small intestine

English

Etymology

From small +‎ intestine, perhaps a partial calque of Middle English smaltharm, smaleþarm, from Old English smælþearme (“lower gut, small intestine”, literally “small tharm”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

small intestine (plural small intestines)

1. (anatomy) The upper part of the intestine, between the stomach and the large intestine, divided into the duodenum, the jejunum and the ileum.

Synonyms

• small bowel

Related terms

• large intestine

Translations

upper part of the intestine

• Afrikaans: dunderm (af)
• Arabic: الْأَمْعَاء الدَّقِيقَة (al-ʔamʕāʔ ad-daqīqa)
• Bengali: ক্ষুদ্রান্ত্র (bn) (khudrantro)
• Catalan: intestí prim m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 小腸／小肠 (zh) (xiǎocháng)

• Czech: tenké střevo (cs) n
• Danish: tyndtarm (da) c
• Dhivehi: ކުޑަ ގޮހޮރު (kuḍa gohoru)
• Dutch: dunne darm (nl) m
• Finnish: ohutsuoli (fi)
• French: intestin grêle (fr)
• Galician: intestino delgado (gl) m
• German: Dünndarm (de) m
• Greek: λεπτό έντερο (el) n (leptó éntero)
• Greenlandic: inalugaq
• Hungarian: vékonybél (hu)
• Indonesian: usus halus (id)
• Ingrian: hoikkasooli, lappasooli (as food)
• Italian: intestino tenue (it)
• Japanese: 小腸 (ja) (しょうちょう, shōchō)
• Korean: 작은창자 (ko) (jageunchangja), 소장(小腸) (ko) (sojang)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: rûviya zirav (ku)

• Latin: lactēs f pl
• Macedonian: тенко црево n (tenko crevo)
• Malay: usus kecil (ms)
• Malayalam: ചെറുകുടൽ (ml) (ceṟukuṭal)
• Manchu: ᠨᠠᡵᡥᡡᠨ
  ᡩᡠᡥᠠ (narhūn duha)
• Maori: kōpiro iti
• Navajo: achʼííʼ dootłʼizhí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tynntarm m

  Nynorsk: tynntarm m

• Polish: jelito cienkie (pl) n
• Portuguese: intestino delgado (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਨਿੱਕੀ ਆਂਦਰ f (nikkī āndar)
• Romanian: intestin subțire n
• Russian: то́нкая кишка́ (ru) f (tónkaja kišká)
• Slovak: tenké črevo (sk)
• Spanish: intestino delgado (es) m
• Swahili: uchango
• Swedish: tunntarm (sv) c
• Tagalog: maliit na bituka, isaw, talistis, talitis
• Telugu: చిన్న పేగు (cinna pēgu)
• Thai: ลำไส้เล็ก (th) (lam-sâi-lék)
• Vietnamese: ruột non (vi)
• Welsh: coluddyn bach