spine

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From late Middle English spyne, from Old French espine (French épine) or its source, Latin spīna (“a thorn; a prickle, spine; the backbone”). Doublet of spina.

261 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: ruggraat — backbone
• Albanian: shtyllë kurrizore — backbone
• Albanian: shtyllë e kurrizit — backbone
• Albanian: bosht i kurrizit — backbone
• Albanian: kurriz — backbone
• Amharic: አከርካሪ (ʾäkärkari) — backbone
• Western Apache: batsą́tsʼin — backbone
• Arabic: عَمُود فَقْرِيّ (ʕamūd faqriyy) — backbone
• Arabic: عمود فقري (ʕamūd faqarī) — backbone
• Armenian: ողնաշար (oġnašar) — backbone
• Aromanian: schinari — backbone
• Aromanian: cãtinã — backbone
• Assamese: ৰাজহাড় (razohar) — backbone
• Asturian: espinazu — backbone
• Asturian: espina — backbone
• Azerbaijani: onurğa — backbone
• Bashkir: умыртҡа (umırtqa) — backbone
• Belarusian: хрыбе́тнік (xrybjétnik) — backbone
• Belarusian: ́хрыбе́тніца (́xrybjétnica) — backbone
• Belarusian: пазвано́чнік (pazvanóčnik) — backbone
• Belarusian: хрыбе́т (xrybjét) — backbone
• Bengali: মেরুদণ্ড (merudonḍo) — backbone
• Bulgarian: гръбна́чен стълб (grǎbnáčen stǎlb) — backbone
• Bulgarian: гръбна́к (grǎbnák) — backbone
• Burmese: ကျောရိုး (kyau:rui:) — backbone
• Catalan: espinada — backbone
• Catalan: raquis — backbone
• Chinese Cantonese: 脊椎 (zek3 zeoi1) — backbone
• Chinese Cantonese: 脊骨 (zek3 gwat1) — backbone
• Chinese Mandarin: 骨幹 /骨干 (gǔgàn) — backbone
• Chinese Mandarin: 脊骨 (jígǔ) — backbone
• Chinese Mandarin: 背骨 (bèigǔ) — backbone
• Chinese Mandarin: 脊椎 (jǐzhuī) — backbone
• Czech: páteř — backbone
• Czech: hřbet — backbone
• Danish: rygsøjle — backbone
• Danish: rygrad — backbone
• Dutch: ruggengraat — backbone
• Egyptian: p-s-D:F37 (psḏ) — backbone
• Esperanto: spino — backbone
• Esperanto: vertebraro — backbone
• Esperanto: vertebra kolumno — backbone
• Estonian: selgroog — backbone
• Finnish: selkäranka — backbone
• French: colonne vertébrale — backbone
• French: échine — backbone
• French: épine dorsale — backbone
• Galician: espiñazo — backbone
• Galician: soá — backbone
• Galician: soaxe — backbone
• Galician: cerrizo — backbone
• Galician: cernizo — backbone
• Georgian: ხერხემალი (xerxemali) — backbone
• German: Rückgrat — backbone
• German: Wirbelsäule — backbone
• Greek: σπονδυλική στήλη (spondylikí stíli) — backbone
• Greek: ραχοκοκαλιά (rachokokaliá) — backbone
• Ancient Greek: ῥάχις (rhákhis) — backbone
• Hebrew: עַמּוּד שִׁדְרָה ('amúd shidrá) — backbone
• Hindi: मेरुदण्ड (merudaṇḍ) — backbone
• Hindi: रीढ़ की हड्डी (rīṛh kī haḍḍī) — backbone
• Hindi: रीढ़ (rīṛh) — backbone
• Hungarian: gerinc — backbone
• Icelandic: hryggur — backbone
• Icelandic: hryggjarsúla — backbone
• Indonesian: spina — backbone
• Ingrian: selkäpii — backbone
• Irish: dromlach — backbone
• Irish: cnámh droma — backbone
• Italian: colonna vertebrale — backbone
• Japanese: 背骨 (sebone) — backbone
• Japanese: 脊椎 (sekitsui) — backbone
• Japanese: 脊柱 (sekichū) — backbone
• Kazakh: омыртқа (omyrtqa) — backbone
• Khmer: ឆ្អឹងខ្នង (chʼəng khnɑɑng) — backbone
• Korean: 척추 (cheokchu) — backbone
