) f
German: Mandel (de) f, Tonsille f
Greek: αμυγδαλή (el) f (amygdalí)
Ancient: παρίσθμιον n (parísthmion), ἀντιάς f (antiás)
Hebrew: שָׁקֵד‎ (he) (shakéd)
Hindi: please add this translation if you can
Hungarian: mandula (hu)
Ido: tonsilo (io)
Italian: tonsilla (it) f
Japanese: 扁桃腺 (へんとうせん, hentōsen)

Korean: 구개편도 (gugaepyeondo)
Kurdish:
Sorani: ئاڵوو‎ (alu)
Latin: tonsillae f pl
Macedonian: крајник m (krajnik)
Navajo: akááz
Norwegian:
Bokmål: mandel (no) m

Nynorsk: mandel m
Polish: migdałek (pl) m
Portuguese: tonsila (pt) f, amígdala (pt) f
Romanian: amigdală (ro) f
Romansch: mandel m (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan), mandla f (Surmiran, Puter, Vallader)
Russian: гла́нда (ru) f (glánda), миндалеви́дная железа́ f (mindalevídnaja železá), минда́лина (ru) f (mindálina)
Slovene: please add this translation if you can
Spanish: amígdala (es) f, amígdala palatina (es) f
Swedish: tonsill (sv) c, halsmandel (sv) c
Tagalog: gutil, diris
Turkish: bademcik (tr)
Ukrainian: мигда́лик m (myhdályk)
Vietnamese: a-mi-đan
Yiddish: מאַנדל‎ n (mandl)

any of the lymphoid masses

Bulgarian: сливица f (slívica)
Czech: mandle (cs) f
Finnish: risa (fi)
Kurdish:
Sorani: ئاڵوو‎ (alu)

Russian: гла́нда (ru) f (glánda)
Spanish: amígdala (es)

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Translations to be checked

Albanian: ^{(please verify)} bajame (sq)
Dutch: ^{(please verify)} amandel (nl) m, ^{(please verify)} keelamandel (nl) m

Italian: ^{(please verify)} tonsilla (it) f
Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} krajnik (sh) m

References

tonsil in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

Liston, Tilson, Tolins, slot in

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