tonsil

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈtɒn.sɪl/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈtɒn.səl/
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• British, Southern, Standard: /ˈtɔn.sɪl/
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• British, Southern, Standard: /ˈtɔn.səl/
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• General-American: /ˈtɑn.səl/
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• rhymes with -ɒnsəl
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• homophone: tonsile
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• CMU ARPABET: T AA2 N S AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Borrowed from French tonsille or Latin tonsillae (“the tonsils in the throat”, plural). First attested in the late 16th century,

97 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: barth — palatine tonsil
• Albanian: bajame — palatine tonsil
• Arabic: لَوْزَة (lawza) — palatine tonsil
• Arabic: لُوَز (luwaz) — palatine tonsil
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܢܲܚܢܲܚܬܵܐ (naḳnaḳtā) — palatine tonsil
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܦܪܵܩܬܵܐ (prāqtā) — palatine tonsil
• Armenian: նշիկ (nšik) — palatine tonsil
• Armenian: նշագեղձ (nšageġj) — palatine tonsil
• Armenian: գլանդ (gland) — palatine tonsil
• Azerbaijani: badamcıq — palatine tonsil
• Basque: amigdala — palatine tonsil
• Belarusian: мінда́ліна (mindálina) — palatine tonsil
• Bulgarian: сли́вица (slívica) — palatine tonsil
• Catalan: amígdala — palatine tonsil
• Chinese Cantonese: 扁桃腺 — palatine tonsil
• Chinese Mandarin: 扁桃體 /扁桃体 (biǎntáotǐ) — palatine tonsil
• Chinese Mandarin: 扁桃腺 (biǎntáoxiàn) — palatine tonsil
• Czech: krční mandle — palatine tonsil
• Danish: mandel — palatine tonsil
• Dutch: keelamandel — palatine tonsil
• Dutch: tonsil — palatine tonsil
• Dutch: amandel — palatine tonsil
• Esperanto: tonsilo — palatine tonsil
• Estonian: mandel — palatine tonsil
• Finnish: nielurisa — palatine tonsil
• French: amygdale — palatine tonsil
• Georgian: ნუშურა (nušura) — palatine tonsil
• Georgian: ნუშურა ჯირკვალი (nušura ǯirḳvali) — palatine tonsil
• Georgian: გლანდი (glandi) — palatine tonsil
• German: Mandel — palatine tonsil
• German: Tonsille — palatine tonsil
• Greek: αμυγδαλή (amygdalí) — palatine tonsil
• Ancient Greek: παρίσθμιον (parísthmion) — palatine tonsil
• Ancient Greek: ἀντιάς (antiás) — palatine tonsil
• Hebrew: שָׁקֵד (shakéd) — palatine tonsil
• Hindi: गलतुंडिका (galtuṇḍikā) — palatine tonsil
• Hindi: गलतुण्डिका (galtuṇḍikā) — palatine tonsil
• Hungarian: mandula — palatine tonsil
• Ido: tonsilo — palatine tonsil
• Italian: tonsilla — palatine tonsil
• Japanese: 扁桃腺 (hentōsen) — palatine tonsil
• Japanese: 扁桃 (hentō) — palatine tonsil
• Kazakh: бадамша (badamşa) — palatine tonsil
• Kazakh: бадамша без (badamşa bez) — palatine tonsil
• Korean: 편도선 (pyeondoseon) — palatine tonsil
• Korean: 편도 (pyeondo) — palatine tonsil
• Central Kurdish: ئاڵوو (allû) — palatine tonsil
• Northern Kurdish: aloq — palatine tonsil
• Latin: tonsillae — palatine tonsil
• Macedonian: крајник (krajnik) — palatine tonsil
• Malay: tonsil — palatine tonsil
• Mongolian: бүйлсэн булчирхай (büjlsen bulčirxaj) — palatine tonsil
• Mongolian: хоолойны мах (xoolojny max) — palatine tonsil
• Mongolian: бүйлсэн цогц (büjlsen cogc) — palatine tonsil
• Mongolian: ᠪᠦᠢᠯᠡᠰᠦᠯᠣᠩ ᠪᠤᠷᠴᠢᠯᠬᠠᠢ (büilesülong burčilqai) — palatine tonsil
• Mongolian: ᠬᠣᠭᠣᠯᠠᠢ ᠵᠢᠨ ᠮᠢᠬ᠎ᠠ (qogolai-ǰin miq-a) — palatine tonsil
• Mongolian: ᠪᠦᠢᠯᠡᠰᠦᠯᠣᠩ ᠴᠣᠭᠴᠠ (büilesülong čoɣča) — palatine tonsil
• Navajo: akááz — palatine tonsil
• Norwegian Bokmål: mandel — palatine tonsil
• Norwegian Nynorsk: mandel — palatine tonsil
• Plautdietsch: Haulsdrees — palatine tonsil
• Polish: migdałek — palatine tonsil
• Polish: migdał — palatine tonsil
• Portuguese: tonsila — palatine tonsil
• Portuguese: amígdala — palatine tonsil
• Romanian: amigdală — palatine tonsil
• Romansh: mandel — palatine tonsil
• Romansh: mandla — palatine tonsil
• Russian: гла́нда (glánda) — palatine tonsil
• Russian: миндалеви́дная железа́ (mindalevídnaja železá) — palatine tonsil
• Russian: минда́лина (mindálina) — palatine tonsil
• Slovak: mandľa — palatine tonsil
• Spanish: amígdala — palatine tonsil
• Spanish: amígdala palatina — palatine tonsil
• Spanish: tonsila palatina — palatine tonsil
• Swedish: tonsill — palatine tonsil
• Swedish: halsmandel — palatine tonsil
• Tagalog: gutil — palatine tonsil
• Tagalog: diris — palatine tonsil
• Turkish: bademcik — palatine tonsil
• Ottoman Turkish: بادمجك (bademcik) — palatine tonsil
• Ukrainian: мигда́лик (myhdályk) — palatine tonsil
• Vietnamese: a-mi-đan — palatine tonsil
• Vietnamese: hạch hạnh — palatine tonsil
• Welsh: tonsil — palatine tonsil
• Welsh: cilchwarren — palatine tonsil
• Yiddish: מאַנדל (mandl) — palatine tonsil
• Bulgarian: сли́вица (slívica) — lymphoid organs
• Chinese Mandarin: 扁桃體 /扁桃体 (biǎntáotǐ) — lymphoid organs
• Chinese Mandarin: 扁桃腺 (biǎntáoxiàn) — lymphoid organs
• Czech: mandle — lymphoid organs
• Finnish: risa — lymphoid organs
• Central Kurdish: ئاڵوو (allû) — lymphoid organs
• Russian: гла́нда (glánda) — lymphoid organs
• Slovak: mandľa — lymphoid organs
• Spanish: amígdala — lymphoid organs
• Spanish: tonsila — lymphoid organs