• Northern Kurdish: birrbirre — backbone
• Kyrgyz: омуртка (omurtka) — backbone
• Lao: ກະດູກສັນຫຼັງ (ka dūk san lang) — backbone
• Latin: spīna — backbone
• Latin: columna vertebrālis — backbone
• Latvian: mugurkauls — backbone
• Lithuanian: stuburas — backbone
• Macedonian: ’р́бет (’ŕbet) — backbone
• Malay: tulang belakang — backbone
• Malayalam: നട്ടെല്ല് (naṭṭellŭ) — backbone
• Māori: tuātara — backbone
• Māori: iwituaroa — backbone
• Māori: tuakoko — backbone
• Māori: tuaiwi — backbone
• Māori: iwituararo — backbone
• Middle English: chyne — backbone
• Mongolian: нуруу (nuruu) — backbone
• Navajo: íígháán — backbone
• Nepali: मेरुदण्ड (merudaṇḍa) — backbone
• Norwegian Bokmål: ryggrad — backbone
• Norwegian Bokmål: ryggsøyle — backbone
• Norwegian Bokmål: virvelsøyle — backbone
• Norwegian Nynorsk: ryggrad — backbone
• Norwegian Nynorsk: ryggsøyle — backbone
• Norwegian Nynorsk: virvelsøyle — backbone
• Occitan: colomna vertebrala — backbone
• Northern Ohlone: núm̄es — backbone
• Church Slavic: хрьбьтъ (xrĭbĭtŭ) — backbone
• Old English: hryċġbān — backbone
• Pannonian Rusyn: похребцина (poxrebcina) — backbone
• Pashto: شمزۍ (šamzᶕy) — backbone
• Pashto: شنځۍ (šanjǝ́y) — backbone
• Iranian Persian: سُتونِ مُهْرِهها (sotun-e mohre-hâ) — backbone
• Polish: kręgosłup — backbone
• Portuguese: espinhaço — backbone
• Portuguese: espinha — backbone
• Portuguese: coluna — backbone
• Portuguese: coluna vertebral — backbone
• Rapa Nui: ivi tika — backbone
• Romanian: coloană vertebrală — backbone
• Russian: позвоно́чник (pozvonóčnik) — backbone
• Russian: хребе́т (xrebét) — backbone
• Scottish Gaelic: cnàimh an droma — backbone
• Serbo-Croatian: кра́љежница — backbone
• Serbo-Croatian: кра́љешница — backbone
• Serbo-Croatian: ки̑чма — backbone
• Serbo-Croatian: хрптѐњача — backbone
• Serbo-Croatian: хрптеница — backbone
• Serbo-Croatian: хр̏бат — backbone
• Serbo-Croatian: králježnica — backbone
• Serbo-Croatian: králješnica — backbone
• Serbo-Croatian: kȋčma — backbone
• Serbo-Croatian: hrptènjača — backbone
• Serbo-Croatian: hrptenica — backbone
• Serbo-Croatian: hȑbat — backbone
• Sinhalese: කශේරුව (kaśēruwa) — backbone
• Slovak: chrbtica — backbone
• Slovene: hrbtenica — backbone
• Spanish: columna vertebral — backbone
• Spanish: espinazo — backbone
• Spanish: espina dorsal — backbone
• Spanish: raquis — backbone
• Spanish: entrecuesto — backbone
• Spanish: esquena — backbone
• Sranan Tongo: bakabonyo — backbone
• Swedish: ryggrad — backbone
• Tagalog: guluguran — backbone
• Tagalog: bangananan — backbone
• Tajik: сутунмӯҳра (sutunmühra) — backbone
• Tamil: முதுகெலும்பு (mutukelumpu) — backbone
• Tamil: முள்ளந்தண்டு (muḷḷantaṇṭu) — backbone
• Tashelhit: iẓḍi (n ukrum) — backbone
• Tatar: умырткалык (umırtqalıq) — backbone
• Tatar: умыртка (umırtqa) — backbone
• Thai: กระดูกสันหลัง (grà-dùuk-sǎn-lǎng) — backbone
• Turkish: omurga — backbone
• Ottoman Turkish: سونكو (süngü) — backbone
• Turkmen: oňurga — backbone
• Ukrainian: хребе́т (xrebét) — backbone
• Urdu: رِیڑھ (rīṛh) — backbone
• Urdu: رِیڑھ کی ہَڈّی (rīṛh kī haḍḍī) — backbone
• Uzbek: umurtqa pogʻonasi — backbone
• Vietnamese: xương sống — backbone
• Volapük: bäkabom — backbone
