buttock

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Etymology

Inherited from Middle English buttok, probably from Old English buttuc (“end; end piece”; also, “short piece of land”). Attested with its current anatomical meaning since 1300. A diminutive form of what is presumably the Old English precursor of butt +‎ -ock (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbʌtək/, [ˈbɐtək]
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈbʌtək/, [ˈbəɾək]
Audio (US): (file)
Rhymes: -ʌtək

Noun

buttock (plural buttocks)

(usually in the plural) Each of the two large fleshy halves of the posterior part of the body between the base of the back, the perineum and the top of the legs.
Synonyms: (crude) asscheek, cheek; see also Thesaurus:buttocks
- c. 1615–1620 (date written), Tho[mas] Middleton, The Mayor of Quinborough: A Comedy. […] [Hengist, King of Kent], London: […] Henry Herringman, […], published 1661, →OCLC, Act V, scene i, page 61:
  Run, run, come you hither / Novv, take all my Cuſhions dovvn and thvvack them ſoundly, / After my Feaſt of Millers: for their Buttocks / Have left a peck of flovver in them, beat them carefully […]
(nautical) The convexity of a ship behind, under the stern.
- 1925, Adventure, volume 54:
  There came a blast of freezing wind that made Skell shrug himself against the oaken post on which the ship's buttock rested.

Usage notes

The plural form is usually used in the singular sense for a single person's posterior, often informally called butt (North America) or bum (Britain). It is rarer to refer to only a single buttock, which is then usually specified as left or right.

Derived terms

Translations

each of the two large fleshy halves of the posterior part of the body

Afrikaans: boud (af)
Albanian: prapanicë (sq) f
Arabic: دُبْر m (dubr), رِدْف (ar) m (ridf), رِدْفَان m du (ridfān), أَلْيَة f (ʔalya), مَقْعَدَة f (maqʕada) (buttocks)
Egyptian Arabic: رِدْف m (redf), طيز f (ṭiiẓ), مؤخرة f (muʔaxera)

Moroccan Arabic: ترمة f (tarma)
Armenian: դմբուզ (hy) (dmbuz), ոռի թուշ (oṙi tʻuš), (buttocks) հետույք (hy) (hetuykʻ)
Assamese: তপিনা (topina), টিকা (tika), কটি (koti)
Asturian: nalga (ast) f, ñalga (ast) f
Azerbaijani: omba (az), sağrı
Bashkir: күт (küt) (also the whole butt)
Basque: ipurmasail (eu)
Belarusian: крумя́нка f (krumjánka), се́дніца f (sjédnica), се́даўка f (sjédaŭka), я́гадзіца f (jáhadzica)
Bengali: পাছা (bn) (pacha), নিতম্ব (bn) (nitombo)
Bikol Central: lubot (bcl)
Breton: klun (br) f, feskenn (br) f, peñs (br) m
Bulgarian: бут (bg) m (but), за́дница (bg) f (zádnica)
Burmese: ဖရုံဆွဲ (my) (hpa.rumhcwai:), တင် (my) (tang), ဖင် (my) (hpang)
Catalan: natja (ca) f
Chichewa: thako
Chichonyi-Chidzihana-Chikauma: hako
Chinese:
Cantonese: 囉柚／啰柚 (lo¹ jau²), 屎忽 (si² fat¹), 屁股 (pei³ gu²), 臀部 (tyun⁴ bou⁶)

Hokkien: 尻川 (zh-min-nan) (kha-chhng)

Mandarin: 屁股 (zh) (pìgu), 臀部 (zh) (túnbù), 尻 (zh) (kāo)
Coptic: ⲗⲱⲓⲗ f (lōil), ⲙⲁⲛϩⲉⲙⲥⲓ m (manhemsi), ⲫⲁϩⲟⲩ m (phahou)
Cornish: pedren f
Czech: zadek (cs) m (though singular, used for "buttocks"), hýždě (cs) f, půlka (cs) f
Danish: balde (da) c, balle (da) c
Dutch: bil (nl) f
Esperanto: sidvango, gluteo (eo)
Estonian: tagumik
Faroese: reyvarbøllur m, arsbøllur m, vøddi m
Finnish: pakara (fi)
French: fesse (fr) f
Galician: nádega (gl) f, cacha (gl) f
Georgian: დუნდულოი (dunduloi), დუმა (duma), დუნდულა (dundula)
German: Hinterbacke (de) f, (colloquial) Pobacke (de) f, Backe (de) f
Hunsrik: Aarschback
Greek: γλουτός (el) m (gloutós), κωλομέρι (el) n (koloméri), οπίσθια (el) n pl (opísthia) (buttocks)
Ancient: πυγή f (pugḗ), γλουτός m (gloutós)
Gujarati: કૂલો m (kūlo), ઢગરો m (ḍhagro), જઘન n (jaghan)
Haitian Creole: bo bounda
Hebrew: עכוז (he) m (akuz)
Hindi: कूल्हा (hi) m (kūlhā), चूतड़ (hi) m (cūtaṛ), नितम्ब (hi) m (nitamb)
Hungarian: fenék (hu)
Icelandic: rasskinn f
Ido: gluteo (io), kulo (io)
Ingrian: perä (formal), peppo, santukka, pers (vulgar)
Irish: tóin (ga) f
Italian: natica (it) f, gluteo (it) m, deretano (it), sedere (it), chiappe (it), chiappa (it) f, culo (it) m, fondoschiena (it) m, posteriore (it) m, didietro (it) m, mazzo (it) m
Ivatan: atang
Japanese: 尻 (ja) (しり, shiri), 臀部 (ja) (でんぶ, denbu)
Kabyle: ⵜⴰⵇⵓⵎⵎⵉⵛⵜ f (taqummict)
Kapampangan: buldit
Kazakh: бөксе (bökse), құйрық (kk) (qūiryq), сауыр (sauyr)
Khmer: កំប៉ះគូទ (kɑm pah kuut), គូទ (km) (kuut)
Kikuyu: itina class 5
Kituba: ditaku
Korean: 궁둥이 (ko) (gungdung'i), 엉덩이 (ko) (eongdeong'i), 볼기 (ko) (bolgi), 어덩이 (eodeong'i)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: سِمت (simt)

