tendon

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• /ˈtɛn.dən/
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Borrowed from French tendon or Medieval Latin tendō, from Ancient Greek τένων (ténōn, “sinew, tendon”), modified by association with the verb tendō (“to stretch”). Compare Middle English thenoun.

132 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: dell — band of fibrous tissue
• Albanian: tendin — band of fibrous tissue
• Arabic: وَتَر (watar) — band of fibrous tissue
• Armenian: ջիլ (ǰil) — band of fibrous tissue
• Azerbaijani: vətər — band of fibrous tissue
• Belarusian: сухажы́лле (suxažýllje) — band of fibrous tissue
• Bulgarian: сухожи́лие (suhožílie) — band of fibrous tissue
• Burmese: အရွတ် (a.rwat) — band of fibrous tissue
• Catalan: tendó — band of fibrous tissue
• Chinese Mandarin: 肌腱 (jījiàn) — band of fibrous tissue
• Chinese Mandarin: 腱 (jiàn) — band of fibrous tissue
• Chuvash: шӑнӑр (šănăr) — band of fibrous tissue
• Czech: šlacha — band of fibrous tissue
• Danish: sene — band of fibrous tissue
• Dutch: pees — band of fibrous tissue
• Esperanto: tendeno — band of fibrous tissue
• Estonian: kõõlus — band of fibrous tissue
• Even: хум (hum) — band of fibrous tissue
• Finnish: jänne — band of fibrous tissue
• French: tendon — band of fibrous tissue
• Galician: balastrón — band of fibrous tissue
• Galician: balistrón — band of fibrous tissue
• Galician: fío — band of fibrous tissue
• Galician: liña — band of fibrous tissue
• Galician: bestra — band of fibrous tissue
• Georgian: მყესი (mq̇esi) — band of fibrous tissue
• German: Sehne — band of fibrous tissue
• Greek: τένοντας (ténontas) — band of fibrous tissue
• Ancient Greek: τένων (ténōn) — band of fibrous tissue
• Haitian Creole: tandon — band of fibrous tissue
• Hebrew: גִיד (gid) — band of fibrous tissue
• Hindi: स्नायु (snāyu) — band of fibrous tissue
• Hindi: नस (nas) — band of fibrous tissue
• Hungarian: ín — band of fibrous tissue
• Hungarian: ínszalag — band of fibrous tissue
• Icelandic: sin — band of fibrous tissue
• Indonesian: tendon — band of fibrous tissue
• Indonesian: urat — band of fibrous tissue
• Interlingua: tendine — band of fibrous tissue
• Interlingua: tendon — band of fibrous tissue
• Irish: teannán — band of fibrous tissue
• Italian: tendine — band of fibrous tissue
• Japanese: 腱 (ken) — band of fibrous tissue
• Japanese: 筋 (suji) — band of fibrous tissue
• Kapampangan: litad — band of fibrous tissue
• Kazakh: сіңір (sıñır) — band of fibrous tissue
• Kazakh: тарамыс (taramys) — band of fibrous tissue
• Khmer: សរសៃពួរ (sɑɑ say puə) — band of fibrous tissue
• Khmer: សរសៃ (sɑɑ say) — band of fibrous tissue
• Korean: 심줄 (simjul) — band of fibrous tissue
• Korean: 힘줄 (himjul) — band of fibrous tissue
• Korean: 건 (geon) — band of fibrous tissue
• Australian Kriol: jinuj — band of fibrous tissue
• Central Kurdish: ژێ (jê) — band of fibrous tissue
• Northern Kurdish: jê — band of fibrous tissue
• Kyrgyz: сиңир (siŋir) — band of fibrous tissue
• Kyrgyz: тарамыш (taramış) — band of fibrous tissue
• Lao: ນະຫາລຸ (na hā lu) — band of fibrous tissue
• Lao: ເອັນ (ē ʼan) — band of fibrous tissue
• Lao: ເສັ້ນເອັນ (sen ē ʼan) — band of fibrous tissue
• Latin: tenōn — band of fibrous tissue
• Latvian: cīpsla — band of fibrous tissue