• Welsh: asgwrn cefn — backbone
• Yiddish: רוקנביין (ruknbeyn) — backbone
• Zhuang: ndoksaen — backbone
• Bulgarian: кура́ж (kuráž) — courage or assertiveness
• Czech: páteř — courage or assertiveness
• Danish: rygrad — courage or assertiveness
• Finnish: selkäranka — courage or assertiveness
• German: Rückgrat — courage or assertiveness
• Japanese: 気骨 (kikotsu) — courage or assertiveness
• Latvian: mugurkauls — courage or assertiveness
• Macedonian: ’рбет (’rbet) — courage or assertiveness
• Malayalam: നട്ടെല്ല് (naṭṭellŭ) — courage or assertiveness
• Norwegian Bokmål: ryggrad — courage or assertiveness
• Polish: determinacja — courage or assertiveness
• Polish: zdecydowanie — courage or assertiveness
• Russian: хребе́т (xrebét) — courage or assertiveness
• Russian: сте́ржень (stérženʹ) — courage or assertiveness
• Slovene: hrbtenica — courage or assertiveness
• Swedish: ryggrad — courage or assertiveness
• Tamil: முதுகெலும்பு (mutukelumpu) — courage or assertiveness
• Bulgarian: гръб (grǎb) — bound edge of a book
• Catalan: llom — bound edge of a book
• Czech: hřbet — bound edge of a book
• Danish: ryg — bound edge of a book
• Dutch: rug — bound edge of a book
• Finnish: selkä — bound edge of a book
• Finnish: selkämys — bound edge of a book
• French: dos — bound edge of a book
• German: Rücken — bound edge of a book
• German: Buchrücken — bound edge of a book
• Greek: ράχη (ráchi) — bound edge of a book
• Icelandic: kjölur — bound edge of a book
• Italian: costa — bound edge of a book
• Italian: dorso — bound edge of a book
• Japanese: 本の背 — bound edge of a book
• Japanese: 背表紙 (sebyōshi) — bound edge of a book
• Latvian: mugura — bound edge of a book
• Macedonian: ’рбет (’rbet) — bound edge of a book
• Malay: tulang — bound edge of a book
• Norwegian Bokmål: rygg — bound edge of a book
• Polish: grzbiet — bound edge of a book
• Portuguese: dorso — bound edge of a book
• Russian: корешо́к (korešók) — bound edge of a book
• Slovene: hrbet — bound edge of a book
• Spanish: lomo — bound edge of a book
• Spanish: recazo — bound edge of a book
• Swedish: rygg — bound edge of a book
• Swedish: bokrygg — bound edge of a book
• Tamil: முதுகு (mutuku) — bound edge of a book
• Thai: สัน (sǎn) — bound edge of a book
• Thai: สันหนังสือ (sǎn-nǎng-sʉ̌ʉ) — bound edge of a book
• Ukrainian: коріне́ць (korinécʹ) — bound edge of a book
• Ukrainian: спи́нка (spýnka) — bound edge of a book
• Vietnamese: gáy sách — bound edge of a book
• Asturian: espina — rigid, pointed surface protuberance or needle-like structure
• Bashkir: энә (enə) — rigid, pointed surface protuberance or needle-like structure
• Bulgarian: бодил (bodil) — rigid, pointed surface protuberance or needle-like structure
• Bulgarian: шип (šip) — rigid, pointed surface protuberance or needle-like structure
• Catalan: espina — rigid, pointed surface protuberance or needle-like structure
• Czech: osten — rigid, pointed surface protuberance or needle-like structure
• Czech: trn — rigid, pointed surface protuberance or needle-like structure
• Czech: bodlina (of a hedgehog) — rigid, pointed surface protuberance or needle-like structure
