erection

Etymology
Borrowed from, noun of action from perfect passive participle , from verb , from prefix + , + action suffix.

Noun

 * 1)  The act of building or putting up or together of something.
 * 2)  Anything erected or built.
 * 3)  Formal approval and official establishment of an institution such as a society or a monastery by higher church authorities.
 * 4)  The physiological process by which erectile tissue, such as a penis or clitoris, becomes erect by being engorged with blood.
 * 5) * 2006, Lori Marso, Feminist Thinkers and the Demands of Femininity: The Lives and Work of Intellectual Women, Routledge (2006), ISBN 0415979269, unnumbered pages (quoting Simone Beauvoir):
 * There are men who say they cannot bear to show themselves naked before women unless in a state of erection; and indeed through erection the flesh becomes activity, potency,
 * 1)  The state or quality of being erect from engorgement with blood.
 * 2)  A penis or clitoris that is erect.
 * 1)  The physiological process by which erectile tissue, such as a penis or clitoris, becomes erect by being engorged with blood.
 * 2) * 2006, Lori Marso, Feminist Thinkers and the Demands of Femininity: The Lives and Work of Intellectual Women, Routledge (2006), ISBN 0415979269, unnumbered pages (quoting Simone Beauvoir):
 * There are men who say they cannot bear to show themselves naked before women unless in a state of erection; and indeed through erection the flesh becomes activity, potency,
 * 1)  The state or quality of being erect from engorgement with blood.
 * 2)  A penis or clitoris that is erect.
 * 1) * 2006, Lori Marso, Feminist Thinkers and the Demands of Femininity: The Lives and Work of Intellectual Women, Routledge (2006), ISBN 0415979269, unnumbered pages (quoting Simone Beauvoir):
 * There are men who say they cannot bear to show themselves naked before women unless in a state of erection; and indeed through erection the flesh becomes activity, potency,
 * 1)  The state or quality of being erect from engorgement with blood.
 * 2)  A penis or clitoris that is erect.
 * 1)  A penis or clitoris that is erect.
 * 1)  A penis or clitoris that is erect.
 * 1)  A penis or clitoris that is erect.
 * 1)  A penis or clitoris that is erect.

Translations

 * Bikol Central: pagtugdok
 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Latin: erectio
 * Macedonian: подигање
 * Marathi: उभारणी
 * Nepali: ठाडो हुनु
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: togail
 * Turkish:, ,


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Galician:
 * Greek:, ,
 * Japanese:, 建設物
 * Nepali: ठाडो भएको
 * Portuguese:
 * Turkish: ,


 * Bikol Central: paglatog
 * Czech: ztopoření,
 * Finnish: ,
 * Galician:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: στύμα
 * Japanese:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Latin: ērectiō, tentīgō, verpa
 * Malayalam:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish:, , ,
 * Ukrainian: ере́кція


 * Albanian: ereksion
 * Arabic: نُعُوظ, اِنْتِصَاب
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: ereición
 * Azerbaijani: ereksiya
 * Belarusian: эрэкцыя
 * Bengali:
 * Bikol Central: latog
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian: ерекция
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 扯旗
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: ztopoření,
 * Danish: erektion,
 * Dhivehi: ކޮޅުވުން
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: erektiĝo
 * Estonian: erektsioon
 * Faroese: standing
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French: ,
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Gujarati:
 * Hebrew: זיקפה
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: standpína
 * Indonesian:, ngaceng
 * Irish: éirí
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: エレクション,
 * Korean:
 * Latin: ērectiō
 * Lithuanian: erekcija
 * Macedonian: ерекција, дигање
 * Malay: ereksi
 * Maltese: erezzjoni
 * Manx: çhionney
 * Maori: ure tora
 * Marathi:
 * Nepali: ठाडो
 * Norwegian: reisning
 * Bokmål: ereksjon,
 * Nynorsk: ereksjon,
 * Persian: شق کردن,
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Sanskrit: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:, ерѐкција
 * Slovak: stoporenie,
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: pag-iri
 * Tamil:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai: การแข็งตัวขององคชาต
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Ukrainian: ере́кція
 * Urdu:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Yiddish: קישוי, אבֿר

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  (of a building, etc.)
 * 2)  (penile)