umbilical cord

English

Noun

umbilical cord (plural umbilical cords)

(anatomy) The flexible structure connecting a foetus with the placenta; it transports nourishment to the foetus and removes waste.
(aeronautics, space) The line that supplies an astronaut with oxygen and communications when outside a spacecraft.
(aeronautics, space) Any of the various lines connecting a rocket to its launch pad before liftoff.
(figuratively) An overdependence on, or overattachment to, one's parents or guardians.

Synonyms

(anatomical structure): navel-string/navel string

Derived terms

cut the umbilical cord

Translations

cord between foetus and placenta

Arabic: حَبْل سُرِّيّ‎ m (ḥabl surriyy)
Armenian: պորտալար (hy) (portalar)
Azerbaijani: göbək ciyəsi
Bashkir: кендек бауы (kendek bawï), кендек (kendek)
Belarusian: пупаві́на f (pupavína)
Bulgarian: пъ̀пна връв f (pǎ̀pna vrǎv)
Burmese: ချက်ကြိုး (my) (hkyakkrui:)
Catalan: cordó umbilical m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 臍帶, 脐带 (ci⁴ daai³^-²)

Hakka: 臍帶, 脐带 (chhì-tai)

Mandarin: 臍帶 (zh), 脐带 (zh) (qídaì)

Min Nan: 臍帶, 脐带 (châi-tòa)
Classical Nahuatl: xīcmecayōtl
Czech: pupeční šňůra f
Danish: navlestreng (da) c
Dutch: navelstreng (nl) m, navelsnoer f
Erzya: почопикс (počopiks)
Estonian: nabanöör
Finnish: napanuora (fi)
French: cordon ombilical (fr) m
Georgian: ჭიპლარი (č̣iṗlari)
German: Nabelschnur (de) f
Greek: ομφάλιος λωρός m (omfálios lorós)
Hebrew: חֶבֶל הַטַבּוּר‎ m
Hindi: नाभिरज्जु m (nābhirajju)
Hungarian: köldökzsinór (hu)
Ido: umbilikala kordono
Indonesian: tali pusat (id)
Italian: cordone ombelicale m
Japanese: 臍帯 (さいたい, saitai), 臍の緒 (へそのお, heso no o)
Kabuverdianu: unbigu

Kazakh: кіндікбау (kindikbaw)
Khmer: ទងផ្ចិត (km) (tɔɔng phcət)
Korean: 제대 (ko) (jedae) (臍帶), 탯줄 (taetjul)
Kyrgyz: киндик (ky) (kindik)
Lao: ສາຍບື (lo) (sāi bư̄), ສາຍສະບື (sāi sa bư̄)
Latin: nervus umbilicaris m
Latvian: nabassaite f
Lithuanian: virkštelė f
Macedonian: папочна врвца f (papočna vrvca)
Maori: tāngaengae, iho, uho, rauru (the end connecting to the placenta), pito (the end connecting to the foetus), kaha (mi)
Norman: cordon d'un nouvieau-né m
Norwegian: navlestreng m
Persian: بند ناف‎ (fa) (band-e nâf)
Polish: pępowina (pl) f
Portuguese: cordão umbilical (pt) m
Russian: пупови́на (ru) f (pupovína)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: пупчана врпца f

Roman: pupčana vrpca (sh) f
Slovak: pupočná šnúra f
Slovene: popkovnica f, popkovina (sl) f
Spanish: cuerda umbilical f
Swahili: kitovu (sw)
Swedish: navelsträng (sv) c
Tagalog: talimpusod
Tajik: наи ноф (nayi nof)
Thai: สายสะดือ (sǎai-sà-dʉʉ)
Turkish: göbek bağı (tr)
Ukrainian: пупови́на f (pupovýna)
Uzbek: kindik ichakchasi
Vietnamese: cuống nhau, dây rốn

line connecting an astronaut to the spacecraft during spacewalk

Finnish: napanuora (fi)
Hungarian: köldökzsinór (hu)

Swahili: kitovu (sw)

any line connecting a rocket to its launch pad

Finnish: napanuora (fi)

Swahili: kitovu (sw)

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