pancreas

See also: pancréas, páncreas, and pâncreas

English

Etymology

Existing in English since the sixteenth century: from Latin pancreas, from Ancient Greek πάγκρεας (pánkreas), from πᾶν (pân, “all”) (equivalent to English pan-) + κρέας (kréas, “flesh”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpæŋkɹɪəs/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpæŋ.kɹi.əs/, /ˈpeɪŋ-/, /ˈpæn-/, /ˈpeɪn-/

Noun

explainer video about the human pancreas

pancreas (plural pancreases or pancreata)

1. (anatomy) A gland near the stomach which secretes a fluid into the duodenum to assist with food digestion.

   Synonyms: gutbread, stomach sweetbread, belly sweetbread

Derived terms

• pancreatectomy
• pancreatic
• pancreatitis

Translations

gland near the stomach

• Afrikaans: pankreas
• Albanian: pankreasi ?
• Arabic: بَنْكِرْيَاس m (bankiryās), مُعَثْكَلَة f (muʕaṯkala)

  Egyptian Arabic: بنكرياس m (benkeryas)

  Hijazi Arabic: بنكرياس m (binkiryās, bankiryās)

• Armenian: ենթաստամոքսային գեղձ (hy) (entʻastamokʻsayin geġj)
• Asturian: páncrees (ast) m
• Azerbaijani: məʼdəaltı vəzi
• Basque: are (eu), pankrea
• Bengali: অগ্ন্যাশয় (bn) (ognnaśoẏ)
• Breton: pankreaz m, gwagrenn ruz f, ilgreiz m
• Bulgarian: панкреас m (pankreas)
• Catalan: pàncrees (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Hakka: 禾鐮鐵 / 禾镰铁 (voˇ liamˇ tiedˋ)

  Hokkien: 腰尺 (zh-min-nan) (io-chhioh)

  Mandarin: 胰臟 / 胰脏 (zh) (yízàng), 胰腺 (zh) (yíxiàn)

• Czech: slinivka břišní (cs) f, pankreas (cs) m
• Danish: bugspytkirtel (da) c
• Dutch: alvleesklier (nl) f or m, buikspeekselklier (nl) ?, pancreas (nl) m or n
• Esperanto: pankreato
• Estonian: kõhunääre (et), pankreas (et)
• Faroese: bris n
• Finnish: haima (fi)
• French: pancréas (fr) m
• Galician: páncreas (gl) m
• Georgian: პანკრეასი (ṗanḳreasi), კუჭქვეშა ჯირკვალი (ḳuč̣kveša ǯirḳvali)
• German: Bauchspeicheldrüse (de) f, Pankreas (de) n
• Greek: πάγκρεας (el) n (págkreas)

  Ancient: πάγκρεας n (pánkreas)

• Hebrew: לבלב (he) m (lavláv)
• Hindi: अग्न्याशय (hi) m (agnyāśay)
• Hungarian: hasnyálmirigy (hu)
• Icelandic: bris (is) n, briskirtill (is) m
• Indonesian: pankreas (id)
• Ingrian: perna
• Interlingua: pancreas
• Irish: paincréas m
• Italian: pancreas (it) m
• Japanese: 膵臓 (ja) (すいぞう, suizō)
• Javanese: pankreas
• Kalmyk: нөр (nör)
• Kapampangan: kundilat, lape
• Kavalan: arim
• Kazakh: үйқы безі (üiqy bezı)
• Khmer: លំពែង (km) (lumpɛɛŋ)
• Korean: 췌장 (ko) (chwejang)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: pankreas (ku) ?

• Lao: ຕັບອ່ອນ (tap ʼǭn)
• Latin: pancreas f
• Latvian: aizkuņģa dziedzeris m
• Lithuanian: kasa (lt) f
• Luxembourgish: Pankreas n
• Macedonian: панкреас m (pankreas)
• Malay: pankreas (ms)
• Maltese: pankreas m, frixa f
• Maori: repe-taiaki-huka
• Marathi: स्वादुपिंड n (svādupiṇḍa)
• Mongolian: нойр булчирхай (nojr bulčirxaj)
• Navajo: alohkʼeʼ
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bukspyttkjertel (no) m

  Nynorsk: bukspyttkjertel m

• Old English: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: لوزالمعده (fa), پانکراس (fa) (pânkrâs)
• Plautdietsch: Pluz f
• Polish: trzustka (pl) f
• Portuguese: pâncreas (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਪੈਨਕਰੀਸ (painkarīs)
• Quechua: suyk'upin
• Romanian: pancreas (ro) n
• Russian: поджелу́дочная железа́ (ru) f (podželúdočnaja železá)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гуштѐрача f

  Roman: guštèrača (sh) f

• Sicilian: pancreas ?
• Slovak: podžalúdková žľaza f
• Slovene: trebušna slinavka (sl) f
• Somali: ganac (so)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: brjušna slinica f

  Upper Sorbian: pankreas m, brjušna slinica f

• Spanish: páncreas (es) m
• Swahili: kongosho (sw) ?
• Swedish: bukspottkörtel (sv) c
• Tagalog: lapay
• Tamil: கணையம் (ta) (kaṇaiyam)
• Tarifit: inarfeḍ m
• Telugu: క్లోమము (te) (klōmamu)
• Thai: ตับอ่อน (th) (dtàp-ɔ̀ɔn)
• Turkish: pankreas (tr)
• Ukrainian: підшлункова залоза f (pidšlunkova zaloza)
• Vietnamese: tụy (vi), lá mía (vi)
• Volapük: pankreat
• Welsh: cefndedyn m
• Yami: lilas
• Yiddish: פּאַנקרעאַס n (pankreas)

See also

• diabetes
• digestion
• insulin

Anagrams

• Pre-Canas

Interlingua

Noun

pancreas (uncountable)

1. pancreas

Related terms

• pancreatic

Italian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpan.kre.as/
• Rhymes: -ankreas
• Hyphenation: pàn‧cre‧as

Noun

pancreas m (invariable)

1. pancreas

Derived terms

• pancreatico
• pancreatina
• pancreatite

Anagrams

• prenasca, spancerà

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πάγκρεας (pánkreas), from πᾶν (pân, “all”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpan.kre.as/, [ˈpäŋkreäs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpan.kre.as/, [ˈpäŋkreäs]

Noun

pancreas n (genitive pancreatis); third declension

1. (anatomy) pancreas

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	pancreas	pancreatēs
genitive	pancreatis	pancreatum
dative	pancreatī	pancreatibus
accusative	pancreatem	pancreatēs
ablative	pancreate	pancreatibus
vocative	pancreas	pancreatēs

Descendants

• → English: pancreas
• → Romanian: pancreas

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pancreas.

Noun

pancreas n (plural pancreasuri)

1. pancreas

Declension

Declension of pancreas

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	pancreas	pancreasul		pancreasuri	pancreasurile
genitive-dative	pancreas	pancreasului		pancreasuri	pancreasurilor
vocative	pancreasule			pancreasurilor