Southern Kurdish: سِمت (ku) (simt)
Kyrgyz: көчүк (ky) (köcük), жамбаш (ky) (jambaş)
Ladino: nalga, asentadera
Lao: ຕະໂພກ (ta phōk), ປ້ານທ້າຽ (pān thāi), ໂສນິ (sō ni)
Latin: natis (la), clūnis
Latvian: sēžamvieta f (used for "buttocks"), vaigs
Laz: მუნდი (mundi)
Lithuanian: užpakalis (lt) m
Lombard: cjapa
Luhya: litakho
Lushootseed: xʷʔiləlugʷəb
Macedonian: задник m (zadnik)
Malay: buntut (ms)
Malayalam: ചന്തി (ml) (canti), നിതംബം (ml) (nitambaṁ), പൃഷ്ഠം (ml) (pr̥ṣṭhaṁ), കുണ്ടി (ml) (kuṇṭi)
Maltese: tebqa f, tebqejn f du
Manchu: ᡠᡵᠠ (ura)
Maori: reherehe, reperepe, kuruhope, papa, kōtore
Mingrelian: მუნდი (mundi)
Mongolian: бөгс (mn) (bögs), өгзөг (mn) (ögzög)
Navajo: atłʼaaʼ
Nepali: चाक (ne) (cāk), नितम्ब (nitamba)
Norman: fêsse f (Jersey)
Occitan: patèrna (oc) f
Old Tupi: ebira
Ottoman Turkish: قایناق (kaynak), آرد (ard), مقعد (makad), دبر (dübür), ادبار (edbar)
Persian: سرین (fa) (sorin)
Polish: pośladek (pl) m, półdupek (pl) m
Portuguese: nádega (pt) f, traseiro (pt) m, fundilhos (pt) m pl
Rapa Nui: eve
Romanian: bucă (ro) f, buci f pl, fesă (ro) f
Russian: я́годица (ru) f (jágodica), по́па (ru) f (pópa) (sg. used for "buttocks"), за́дница (ru) f (zádnica) (sg. used for "buttocks"), полупо́пие (ru) n (polupópije), седа́лище (ru) n (sedálišče) (sg. used for "buttocks")
Sanskrit: जघन (sa) m or n (jaghana)
Serbo-Croatian: guzov m
Cyrillic: гу̑з m

Roman: gȗz (sh) m
Slovak: zadok m
Slovene: zadnjica f (buttocks)
Spanish: nalga (es) f
Swahili: tako (sw), makalio (sw)
Swedish: skinka (sv)
Sylheti: ꠙꠥꠐ꠆ꠇꠤ (fuṭki)
Tabaru: goa
Tagalog: puwit, pigi
Tajik: сурин (surin)
Tarifit: tadiynit f, qunniḍ m
Tausug: buli
Telugu: పిరుదు (te) (pirudu), పిర్ర (pirra)
Ternate: ugu
Thai: ก้น (th) (gôn)
Turkish: makat (tr), kaba et (tr), kalça (tr) (also the whole butt)
Turkmen: otyrýer
Ukrainian: сідни́ця f (sidnýcja), си́дня f (sýdnja)
Urdu: چوتڑ m (cūtaṛ), چوتر (cūtar)
Uzbek: dumba (uz)
Vietnamese: mông (vi)
Volapük: glüet (vo), poöp (older term)
Walloon: fesse (wa) f
Waray-Waray: bubot
Welsh: ffolen f
White Hmong: pob tw
Yami: atang
Yiddish: הינטן (hintn)
Zhuang: caekhaex