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scrotum

noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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.

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈskɹəʊ.təm/
  • General-American: /ˈskɹoʊ.təm/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -əʊtəm

1

noun

Meaning 1

The sac of skin and muscle that contains and protects the testicles in most placental mammals.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences

Examples

  • The female labia majora are homologous to the male scrotum.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: external genitalia

2

noun

Meaning 2

The pouch or volva of certain fungi.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: biology, mycology, natural-sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

the external pouch that contains the testes

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: pouch, pocket

History

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin scrōtum.

Across languages

Translations

156 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: qese e herdheve — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Arabic: صَفَن (ṣafan) — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Arabic: كِيس اَلصَّفَن (kīs aṣ-ṣafan) — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Arabic: كِيس (kīs) — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Arabic: صفن (ṣafan) — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Aragonese: escroto — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Armenian: ամորձապարկ (amorjapark) — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Armenian: փոշտ (pʻošt) — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Asturian: escrotu — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Azerbaijani: xayalıq — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Azerbaijani: xaya torbası — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Bashkir: тоҡсай (toqsay) — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Belarusian: машо́нка (mašónka) — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Bengali: অন্ডকোষ (onḍokōś) — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Bengali: অণ্ডকোষ (onḍokōś) — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Bulgarian: скротум (skrotum) — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Catalan: escrot — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Chinese Cantonese: 春袋 — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Chinese Cantonese: 陰囊 /阴囊 (jam1 nong4) — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Chinese: 陰囊 /阴囊 (im-lông) — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Chinese: 𡳞脬 (zh-min-nan) — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Chinese: 𡳞胞 (lān-pha) — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Chinese: 胞囊 (phau-lông) — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Chinese Mandarin: 陰囊 /阴囊 (yīnnáng) — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Czech: šourek — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Danish: skrotum — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Danish: pung — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Danish: bollerne — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Dutch: scrotum — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Dutch: balzak — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Esperanto: skroto — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Esperanto: testikujo — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Estonian: munandikott — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Estonian: munn — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Faroese: skólpur — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Faroese: pungur — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Finnish: kivespussi — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • French: scrotum — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Friulian: scrot — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Galician: escroto — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • German: Skrotum — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • German: Hodensack — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Greek: όσχεο (óscheo) — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Ancient Greek: ὄσχη (óskhē) — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Gujarati: કોથળી (kothaḷī) — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Hebrew: כיס האשכים — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Hebrew: שַׂק הָאֲשָׁכִים (sak ha-ashakhim) — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Hindi: अंडकोष (aṇḍkoṣ) — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Hungarian: herezacskó — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Icelandic: pungur — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Ido: skroto — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Indonesian: kantong pelir — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Indonesian: skrotum — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Ingrian: kellit — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Irish: bosán — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Irish: cadairne — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Irish: cochall — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Italian: scroto — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Japanese: 陰嚢 (innō) — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Javanese: ꦏꦺꦴꦤ꧀ꦛꦺꦴꦭ꧀ (konthol) — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Kannada: ಅಂಡಾಶಯ (aṇḍāśaya) — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Kazakh: ұма (ūma) — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Khmer: ក្រសោមស្វាស (krɑsaom svaah) — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Khmer: ប្លោក (plaok) — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Korean: 불 (bul) — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Korean: 음낭 (eumnang) — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Central Kurdish: گوندێن (gundên) — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Northern Kurdish: tûrikê gun — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Latin: scrōtum — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Latin: culleus — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Latvian: sēklinieku maisiņš — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Lithuanian: kapšelis — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Lithuanian: sėklidžių kapšelis — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Low German: Klötensack — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Low German: Skrotum — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Macedonian: скротум (skrotum) — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Malay: kantung buah zakar — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Malay: kerandut buah pelir — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Malay: skrotum — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Malay: kerandut buah zakar — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Malayalam: വൃഷണസഞ്ചി (vr̥ṣaṇasañci) — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Manchu: ᡠᡥᠠᠯᠠ (uhala) — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Māori: pūkoro raho — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Marathi: वृषण (vŕṣaṇ) — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Nandi: lato — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Nandi: kâp-lat — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Navajo: achoʼ — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Navajo: achoʼ bizis — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Navajo: achoʼ ayęęzhii bizis — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Navajo: ayęęzhii bizis — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Norwegian Bokmål: pung — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Norwegian Bokmål: skrotum — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: pung — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: skrotum — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Omaha-Ponca: shondé — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Persian: پوست بیضه (pust-e beyze) — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Persian: کیسه بیضه (kise-ye beyze) — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Persian: کیسه خایه (kise-ye xâye) — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Plautdietsch: Hoodensak — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Polish: moszna — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Polish: worek mosznowy — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Portuguese: escroto — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Romanian: scrot — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Russian: мошо́нка (mošónka) — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Saaroa: 'aricuru — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Inari-Sami: kuolâpursâ — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Northern Sami: buđˈđá — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Northern Sami: bálˈloseahkka — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Skolt-Sami: kuõllsiâkk — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Sanskrit: अण्डकोष (aṇḍakoṣa) — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Satawalese: kiniyse — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Savosavo: bogho — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Serbo-Croatian: mòšnja — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Serbo-Croatian: mȍšnice — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Serbo-Croatian: mȍšnička — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Sicilian: scrotu — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Slovak: miešok — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Slovak: skrótum — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Slovak: gule — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Slovak: vajcia — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Slovene: modnik — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Slovene: mošnja — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Slovene: skrotum — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Lower Sorbian: měch — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Spanish: escroto — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Sundanese: ᮊᮔ᮪ᮏᮥᮒ᮪ (kanjut) — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Swahili: korodani — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Swedish: pung — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Swedish: scrotum — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Swedish: skrotum — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Tagalog: balat-bayag — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Tagalog: eskroto — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Tagalog: kasuputan — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Tamil: விதைப்பை (vitaippai) — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Tamil: விரைப்பை (viraippai) — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Telugu: వృషణం (vr̥ṣaṇaṁ) — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Telugu: అండకోశము (aṇḍakōśamu) — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Telugu: బీజావయవము (bījāvayavamu) — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Thai: ถุงอัณฑะ — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Tongan: laho — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Turkish: skrotum — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Ukrainian: мошо́нка (mošónka) — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Ukrainian: кали́тка (kalýtka) — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Urdu: صفن (sufan) — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Uzbek: yorgʻoq — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Vietnamese: dái — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Vietnamese: bìu dái — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Vietnamese: bìu — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Volapük: skrot — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Welsh: ceillgwd — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Welsh: sgrotwm — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Welsh: cwd — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Welsh: cwdyn — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Yucatec Maya: chiim — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • Záparo: riaha — sac of skin that protects the testicles
  • ǃXóõ: ǂqhàn-tê — sac of skin that protects the testicles