Standard Lemma guide

vaginal

adj · 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.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /vəˈd͡ʒʌɪ.nəl/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • General-American: /ˈvæd͡ʒ.ən.əl/
  • rhymes with -aɪnəl
  • rhymes with -ædʒɪnəl
  • CMU ARPABET: V AH0 JH AY1 N AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Of, relating to, or affecting the vagina.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable, relational

Examples

  • You may have a vaginal birth, C-section, or surrogacy; it's up to you.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

adj

Meaning 2

Of or relating to a theca.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable, relational

Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

adjective

Meaning 3

of or relating to the vagina

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • vaginal suppository

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin vāgīnālis, from vāgīna (“a covering, sheath; the vagina”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix); equivalent to vagina + -al.

Across languages

Translations

41 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: مهبليّ — of the vagina
  • Aragonese: vachinal — of the vagina
  • Asturian: vaxinal — of the vagina
  • Bulgarian: вагинален (vaginalen) — of the vagina
  • Bulgarian: влагалищен (vlagališten) — of the vagina
  • Catalan: vaginal — of the vagina
  • Chinese Mandarin: 陰道的 /阴道的 (yīndào de) — of the vagina
  • Czech: poševní — of the vagina
  • Danish: vaginal — of the vagina
  • Dutch: vaginaal — of the vagina
  • Esperanto: vagina — of the vagina
  • Finnish: emätin- — of the vagina
  • Finnish: vaginaalinen — of the vagina
  • French: vaginal — of the vagina
  • West-Frisian: faginaal — of the vagina
  • Galician: vaxinal — of the vagina
  • German: vaginal — of the vagina
  • Hungarian: hüvelyi — of the vagina
  • Icelandic: legganga- — of the vagina
  • Icelandic: skeiðar- — of the vagina
  • Icelandic: slíður- — of the vagina
  • Ido: vaginala — of the vagina
  • Indonesian: vaginal — of the vagina
  • Italian: vaginale — of the vagina
  • Japanese: 膣の (chitsu no) — of the vagina
  • Kazakh: қынаптық (qynaptyq) — of the vagina
  • Polish: pochwowy — of the vagina
  • Polish: waginalny — of the vagina
  • Polish: dopochwowy — of the vagina
  • Portuguese: vaginal — of the vagina
  • Romanian: vaginal — of the vagina
  • Russian: вагина́льный (vaginálʹnyj) — of the vagina
  • Russian: влага́лищный (vlagáliščnyj) — of the vagina
  • Spanish: vaginal — of the vagina
  • Swedish: vaginal — of the vagina
  • Tagalog: ng puki — of the vagina
  • Turkish: vajinal — of the vagina
  • Ukrainian: вагіна́льний (vahinálʹnyj) — of the vagina
  • Ukrainian: пі́хвовий (píxvovyj) — of the vagina
  • Volapük: vaginik — of the vagina
  • Chinese Mandarin: 鞘的 (qiào de) — relating to a theca