köken: From Middle High German schame, from Old High German scama, from Proto-West Germanic *skamu, from Proto-Germanic *skamō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European [Term?]. Compare Dutch schaamte, English shame, Danish skam.
köken: Borrowed from Latin vāgīna. Compare the inherited doublet gaine. Compare also gouine, which may be borrowed from Breton gouin, itself ultimately borrowed from the Latin. Also a doublet of gaine (“sheath”), which was inherited from the Latin.
köken: Inherited from Latin vāgīna (with change of /w/ to /ɡw/ influenced by Germanic). Compare French gaine, Spanish vaina, Sicilian vajina, Portuguese bainha. Doublet of vagina.
köken: Inherited from Proto-Oghuz اَمْ (am), from Proto-Turkic *am. Cognate with Turkish and Turkmen am. Related to amcıq with the same sense and derived from the same root.
köken: From Middle Dutch schêde, from Old Dutch *skētha, from Proto-West Germanic *skaiþiju, from Proto-Germanic *skaiþiz. Cognate with Low German scheed, German Scheide, English sheath, Danish skede, Norwegian skjede, Icelandic skeið.
köken: From reconstructed Middle Korean *볻 (*pwot), with suffix -이 (-i, noun suffix). See Yukjin dialect 보대 (bodae, “vulva”), which was a dialect that did not undergo palatalization of /t/. Cognate with Jeju 보뎅이 (bodeng'i, “vulva”) and probably also Japanese 陰 (hoto, “id.”), historically from Old Japanese *potə. Compare also 불 (bul, “genitalia”), surviving in fossilized form in words such as 불알 (bural,…
vagina (passage leading from the opening of the vulva to the cervix of the uterus for copulation and childbirth in female mammals) · sheath, holster, scabbard
çekim: çoğul pochwy · tamlayan pochwy
eş: wagina, saya
köken: Inherited from Old Polish pochwa, from Proto-Slavic *poxъva. Sense 1 is a semantic loan from Latin vāgīna (“scabbard”). Cognate with Belarusian по́хва (póxva), Czech pochva, and Ukrainian пі́хва (píxva).
köken: In Biblical Hebrew attested twice ambiguously: In the First Book of Kings 7:50 either “front side” or “socket of the door pin” of a door; in the Book of Isaiah 3:17 skulls of women are made scabby and their פֹּת (pōṯ) bared, where it is natural to assume it to mean “foreheads” rather than “pudenda”; due to the scarcity of genital vocabulary from biblical sources one was enticed to instead find it…