womb

Meaning

1. In female mammals, the organ in which the young are conceived and grow until birth; the uterus.
2. (obsolete) The abdomen or stomach.
3. (obsolete) The stomach of a person or creature.
4. A place where something is made or formed.
5. Any cavity containing and enveloping anything.

uterus

string bag

evil spirits

uterine cervix

pregnancy

myometrium

fetal membrane

uterine body

metra

paramesonephric duct

hystero

hystera

hyster

Tzukung

abdomen

adopted child

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/wuːm/

From Middle English wombe, wambe, from Old English womb, wamb (“belly, stomach; bowels; heart; womb; hollow”), from Proto-West Germanic *wambu, from Proto-Germanic *wambō (“belly, stomach, abdomen”). Cognate with Scots wam, wame (“womb”), Dutch wam (“dewlap of beef; belly of a fish”), German Wamme, Wampe (“paunch, belly”), Danish vom (“belly, paunch, rumen”), Swedish våmb (“belly, stomach, rumen”), Norwegian vom (“rumen”), Icelandic vömb (“belly, abdomen, stomach”), Old Welsh gumbelauc (“womb”), Breton gwamm (“woman, wife”), Sanskrit वपा (vapā́, “the skin or membrane lining the intestines or parts of the viscera, the caul or omentum”). Superseded non-native Middle English mater, matere (“womb”) and matris, matrice (“womb”) borrowed from Latin māter (“womb”) and Old French matrice (“womb”), respectively.