sexual orientation

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Coined by New Zealand American psychologist, sexologist, and college professor John Money.

105 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: seksuele oriëntasie — sexual orientation
• Albanian: orientim seksual — sexual orientation
• Arabic: تَوَجُّه جِنْسِيّ (tawajjuh jinsiyy) — sexual orientation
• Armenian: սեռական կողմնորոշում (seṙakan koġmnorošum) — sexual orientation
• Asturian: orientación sexual — sexual orientation
• Aymara: sarnaqaña uñtapa — sexual orientation
• Azerbaijani: seksual orientasiya — sexual orientation
• Azerbaijani: cinsi yönümlülük — sexual orientation
• Azerbaijani: cinsi orientasiya — sexual orientation
• Basque: sexu-joera — sexual orientation
• Basque: orientazio sexual — sexual orientation
• Belarusian: сексуа́льная арыента́цыя (sjeksuálʹnaja aryjentácyja) — sexual orientation
• Bengali: যৌন অভিমুখীতা (jōun obhimukhita) — sexual orientation
• Breton: tuadur reizhel — sexual orientation
• Bulgarian: сексуа́лна ориента́ция (seksuálna orientácija) — sexual orientation
• Bulgarian: резба́ (rezbá) — sexual orientation
• Catalan: orientació sexual — sexual orientation
• Chinese Mandarin: 性傾向 /性倾向 (xìngqīngxiàng) — sexual orientation
• Chinese Mandarin: 性取向 (xìngqǔxiàng) — sexual orientation
• Chinese Mandarin: 性指向 (xìngzhǐxiàng) — sexual orientation
• Chinese Mandarin: 性位向 (xìngwèixiàng) — sexual orientation
• Chinese Mandarin: 性向 (xìngxiàng) — sexual orientation
• Czech: sexuální orientace — sexual orientation
• Danish: seksuel orientering — sexual orientation
• Dutch: seksuele geaardheid — sexual orientation
• Dutch: seksuele oriëntatie — sexual orientation
• Dutch: seksuele gerichtheid — sexual orientation
• Dutch: geaardheid — sexual orientation
• Esperanto: seksa orientiĝo — sexual orientation
• Estonian: seksuaalne orientatsioon — sexual orientation
• Estonian: seksuaalne suundumus — sexual orientation
• Finnish: seksuaalinen suuntautuminen — sexual orientation
• French: orientation sexuelle — sexual orientation
• West-Frisian: seksuële oriïntaasje — sexual orientation
• Galician: orientación sexual — sexual orientation
• Georgian: სექსუალური ორიენტაცია (seksualuri orienṭacia) — sexual orientation
• German: sexuelle Orientierung — sexual orientation
• German: sexuelle Ausrichtung — sexual orientation
• German: sexuelle Neigung — sexual orientation
• Greek: σεξουαλικός προσανατολισμός (sexoualikós prosanatolismós) — sexual orientation
• Hebrew: נטייה מינית (netiya minit) — sexual orientation
• Hindi: यौन अभिविन्यास (yaun abhivinyās) — sexual orientation
• Hungarian: szexuális irányultság — sexual orientation
• Icelandic: kynhneigð — sexual orientation
• Ido: sexuala orientalizo — sexual orientation
• Indonesian: orientasi seksual — sexual orientation
• Irish: claonadh gnéasach — sexual orientation
• Italian: orientamento sessuale — sexual orientation
• Japanese: 性的指向 (seitekishikō) — sexual orientation
• Japanese: 性指向 (seishikō) — sexual orientation
• Japanese: セクシュアルオリエンテーション (sekushuaru orientēshon) — sexual orientation
• Kazakh: сексуалды бағыттану (seksualdy bağyttanu) — sexual orientation
• Korean: 성적 지향 (seongjeok jihyang) — sexual orientation
• Northern Kurdish: berpêbûniya zayendî — sexual orientation
• Latin: propensio sexualis — sexual orientation
• Latvian: seksuālā orientācija — sexual orientation
• Lithuanian: seksualinė orientacija — sexual orientation
• Lithuanian: lytinė orientacija — sexual orientation
• Macedonian: сексуа́лна ориента́ција (seksuálna orientácija) — sexual orientation
• Malay: orientasi seksual — sexual orientation
• Malayalam: ലൈംഗികചായ്വ് (laiṅgikacāyvŭ) — sexual orientation
• Maltese: orjentazzjoni sesswali — sexual orientation
• Māori: aronga hōkaka — sexual orientation
• Māori: aronga taera — sexual orientation
• Māori: taeratanga — sexual orientation
• Māori: hōkakatanga — sexual orientation
• Marathi: लैंगिक कल (laiṅgik kal) — sexual orientation
• Mongolian: бэлгийн баримжаа (belgiin barimžaa) — sexual orientation
• Nepali: यौन अभिमुखिकरण (yaun abhimukhikaraṇ) — sexual orientation
• Norman: orientâtion sexuelle — sexual orientation
• Norwegian: seksuell leggning — sexual orientation
• Norwegian: legning — sexual orientation
• Norwegian Bokmål: seksuell orientering — sexual orientation
• Norwegian Nynorsk: seksuell orientering — sexual orientation
• Persian: گرایش جنسی (garâyeš-e jensi) — sexual orientation
• Polish: orientacja seksualna — sexual orientation
• Portuguese: orientação sexual — sexual orientation
• Punjabi: ਲਿੰਗਕ ਅਨੁਸਥਾਪਨ (liṅgak anusthāpan) — sexual orientation
• Romanian: orientare sexuală — sexual orientation
• Russian: сексуа́льная ориента́ция (sɛksuálʹnaja orijentácija) — sexual orientation
• Sardinian: orientamentu sessuale — sexual orientation
• Serbo-Croatian: сексуална оријентација — sexual orientation
• Serbo-Croatian: seksualna orijentacija — sexual orientation
• Shuar: pampatai nekámuri — sexual orientation
• Slovak: sexuálna orientácia — sexual orientation
• Slovene: spolna usmerjenost — sexual orientation
• Slovene: spolna orientacija — sexual orientation
• Spanish: orientación sexual — sexual orientation
• Swedish: sexuell läggning — sexual orientation
• Tagalog: oryentasyong seksuwal — sexual orientation
• Tajik: гироиши ҷинсӣ (giroyiš-i jinsi) — sexual orientation
• Tajik: гароиши ҷинсӣ (garoyiš-i jinsi) — sexual orientation
• Tamil: பாலியல் நாட்டம் (pāliyal nāṭṭam) — sexual orientation
• Thai: รสนิยมทางเพศ (rs̄niym thāng pheṣ̄) — sexual orientation
• Turkish: cinsel yönelim — sexual orientation
• Turkish: cinsel tercih — sexual orientation
• Ukrainian: сексуа́льна орієнта́ція (seksuálʹna orijentácija) — sexual orientation
• Urdu: جنسی کشش — sexual orientation
• Uzbek: jinsiy moyillik — sexual orientation
• Vietnamese: thiên hướng tình dục — sexual orientation
• Vietnamese: xu hướng tình dục — sexual orientation
• Welsh: cyfeiriadedd rhywiol — sexual orientation
• Welsh: rhywioledd — sexual orientation
• Welsh: rhywioldeb — sexual orientation
• Yiddish: סעקסואַלער אָריענטאַציע (seksualer oryentatsye) — sexual orientation