groin

English

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /ɡɹɔɪn/
• Rhymes: -ɔɪn
• Homophone: groyne

Etymology 1

From earlier grine, from Middle English grinde, grynde, from Old English grynde (“abyss”) (perhaps also "depression, hollow"), probably related to Proto-Germanic *grunduz; see ground. Later altered under the influence of loin.

Noun

groin (plural groins)

1. The crease or depression of the human body at the junction of the trunk and the thigh, together with the surrounding region.
   • 2011 October 15, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 1 - 1 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     The Mexican levelled nine minutes from time after Steven Gerrard, making his first start since undergoing groin surgery in April, put Liverpool ahead with a 68th-minute free-kick.

2. The area adjoining this fold or depression.

   He pulled a muscle in his groin.

3. (architecture) The projecting solid angle formed by the meeting of two vaults
4. (geometry) The surface formed by two such vaults.
5. (euphemistic) The genitals.

   He got kicked in the groin and was writhing in pain.

   • 1981 December 5, Michael Bronski, “Coming (Out) to Opera”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 20, page 5:

     My friend […] discovered in his early teen years a passion for both men and opera. He frequented the Met to satisfy his ear but had little knowledge or experience of where to find partners and satisfy his groin.

Coordinate terms

• inguinal

Derived terms

• groined
• groin field
• groin vault
• lupoid form of groin ulceration
• serpiginous ulceration of the groin

 

Translations

long narrow depression of the human body that separates the trunk from the legs

• Afrikaans: lies (af)
• Albanian: rrëzë e kofshës
• Arabic: أُرْبِيَّة f (ʔurbiyya), مَغْبَن m (maḡban)

  Egyptian Arabic: خن الرجل m (xonn e-regl), خن الفخد m (xonn el faxd)

• Armenian: աճուկ (hy) (ačuk)
• Azerbaijani: qasıq (az)
• Basque: iztai (eu)
• Belarusian: пахві́на f (paxvína)
• Bengali: কুঁচকি (bn) (kũcoki)
• Bulgarian: слабина (bg) f (slabina)
• Burmese: ပေါင်ခြံ (my) (paunghkram)
• Catalan: engonal m, entrecuix m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 腹はら股また溝みぞ／腹はら股また沟 (zh) (fùgǔgōu), 鼠蹊そけい (zh) (shǔxī)

• Classical Nahuatl: quēxilli
• Czech: rozkrok (cs) m, tříslo (cs) n
• Danish: lyske c, skridt n
• Dutch: lies (nl) f
• Esperanto: ingveno (eo)
• Estonian: kube (et)
• Faroese: rørar m pl
• Finnish: nivuset (fi)
• French: aine (fr) f
• Galician: virilla (gl) f, ingua (gl) f
• Georgian: საზარდული (sazarduli)
• German: Leiste (de) f
• Greek: βουβώνας (el) m (vouvónas), αχαμνά (el) n (achamná)

  Ancient: βουβών m (boubṓn)

• Greenlandic: imeqqutak
• Hebrew: מפשעה (he) f (mifsa'a)
• Hindi: ऊसन्धि f (ūsandhi), उरुसंधि f (urusandhi)
• Hungarian: ágyék (hu)
• Ido: inguino (io)
• Irish: bléin f
• Italian: inguine (it) m
• Japanese: 脚あしの付つけ根ね (ashi no tsukene), 鼠蹊そけい部ぶ (ja) (sokeibu), 鼠蹊そけい (ja) (sokei), 股また (ja) (mata)
• Javanese: wlakang (jv)
• Kalmyk: цәв (tsäv)
• Kazakh: айырт (aiyrt), шап (şap)
• Khmer: ក្រលៀន (km) (krɑlien)
• Korean: 샅 (ko) (sat), 가랑이 (ko) (garang'i), 서혜 (ko) (seohye), 서혜부 (ko) (seohyebu)
• Kyrgyz: чап (ky) (cap)
• Lao: ໜ້າຂາ (nā khā)
• Latin: inguen n
• Latvian: cirksnis m
• Lithuanian: kirkšnis m
• Macedonian: слабина f (slabina)
• Maori: tapatapa, tapa o te kūhā
• Mongolian: цавь (mn) (cavʹ)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: lyske

• Ottoman Turkish: قاصق (kasık)
• Persian: کشاله ران (kašâle-ye rân), کشاله (fa) (kašâle)
• Polish: pachwina (pl) f
• Portuguese: virilha (pt) f
• Romanian: stinghie (ro) f, joncțiunea dintre coapsă și trunchi, regiunea inghinală
• Russian: пах (ru) m (pax)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: препоне f pl

  Roman: prepone (sh) f pl

• Slovak: slabina (sk) f
• Slovene: dimlje (sl)
• Spanish: ingle (es) f
• Swedish: ljumske (sv) c
• Tagalog: puklo
• Tajik: қадкашак (qadkašak)
• Tashelhiyt: awlal, wa-, awlaln m
• Tatar: касык (tt) (qasıq)
• Thai: หน้าขา, ขาหนีบ (th), ง่ามขา
• Tibetan: རྒྱུད་སྨད (rgyud smad)
• Tocharian B: yoñiye
• Tooro: erimpwapwa class 5
• Turkish: kasık (tr)
• Turkmen: gasyk
• Ukrainian: пахви́на f (paxvýna)
• Uzbek: chov (uz)
• Vietnamese: háng (vi), vùng bẹn, bẹn (vi)

anatomical feature

• Maori: tapa o te kūhā, tapatapa
• Romanian: regiunea inghinală, joncțiunea dintre coapsă și trunchi
• Spanish: entrepierna (es) f

Verb

groin (third-person singular simple present groins, present participle groining, simple past and past participle groined)

1. To deliver a blow to the genitals of.

   In the scrum he somehow got groined.

   She groined him and ran to the car.

2. (architecture) To build with groins.
3. (literary, transitive) To hollow out; to excavate.
   • 1918, Wilfred Owen, Strange Meeting:

     Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped / Through granites which titanic wars had groined.

Etymology 2

From Middle English groynen, from a mixture of Old French groignier, grougnier (from Latin grunniō) and Old English grunnian (from Proto-Germanic *grunnōną).

Verb

groin (third-person singular simple present groins, present participle groining, simple past and past participle groined)

1. To grunt; to growl; to snarl; to murmur.
   • c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.:

     Such tunges ſhuld be torne out by the harde rootes,
     Hoyning like hogges that groynis and wrotes.

   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 27:

     Beares, that groynd continually

Etymology 3

Noun

groin (plural groins)

1. Alternative spelling of groyne

Anagrams

• Gorin, O-ring, Ringo, giron

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French groing, gruing, from Late Latin grunium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁwɛ̃/

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Noun

groin m (plural groins)

1. the snout of the pig

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• giron

Middle English

Noun

groin

1. Alternative form of groyn