gland

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• Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ɡlænd/
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• [ɡleənd] ~ [ɡlɛənd] General American, Canada, æ-raising
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• British, Northern-England, Scotland, Southern, Standard, Wales: /ɡland/
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• Australia: /ɡlæːnd/
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• [ɡleːnd] ~ [ɡlɛeːnd] Australia, æ-raising
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• New-Zealand: /ɡlɛnd/
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• rhymes with -ænd
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• homophone: band
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• CMU ARPABET: G L AE1 N D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From French, from Middle French glans, of Celtic/Gaulish origin, from Proto-Celtic *glanos (“pure, clear, clean”). Not related to gland (“gland, acorn”).

Late 17th century borrowing from French glande, alteration of Old French glandre, from Latin glandulae (“throat glands, tonsils”), plural of glandula (“a little acorn”), from glāns (“an acorn”) + -ula (diminutive nominal suffix).

Early 19th century, probably from Scots glam (“vice, clamp”), probably from a variant of clam (“clam; clamp, vise”). Related to clamp.

131 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: gjëndër — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Arabic: غُدَّة (ḡudda) — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Arabic: غدة (ḡudda) — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Arabic: غُدَّة (ḡudda) — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Armenian: գեղձ (geġj) — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Asturian: glándula — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Azerbaijani: vəzi — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Bashkir: биҙ (biź) — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Basque: guruin — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Belarusian: зало́за (zalóza) — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Bengali: গ্রন্থি (gronthi) — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Bulgarian: жлеза́ (žlezá) — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Burmese: ဂလင်း (ga.lang:) — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Catalan: glàndula — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Chinese Mandarin: 腺體 /腺体 (xiàntǐ) — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Chinese Mandarin: 腺 (xiàn) — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Czech: žláza — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Danish: kirtel — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Dutch: klier — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Esperanto: glando — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Estonian: nääre — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Finnish: rauhanen — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• French: glande — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Galician: glándula — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Georgian: ჯირკვალი (ǯirḳvali) — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• German: Drüse — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• German: Stinkdrüse — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Greek: αδένας (adénas) — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Ancient Greek: ἀδήν (adḗn) — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Hebrew: בַּלּוּטָה (balutá) — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Hindi: ग्रंथि (granthi) — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Hungarian: mirigy — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Icelandic: kirtill — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Ido: glando — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Indonesian: kelenjar — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Indonesian: glandula — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Ingrian: rauha — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Interlingua: glandula — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Irish: faireog — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Italian: ghiandola — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Japanese: 腺 (sen) — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Japanese: グランド (gurando) — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Javanese: klanjer — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Karachay-Balkar: без (bez) — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Kazakh: без (bez) — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Khmer: ក្លង់ (klɑng) — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Khmer: គ្រន្ថី (krɔɔnthəy) — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Khmer: ក្រពេញ (krɑɑpɨñ) — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Korean: 선 (seon) — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Central Kurdish: دژێن (dijên) — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Central Kurdish: دوشوال (duşwal) — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Central Kurdish: دوبشی (dubşî) — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Northern Kurdish: rijên — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Northern Kurdish: toşpî — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Northern Kurdish: livik — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Kyrgyz: без (bez) — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Lao: ຕ່ອມ (tǭm) — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Latvian: dziedzeris — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Lithuanian: liauka — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Luxembourgish: Drüs — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Macedonian: жлезда (žlezda) — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Malay: kelenjar — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Māori: repe — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Marathi: ग्रंथी (granthī) — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Mongolian: булчирхай (bulčirxaj) — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Navajo: akááz — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Nogai: без (bez) — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Norn: jetel — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Norwegian Bokmål: kjertel — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Norwegian Nynorsk: kjertel — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Ossetian: рӕзынӕг (ræzynæg) — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Pashto: غده (ǧodá) — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Pashto: پرګی (pərgáy) — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Pashto: مرغېړى — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Persian: غده (ġodde) — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Persian: دژپیه (dožpih) — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Persian: بالو (bâlu) — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Polish: gruczoł — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Portuguese: glândula — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Romanian: glandă — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Russian: железа́ (železá) — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Serbo-Croatian: жлезда — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Serbo-Croatian: жлијезда — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Serbo-Croatian: žlezda — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Serbo-Croatian: žlijezda — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Slovak: žľaza — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Slovene: žleza — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Upper Sorbian: žałza — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Southern Altai: бес (bes) — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Spanish: glándula — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Swedish: körtel — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Tagalog: katasan — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Tajik: ғадуд (ġadud) — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Tajik: ғудда (ġudda) — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Tamil: சுரப்பி (curappi) — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Thai: ต่อม (dtɔ̀m) — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Turkish: bez — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Turkish: salgı bezi — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Turkmen: mäz — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Ukrainian: за́лоза (záloza) — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Urdu: غدہ (ġudda) — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Uyghur: بەز (bez) — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Uzbek: bez — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Vietnamese: tuyến — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Volapük: glan — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Volapük: mismelaglan — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Welsh: chwarren — organ that synthesizes and secretes substance
• Dutch: klier — secretory structure on the surface of an organ
• German: Drüse — secretory structure on the surface of an organ
• Hindi: ग्रंथि (granthi) — secretory structure on the surface of an organ
• Ido: glando — secretory structure on the surface of an organ
• Indonesian: kelenjar — secretory structure on the surface of an organ
• Irish: faireog — secretory structure on the surface of an organ
• Italian: ghiandola — secretory structure on the surface of an organ
• Javanese: klanjer — secretory structure on the surface of an organ
• Northern Kurdish: rijên — secretory structure on the surface of an organ
• Polish: gruczoł — secretory structure on the surface of an organ
• Portuguese: glândula — secretory structure on the surface of an organ
• Russian: железа́ (železá) — secretory structure on the surface of an organ
• Serbo-Croatian: жлезда — secretory structure on the surface of an organ
• Serbo-Croatian: жлијезда — secretory structure on the surface of an organ
• Serbo-Croatian: žlezda — secretory structure on the surface of an organ
• Serbo-Croatian: žlijezda — secretory structure on the surface of an organ
• Spanish: glándula — secretory structure on the surface of an organ
• Tagalog: katasan — secretory structure on the surface of an organ
• Tamil: சுரப்பி (curappi) — secretory structure on the surface of an organ
• Ukrainian: за́лоза (záloza) — secretory structure on the surface of an organ
• Bulgarian: са́лник (sálnik) — cylindrical case used for straining
• Greek: στυπιοθλήπτης (stypiothlíptis) — cylindrical case used for straining
• Polish: dławik — cylindrical case used for straining
• Russian: са́льник (sálʹnik) — cylindrical case used for straining