tonsil

English

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tonsil

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Etymology

Late 16th century borrowing from French tonsille or Latin tonsillae (“the tonsils in the throat”, plural).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtɒn.səl/, /ˈtɒn.sɪl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɑn.səl/
• Homophone: tonsile (General American)
• Rhymes: -ɒnsəl

Noun

tonsil (plural tonsils)

1. (anatomy, immunology) Ellipsis of palatine tonsil.
2. (anatomy, immunology) Any of various small masses of lymphoid tissues.

   Hyponyms: adenoid, faucial tonsil, lingual tonsil, Luschka's tonsil, nasopharyngeal tonsil, palatine tonsil, pharyngeal tonsil, third tonsil

Derived terms

• tonsil hockey
• tonsillectomy
• tonsilotome
• tonsil stone
• tonsil tennis
• to the tonsils, up to the tonsils

Related terms

• tonsillar
• tonsillo-, tonsill-

Translations

palatine tonsil

Albanian: barth (sq) m, bajame (sq) Arabic: لَوْزَة f (lawza) Hijazi Arabic: لُوَز f pl (luwaz) Armenian: նշիկ (hy) (nšik), նշագեղձ (hy) (nšageġj), (colloquial) գլանդ (gland) Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܢܲܚܢܲܚܬܵܐ f (naḳnaḳtā), ܦܪܵܩܬܵܐ f (prāqtā) (colloquial) Azerbaijani: badamcıq Basque: amigdala Belarusian: мінда́ліна f (mindálina) Bulgarian: сли́вица (bg) f (slívica) Catalan: amígdala (ca) f Chinese: Cantonese: 扁桃腺 (bin2 tou4 sin3) Mandarin: 扁桃體 / 扁桃体 (zh) (biǎntáotǐ), 扁桃腺 (zh) (biǎntáoxiàn) Czech: krční mandle (cs) f Danish: mandel (da) c Dutch: keelamandel (nl) m or f, tonsil (nl) f, amandel (nl) f Esperanto: tonsilo (eo) Estonian: mandel Finnish: nielurisa (fi) French: amygdale (fr) f Georgian: ნუშურა (nušura), ნუშურა ჯირკვალი (nušura ǯirḳvali), გლანდი (glandi) German: Mandel (de) f, Tonsille f Greek: αμυγδαλή (el) f (amygdalí) Ancient: παρίσθμιον n (parísthmion), ἀντιάς f (antiás) Hebrew: שָׁקֵד (he) (shakéd) Hindi: गलतुंडिका f (galtuṇḍikā), गलतुण्डिका f (galtuṇḍikā) Hungarian: mandula (hu) Ido: tonsilo (io) Italian: tonsilla (it) f Japanese: 扁桃腺 (ja) (へんとうせん, hentōsen), 扁桃 (ja) (へんとう, hentō) Kazakh: бадамша (badamşa), бадамша без (badamşa bez) Korean: 편도선 (ko) (pyeondoseon), 편도 (ko) (pyeondo) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: ئاڵوو (allû) Northern Kurdish: aloq (ku) Latin: tonsillae f pl Macedonian: крајник m (krajnik) Malay: tonsil Mongolian: Cyrillic: бүйлсэн булчирхай (büjlsen bulčirxaj), хоолойны мах (xoolojny max), бүйлсэн цогц (büjlsen cogc) (China) Mongolian: ᠪᠦᠢᠯᠡᠰᠦᠯᠣᠩ ᠪᠤᠷᠴᠢᠯᠬᠠᠢ (büilesülong burčilqai), ᠬᠣᠭᠣᠯᠠᠢ ᠵᠢᠨ ᠮᠢᠬ᠎ᠠ (qoɣolai-ǰin mik-a), ᠪᠦᠢᠯᠡᠰᠦᠯᠣᠩ ᠴᠣᠭᠴᠠ (büilesülong čoɣča) Navajo: akááz Norwegian: Bokmål: mandel (no) m Nynorsk: mandel m Ottoman Turkish: بادمجك (bademcik) Polish: migdałek (pl) m, migdał (pl) m Portuguese: tonsila (pt) f, amígdala (pt) f Romanian: amigdală (ro) f Romansch: mandel m (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan), mandla f (Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) Russian: гла́нда (ru) f (glánda), миндалеви́дная железа́ f (mindalevídnaja železá), минда́лина (ru) f (mindálina) Slovak: mandľa (sk) Slovene: please add this translation if you can Spanish: amígdala (es) f, amígdala palatina (es) f, tonsila palatina f Swedish: tonsill (sv) c, halsmandel (sv) c Tagalog: gutil, diris Turkish: bademcik (tr) Ukrainian: мигда́лик m (myhdályk) Vietnamese: a-mi-đan, hạch hạnh Yiddish: מאַנדל n (mandl)

any of the lymphoid masses

Bulgarian: сли́вица (bg) f (slívica) Chinese: Mandarin: 扁桃體 / 扁桃体 (zh) (biǎntáotǐ); 扁桃腺 (zh) (biǎntáoxiàn) Czech: mandle (cs) f Finnish: risa (fi) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: ئاڵوو (allû) Russian: гла́нда (ru) f (glánda) Slovak: mandľa (sk) Spanish: amígdala (es), tonsila f

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Albanian: (please verify) bajame (sq) Dutch: (please verify) amandel (nl) m, (please verify) keelamandel (nl) m Italian: (please verify) tonsilla (it) f Serbo-Croatian: (please verify) krajnik (sh) m

References

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

Anagrams

• Liston, Solnit, Tilson, Tolins, slot in

Indonesian

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:

tonsil

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Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch tonsil, from French tonsille or Latin tonsillae (“the tonsils in the throat”, plural).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈtonsil/ [ˈt̪on.sɪl]
• Rhymes: -onsil
• Syllabification: ton‧sil

Noun

tonsil (plural tonsil-tonsil)

1. (anatomy) tonsil

   Synonym: adenoid

Alternative forms

• tongsil

Derived terms

• batu tonsil
• tonsil lidah
• tonsil tuba

Further reading

• “tonsil” 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.

Malay

Malay Wikipedia has an article on:

tonsil

Wikipedia ^ms

Etymology

Borrowed from English tonsil.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -il

Noun

tonsil (Jawi spelling تونسيل, plural tonsil-tonsil, informal 1st possessive tonsilku, 2nd possessive tonsilmu, 3rd possessive tonsilnya)

1. (anatomy, immunology) tonsil

Further reading

• “tonsil” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.