vagina

See also: Appendix:Variations of "vagina"

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Italic *wāgīnā

Latin vāgīnalbor.

English vagina

Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna (“a sheath, scabbard; a covering, sheath, holder”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vəˈdʒaɪ.nə/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -aɪnə
• Hyphenation: va‧gi‧na

Noun

vagina (plural vaginas or vaginae or (obsolete) vaginæ)

2. (anatomy) A sex organ leading from the vulval vestibule/urogenital sinus to the cervix of the uterus for copulation and birth in female therian mammals.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vagina

   Hypernyms: internal genitalia; Müllerian duct, paramesonephric duct, urogenital sinus

   • 1991, Richard Evan Jones, Human Reproductive Biology, →ISBN, page 61:

     The epithelial lining of the vagina consists of many layers of flattened cells. Changes in the condition of these cells during the menstrual cycle can be detected by swabbing the lining and looking at the cells under a microscope.

   1. (zootomy) A similar part in some invertebrates and non-mammalian amniotes.
3. (botany) A sheathlike structure, such as the leaf of a grass that surrounds a stem.

   Synonym: sheath

4. (colloquial) The vulva, or collectively, the vulva and the vaginal passage.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vulva

   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:vagina.
5. (derogatory, colloquial) A coward; a weakling; a pussy.
   • 2002, "The New Terrance And Phillip Movie Trailer" (South Park TV episode)

     Don't you interrupt me, you vagina! I was givin' a heart-wrenchin' soliloquy about me feelin's for Tugger!

6. (transgender slang) The anus of a trans woman.

Usage notes

• In technical discussions of anatomy, the vagina is a wholly internal structure and the vulva is wholly external, but in common use (since at least the 1930s), vagina can refer to the vulva or function as a general term for the entire genitalia.

Derived terms

• neovagina
• sand in one's vagina
• vag
• vagina envy
• vaginaless
• vaginalike
• vagina lips
• vaginamoney
• vaginamony
• vaginaphobia
• vaginaphobic
• vaginize
• vaginoid
• vaginosis
• vagino-, vagin-
• vagoo
• vajacial
• vajazzle
• vattoo

Related terms

• introitus vaginæ
• invaginate
• per vagina
• vagina dentata
• vaginal
• vaginally
• vaginant
• vaginaphobic
• vaginate
• vagina tendinis
• vaginismus

Translations

anatomical sense

• Afar: bus
• Afrikaans: vagina
• Albanian: vaginë f, vagjinë f
• Amharic: እምስ (am) (ʾəms)
• Arabic: مَهْبَل m (mahbal), مَهْبِل m (mahbil), فَرْج (ar) m (farj)

  Egyptian Arabic: ڤاچاينا f (vāžāynā)

• Aragonese: vachina
• Armenian: հեշտոց (hy) (heštocʻ) (formal), պուց (pucʻ) (vulgar)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܚܲܢܘܼܬܵܐ (ḥanūtā), ܥܲܝܒܵܐ (ˁaybā), ܪܲܚܡܵܐ (raḥmā)
• Asturian: vaxina (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: vagina (az), vajina (az), uşaqlıq yolu, am (vulgar)
• Bavarian: fud
• Belarusian: по́хва f (póxva), вагі́на f (vahína), пізда́ f (pizdá) (vulgar)
• Bengali: যোনি (bn) (jōni)
• Bhojpuri: बुर (bur), योनि (yōni)
• Breton: gouhin (br)
• Bulgarian: ваги́на (bg) f (vagína), влага́лище (bg) n (vlagálište), пу́тка (bg) f (pútka) (vulgar)
• Burmese: ယောနိ (my) (yau:ni.), သားအိမ်လမ်းကြောင်း (sa:imlam:kraung:)
• Catalan: vagina (ca)
• Cebuano: bilat, buto (vulgar)
• Chamicuro: shaki
• Cherokee: ᎤᎴᏍᏓᎸᎢ (ulesdalvi)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 陰道 / 阴道 (jam¹ dou⁶)

  Hokkien: 陰道 / 阴道 (im-tō)

  Mandarin: 陰道 / 阴道 (zh) (yīndào)

• Cornish: kons f
• Czech: pochva (cs) f, vagína (cs) f
• Danish: vagina (da) c, skede (da) c
• Dutch: vagina (nl) f, schede (nl) f (formal)
• Egyptian: (kꜣt f)
• Esperanto: vagino
• Estonian: tupp (et), vagiina (et)
• Faroese: skeið f
• Finnish: emätin (fi), vagina (fi)
• French: vagin (fr) m
• Galician: vaxina (gl) f
• Georgian: ვაგინა (vagina), საშო (sašo)
• German: Scheide (de) f, Vagina (de) f
• Greek: κόλπος (el) m (kólpos), κολεός (el) m (koleós)

