English
Pronunciation
Noun
gall bladder (plural gall bladders)
- (anatomy) A pear-shaped organ that stores bile from the liver, until the body needs it for the digestion and absorption of fats in the duodenum.
- Synonyms: cholecyst, cholecysto-, vesica biliaris, vesica fellea; gall (archaic)
2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 178:Giraffes, oddly, sometimes have gall bladders and sometimes donʼt.
Derived terms
Translations
pear-shaped organ that stores bile
- Afrikaans: galblaas
- Albanian: tëmth (sq) m, idhcë (sq) f
- Arabic: مَرَارَة f (marāra)
- Egyptian Arabic: مرارة f
- Moroccan Arabic: مرارة (marrāra)
- Armenian: լեղապարկ (hy) (leġapark)
- Azerbaijani: ödlük, öd kisəsi (az)
- Basque: behazun xixku
- Belarusian: жаўця́к m (žaŭcják), жо́ўцевы пузы́р m (žóŭcjevy puzýr)
- Bengali: পিত্তাশয় (bn) (pittaśoẏ)
- Bikol Central: apdo (bcl)
- Bulgarian: жлъ́чен меху́р m (žlǎ́čen mehúr)
- Catalan: bufeta biliar (ca) f, vesícula biliar (ca) f
- Cebuano: apdo
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 膽囊 / 胆囊 (zh) (dǎnnáng), 苦膽 / 苦胆 (zh) (kǔdǎn)
- Classical Nahuatl: chichicatl
- Czech: žlučník (cs) m
- Danish: galdeblære (da) c
- Dhivehi: ފިތް (fit̊)
- Dutch: galblaas (nl) f
- Erzya: сэпе (sëpe)
- Esperanto: galveziko, gala veziko
- Estonian: sapp, sapipõis
- Faroese: gallbløðra f, gall n
- Finnish: sappirakko (fi), sappi (fi)
- French: vésicule biliaire (fr) f
- Friulian: vissie de fêl f
- Galician: vexiga (gl) f, vesícula biliar (gl) f
- Georgian: ნაღვლის ბუშტი (naɣvlis bušṭi)
- German: Gallenblase (de) f
- Greek: χοληδόχος κύστη f (cholidóchos kýsti), (colloquial) χολή (el) f (cholí)
- Ancient: χοληδόχος κύστις f (kholēdókhos kústis), χοληδόχος f (kholēdókhos)
- Greenlandic: sungaq
- Gujarati: પિત્તાશય (pittāśya)
- Hebrew: כִּיס הַמָּרָה (he) m (kis hamará)
- Hindi: पित्ताशय (hi) (pittāśay)
- Hungarian: epehólyag (hu)
- Icelandic: gallblaðra (is) f
- Indonesian: kantong empedu (id), kandung empedu
- Ingrian: sappirakko
- Inuktitut: ᓱᖓᖅ (sungaq)
- Irish: máilín domlais m, domlas m, mála an domlais m
- Italian: cistifellea (it) f, colecisti (it) f
- Japanese: 胆嚢 (ja) (たんのう, tannō)
- Javanese: kantung empedu
- Kalmyk: цөсн (tsösn)
- Kapampangan: atdu
- Khmer: ប្រមាត់ (km) (prɑmŏət)
- Komi-Zyrian: сӧп (söp)
- Korean: 쓸개 (ko) (sseulgae), 담낭(膽囊) (ko) (damnang)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: kîsikê zeravê m, zeravdank m
- Latin: fel n, vesica biliaris f
- Latvian: žultspūslis m
- Lithuanian: tulžies pūslė
- Macedonian: жолчка f (žolčka)
- Malay: pundi hempedu (ms)
- Malayalam: പിത്താശയം (pittāśayaṁ)
- Maltese: marrara f
- Manchu: ᠰᡳᠯᡥᡳ (silhi)
- Maori: kouawai
- Marathi: पित्ताशय (pittāśay)
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: цѳсний гэр (cösnii ger)
- Nanai: силтэ (silte)
- Navajo: atłʼizh bizis
- Northern Sami: sáhppi
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: galleblære m or f
- Nynorsk: gallblære f, galleblære f
- Odia: ପିତ୍ତକୋଷ (or) (pittakoṣa)
- Ojibwe: (my gall bladder) niinzob
- Old English: ġealla m
- Old Turkic: 𐰇𐰓 (üd² /öd/)
- Pashto: تريخی (ps)
- Pela: kji̠⁵⁵
- Persian: مراره (fa) (marâre), کیسه صفرا
- Plautdietsch: Gaulblada f
- Polish: pęcherzyk żółciowy (pl) m, woreczek żółciowy m
- Portuguese: vesícula biliar (pt) f
- Romanian: vezică biliară f, colecist (ro) n, fiere (ro) f, bășica fierii (ro) f
- Russian: же́лчный пузы́рь m (žélčnyj puzýrʹ), жёлчный пузы́рь m (žólčnyj puzýrʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: жу̏чња̄к m
- Roman: žȕčnjāk (sh) m
- Sicilian: culicisti f
- Slovak: žlčník (sk) m
- Slovene: žolčnik (sl) m
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: žołcnik m
- Spanish: vesícula biliar (es) f
- Sundanese: hampru
- Swahili: please add this translation if you can
- Swedish: gallblåsa (sv) c
- Tagalog: apdo, apduhan
- Tamil: பித்தப்பை (ta) (pittappai)
- Telugu: పిత్తాశయము (te) (pittāśayamu)
- Thai: ถุงน้ำดี (tǔng-náam-dii)
- Turkish: safra kesesi (tr), öd kesesi (tr)
- Ukrainian: жо́вчний міху́р m (žóvčnyj mixúr)
- Urdu: ئۆت خالتیسی
- Uzbek: safro (uz) m
- Vietnamese: bao đựng mật, túi mật
- Welsh: coden fustl
- Yami: apdo
- Yiddish: גאַל f (gal)
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