maw
Meaning
- (archaic, countable, uncountable) The stomach, especially of an animal.
- (countable, uncountable) The upper digestive tract (where food enters the body), especially the mouth and jaws of a fearsome and ravenous creature; craw.
- (countable, derogatory, slang, uncountable) The mouth.
- (countable, uncountable) Any large, insatiable or perilous opening.
- (obsolete, uncountable) Appetite; inclination.
- (countable, uncountable) The swim bladder of a fish, especially when used as food in Chinese cuisine.
Synonyms
crop of a bird
maw seed
oral fissure
rennet-bag
reed tripe
Translations
gueule
muil
Schlund
boca
fauces
fauci
golaFrequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/mɔː/
Etymology
In summary
From Middle English mawe, maghe, maȝe, from Old English maga (“stomach; maw”), from Proto-West Germanic *magō, from Proto-Germanic *magô (“belly; stomach”), from Proto-Indo-European *mak-, *maks- (“bag, bellows, belly”). Cognates Cognate with West Frisian mage, Dutch maag (“stomach; belly”), German Low German Maag, German Magen (“stomach”), Danish mave, Norwegian mage (“stomach”), Swedish mage (“stomach; belly”), and also with Welsh megin (“bellows”), archaic Russian мошна́ (mošná, “pocket, bag”), Lithuanian mãkas (“purse”), Finnish maha (“stomach”), Estonian magu (“stomach”).
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