  Ancient: μυχή (mukhḗ)

• Greenlandic: naalungiarsuup aqqutaa
• Guaraní: rako, tako (gn), tako (gn)
• Guerrero Amuzgo: jne
• Gujarati: યોનિ f (yoni), યોની f (yonī)
• Hawaiian: kohe
• Hebrew: נַרְתִּיק (he) m (nartik)
• Hindi: योनि (hi) f (yoni) (formal, standard), बुर (hi) (bur) (nonstandard, informal), चूत (hi) f (cūt) (vulgar)
• Hungarian: hüvely (hu), vagina (hu)
• Icelandic: leggöng (is) n pl, skeið (is) f, slíður n
• Ido: vagino (io)
• Indonesian: vagina (id), puki (id), farji (id)
• Ingrian: vittu (vulgar), präski (vulgar)
• Irish: faighin f
• Italian: vagina (it) f
• Japanese: 膣 (ja) (chitsu), ワギナ (ja) (wagina), バギナ (ja) (bagina)
• Kannada: ತುಲ್ಲು (kn) (tullu), ಯೋನಿ (kn) (yōni)
• Kashmiri: گوٗد (gūd)
• Kazakh: қынап (qynap), влагалище (vlagalişe)
• Khiamniungan Naga: thāuh
• Khmer: យោនី (km) (yoonii)
• Korean: 보지 (ko) (boji), 질(膣) (ko) (jil), 바기나 (bagina)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: قوز (quz), کوز (kuz)

  Northern Kurdish: quz (ku) m, vajîna (ku), zê (ku) f

• Kyrgyz: влагалище (vlagalişce), ийин (ky) (iyin), жыныс коңулу (jınıs koŋulu)
• Lao: ຊ່ອງຄອດ (sǭng khǭt), ໂຍນີ (nyō nī)
• Latin: vās muliebre n, vāgīna f (late Latin)
• Latvian: vagīna f, maksts (lv) f
• Lithuanian: makštis f
• Macedonian: родница f (rodnica), ваги́на f (vagína), пичка f (pička) (vulgar)
• Malay: faraj (ms), vagina, liang peranakan
• Malayalam: യോനി (ml) (yōni)
• Maltese: vaġina f
• Mandinka: bee
• Mansi:

  Northern Mansi: но̄н (nōn)

• Manx: fine
• Marathi: योनी (yonī)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: эм бэлэг эрхтэн (em beleg erxten), үтрээ (mn) (ütree)

  Mongolian: ᠦᠲᠦᠷᠦᠭᠡ (ütürüge)

• Navajo: ajóózh
• Nepali: पुति (puti) (vulgar), योनीमार्ग (yonīmārga)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: vagina (no) m, skjede m

  Nynorsk: vagina m, skjede m

• Nǀuu: ǃʻum, ǁxʼoe
• Okinawan: 陰目 (ほーみー, hōmī)
• Ottoman Turkish: مهبل (mehbil)
• Pashto: مهبل m (mahbal), فرج m (farǰ)
• Persian: واژن (fa) (vâžan), مهبل (fa) (mahbel), فرج (fa) (farj), چوز (fa) sg (čūz), زهگیر (fa) sg (zehgir, literally “semen-gatherer”) (slang)
• Polabian: pinkă f
• Polish: pochwa (pl) f, wagina (pl) f
• Portuguese: vagina (pt) f
• Romani: mizh f
• Romanian: vagin (ro) n
• Russian: влага́лище (ru) n (vlagálišče), же́нский полово́й о́рган (ru) m (žénskij polovój órgan), ваги́на (ru) f (vagína), пизда́ (ru) f (pizdá) (vulgar)
• Saho: bus
• Sami:

  Inari: iämádâh

  Northern: cinˈná, viigá

  Skolt: njuõckkčoodd

• Sanskrit: योनिः (sa) f (yoniḥ), योनि (sa) f (yoni), स्त्रीन्द्रिय (sa) n (strīndriya)
• Scottish Gaelic: faighean m, truiteag f, geobag f, duillef
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ваги́на f, ро̏дница f

