anal

See also: Appendix:Variations of "anal"

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ānālis.

Psychological sense shortened from anal-retentive.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈeɪ.nəl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪnəl

Adjective

anal (comparative more anal, superlative most anal)

1. (not comparable) Of, related to, intended for or involving the anus. [from 18th c.]

   anal thermometer

   an anal examination

   anal sex

2. (psychoanalysis) Of the stage in psychosexual development when the child's interest is alleged to be concentrated on the anal region. [from 20th c.]
3. (psychology, also vulgar informal) Of a person, compulsive and stubborn, obsessed with neatness and accuracy, supposedly from not having progressed beyond the anal stage. [from 20th c.]

   Please don't touch his furniture, as he can get very anal about things like that.

   • 1995, Leonard Shengold, Delusions of Everyday Life, page 39:

     He was a model of anal defensiveness: fastidious in his dress and appearance, a collector and putter of things in order, a classifier and labeler.

4. (informal, vulgar) Of tasks, questions, subject matter, etc., obsessively fussy or precise.

   This questionnaire goes into the most ridiculous amount of detail. It's totally anal.

5. (entomology, of a vein) Proximate to the thorax.

Synonyms

• (compulsive and stubborn): fussy, pernickety, picky, anal-retentive

Derived terms

• abanal
• adanal
• anal beads
• anal cleft
• anal-erotic
• anal expulsive, anal-expulsive
• anal fin
• anal fissure
• anal fistula
• anal gland
• anal glaucoma
• anal hook
• anal intercourse
• anality
• analize
• anally
• anal marriage
• anal pore
• anal retentive, anal-retentive
• anal-retentiveness
• anal sac
• anal sadism
• anal-sadistic
• anal sex
• anal sphincter
• anal vein
• analward
• anilingus
• circumanal
• coloanal
• endoanal
• genitoanal
• ileoanal
• ischioanal
• oroanal
• painal
• paranal
• perianal
• postanal
• preanal
• pre-anal
• puboanal
• rectoanal
• subanal
• supraanal
• suranal
• transanal
• ventrianal
• vesicoanal

Related terms

• anus

Translations

of, related to, intended for or involving the anus

Arabic: شَرَجِيّ (šarajiyy) Armenian: սրբանային (hy) (srbanayin), հետանցքային (hy) (hetancʻkʻayin) Belarusian: ана́льны (análʹny) Bulgarian: ана́лен (análen) Catalan: anal (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 肛門 / 肛门 (zh) (gāngmén) Czech: anální (cs) Dutch: anaal (nl) Esperanto: anusa Estonian: anaalne Finnish: anaalinen (fi) French: anal (fr) Galician: anal (gl) German: anal (de) Greek: πρωκτικός (el) (proktikós) Hindi: गुदा (hi) m (gudā) Indonesian: anal (id) Irish: anasach, tóna Italian: anale (it) Japanese: 尻 (ja) (しり, shiri) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: کۆمی (komî) Latvian: anāls Lithuanian: analinis Persian: مقعدی (fa) (maq'adi) Polish: odbytniczy (pl), odbytowy (pl), analny (pl), odbytnicowy Portuguese: anal (pt) Russian: ана́льный (ru) (análʹnyj) Samogitian: analėnės Sanskrit: भसद्य (sa) (bhasadya) Slovene: analen (sl) Spanish: anal (es) Turkish: anal (tr) Ukrainian: ана́льний (uk) (análʹnyj) Urdu: گدا m (gudā)

of the stage in psychosexual development

Catalan: anal (ca) Finnish: anaalinen (fi) French: anal (fr) German: anal (de) Italian: anale (it) Portuguese: anal (pt) Spanish: anal (es) Turkish: anal (tr)

of a person, compulsive and stubborn

Chinese: Mandarin: 吹毛求疵的 (chuīmáoqiúcīde) Finnish: anaalinen (fi) German: zwanghaft (de), stur (de), pingelig (de), kleinlich (de), pedantisch (de), etepetete (de), heikel (de), eigen (de), zimperlich (de), übergenau (de), überkorrekt, spießig (de) Lithuanian: smulkmeniškas Polish: pedantyczny (pl) Portuguese: anal (pt) m or f Russian: буквое́д (ru) (bukvojéd) Spanish: fastidioso (es), meticuloso (es)

See also

• oral

Noun

anal (countable and uncountable, plural anals)

1. (countable) Any of the anal scales of a reptile.
2. (uncountable, informal) Anal sex.

   In the right mood, I'll accept anal.

   I'll do anything except anal.

Verb

anal (third-person singular simple present anals, present participle (US) analing or (Commonwealth) analling, simple past and past participle (US) analed or (Commonwealth) analled)

1. (transitive, slang, rare, chiefly in pornography) To penetrate anally.

   The man with the huge cock analed the hot chick.

   • 2011, “L.E.S.”, in Camp, performed by Childish Gambino:

     Analling anyone is the plan for the evening / I'm kidding, stop

Anagrams

• Alan, Lana, Nala, alan, lana, nala

Breton

Noun

anal f (plural analioù)

1. breath

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əˈnal]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [aˈnal]

Adjective

anal m or f (masculine and feminine plural anals)

1. anal

Derived terms

• sexe anal

Related terms

• anus

Further reading

• “anal”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], 2007 April
• “anal”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “anal” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “anal” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Cornish

Etymology

From Middle Cornish anel, from Proto-Brythonic *anadl, from Proto-Celtic *anatlā. Cognate with Breton anal, Irish anáil, Manx ennal, Scottish Gaelic anail, and Welsh anadl.

