enema

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• UK, US: /ˈɛn.ə.mə/
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• CMU ARPABET: EH1 N AH0 M AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Learned borrowing from Late Latin enema, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek ἔνεμα (énema, “injection”), from ἐνίημι (eníēmi, “to send in, inject”).

70 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: حُقْنَة شَرَجِيَّة (ḥuqna šarajiyya) — injection of fluid into the rectum
• Arabic: حُقْنَة (ḥuqna) — injection of fluid into the rectum
• Armenian: հոգնա (hogna) — injection of fluid into the rectum
• Armenian: կլիզմա (klizma) — injection of fluid into the rectum
• Belarusian: клі́зма (klízma) — injection of fluid into the rectum
• Bulgarian: кли́зма (klízma) — injection of fluid into the rectum
• Catalan: ènema — injection of fluid into the rectum
• Chinese Mandarin: 灌腸劑 /灌肠剂 (guànchángjì) — injection of fluid into the rectum
• Chinese Mandarin: 灌腸 /灌肠 (guàncháng) — injection of fluid into the rectum
• Czech: klystýr — injection of fluid into the rectum
• Dutch: klysma — injection of fluid into the rectum
• Dutch: lavement — injection of fluid into the rectum
• Esperanto: klistero — injection of fluid into the rectum
• Finnish: peräruiske — injection of fluid into the rectum
• French: lavement — injection of fluid into the rectum
• Georgian: ოყნა (oq̇na) — injection of fluid into the rectum
• German: Einlauf — injection of fluid into the rectum
• German: Klistier — injection of fluid into the rectum
• Greek: κλύσμα (klýsma) — injection of fluid into the rectum
• Greek: υποκλυσμός (ypoklysmós) — injection of fluid into the rectum
• Ancient Greek: κλύσμα (klúsma) — injection of fluid into the rectum
• Ancient Greek: ἔνεμα (énema) — injection of fluid into the rectum
• Hebrew: חוקן \ חֹקֶן (khóken) — injection of fluid into the rectum
• Hungarian: beöntés — injection of fluid into the rectum
• Indonesian: enema — injection of fluid into the rectum
• Indonesian: lavemen — injection of fluid into the rectum
• Indonesian: klisma — injection of fluid into the rectum
• Indonesian: huknah — injection of fluid into the rectum
• Italian: clistere — injection of fluid into the rectum
• Italian: lavativo — injection of fluid into the rectum
• Japanese: 浣腸 (kanchō) — injection of fluid into the rectum
• Kazakh: клизма (klizma) — injection of fluid into the rectum
• Korean: 관장 (gwanjang) — injection of fluid into the rectum
• Kyrgyz: клизма (klizma) — injection of fluid into the rectum
• Macedonian: клизма (klizma) — injection of fluid into the rectum
• Malay: enema — injection of fluid into the rectum
• Norman: lavement — injection of fluid into the rectum
• Iranian Persian: اِنِما (enemâ) — injection of fluid into the rectum
• Polish: lewatywa — injection of fluid into the rectum
• Polish: enema — injection of fluid into the rectum
• Polish: klizma — injection of fluid into the rectum
• Portuguese: enema — injection of fluid into the rectum
• Portuguese: clister — injection of fluid into the rectum
• Romanian: clismă — injection of fluid into the rectum
• Russian: кли́зма (klízma) — injection of fluid into the rectum
• Russian: клисти́р (klistír) — injection of fluid into the rectum
• Serbo-Croatian: клѝзма — injection of fluid into the rectum
• Serbo-Croatian: klìzma — injection of fluid into the rectum
• Slovak: klystír — injection of fluid into the rectum
• Slovene: klistir — injection of fluid into the rectum
• Spanish: enema — injection of fluid into the rectum
• Spanish: lavativa — injection of fluid into the rectum
• Spanish: clister — injection of fluid into the rectum
• Spanish: clistel — injection of fluid into the rectum
• Swedish: lavemang — injection of fluid into the rectum
• Tajik: ҳуқна (huqna) — injection of fluid into the rectum
• Turkish: lavman — injection of fluid into the rectum
• Ukrainian: клі́зма (klízma) — injection of fluid into the rectum
• Ukrainian: клісти́р (klistýr) — injection of fluid into the rectum
• Uzbek: klizma — injection of fluid into the rectum
• Welsh: enema — injection of fluid into the rectum
• Welsh: rhefrolch — injection of fluid into the rectum
• Czech: klystýr — fluid so injected
• Finnish: peräruiske — fluid so injected
• Portuguese: enema — fluid so injected
• Portuguese: clister — fluid so injected
• Spanish: enema — fluid so injected
• Spanish: clister — fluid so injected
• Spanish: clistel — fluid so injected
• Turkish: lavman — fluid so injected