  Roman: vagína (sh) f, rȍdnica (sh) f

• Sicilian: vajina f, vaggina f (learned)
• Sinhalese: යෝනි (yōni)
• Slovak: pošva (sk) f, vagína f
• Slovene: vagína (sl) f, nóžnica (sl) f
• Spanish: vagina (es) f
• Swahili: kuma (sw)
• Swedish: slida (sv) c, vagina (sv)
• Tagalog: puki (tl), kiki, pekpek, daang-bata
• Tajik: маҳбал (mahbal), фарҷ (farj)
• Tamil: யோனி (ta) (yōṉi), பெண்குறி (ta) (peṇkuṟi), (vulgar) புண்டை (ta) (puṇṭai)
• Tatar: дымлык (dımlıq)
• Telugu: యోని (te) (yōni)
• Thai: ช่องคลอด (th) (chɔ̂ng-klɔ̂ɔt), โยนี (th) (yoo-nii)
• Tibetan: སྟུ (stu), མོ་མཚན (mo mtshan), གསོལ་སྟུ (gsol stu)
• Tigrinya: ጉሕጓሕ (guḥgʷaḥ)
• Tocharian B: strīndri
• Tooro: emana class 9
• Turkish: vajina (tr), am (tr), mehbil
• Turkmen: wlagalişe, am
• Ukrainian: пі́хва f (píxva), вагі́на (uk) f (vahína), пизда́ f (pyzdá) (vulgar)
• Urdu: چوت (ur) f (cūt) (vulgar), پھدی (ur) (phuddi) (vulgar), فرج (farj), وجائنا (vajā'inā)
• Uyghur: جىنسىي يول (jinsiy yol)
• Uzbek: qin (uz), diloq, vagina
• Vietnamese: âm đạo (vi) (陰道), lồn (vi) (slang, vulgar)
• Volapük: vagin
• Welsh: gwain f
• West Frisian: fagina, skie
• Wiradjuri: binij
• Yiddish: שייד f (sheyd), וואַגינע f (vagine), מוטערשייד f (mutersheyd)
• Zazaki: kis

zootomical sense

• Catalan: vagina (ca) f
• Czech: vagina (cs) f

botanical sense

• Estonian: tupp (et)
• Finnish: tuppi (fi)
• Italian: guaina (it) f
• Sicilian: vajina f

vulva — see vulva

References

• Fielding, Lucie (2021) Trans Sex: Clinical Approaches to Trans Sexualities and Erotic Embodiments, New York: Routledge, →ISBN, page 96
• Zimman, Lal (2014 August 1) “The Discursive Construction of Sex: Remaking and Reclaiming the Gendered Body in Talk About Genitals Among Trans Men”, in Queer Excursions: Retheorizing Binaries in Language, Gender, and Sexuality‎^[1], Oxford UP, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 13–34

Further reading

• “vagina”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “vagina”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Anagrams

• Gavina

Afrikaans

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna.

Noun

vagina (plural [please provide])

1. (anatomy) vagina

   Synonym: skede

Further reading

• "vagina" at majstro.com

Catalan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna. Doublet of beina.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [bəˈʒi.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [vəˈʒi.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [vaˈd͡ʒi.na]

• Audio:

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Noun

vagina f (plural vagines)

1. (anatomy) vagina

Related terms

• vaginal

Danish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna.

Noun

vagina c (singular definite vaginaen, plural indefinite vaginaer)

1. (anatomy) vagina

Declension

Declension of vagina

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	vagina	vaginaen	vaginaer	vaginaerne
genitive	vaginas	vaginaens	vaginaers	vaginaernes

Synonyms

• (female genitalia): fisse, kusse, skede (clinical), tissekone (childish), fjams, fissehul (derogatory)

Derived terms

• neovagina
• vaginalsekret
• vaginose

Dutch

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvaːɣinaː/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: va‧gi‧na
• Rhymes: -aːɣinaː

Noun

vagina f (plural vagina's, diminutive vaginaatje n)

1. (anatomy) vagina

   Synonyms: schede; see also Thesaurus:vagina

Related terms

• vaginaal
• vaginose

Esperanto

Etymology

From vagino +‎ -a.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [vaˈɡina]
• Rhymes: -ina
• Hyphenation: va‧gin‧a

• Audio:

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Adjective

vagina (accusative singular vaginan, plural vaginaj, accusative plural vaginajn)

1. vaginal

Finnish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna (“sheath”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋɑɡinɑ/, [ˈʋɑ̝ɡinɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑɡinɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): va‧gi‧na

