urination

English

A man urinating.

A woman urinating.

Etymology

From urinate +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jʊəɹɪˈneɪʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

urination (countable and uncountable, plural urinations)

1. The process of passing urine, that is, of eliminating liquid waste from the body.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:urination

Derived terms

• urination station

 

Related terms

• urine (noun)
• urinate (verb)

Translations

the process of eliminating liquid waste from the body — see also piss,‎ wee,‎ wee-wee

• Bulgarian: уриниране n (urinirane)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 排尿 (zh) (páiniào), 撒尿 (zh) (sāniào), 泌尿 (zh) (mìniào)

• Czech: močení n
• Danish: urinering c
• Esperanto: urinado
• Finnish: virtsaaminen (fi)
• French: miction (fr) f
• German: Miktion (de) f, Urinieren n, Harnlassen n
• Greek: ούρηση (el) f (oúrisi)
• Hebrew: השתנה (he) f (ha'shta'na)
• Hungarian: vizelés (hu), vizeletürítés
• Italian: minzione (it) f
• Japanese: 排尿 (ja) (はいにょう, hainyō), 放尿 (ja) (ほうにょう, hōnyō)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: urinering m or f

  Nynorsk: urinering f

• Polish: oddawanie moczu n
• Portuguese: urinação f, mijo (pt)
• Romanian: urinare (ro) f, micțiune (ro) f
• Russian: мочеиспуска́ние (ru) n (močeispuskánije)
• Spanish: micción (es) f
• Swedish: urinering (sv) c, vattenkastning (sv) c
• Turkish: işeme (tr)

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