• Danish: pig (of a hedgehog) — rigid, pointed surface protuberance or needle-like structure
• Dutch: stekel — rigid, pointed surface protuberance or needle-like structure
• Dutch: doorn — rigid, pointed surface protuberance or needle-like structure
• Estonian: oga — rigid, pointed surface protuberance or needle-like structure
• Finnish: piikki — rigid, pointed surface protuberance or needle-like structure
• Finnish: oas — rigid, pointed surface protuberance or needle-like structure
• French: épine — rigid, pointed surface protuberance or needle-like structure
• French: piquant — rigid, pointed surface protuberance or needle-like structure
• Galician: espiña — rigid, pointed surface protuberance or needle-like structure
• German: Stachel — rigid, pointed surface protuberance or needle-like structure
• German: Dorn — rigid, pointed surface protuberance or needle-like structure
• Greek: αγκάθι (agkáthi) — rigid, pointed surface protuberance or needle-like structure
• Hawaiian: heu (in cacti) — rigid, pointed surface protuberance or needle-like structure
• Hebrew: קוֹץ (kotz) — rigid, pointed surface protuberance or needle-like structure
• Hebrew: עוקץ — rigid, pointed surface protuberance or needle-like structure
• Hebrew: עֹקֶץ (óketz) — rigid, pointed surface protuberance or needle-like structure
• Hungarian: tüske — rigid, pointed surface protuberance or needle-like structure
• Icelandic: hryggur — rigid, pointed surface protuberance or needle-like structure
• Irish: dealg — rigid, pointed surface protuberance or needle-like structure
• Irish: spíon — rigid, pointed surface protuberance or needle-like structure
• Italian: spina — rigid, pointed surface protuberance or needle-like structure
• Latin: spīna — rigid, pointed surface protuberance or needle-like structure
• Latin: aculeus — rigid, pointed surface protuberance or needle-like structure
• Māori: tuātara — rigid, pointed surface protuberance or needle-like structure
• Māori: tuaitara — rigid, pointed surface protuberance or needle-like structure
• Māori: wehiwehi — rigid, pointed surface protuberance or needle-like structure
• Māori: wewehi — rigid, pointed surface protuberance or needle-like structure
• Polish: kolec — rigid, pointed surface protuberance or needle-like structure
• Portuguese: espinho — rigid, pointed surface protuberance or needle-like structure
• Russian: шип (šip) — rigid, pointed surface protuberance or needle-like structure
• Russian: игла́ (iglá) — rigid, pointed surface protuberance or needle-like structure
• Russian: колю́чка (koljúčka) — rigid, pointed surface protuberance or needle-like structure
• Slovene: bodica — rigid, pointed surface protuberance or needle-like structure
• Spanish: espina — rigid, pointed surface protuberance or needle-like structure
• Swedish: tagg — rigid, pointed surface protuberance or needle-like structure
• Tagalog: tinik — rigid, pointed surface protuberance or needle-like structure
• Tamil: முள் (muḷ) — rigid, pointed surface protuberance or needle-like structure
• Turkish: diken — rigid, pointed surface protuberance or needle-like structure
• Ottoman Turkish: دیكن (diken) — rigid, pointed surface protuberance or needle-like structure