Noun

vagina

1. (anatomy) vagina

   Synonym: emätin

Declension

Inflection of vagina (Kotus type 13/katiska, no gradation)
nominative		vagina	vaginat
genitive		vaginan	vaginoiden vaginoitten vaginojen
partitive		vaginaa	vaginoita vaginoja
illative		vaginaan	vaginoihin
		singular	plural
nominative		vagina	vaginat
accusative	nom.	vagina	vaginat
	gen.	vaginan
genitive		vaginan	vaginoiden vaginoitten vaginojen vaginain rare
partitive		vaginaa	vaginoita vaginoja
inessive		vaginassa	vaginoissa
elative		vaginasta	vaginoista
illative		vaginaan	vaginoihin
adessive		vaginalla	vaginoilla
ablative		vaginalta	vaginoilta
allative		vaginalle	vaginoille
essive		vaginana	vaginoina
translative		vaginaksi	vaginoiksi
abessive		vaginatta	vaginoitta
instructive		—	vaginoin
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

Possessive forms of vagina (Kotus type 13/katiska, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative vaginani vaginani accusative nom. vaginani vaginani gen. vaginani genitive vaginani vaginoideni vaginoitteni vaginojeni vaginaini rare partitive vaginaani vaginoitani vaginojani inessive vaginassani vaginoissani elative vaginastani vaginoistani illative vaginaani vaginoihini adessive vaginallani vaginoillani ablative vaginaltani vaginoiltani allative vaginalleni vaginoilleni essive vaginanani vaginoinani translative vaginakseni vaginoikseni abessive vaginattani vaginoittani instructive — — comitative — vaginoineni second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative vaginasi vaginasi accusative nom. vaginasi vaginasi gen. vaginasi genitive vaginasi vaginoidesi vaginoittesi vaginojesi vaginaisi rare partitive vaginaasi vaginoitasi vaginojasi inessive vaginassasi vaginoissasi elative vaginastasi vaginoistasi illative vaginaasi vaginoihisi adessive vaginallasi vaginoillasi ablative vaginaltasi vaginoiltasi allative vaginallesi vaginoillesi essive vaginanasi vaginoinasi translative vaginaksesi vaginoiksesi abessive vaginattasi vaginoittasi instructive — — comitative — vaginoinesi first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative vaginamme vaginamme accusative nom. vaginamme vaginamme gen. vaginamme genitive vaginamme vaginoidemme vaginoittemme vaginojemme vaginaimme rare partitive vaginaamme vaginoitamme vaginojamme inessive vaginassamme vaginoissamme elative vaginastamme vaginoistamme illative vaginaamme vaginoihimme adessive vaginallamme vaginoillamme ablative vaginaltamme vaginoiltamme allative vaginallemme vaginoillemme essive vaginanamme vaginoinamme translative vaginaksemme vaginoiksemme abessive vaginattamme vaginoittamme instructive — — comitative — vaginoinemme second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative vaginanne vaginanne accusative nom. vaginanne vaginanne gen. vaginanne genitive vaginanne vaginoidenne vaginoittenne vaginojenne vaginainne rare partitive vaginaanne vaginoitanne vaginojanne inessive vaginassanne vaginoissanne elative vaginastanne vaginoistanne illative vaginaanne vaginoihinne adessive vaginallanne vaginoillanne ablative vaginaltanne vaginoiltanne allative vaginallenne vaginoillenne essive vaginananne vaginoinanne translative vaginaksenne vaginoiksenne abessive vaginattanne vaginoittanne instructive — — comitative — vaginoinenne third-person possessor singular plural nominative vaginansa vaginansa accusative nom. vaginansa vaginansa gen. vaginansa genitive vaginansa vaginoidensa vaginoittensa vaginojensa vaginainsa rare partitive vaginaansa vaginoitaan vaginojaan vaginoitansa vaginojansa inessive vaginassaan vaginassansa vaginoissaan vaginoissansa elative vaginastaan vaginastansa vaginoistaan vaginoistansa illative vaginaansa vaginoihinsa adessive vaginallaan vaginallansa vaginoillaan vaginoillansa ablative vaginaltaan vaginaltansa vaginoiltaan vaginoiltansa allative vaginalleen vaginallensa vaginoilleen vaginoillensa essive vaginanaan vaginanansa vaginoinaan vaginoinansa translative vaginakseen vaginaksensa vaginoikseen vaginoiksensa abessive vaginattaan vaginattansa vaginoittaan vaginoittansa instructive — — comitative — vaginoineen vaginoinensa

