womb
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womb
- /wuːm/
Rhymes with -uːm
Where it comes from
From Middle English wombe, wambe, from Old English womb, wamb (“belly, stomach; bowels; heart; womb; hollow”), from Proto-West Germanic *wambu, from Proto-Germanic *wambō (“belly, stomach, abdomen”). Cognate with Scots wam, wame (“womb”), Dutch wam (“dewlap of beef; belly of a fish”), German Wamme, Wampe (“paunch, belly”), Danish vom (“belly, paunch, rumen”), Swedish våmb (“belly, stomach, rumen”), Norwegian vom (“rumen”), Icelandic vömb (“belly, abdomen, stomach”), Old Welsh gumbelauc (“womb”), Breton gwamm (“woman, wife”), Sanskrit वपा (vapā́, “the skin or membrane lining the intestines or parts of the viscera, the caul or omentum”). Superseded nonnative Middle English mater, matere (“womb”), and matris, matrice (“womb”) borrowed from Latin māter (“womb”) and Old French matrice (“womb”), respectively.
noun wombs · wame
- In female mammals, the organ in which the young are conceived and grow until birth; the uterus. I danced myself right out the womb / Is it strange to dance so soon?
- The abdomen or stomach. And his hede, hym semed,was enamyled with asure, and his shuldyrs shone as the golde, and his wombe was lyke mayles of a merveylous hew[…].
- The stomach of a person or creature.
- A place where something is made or formed. The womb of earth the genial seed receives.
- Any cavity containing and enveloping anything. The centre spike of gold Which burns deep in the blue-bell's womb.
verb wombs · wombing · wombed · wame
- To enclose in a womb, or as if in a womb; to breed or hold in secret.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: uterus, uterine, gut, cervix, stomach, spleen, tummy, cancer, pregnancy, stomachache, birth, cervical, vaccine, underbelly, abdomen, belly
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noun uterus
| Español | vientre |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 자궁 jagung |
| 日本語 | 子宮 shikyū, 母胎 botai |
| 中文 | 子宮 /子宫 zǐgōng |
| हिन्दी | गर्भ garbh, गर्भाशय garbhāśay, बच्चादानी baccādānī |
| Kiswahili | nyumba ya uzazi, tumbo |
| Português | útero, matriz |
| Français | utérus, ventre, matrice, sein, entrailles |
| Deutsch | Gebärmutter, Uterus, Mutterleib, Schoß |
| Italiano | utero, grembo |
| Ελληνικά | μήτρα mítra |
| Română | uter, matcă |
| Русский | ма́тка mátka, утро́ба utróba, чре́во črévo |
| Tiếng Việt | tử cung, dạ con |
| العربية | رَحِم raḥim, بَيْت الْوَلِد bayt al-walid |
| עברית | רֶחֶם \ רַחַם rékhem, rákham |
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title = {womb},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/womb},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
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