nostril

Engleski

Alternative forms

• nosethirl (now Britain regional, archaic)

Etymology

From earlier nosthril, from Middle English nosethirl ~ nosethril (and other forms), from Old English nosþȳrel, equivalent to Afrikans. Compare Old Frisian nosterle (“nostril”), modern West Frisian noaster (“nostrill”). Compare also Middle Low German noster (“nostril”), from Proto-Germanic *nustriz (“nostril”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: nŏs'trəl, MFA^(ključ): /ˈnɒstɹɪl/, /ˈnɒstɹəl/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rime: -ɒstɹəl

Noun

nostril (plural nostrils)

1. Either of the two orifices located on the nose (or on the beak of a bird); used as a passage for air and other gases to travel the nasal passages.
   • 1601, Plinius Secundus, Philemon Holland, transl., The Hiſtorie of the World. Commonly Called, the Naturall Hiſtorie […] ‎^[1], London: Impenſis G. B, Book L, Chapter XIII, strana 58:

Synonyms

• nare
• naris
• nosehole

Derived terms

• internostril
• nostrilful
• nostrility
• nostrilled

 

Translations

either of the two orifices located on the nose

• Afrikaans: neusgat (af)
• Albanian: flegër (sq) f
• Arabic: مَنْخَر‎ m (manḵar)

  Egyptian Arabic: فتحة منخير‎ f (fatḥet manaḵyir)

• Armenian: քթանցք (hy) (kʿtʿancʿkʿ), քթածակ (hy) (kʿtʿacak), ռունգ (hy) (ṙung)

  Old Armenian: ռունգն (ṙungn)

• Azerbaijani: burun deşiyi
• Belarusian: nózdra f (nózdra)
• Bengali: নাসারন্ধ্র (naśarôndhr)
• Bulgarian: nózdra (bg) f (nózdra), nózdrя f (nózdrja)
• Burmese: နှာခေါင်းပေါက် (my) (hnahkaung:pauk)
• Catalan: nariu (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 鼻哥窿 (bei⁶ go¹ lung^4-1)

  Mandarin: 鼻孔 (zh) (bíkǒng), 鼻子眼 (bíziyǎn)

• Coptic: ϫⲉϥϣⲁⲓ m or f (jefšai)
• Cornish: frig m
• Corsican: naru m
• Czech: nozdra (cs) f, nosní dírka f
• Danish: næsebor (da) n
• Dutch: neusgat (nl) n
• Egyptian: (msꜣḏt f)
• Esperanto: naztruo (eo)
• Estonian: sõõre, ninasõõre
• Finnish: sierain (fi)
• French: narine (fr) f, (unformally) trou de nez (fr) m, (for animals) naseau (fr) m
• Friulian: narile f
• Galician: narno f, ventá (gl) f, venta (gl) f, nares m pl (archaic)
• Georgian: ნესტო (nesṭo)
• German: Nasenloch (de) n, (of animals) Nüster (de) f
• Greek: ρουθούνι (el) n (routhoúni)

  Ancient: μυκτήρ m (muktḗr), ῥώθων m (rhṓthōn)

• Hebrew: נְחִיר‎ (he) m (nekhir)
• Hindi: नथना (hi) (nathnā), नथुना (hi) (nathunā), नासापुट (hi) (nāsāpuṭ)
• Hungarian: orrlyuk (hu)
• Icelandic: nös (is) f
• Ido: nazotruo (io)
• Indonesian: lubang hidung (id)
• Italian: narice (it) f
• Japanese: 鼻孔 (びこう, bikō), 鼻の穴 (はなのあな, hana no ana)
• Kazakh: tanau (tanau)
• Khmer: រន្ឋច្រមុះ (rʊən crɑmoh), ប្រហោងច្រមុះ (prɑhaoŋ crɑmoh)
• Korean: 콧구멍 (ko) (kotgumeong)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: کونەلووت‎ (kunelût)

  Northern Kurdish: kunê difinê m

• Kyrgyz: tanoo (ky) (tanoo)
• Lao: ຮູດັງ (hū dang)
• Latgalian: nuoste f
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• Latin: nāris f
• Latvian: nāss (lv) m
• Lithuanian: šnervė f
• Lü: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete
• Macedonian: nózdra f (nózdra)
• Malay: lubang hidung (ms)
• Maori: pongāihu, putaaihu, pongaponga
• Mongolian: hamrыn nүh (hamryn nüh)
• Navajo: ánííʼ
• Nepali: नासिका विवर (nāsikā wiwara), नाके टोड्को (nāke ṭoḍko), नाकको प्वाल (nākako pwāla)
• Norman: nâsille f (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: nesebor n

• Occitan: nasica f
• Old English: nosþȳrel n
• Persian: سوراخ بینی‎ (surâx bini)
• Polish: nozdrze (pl) n
• Portuguese: narina (pt) f
• Romanian: nară (ro)
• Russian: nozdrя́ (ru) f (nozdrjá)
• Scottish Gaelic: cuinnean m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: nozdrva f, nosnica f, nozdra f

  Roman: nȍzdrva (sh) f, nosnica (sh) f, nozdra f

• Shan: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete
• Sicilian: nasca (scn) f
• Slovak: nozdra (sk) f, nosová dierka f
• Slovene: nosnica (sl) f
• Spanish: narina (es), fosa nasal (es) f
• Swahili: tundu la pua
• Swedish: näsborre (sv) c
• Tagalog: butas-ilong
• Tajik: surohi binй (suroxi biny)
• Telugu: ముక్కురంధ్రం (mukkurandhraṃ)
• Thai: รูจมูก
• Tibetan: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete
• Turkish: burun deliği (tr)
• Turkmen: burun deşigi
• Ukrainian: nі́zdrя (uk) f (nízdrja)
• Urdu: نتنا‎ (natnā)
• Uzbek: burun teshigi
• Vietnamese: lỗ mũi
• Volapük: nudahog
• Welsh: ffroen f
• West Frisian: noaster, noasgat
• White Hmong: qhov ntswg
• Yakut: tanыы (tanıı)
• Yiddish: נאָזלאָך‎ n (nozlokh)
• Zhuang: conghndaeng
• Zulu: ikhala (zu) class 5/6

References

• nostril in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• nostril in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

• nitrols, trilons ^{(alphagram ilnorst)}