Derived terms

compounds

• tekovagina
• vaginakuula

Further reading

• “vagina”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-04

Indonesian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vaˈɡi.na/, [fäˈɡi.nä]
• Rhymes: -ina
• Hyphenation: va‧gi‧na

Noun

vagina

1. vagina

Derived terms

• pervaginaan

References

• “vagina” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Interlingua

Noun

vagina (plural vaginas)

1. vagina

Related terms

• vaginal

Italian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna. Doublet of guaina.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vaˈd͡ʒi.na/
• Rhymes: -ina
• Hyphenation: va‧gì‧na

Noun

vagina f (plural vagine)

1. (anatomy) vagina

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vagina

Derived terms

• invaginare
• vaginale
• vaginalite
• vaginalmente
• vaginismo
• vaginite
• vulvovaginale
• vulvovaginite

See also

• cervice
• vulva

Anagrams

• gavina, ignava, naviga, vangai

Latin

Alternative forms

• uāgīna

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Italic *wāgīnā

Latin vāgīna

From Proto-Italic *wāgīnā (“sheath, scabbard”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *wag- (“sheath, cover”). Tentatively cognate with Lithuanian vóžti (“to cover”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯aːˈɡiː.na/, [u̯äːˈɡiːnä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /vaˈd͡ʒi.na/, [väˈd͡ʒiːnä]

Noun

vāgīna f (genitive vāgīnae); first declension

1. (literal) a sheath, scabbard
   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 5.44:

     Avertit hic casus vaginam et gladium educere conanti dextram moratur manum, impeditumque hostes circumsistunt.

     This circumstance turns aside his scabbard and obstructs his right hand when attempting to draw his sword: the enemy crowd around him when [thus] embarrassed.

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.579:

     Dixit, vaginaque eripit ensem fulmineum, strictoque ferit retinacula ferro.

     He said, and from its scabbard forth he flashed the lightning of his sword, with his sword he struck the hawsers.

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.928–930:

     ‘inquinet arma situs, cōnātusque aliquis vāgīnā dūcere ferrum adstrictum longā sentiat esse morā.’

     Literally:
     ‘‘May [rust] stain weapons having been set down, and anyone having tried to draw from the scabbard to be feeling the iron having been tightened by a prolonged delay.’’
     Or in more natural English:
     ‘‘May rust stain disused weapons, and let anyone who tries to pull his sword from the scabbard feel it stuck by long neglect.’’

   Mitte gladium in vaginam. ― Put the sword into its sheath.

   Gladium vaginā proripere. ― To draw a sword from the sheath hastily.

2. (transferred sense) the covering, sheath, holder of anything
   • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia XI.198:

     Omnia quidem principalia viscera membranis propriis ac velut vaginis inclusit providens natura.

     Indeed provident Nature has enclosed all the principal internal organs with special membranes serving as sheaths.

   Cremato eo (corpore), inimici ... remeanti animae veluti vaginam ademerint.

   (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   1. the hull, husk
   2. (anatomy) the vagina
   3. (zootomy, in cats) the sheath of a claw

Usage notes

The anatomical sense is a Medieval euphemism not attested in Classical literature.

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	vāgīna	vāgīnae
genitive	vāgīnae	vāgīnārum
dative	vāgīnae	vāgīnīs
accusative	vāgīnam	vāgīnās
ablative	vāgīnā	vāgīnīs
vocative	vāgīna	vāgīnae

Derived terms

• ēvāgīnō (verb)
• neovāgīna (New Latin, surgery)
• vāgīnālis (adjective)
• vāgīnula (diminutive)

Related terms

• ēvaginātiō

Descendants

• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: vaina
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: bainha (“sheath”)
    • Galician: vaíña, baíña
    • Portuguese: bainha
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: (“pod”)
    • Fala: vaina
    • Galician: vaxa, gaxa, vaixa, varxa
    • Portuguese: vagem, vage, bagem
  • Spanish: vaina
    • ⇒ Spanish: vainilla (see there for further descendants)
      • → English: vanilla
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: beina
  • Old French: guaïne
    • French: gaine
  • Occitan: gaina
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Piedmontese: vèina
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: guaina
• Borrowings:
  • → Old Irish: faigen
    • Irish: faighin
    • Manx: fine
    • Scottish Gaelic: faighean
  • → Proto-Brythonic: *gwėɣin (see there for further descendants)

Borrowings (anatomical sense):