• Latvian: dzīsla — band of fibrous tissue
• Lithuanian: sausgyslė — band of fibrous tissue
• Low German: Seen — band of fibrous tissue
• Luxembourgish: Fies — band of fibrous tissue
• Macedonian: тети́ва (tetíva) — band of fibrous tissue
• Malay: tendon — band of fibrous tissue
• Manchu: ᠰᡠᠪᡝ (sube) — band of fibrous tissue
• Māori: uaua — band of fibrous tissue
• Māori: iaia — band of fibrous tissue
• Māori: io — band of fibrous tissue
• Māori: ioio — band of fibrous tissue
• Māori: iohere — band of fibrous tissue
• Middle English: synwe — band of fibrous tissue
• Middle English: thenoun — band of fibrous tissue
• Mongolian: шөрмөс (šörmös) — band of fibrous tissue
• Mongolian: шандас (šandas) — band of fibrous tissue
• Munsee: wchéht — band of fibrous tissue
• Nanai: сумул (sumul) — band of fibrous tissue
• Norwegian Bokmål: sene — band of fibrous tissue
• Norwegian Nynorsk: sene — band of fibrous tissue
• Norwegian Nynorsk: sen — band of fibrous tissue
• Occitan: tendon — band of fibrous tissue
• Old English: sinu — band of fibrous tissue
• Ossetian: нуар (nwar) — band of fibrous tissue
• Persian: تاندون (tândon) — band of fibrous tissue
• Persian: پی (pay) — band of fibrous tissue
• Polish: ścięgno — band of fibrous tissue
• Portuguese: tendão — band of fibrous tissue
• Quechua: bunelan — band of fibrous tissue
• Romanian: tendon — band of fibrous tissue
• Romanian: ligament — band of fibrous tissue
• Romanian: vână — band of fibrous tissue
• Russian: сухожи́лие (suxožílije) — band of fibrous tissue
• Russian: жи́ла (žíla) — band of fibrous tissue
• Serbo-Croatian: тѐтива — band of fibrous tissue
• Serbo-Croatian: tètiva — band of fibrous tissue
• Slovak: šľacha — band of fibrous tissue
• Slovene: tetiva — band of fibrous tissue
• Slovene: kita — band of fibrous tissue
• Southern Altai: сиҥир (siŋir) — band of fibrous tissue
• Southern Altai: тарам (taram) — band of fibrous tissue
• Spanish: tendón — band of fibrous tissue
• Swedish: sena — band of fibrous tissue
• Tagalog: litid — band of fibrous tissue
• Tahitian: uaua — band of fibrous tissue
• Tajik: раг (rag) — band of fibrous tissue
• Tajik: пай (pay) — band of fibrous tissue
• Tamil: தசைநாண் (tacaināṇ) — band of fibrous tissue
• Telugu: స్నాయువు (snāyuvu) — band of fibrous tissue
• Thai: ลวดกํา (lûat gam) — band of fibrous tissue
• Thai: สายตัว (săai dtua) — band of fibrous tissue
• Thai: เอ็นกล้ามเนื้อ — band of fibrous tissue
• Thai: แถบเอ็น (tɛ̀ɛp-en) — band of fibrous tissue
• Thai: เอ็น (en) — band of fibrous tissue
• Thai: เส้นเอ็น (sêen-en) — band of fibrous tissue
• Tibetan: རྒྱུད་པ (rgyud pa) — band of fibrous tissue
• Tocharian B: ṣñor — band of fibrous tissue
• Turkish: kiriş — band of fibrous tissue
• Turkish: tendon — band of fibrous tissue
• Ottoman Turkish: سڭیر (siñir) — band of fibrous tissue
• Ottoman Turkish: طنب (tunub) — band of fibrous tissue
• Ottoman Turkish: عصب (ʿasab) — band of fibrous tissue
• Ukrainian: сухожи́лля (suxožýllja) — band of fibrous tissue
• Unami: hàtës — band of fibrous tissue
• Uyghur: سىڭىر (si'ngir) — band of fibrous tissue
• Uzbek: pay — band of fibrous tissue
• Uzbek: chandir — band of fibrous tissue
• Vietnamese: gân — band of fibrous tissue
• Volapük: kordül — band of fibrous tissue
• Yakut: иҥиир (iŋiir) — band of fibrous tissue