English
Etymology
From Middle English brust-bon, brestbon, from Old English brēostbān (“breastbone”), equivalent to breast + bone.
Pronunciation
Noun
breastbone (plural breastbones)
- (anatomy) The central narrow bone in the front of the chest, connecting the collarbone and the top ribs.
1899 (please specify the page), Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part:He lapped out of his hand, then sat up in the sunlight, crossing his shins in front of him, and after a time let his woolly head fall on his breastbone.
Synonyms
Translations
the central narrow bone in the front of the chest
- Afrikaans: borsbeen
- Arabic: قَصّ m (qaṣṣ)
- Egyptian Arabic: قص m (qaṣṣ)
- Armenian: կրծոսկր (hy) (krcoskr)
- Asturian: esternón (ast) m
- Bengali: বক্ষাস্থি (bokkhasthi)
- Bulgarian: гръдна кост f (grǎdna kost)
- Catalan: estern m, estèrnum m
- Cebuano: pitso
- Central Melanau: tujou
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 胸骨 (hung1 gwat1)
- Mandarin: 胸骨 (zh) (xiōnggǔ)
- Czech: hrudní kost (cs) f
- Dhivehi: އުރަމަތީ ކަށިގަނޑު (uramatī kaṣigaⁿḍu)
- Dutch: borstbeen (nl) n
- Esperanto: sternumo
- Estonian: rinnak
- Finnish: rintalasta (fi)
- French: sternum (fr) m
- Galician: esterno (gl) m
- German: Brustbein (de) n, Sternum (de) n
- Greek:
- Ancient: στέρνον n (stérnon)
- Gujarati: ઉરોસ્થિ (gu) (urosthi), છાતીનું હાડકું (chātīnũ hāḍkũ)
- Hebrew: עצם החזה (he) m (etzem ha'khaze), מַפְתֵּחַ הַלֵּב (he) m (mafteáẖ hallév)
- Hindi: उरोस्थि (urosthi)
- Hungarian: szegycsont (hu), mellcsont (hu)
- Icelandic: bringubein (is) n, brjóstbein n
- Indonesian: tulang dada, sternum, tulang rawan (id)
- Ingrian: rintaluu
- Irish: cnámh uchta f, steirneam m
- Italian: sterno (it) m
- Japanese: 胸骨 (ja) (きょうこつ, kyōkotsu)
- Kaurna: kuntuwarpu
- Khiamniungan Naga: sākìk
- Korean: 가슴뼈 (ko) (gaseumppyeo)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: hestiyê sîngê
- Latin: sternum n
- Lithuanian: krūtinkaulis m
- Malay: tulang dada, sternum, tulang papan, tulang rimau menangis, tulang rawan
- Maori: whaturei
- Marathi: छातीचे हाड (chātīce hāḍ), उरोस्थी (urosthī)
- Motu: abagoro
- Persian: جناغ (fa) (jenâġ)
- Plautdietsch: Brostknoaken m
- Polish: mostek (pl) m
- Portuguese: esterno (pt) m
- Russian: груди́на (ru) f (grudína), грудна́я кость f (grudnája kostʹ)
- Scots: breestbane
- Scottish Gaelic: cnàimh a' chlèibh m
- Slovak: hrudná kosť f
- Slovene: pŕsnica f
- Spanish: esternón (es) m
- Swedish: bröstben (sv) n
- Tagalog: butundibdib
- Telugu: ఉరోస్థి (te) (urōsthi)
- Turkish: göğüs kemiği (tr), sternum (tr), iman tahtası (tr)
- Vietnamese: xương ức (vi)
- Welsh: asgwrn dwyfron m
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