• → Afrikaans: vagina
• → Albanian: vaginë, vagjinë
• → Aragonese: vachina
• → Asturian: vaxina
• → Azerbaijani: vagina
• → Belarusian: вагіна (vahina)
• → Bulgarian: вагина (vagina)
• → Catalan: vagina
• → Czech: vagína
• → Danish: vagina
• → Dutch: vagina
• → English: vagina
• → Finnish: vagina
• → French: vagin (see there for further descendants)
• → Friulian: vagine, vazine
• → Galician: vaxina
• → Georgian: ვაგინა (vagina)
• → German: Vagina
• → Japanese: ワギナ (wagina)
• → Korean: 바기나 (bagina)
• → Northern Kurdish: vajîna
• → Indonesian: vagina
• → Italian: vagina
• → Latvian: vagīna
• → Macedonian: вагина (vagina)
• → Maltese: vaġina
• → Norwegian Bokmål: vagina
• → Occitan: vagina
• → Portuguese: vagina
• → Russian: ваги́на (vagína)
• → Serbo-Croatian:
  • Cyrillic script: вагина
  • Latin script: vagina
• → Sicilian: vajina, vagina
• → Slovak: vagína
• → Slovene: vagina
• → Spanish: vagina
• → Swedish: vagina
• → Turkish: vajina
• → Ukrainian: вагіна (vahina)
• → Uzbek: vagina
• → Venetan: vaxina, vazina
• → West Frisian: fagina
• → Yiddish: וואַגינע (vagine)

References

• "vagina", in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "vagina", in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "vagina", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• vagina in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• "vagina", in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "vagina", in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “vagina”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna. Doublet of vanilje.

Noun

vagina m (definite singular vaginaen, indefinite plural vaginaer, definite plural vaginaene)

1. (anatomy) vagina

   Synonym: skjede

Derived terms

• vaginose

References

• “vagina” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna.

Noun

vagina m (definite singular vaginaen, indefinite plural vaginaer or vaginaar, definite plural vaginaene or vaginaane)

1. (anatomy) vagina

   Synonym: skjede

Derived terms

• vaginose

References

• “vagina” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Occitan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Béarn):

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Noun

vagina f (plural vaginas)

1. (anatomy) vagina

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna. Doublet of bainha, baunilha, and vagem.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /vaˈʒĩ.nɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /vaˈʒĩ.nɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /vaˈʒi.na/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /vɐˈʒi.nɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /vɐˈʒi.nɐ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɐˈʒi.nɐ/

• Hyphenation: va‧gi‧na

Noun

vagina f (plural vaginas)

1. (anatomy) vagina

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vagina

Derived terms

• vaginal

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʋaɡǐːna/
• Hyphenation: va‧gi‧na

Noun

vagína f (Cyrillic spelling ваги́на)

1. (anatomy) vagina

   Synonym: rȍdnica

Declension

Declension of vagina

	singular	plural
nominative	vagína	vagine
genitive	vagine	vagina
dative	vagini	vaginama
accusative	vaginu	vagine
vocative	vagino	vagine
locative	vagini	vaginama
instrumental	vaginom	vaginama

Slovene

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʋaɡíːna/

Noun

vagȋna f

1. (anatomy) vagina

Inflection

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Feminine, a-stem
nom. sing.	vagína
gen. sing.	vagíne
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	vagína	vagíni	vagíne
genitive (rodȋlnik)	vagíne	vagín	vagín
dative (dajȃlnik)	vagíni	vagínama	vagínam
accusative (tožȋlnik)	vagíno	vagíni	vagíne
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	vagíni	vagínah	vagínah
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	vagíno	vagínama	vagínami

Derived terms

• vaginálen

Further reading

• “vagina”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

Spanish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna. Doublet of vaina.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baˈxina/ [baˈxi.na]
• Rhymes: -ina
• Syllabification: va‧gi‧na

Noun

vagina f (plural vaginas)

1. (anatomy) vagina

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vagina

Related terms

• vaginal

Further reading

• “vagina”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Swedish

Noun

vagina c

1. (anatomy) vagina

   Synonyms: slida, (vulgar) fitthål

Declension

Declension of vagina

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	vagina	vaginas
	definite	vaginan	vaginans
plural	indefinite	vaginor	vaginors
	definite	vaginorna	vaginornas

Derived terms

• neovagina

Related terms

• vaginal

See also

• sköte
• underliv
• vulva
• fitta
• penis

References

• vagina in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• vagina in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• vagina in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• Svensk MeSH
• Fula Ordboken