biceps

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• UK, US: /ˈbaɪ.sɛps/
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• CMU ARPABET: B AY1 S EH2 P S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh1 Proto-Indo-European *dwís Proto-Italic *dwis Old Latin duis Latin bis substratebor.? Proto-Indo-European *kap-? Proto-Indo-European *kap- Proto-Indo-European *káput Proto-Italic *kaput Proto-Indo-European *ís Proto-Italic *is Proto-Italic *-kaput-isder. Old Latin -cipesder. Latin -ceps Latin bicepsder. English biceps Derived from Latin biceps (“double-headed, two-peaked”), from bis (“twice”) + -ceps (“headed”).

35 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: ذَات اَلرَّأْسَيْن (ḏāt ar-raʔsayn) — any muscle having two heads
• Arabic: ذات الرأسين (zāt er-raʔsēn) — any muscle having two heads
• Armenian: բիցեպս (bicʻeps) — any muscle having two heads
• Armenian: երկգլուխ մկան (erkglux mkan) — any muscle having two heads
• Chinese Mandarin: 二頭肌 /二头肌 (èrtóujī) — any muscle having two heads
• Czech: biceps — any muscle having two heads
• Dutch: biceps — any muscle having two heads
• Finnish: kaksipäinen lihas — any muscle having two heads
• French: biceps — any muscle having two heads
• Galician: bíceps — any muscle having two heads
• Georgian: ბიცეფსი (bicepsi) — any muscle having two heads
• German: Bizeps — any muscle having two heads
• Ido: bicepso — any muscle having two heads
• Italian: bicipite — any muscle having two heads
• Japanese: 二頭筋 (nitōkin) — any muscle having two heads
• Korean: 이두근 (idugeun) — any muscle having two heads
• Māori: uarua — any muscle having two heads
• Marathi: द्विशिरस्का (dviśiraskā) — any muscle having two heads
• Portuguese: bíceps — any muscle having two heads
• Romanian: biceps — any muscle having two heads
• Russian: би́цепс (bíceps) — any muscle having two heads
• Spanish: bíceps — any muscle having two heads
• Tagalog: daga-dagaan — any muscle having two heads
• Turkish: iki başlı — any muscle having two heads
• Arabic: ذَات اَلرَّأْسَيْن اَلْعَضُدِيَّة (ḏāt ar-raʔsayn al-ʕaḍudiyya) — the upper arm, especially the muscles
• Arabic: باي (bāy) — the upper arm, especially the muscles
• Dutch: armbuigspier — the upper arm, especially the muscles
• Dutch: biceps — the upper arm, especially the muscles
• Dutch: elleboogbuiger — the upper arm, especially the muscles
• Finnish: hauis — the upper arm, especially the muscles
• Finnish: olkavarsi — the upper arm, especially the muscles
• Hebrew: קִבֹּרֶת (qibóret) — the upper arm, especially the muscles
• Latin: lacertus — the upper arm, especially the muscles
• Turkish: pazı — the upper arm, especially the muscles
• Woiwurrung: berbert — the upper arm, especially the muscles