anal

Borrowed from Latin ānālis. By surface analysis, anus +‎ -al.

Psychological sense shortened from anal-retentive.

• IPA^(key): /ˈeɪ.nəl/

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• Rhymes: -eɪnəl

anal (comparative more anal, superlative most anal)

1. (not comparable) Of, related to, intended for or involving the anus. [from 18th c.]

   anal thermometer

   an anal examination

   anal sex

2. (psychoanalysis) Of the stage in psychosexual development when the child's interest is alleged to be concentrated on the anal region. [from 20th c.]
4. (psychology, also vulgar informal) Of a person, compulsive and stubborn, obsessed with neatness and accuracy (usually in an egosyntonic way), supposedly from not having progressed beyond the anal stage. [from 20th c.]

   Please don't touch his furniture, as he can get very anal about things like that.

   • 1995, Leonard Shengold, Delusions of Everyday Life, page 39:

     He was a model of anal defensiveness: fastidious in his dress and appearance, a collector and putter of things in order, a classifier and labeler.

6. (informal, vulgar) Of tasks, questions, subject matter, etc., obsessively fussy or precise.

   This questionnaire goes into the most ridiculous amount of detail. It's totally anal.

8. (entomology, of a vein) Proximate to the thorax.

• (compulsive and stubborn): fussy, pernickety, picky, anal-retentive

• anus

• oral

anal (countable and uncountable, plural anals)

1. (countable) Any of the anal scales of a reptile.
2. (uncountable, informal) Anal sex.

   In the right mood, I'll accept anal.

   I'll do anything except anal.

anal (third-person singular simple present anals, present participle (US) analing or (Commonwealth) analling, simple past and past participle (US) analed or (Commonwealth) analled)

1. (transitive, slang, rare, chiefly in pornography) To penetrate anally.

   The man with the huge cock analed the hot chick.

   • 2011, “L.E.S.”, in Camp, performed by Childish Gambino:

     Analling anyone is the plan for the evening / I'm kidding, stop

• Alan, Lana, Nala, alan, lana, nala

anal f (plural analioù)

1. breath

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əˈnal]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [aˈnal]

anal m or f (masculine and feminine plural anals)

1. anal

• sexe anal

• anus

• “anal”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “anal”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “anal” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “anal” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Middle Cornish anel, from Proto-Brythonic *anadl, from Proto-Celtic *anatlā. Cognate with Breton anal, Irish anáil, Manx ennal, Scottish Gaelic anail, and Welsh anadl.

anal f

1. breath

   Synonym: hwyth

Learned borrowing from Latin ānālis, or coined in French from anus +‎ -al.

• IPA^(key): /a.nal/

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• Homophones: anale, anales, annal, annale, annales

anal (feminine anale, masculine plural anaux, feminine plural anales)

1. (relational) anus; anal

anal m (uncountable)

1. (informal) ellipsis of sexe anal

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

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /aˈnal/ [aˈnɑɫ]
• Rhymes: -al
• Hyphenation: a‧nal

anal m or f (plural anais)

1. anal

• “anal”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

Borrowed from Latin ānālis.

• IPA^(key): /aˈnaːl/

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• Rhymes: -aːl

anal (strong nominative masculine singular analer, not comparable)

1. anal

• perianal

From Dutch anaal, from French anal, from Latin ānālis.

• IPA^(key): [ˈanal]
• Hyphenation: anal

anal (comparative lebih anal, superlative paling anal)

1. anal: of, related to, intended for or involving the anus

• “anal” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Back-formation from analny.

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.nal/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -anal
• Syllabification: a‧nal

anal m inan

1. (colloquial, vulgar) anal (anal sex)

   Coordinate term: oral

• anal in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
• Hyphenation: a‧nal

From Latin annālis. By surface analysis, ano +‎ al.

• annal (pre-standardization spelling)

anal m (plural anais)

1. (chiefly in the plural) annal (record of events)

   Os anais da história não registam este facto. ― The annals of history have no record of this fact.

anal m or f (plural anais)

1. (obsolete) annual, yearly (happening once a year)

   Synonym: anual

Learned borrowing from Latin ānālis.

anal m or f (plural anais, not comparable)

1. anal

anal m (plural anais)

1. ellipsis of sexo anal

Borrowed from French anal, Latin ānālis.

• IPA^(key): [aˈnal]

anal m or n (feminine singular anală, masculine plural anali, feminine and neuter plural anale)

1. anal

• IPA^(key): /aˈnal/ [aˈnal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: a‧nal

Borrowed from Latin ānālis.

anal m or f (masculine and feminine plural anales)

1. anal

anal m (plural anales)

1. (slang) An act of anal sex.

Borrowed from Latin annālis. Doublet of añal.

anal m (plural anales)

1. annal
   • NRV XXI, 2 Kings 10:34

     Los demás hechos de Jehú ... están escritos en los anales de los reyes de Israel.

     The other deeds of Jehu ... are written in the annals of the kings of Israel.

• “anal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

From New Latin analis

anal (not comparable)

1. anal (of or related to the anus)

• anilingus
• anus

• anal in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• anal in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• anal in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)