belly

Etymology
From, , , , , , from , from , , from , , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. . See also.

Noun

 * 1) The abdomen, especially a fat one.
 * 2) The stomach.
 * 3) The womb.
 * 4) The lower fuselage of an airplane.
 * 5) The part of anything which resembles (either closely or abstractly) the human belly in protuberance or in concavity; often, the  (innermost part).
 * 6)  The main curved portion of a knife.
 * 7)  The hollow part of a curved or bent, the convex part of which is the back.
 * 1) The part of anything which resembles (either closely or abstractly) the human belly in protuberance or in concavity; often, the  (innermost part).
 * 2)  The main curved portion of a knife.
 * 3)  The hollow part of a curved or bent, the convex part of which is the back.
 * 1)  The main curved portion of a knife.
 * 2)  The hollow part of a curved or bent, the convex part of which is the back.
 * 1)  The main curved portion of a knife.
 * 2)  The hollow part of a curved or bent, the convex part of which is the back.

Usage notes

 * Formerly, all the splanchnic or visceral cavities were called bellies: the lower belly being the abdomen; the middle belly, the thorax; and the upper belly, the head.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Aklanon: tiyan
 * Albanian:
 * Amal: məlkai
 * Amharic: ሆድ
 * Arabic: بَطْن
 * Egyptian Arabic: بطن, كرش
 * Hijazi Arabic: بطن, كرشة
 * Moroccan Arabic: كرش
 * Aragonese: pancha
 * Armenian: ,
 * Aromanian: pãntic, pãnticã, bicã, foale
 * Ashkun: banī
 * Assamese: পেট
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani:, ,
 * Baluchi: لاپ
 * Basque: sabel
 * Belarusian: жыво́т, бру́ха
 * Bengali:
 * Breton:
 * Brunei Malay: parut
 * Bulgarian:, ,
 * Burmese: ,
 * Carpathian Rusyn: бріх
 * Catalan:, , ,
 * Cebuano: tiyan
 * Chepang: 'योङ्‌
 * Chichewa: mimba
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 腹, 腹部, 肚
 * Dungan: дўзы
 * Eastern Min: 腹老
 * Hakka: 肚屎
 * Hokkien: ,
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Wu: 肚皮
 * Classical Nahuatl: ihtetl
 * Coptic:
 * Bohairic: ϧⲏⲧ, ⲛⲉϫⲓ
 * Sahidic: ϩⲏ
 * Czech:
 * Dalmatian: viantro
 * Danish: bug,
 * Dutch:
 * Erzya: пеке
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: ,
 * Even: ур
 * Evenki: ур
 * Faroese: ,
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * Friulian: vintri, panze, gradoan
 * Galician:, panza, boxo, andorga, ,
 * Georgian:
 * German: ,
 * Alemannic German: Büdel
 * Gothic: 𐌵𐌹𐌸𐌿𐍃
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: κοιλία
 * Guaraní:
 * Haitian Creole: vant
 * Hawaiian: ʻōpū
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:, malli
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: mako, prulli
 * Interlingua: pancia, ventre
 * Iranun: tian
 * Irish: bolg
 * Italian: ,
 * Ivatan: vodek
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Javanese:
 * Kapampangan: atian, atyan
 * Kashubian: brzëch
 * Kazakh: қарын, құрсақ, іш
 * Khmer:, , , ក្បាលពោះ
 * Kikuyu: nda
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish:, ورگ
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ທ້ອງ, ໂພ່ນ
 * Latgalian: vādars
 * Latin: abdomen, venter, pantex
 * Latvian:
 * Lezgi: руфун
 * Ligurian: pansa
 * Lithuanian: pilvas
 * Lombard:
 * Low German:
 * Macedonian: мев, стомак
 * Malay:
 * Maltese:
 * Manchu: ᡥᡝᡶᡝᠯᡳ
 * Maori: puku
 * Maranao: tiyan
 * Mauritian Creole: vant
 * Moksha: пеке
 * Mon:
 * Mongolian:
 * Nanai: хэмдэ
 * Navajo: atéél
 * Neapolitan: panza
 * Norman: ventre, vãtr
 * Northern Ohlone: hút̄u
 * Northern Sami: čoavji
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Occitan:
 * Odia:, ଉଦର
 * Ojibwe: nimisad
 * Old Church Slavonic: чрѣво, брюхо
 * Old Czech: břuch
 * Old English: wamb
 * Old French: ventre
 * Old Javanese: wĕtĕng
 * Oromo: garaa
 * Ottoman Turkish: قارن, شكم, بطن
 * Pashto: ,
 * Pennsylvania German: Bauch
 * Persian:
 * Phoenician: 𐤁𐤈𐤍
 * Plautdietsch:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Quechua: wiksa, pach'a
 * Canka Quechua: wiksa
 * Waiwaş Quechua: paca
 * Wanka Quechua: pata
 * Rajasthani: पैदौ
 * Romanian:, , ,
 * Romansch: venter, vainter
 * Russian:, ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Sardinian: bentre, bentri, brente, brenti
 * Scottish Gaelic: balg, brù
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: тр̀бух
 * Roman:
 * Seychellois Creole: vant
 * Sicilian:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: brjuch
 * Upper Sorbian: brjuch
 * Spanish:, , ,
 * Sranan Tongo: bere
 * Sudovian: vederas
 * Sundanese: ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tabasaran: фун
 * Tagalog:, puson
 * Tajik:
 * Tamil: ,
 * Tarifit: aɛeddis, aɛebbuḍ
 * Tausug: tian
 * Telugu: ,
 * Ternate: oru
 * Tetum: kabun
 * Thai: ,
 * Tibetan: ཕོ་བ
 * Tigrinya: ከብዲ
 * Tocharian B: kātso
 * Tok Pisin:
 * Tooro: enda
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen: garyn
 * Ugaritic: 𐎋𐎗𐎒
 * Ukrainian: живі́т, бру́хо
 * Umbundu: imo
 * Urdu: پیٹ
 * Uyghur: قورساق
 * Uzbek:
 * Venetian: pansa, pança
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük:
 * Walloon:
 * Winnebago: nįįxa
 * Wolof: biir
 * Yakut: ис
 * Yiddish: בויך
 * Yoruba: inú, ikùn
 * Zazaki: mesk
 * Zealandic: buuk, poke
 * Zhuang: aendungx, dungx
 * Zulu:


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish: ,


 * Finnish:,  ,  ,  ,
 * Galician: boxo,
 * Maori: kete, pukehina , nake , ngake

Verb

 * 1) To position one’s belly; to move on one’s belly.
 * 2)  To swell and become protuberant; to bulge or billow.
 * 3) * 1917 rev. 1925, "Canto I"
 * winds from sternward
 * Bore us onward with bellying canvas ...
 * 1) * 1930,, The Prince of Peril, serialized in Argosy, Chapter 1,
 * The building stood on a circular foundation, and its walls, instead of mounting skyward in a straight line, bellied outward and then curved in again at the top.
 * 1)  To cause to swell out; to fill.
 * Bore us onward with bellying canvas ...
 * 1) * 1930,, The Prince of Peril, serialized in Argosy, Chapter 1,
 * The building stood on a circular foundation, and its walls, instead of mounting skyward in a straight line, bellied outward and then curved in again at the top.
 * 1)  To cause to swell out; to fill.