pharynx

English

Pharynx in context

Parts of the pharynx

Etymology

Borrowing from New Latin pharynx, from Ancient Greek φᾰ́ρῠγξ (phárunx, “throat”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.ɹɪŋks/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfɛɹ.ɪŋks/, /ˈfæɹ.ɪŋks/
• Rhymes: -æɹɪŋks, -ɛəɹɪŋks

Noun

pharynx (plural pharynges or pharynxes)

1. (anatomy) The part of the alimentary canal and respiratory tract that extends from the back of the mouth and nasal cavity to the larynx and esophagus.

   Meronyms: nasopharynx, oropharynx, laryngopharynx, velopharynx, glossopharynx

2. (zootomy) The part of the alimentary canal immediately behind the mouth in invertebrates that may be thickened and muscular, eversible and toothed, or adapted as a suctorial organ.

Derived terms

• actinopharynx
• buccopharynx
• cytopharynx
• epipharynx
• glossopharynx
• hypopharynx
• laryngopharynx
• nasopharynx
• oropharynx
• retropharynx
• velopharynx

 

Related terms

• pharyngeal
• pharyngo-, pharyng-

Translations

part of the alimentary canal

• Arabic: بُلْعُوم m (bulʕūm)

  Egyptian Arabic: بَلعوم m (balʕūm, balʕōm), لغلوغ m (laḡlūḡ)

  Hijazi Arabic: بَلْعوم m (balʕūm)

• Armenian: ըմպան (hy) (əmpan), կոկորդաբերան (hy) (kokordaberan)
• Asturian: farinxe (ast) f
• Bengali: গলবিল (bn) (golbil)
• Bulgarian: глътка (bg) f (glǎtka), фаринкс m (farinks)
• Catalan: faringe (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 咽頭／咽头 (zh) (yāntóu), 咽 (zh) (yān)

• Czech: hltan (cs) m
• Danish: svælg (da) n
• Dutch: farynx (nl) m
• Esperanto: faringo
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Faroese: svølg n, svølgrúm n
• Finnish: nielu (fi), farynks
• French: pharynx (fr) m
• Friulian: faringje m or f
• Galician: farinxe (gl) f
• German: Rachen (de) m; Pharynx (de) m
• Greek: φάρυγγας (el) m (fáryngas)
• Hebrew: לֹעַ (he) m (lóa'), בֵּית הַבְּלִיעָה (he) m (beit habli'á)
• Hungarian: garat (hu)
• Icelandic: kok (is) n
• Ido: faringo (io)
• Interlingua: pharynge
• Irish: faraing f
• Italian: faringe (it) m
• Japanese: 咽頭 (ja) (intō)
• Korean: 인두(咽頭) (ko) (indu)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: gewrî (ku) f, gerû (ku) f

• Latin: pharynx m
• Macedonian: го́лтник m (góltnik), ждре́ло n (ždrélo)
• Malay: farinks
• Maori: paeoro
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: svelg n

  Nynorsk: svelg n

• Occitan: faringe (oc) f
• Persian: حلق (fa) (halq), نای‌گلو (nây-gelu)
• Polish: gardło (pl) n
• Portuguese: faringe (pt) f
• Romanian: faringe (ro) n
• Russian: фа́ринкс m (fárinks), зев (ru) m (zev), гло́тка (ru) f (glótka), горта́нь (ru) f (gortánʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ждријело n

  Roman: ždrijelo (sh) n

• Slovak: hltan (sk) m
• Slovene: žrêlo n
• Spanish: faringe (es) f
• Swedish: svalg (sv) n
• Tagalog: lalagukan
• Thai: คอหอย (th) (kɔɔ-hɔ̌i)
• Turkish: yutak (tr)
• Volapük: farin

See also

• larynx

References

• “pharynx”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “pharynx”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “pharynx”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “pharynx”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “pharynx”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa.ʁɛ̃ks/

• Audio:

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Noun

pharynx m (uncountable)

1. (anatomy) pharynx

Derived terms

Derived terms

• nasopharynx
• oropharynx
• pharyngé
• pharyngien
• pharyngite
• pharyngolaryngite

Further reading

• “pharynx”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Etymology

Borrowing from Ancient Greek φᾰ́ρῠγξ (phárunx, “throat, gullet”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpʰa.rynks/, [ˈpʰärʏŋks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.rinks/, [ˈfäːriŋks]

Noun

pharynx f (genitive pharyngis); third declension (New Latin)

1. (anatomy) the pharynx

Inflection

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pharynx	pharyngēs
Genitive	pharyngis	pharyngum
Dative	pharyngī	pharyngibus
Accusative	pharyngem	pharyngēs
Ablative	pharynge	pharyngibus
Vocative	pharynx	pharyngēs

Derived terms

• pharyngeus (adjective)

Related terms

• pharyngeālis

Descendants

• → English: pharynx