ovulation

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

• UK: /ɒvjʊˈleɪʃ(ə)n/
  Play
• Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  Play
• US: /ɑvjəˈleɪʃ(ə)n/
  Play
• rhymes with -eɪʃən
  Play
• CMU ARPABET: OW2 V Y AH0 L EY1 SH AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
  Play

Etymology tree English ovul(e) Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh2tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātuslbor. English -ate English ovulate Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English -ion English ovulation From ovulate + -ion.

50 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Armenian: ձվազատում (jvazatum) — release of an ovum from the ovary
• Belarusian: авуляцыя (avuljacyja) — release of an ovum from the ovary
• Bulgarian: овулация (ovulacija) — release of an ovum from the ovary
• Catalan: ovulació — release of an ovum from the ovary
• Chinese Mandarin: 排卵 (páiluǎn) — release of an ovum from the ovary
• Czech: ovulace — release of an ovum from the ovary
• Danish: ægløsning — release of an ovum from the ovary
• Dutch: eisprong — release of an ovum from the ovary
• Dutch: ovulatie — release of an ovum from the ovary
• Esperanto: ovolado — release of an ovum from the ovary
• Finnish: ovulaatio — release of an ovum from the ovary
• French: ovulation — release of an ovum from the ovary
• German: Ovulation — release of an ovum from the ovary
• German: Eisprung — release of an ovum from the ovary
• Greek: ωορρηξία (oorrixía) — release of an ovum from the ovary
• Hungarian: ovuláció — release of an ovum from the ovary
• Hungarian: peteérés — release of an ovum from the ovary
• Icelandic: egglos — release of an ovum from the ovary
• Indonesian: ovulasi — release of an ovum from the ovary
• Irish: ubhsceitheadh — release of an ovum from the ovary
• Italian: ovulazione — release of an ovum from the ovary
• Japanese: 排卵 (hairan) — release of an ovum from the ovary
• Korean: 배란 (baeran) — release of an ovum from the ovary
• Northern Kurdish: hêkdanan — release of an ovum from the ovary
• Latvian: ovulācija — release of an ovum from the ovary
• Lithuanian: ovuliacija — release of an ovum from the ovary
• Macedonian: овулација (ovulacija) — release of an ovum from the ovary
• Malay: ڤڠوۏومن — release of an ovum from the ovary
• Malay: pengovuman — release of an ovum from the ovary
• Malayalam: അണ്ഡവിസർജനം (aṇḍavisaṟjanaṁ) — release of an ovum from the ovary
• Norwegian Bokmål: ovulasjon — release of an ovum from the ovary
• Norwegian Bokmål: eggløsning — release of an ovum from the ovary
• Norwegian Nynorsk: ovulasjon — release of an ovum from the ovary
• Norwegian Nynorsk: eggløysing — release of an ovum from the ovary
• Polish: owulacja — release of an ovum from the ovary
• Polish: jajeczkowanie — release of an ovum from the ovary
• Portuguese: ovulação — release of an ovum from the ovary
• Portuguese: ovocitação — release of an ovum from the ovary
• Russian: овуля́ция (ovuljácija) — release of an ovum from the ovary
• Slovak: ovulácia — release of an ovum from the ovary
• Slovene: ovulacija — release of an ovum from the ovary
• Spanish: ovulación — release of an ovum from the ovary
• Swedish: ägglossning — release of an ovum from the ovary
• Swedish: ovulation — release of an ovum from the ovary
• Tagalog: saitlog — release of an ovum from the ovary
• Tajik: тухмакгузорӣ (tuxmakguzori) — release of an ovum from the ovary
• Turkish: ovülasyon — release of an ovum from the ovary
• Turkmen: owulýasiýa — release of an ovum from the ovary
• Ukrainian: овуля́ція (ovuljácija) — release of an ovum from the ovary
• Uzbek: ovulyatsiya — release of an ovum from the ovary