Noun

anal f

1. breath

   Synonym: hwyth

Derived terms

• anella (“breathe”, verb)
• aneller (“inhaler”)

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ānālis, or coined in French from anus +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.nal/

• Audio:

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• Homophones: anale, anales, annal, annale, annales

Adjective

anal (feminine anale, masculine plural anaux, feminine plural anales)

1. (relational) anus; anal

Derived terms

• nageoire anale
• sexe anal
• stade anal

Noun

anal m (uncountable)

1. (informal) Ellipsis of sexe anal.

Further reading

• “anal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Galician

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈnal/ [aˈnɑɫ]
• Rhymes: -al
• Hyphenation: a‧nal

Adjective

anal m or f (plural anais)

1. anal

Further reading

• “anal”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ānālis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈnaːl/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -aːl

Adjective

anal (strong nominative masculine singular analer, not comparable)

1. anal

Declension

number & gender		singular			plural
		masculine	feminine	neuter
predicative		er ist anal	sie ist anal	es ist anal	sie sind anal
strong declension (without article)	nominative	analer	anale	anales	anale
	genitive	analen	analer	analen	analer
	dative	analem	analer	analem	analen
	accusative	analen	anale	anales	anale
weak declension (with definite article)	nominative	der anale	die anale	das anale	die analen
	genitive	des analen	der analen	des analen	der analen
	dative	dem analen	der analen	dem analen	den analen
	accusative	den analen	die anale	das anale	die analen
mixed declension (with indefinite article)	nominative	ein analer	eine anale	ein anales	(keine) analen
	genitive	eines analen	einer analen	eines analen	(keiner) analen
	dative	einem analen	einer analen	einem analen	(keinen) analen
	accusative	einen analen	eine anale	ein anales	(keine) analen

Positive forms of anal (uncomparable)

Derived terms

• perianal

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch anaal, from French anal, from Latin ānālis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈanal]
• Hyphenation: anal

Adjective

anal (comparative lebih anal, superlative paling anal)

1. anal: of, related to, intended for or involving the anus

Related terms

• anus

Further reading

• “anal” 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.

Polish

Etymology

Back-formation from analny.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.nal/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -anal
• Syllabification: a‧nal

Noun

anal m inan

1. (colloquial, vulgar) anal (anal sex)

   Coordinate term: oral

Declension

	singular
nominative	anal
genitive	anala/analu
dative	analowi
accusative	anal
instrumental	analem
locative	analu
vocative	analu

Declension of anal

Further reading

• anal in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈnaw/ [aˈnaʊ̯]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐˈnal/ [ɐˈnaɫ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐˈnal/ [ɐˈnaɫ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐˈna.li/

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
• Hyphenation: a‧nal

Etymology 1

From Latin annālis. By surface analysis, ano +‎ al.

Alternative forms

• annal (pre-standardization spelling)

Noun

anal m (plural anais)

1. (chiefly in the plural) annal (record of events)

   Os anais da história não registam este facto. ― The annals of history have no record of this fact.

Adjective

anal m or f (plural anais)

1. (obsolete) annual, yearly (happening once a year)

   Synonym: anual

Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Latin ānālis.

Adjective

anal m or f (plural anais, not comparable)

1. anal

Derived terms

• analmente
• sexo anal

Related terms

• ânus

Noun

anal m (plural anais)

1. Ellipsis of sexo anal.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French anal, Latin ānālis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [aˈnal]

Adjective

anal m or n (feminine singular anală, masculine plural anali, feminine and neuter plural anale)

1. anal

Declension

Declension of anal

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	anal		anală		anali	anale
	definite	analul		anala		analii	analele
genitive- dative	indefinite	anal		anale		anali	anale
	definite	analului		analei		analilor	analelor

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈnal/ [aˈnal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: a‧nal

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin ānālis.

Adjective

anal m or f (masculine and feminine plural anales)

1. anal

Derived terms

• aleta anal
• analmente
• cuentas anales
• dolor anal
• sexo anal
• tapón anal

Related terms

• ano

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin annālis. Doublet of añal.

Noun

anal m (plural anales)

1. annal
   • NRV XXI, 2 Kings 10:34

     Los demás hechos de Jehú ... están escritos en los anales de los reyes de Israel.

     The other deeds of Jehu ... are written in the annals of the kings of Israel.

Related terms

• anual
• año

Further reading

• “anal”, 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

Etymology

From New Latin analis

Adjective

anal (not comparable)

1. anal (of or related to the anus)

Declension

Inflection of anal

Indefinite	positive	comparative	superlative1
common singular	anal	—	—
neuter singular	analt	—	—
plural	anala	—	—
masculine plural2	anale	—	—
Definite	positive	comparative	superlative
masculine singular3	anale	—	—
all	anala	—	—

¹ The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
² Dated or archaic.
³ Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

Derived terms

• analblekning (“anal bleaching”)
• analfena (“anal fin”)
• analfissur (“anal fissure”)
• analplugg (“butt plug”)
• analpropp (“anal plug”)
• analkula (“anal bead”)
• analsex (“anal sex”)
• analsond (“anal probe”)
• analtampong (“anal tampon”)
• analöppning (“anus”)

See also

• anilingus
• anus

References

• anal in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• anal in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• anal in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)