noun
Meaning 1
A penis, especially when erect.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
phallus
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈfæləs/
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rhymes with -æləs
noun
Meaning 2
A representation of an erect penis, especially symbolising fertility or potency.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
The signifier of the desire of the Other, and the signifier of jouissance.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, medicine, psychoanalysis, psychology, sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
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noun
Meaning 4
the male organ of copulation (`member' is a euphemism)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: penis, member
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: erectile organ
Narrower terms: cock, prick, dick, shaft, pecker, peter, tool, putz, micropenis, microphallus
noun
Meaning 5
genus of fungi having the cap or pileus hanging free around the stem
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: genus Phallus
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: fungus genus
History
Etymology
From Latin phallus (“membrum virile, phallus, or a figure thereof”) from Ancient Greek φαλλός (phallós).
Across languages
Translations
46 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: فَالُوس (fālūs) — the penis or its representation
- Arabic: فَالُوس (falus) — the penis or its representation
- Asturian: falu — the penis or its representation
- Bulgarian: фалос (falos) — the penis or its representation
- Catalan: fal·lus — the penis or its representation
- Chinese Mandarin: 菲勒斯 (fēilèsī) — the penis or its representation
- Czech: falus — the penis or its representation
- Esperanto: faluso — the penis or its representation
- Finnish: fallos — the penis or its representation
- French: phallus — the penis or its representation
- Galician: falo — the penis or its representation
- German: Phallus — the penis or its representation
- Greek: φαλλός (fallós) — the penis or its representation
- Ancient Greek: φαλλός (phallós) — the penis or its representation
- Hebrew: פאלוס (falus) — the penis or its representation
- Hindi: लिंग (liṅg) — the penis or its representation
- Hungarian: fallosz — the penis or its representation
- Hungarian: hímvessző — the penis or its representation
- Icelandic: reður — the penis or its representation
- Indonesian: lingga — the penis or its representation
- Italian: fallo — the penis or its representation
- Japanese: ファルス (farusu) — the penis or its representation
- Korean: 팔루스 (palluseu) — the penis or its representation
- Latin: phallus — the penis or its representation
- Marathi: शिशी (śiśī) — the penis or its representation
- Norwegian Bokmål: fallos — the penis or its representation
- Norwegian Nynorsk: fallos — the penis or its representation
- Occitan: fallus — the penis or its representation
- Persian: کیر (kir) — the penis or its representation
- Plautdietsch: Pischat — the penis or its representation
- Plautdietsch: Maunsjlett — the penis or its representation
- Polish: fallus — the penis or its representation
- Portuguese: falo — the penis or its representation
- Portuguese: fálus — the penis or its representation
- Romanian: falus — the penis or its representation
- Russian: фа́ллос (fállos) — the penis or its representation
- Russian: фа́ллус (fállus) — the penis or its representation
- Russian: фалл (fall) — the penis or its representation
- Sanskrit: पसस् (pasas) — the penis or its representation
- Sanskrit: शिश्न (śiśná) — the penis or its representation
- Sanskrit: शेपस् (śepas) — the penis or its representation
- Spanish: falo — the penis or its representation
- Swedish: fallos — the penis or its representation
- Telugu: లింగము (liṅgamu) — the penis or its representation
- Turkish: fallus — the penis or its representation
- Turkish: fallos — the penis or its representation