gonad

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek γονή (gonḗ, “seed, begetting, birth, offspring”), from γίγνεσθαι (gígnesthai, “be born”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡəʊ.næd/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -əʊnæd

Noun

gonad (plural gonads)

1. (anatomy) A sex organ that produces gametes; specifically, a testicle or ovary.
   1. (slang, chiefly in the plural) A testicle.

Synonyms

• (sex gland): sex gland

Derived terms

• gonadal
• gonadial
• gonadic
• gonadless
• gonado-
• gonadodysgenesis
• gonadogenesis
• gonadotrophic
• gonadotropic
• -gov-
• nad

Translations

sex gland

Arabic: غُدَّة تَناسُلِيَّة f (ḡudda(t) tanāsuliyya) Armenian: գոնադ (gonad) Basque: gonada (eu) Catalan: gònada f Chinese: Mandarin: 生殖腺 (zh) (shēngzhíxiàn), 性腺 (zh) (xìngxiàn) Czech: gonáda Danish: gonade Dutch: gonade (nl) Esperanto: gonado Estonian: sugunääre Finnish: sukupuolirauhanen (fi) French: gonade (fr) f Galician: gónada (gl) German: Gonade (de) f, Geschlechtsdrüse (de) f, Keimdrüse (de) f Greek: γονάδα f (gonáda), γεννητικός αδένας m (gennitikós adénas) Hungarian: ivarmirigy (hu) Icelandic: kynkirtill m, æxlunarkirtill m Ido: gonado (io) Indonesian: gonad (id) Irish: gónad Italian: gonade (it) f Japanese: please add this translation if you can Kazakh: жыныс бездері pl (jynys bezderı) Korean: 생식샘(生殖腺) (ko) (saengsiksaem) Latvian: dzimumdziedzeris m Persian: گند (fa) (gond) Polish: gonada (pl) Portuguese: Brazilian: gônada f European: gónada f Russian: гона́да (ru) f (gonáda) Spanish: gónada (es) f Swedish: könskörtel (sv) c, gonad (sv) c Turkish: gonad Ukrainian: гонада f (honada) Welsh: gonad

slang, testicles

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Armenian: ձվեր (jver) Catalan: collons (ca) m pl Chinese: Mandarin: 蛋蛋 (zh) (dàndan) Czech: koule (cs) Finnish: pallit pl French: couille (fr) f, couillon (fr) m German: Eier (de) n pl Greek: αρχίδια (el) n pl (archídia) Icelandic: eistu (is) n pl Italian: coglioni (it) m pl Persian: گند (fa) (gond) Russian: я́йца (ru) n pl (jájca) Spanish: huevos (es) m pl, cojones (es) m pl Swedish: ballar (sv) c pl

Further reading

• Gonad and Sex organ on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “gonad”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• Dagon, Dogan, Gonda, dango, dogan, donga, goand