urine

See also: Urine, uriné, and urinë

English

Etymology

From Middle English uryne, from Latin ūrīna (“urine”), from Proto-Indo-European *uh₁r-, zero grade of *woh₁-r̥ (“water, liquid, milk”). Related to *h₁ówHdʰr̥ (“udder”) (see udder). Cognate with Old English ūriġ (“wet, moist”). Displaced native English land (“urine”) (from Middle English land, from Old English hland (“urine”)), though lant survives with a specialized sense.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: yo͝orʹĭn, yo͝orʹīn, IPA^(key): /ˈjʊəɹɪn/, /ˈjʊəɹaɪn/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• (General American) enPR: yo͝orʹĭn, yûrʹĭn, IPA^(key): /ˈjʊɹɪn/, /ˈjɝɪn/
• (Australia) enPR: yo͝orʹĭn, IPA^(key): /ˈjʉːəɹɪn/
• (Philippines) IPA^(key): /jʊˈɾɪn/
• (Ireland, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈjʊəɹaɪn/
• Rhymes: -ʊəɹɪn, -ʊəɹaɪn

Noun

urine (usually uncountable, plural urines)

2. (physiology) Liquid waste consisting of water, salts, and urea, which is made in the kidneys, stored in the bladder, then released through the urethra.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:urine

   • 2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist‎^[1], volume 407, number 8838, archived from the original on 25 June 2017, page 5 (Technology Quarterly):

     An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.

Derived terms

• black urine disease
• cow urine
• extract the urine
• maple syrup urine disease
• nonurine
• ornithine
• pass urine
• purple urine bag syndrome
• uric
• urinable
• urinaceous
• urinal
• urinalysis
• urinary
• urinate
• urination
• urinative
• urine bottle
• urine box
• urineless
• urinelike
• urinemia
• urinemic
• urine therapy
• uriniferous
• uriniparous
• urinogenous
• urinology
• urinoma
• urinometer
• urinometry
• urinomics
• urinose
• urinosexual
• urinous
• urofuscin

Translations

liquid excrement — see also pee,‎ piss,‎ wee

• Afar: cayso
• Afrikaans: urine
• Ahtna: łets
• Aklanon: ihi'
• Albanian: urinë f, shurrë (sq) f
• Altai:

  Southern Altai: сийдик (siydik)

• Amharic: ሽንት ? (šənt)
• Arabic: بَوْل m (bawl)

  Egyptian Arabic: بول m (bōl)

  Hijazi Arabic: شُخَّان m (šuḵḵān), بول m (bōl)

• Archi: цор (cor)
• Armenian: մեզ (hy) (mez)
• Arrernte:

  Eastern Arrernte: mpwe

• Assamese: পেচাপ (pesap), মূত (mut)
• Asturian: mexu (ast) m, orina (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: sidik (az)
• Bajau:

  West Coast Bajau: pange'

• Bangi: minya
• Bashkir: һейҙек (hiyðik), бәүел (bäwil)
• Beja: óosha f
• Belarusian: мача́ f (mačá)
• Bengali: পেচ্ছাপ (bn) (pecchap), মুত (bn) (mut), প্রস্রাব (bn) (prosrab), মূত্র (bn) (mutro)
• Bhojpuri: पेशाब (pēśāb)
• Bidayuh:

  Bau Bidayuh: asing

• Bikol:

  Central Bikol: ihi (bcl)

• Bulgarian: ури́на f (urína)
• Burmese: ဆီး (my) (hci:)
• Catalan: orina (ca) f
• Cebuano: ihi
• Cherokee: ᎠᏗᎧᏓ (adikada)
• Chichewa: mkodzo
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 尿 (niu⁶), 小便 (siu² bin⁶)

  Hakka: 尿 (ngiau)

  Hokkien: 尿 (zh-min-nan) (jiō, liō), 小便 (zh-min-nan) (sió-piān)

  Mandarin: 尿 (zh) (niào), 小便 (zh) (xiǎobiàn) (colloquial)

• Czech: moč (cs) f
• Dalmatian: mejatoira f
• Danish: urin (da) c
• Dongxiang: shesun
• Dutch: urine (nl) f
• Egyptian: (wzšt f)
• Esperanto: urino
• Estonian: uriin (et), kusi (et)
• Finnish: virtsa (fi)
• French: urine (fr) f

  Old French: orine f

  Old French: orine f

• Gagauz: çiş, siidik
• Galician: urina (gl) f, ouriños (gl) m pl
• Gamilaraay: giili
• Georgian: შარდი (ka) (šardi), ფსელი (pseli)
• German: Urin (de) m, Harn (de) m
• Greek: ούρα (el) n pl (oúra)

  Ancient Greek: οὖρον n (oûron), ὄμειχμα n (ómeikhma)

• Guarani:

  Paraguayan Guarani: ^{(please verify)} ty

• Gujarati: મૂતર ? (mūtar), પેશાબ m (peśāb)
• Haitian Creole: pipi
• Hebrew: שֶׁתֶן (he) m (shéten), שתינה f (shtína) (slang)
• Higaonon: ihi
• Hindi: पेशाब (hi) m (peśāb), मूत (hi) m (mūt), मूत्र (hi) m (mūtra), प्रस्राव (hi) m (prasrāv)
• Hungarian: vizelet (hu)
• Icelandic: þvag (is) n, hland n
• Ilocano: isbo
• Indonesian: air kemih (id), air kencing (id), air seni (id), urine (id)
• Irish: mún m, fual m
• Italian: orina (it) f, urina (it) f
• Japanese: 尿 (ja) (にょう, nyō), 小便 (ja) (しょうべん, shōben) (colloquial)
• Kalasha: mútra
• Kalenjin: lugumek
• Kalmyk: шеесн (şeesn)
• Kashmiri: مٕتھٕر (ks) (mụthụr), پیٚشاب (ks) (peśāb), زَل (ks) (zal), اِدرار (ks) (idrār)
• Kazakh: зәр (zär), несеп (nesep), сідік (sidik)
• Khmer: ទឹកនោម (tɨk noom), មូត្រ (km) (mout), បស្សាវៈ (km) (pahsaavaʼ), នោម (km) (noom)
• Kikuyu: mathugumo
• Konkani: मूत (mūt)
• Korean: 오줌 (ko) (ojum), 소변(小便) (ko) (sobyeon)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: میز (mîz)

• Kyrgyz: сийдик (ky) (siydik), заара (ky) (zaara)
• Lao: ປັດສາວະ (pat sā wa), ຍ່ຽວ (nyiāu), ມຸດຕະ (mut ta), ມູດ (mūt), ເບົາ (bao)
• Latin: ūrīna f, lōtium n
• Latvian: urīns m
• Lezgi: цвар (c°ar), чухь (čux)
• Lingala: masuba, minya
• Linngithigh: mbu
• Lithuanian: šlapimas m
• Low German: Urin (nds) f
• Lushootseed: sʔəx̌ʷaʔ m, tiwaʔ f
• Macedonian: урина f (urina), мочка f (močka)
• Malay: air kencing (ms), air kemih (ms), air kecil (ms), air seni (ms), urin (ms), najis kecil
• Malayalam: മൂത്രം (ml) (mūtraṁ)
• Maltese: awrina f
• Manchu: ᠰᡳᡴᡝ (sike)
• Mansaka: ii
• Manx: moon (gv) m, feayl
• Marathi: मूत ? (mūt)
• Melanau:

  Central Melanau: ai kemi

• Meru: maumago
• Mon: သျာ (həya)
• Mongolian: шээс (mn) (šees)
• Mpade: kure
• Nauruan: ekabebe (na)
• Navajo: łizh
• Ngiyambaa: kiil
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: urin (no) m

  Nynorsk: urin m

• Nupe: boli, vidìnnì
• Nǀuu: ǁqhuu
• Occitan: urina (oc) f
• Odia: ମୂତ (or) (muta), ମୂତ୍ର (or) (mutra)
• Ojibwe: zhigiwin
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: моча f (moča)

• Old East Slavic: моча f (moča)
• Old English: miċġa m, miċġe f, migoþa m, hland (ang) n
• Old Norse: hland n
• Oromo: fincaan
• Pali: passāva m
• Pashto: ادرار (ps) m (edrãr), بولې (ps) f pl (báwle), پېشاب m (pešãb), ميچيازې f pl (mičyãze)
• Persian: ادرار (fa) (edrâr), شاش (fa) (šâš), پیشاب (fa) (pešâb), میزه (fa) (mize), بول (fa) (bowl), پیشیار (fa) (pišyâr), کمیز (komiz)
• Pijin: mimi
• Plautdietsch: Seich n, Pisch m
• Polish: mocz (pl) m, uryna (pl) f
• Portuguese: urina (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਮੂਤ m (mūt), ਮੂਤਰ m (mūtar), ਪਿਸ਼ਾਬ m (piśāb)
• Quechua: ispa, işpa
• Rapa Nui: mimi
• Rohingya: mut
• Romani: muter m
• Romanian: urină (ro) f
• Russian: моча́ (ru) f (močá), ури́на (ru) f (urína) (medical term)
• Saho: xashshu
• Sanskrit: मूत्र (sa) n (mūtra), प्रस्राव (sa) m (prasrāva)
• Scottish Gaelic: mùn m, fual m
• Sebop: iva'
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мо̀краћа f, у̀рӣн m, пѝшаћа f

  Latin: mòkraća f, ùrīn (sh) m, pìšaća f

• Sicilian: orina
• Sindhi: پشاب m (pešâbu), مُٽُ (sd) m (muṭu) (colloquial)
• Slovak: moč (sk) m
• Slovene: séč m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: mokś m

• Spanish: orina (es) f, micción (es) f, orine (es) m, orinada (es) f, orín (es) m
• Sundanese: ᮎᮤᮊᮤᮄᮂ (cikiih)
• Swahili: mkojo (sw) class 3/4
• Swedish: urin (sv) c
• Tagalog: ihi
• Tajik: пешоб (tg) (pešob), шоша (šoša), бавл (tg) (bavl), мезак (mezak)
• Tamil: சிறுநீர் (ta) (ciṟunīr)
• Tatar: бәвел (tt) (bäwel)
• Tausug: ihi
• Telugu: ఉచ్చ (te) (ucca), మూత్రము (te) (mūtramu)
• Ternate: isi
• Tetum: mii
• Thai: ฉี่ (th) (chìi), ปัสสาวะ (th) (bpàt-sǎa-wá), เยี่ยว (th) (yîao), เบา (th) (bao), มูตร (th) (mûut)
• Tibetan: གཅིན་པ (gcin pa)
• Tidore: isi
• Tocharian B: miśo
• Tok Pisin: pispis
• Turkish: çiş (tr), idrar (tr), sidik (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: سیدك (sidik)

• Turkmen: siýdik, peşew
• Tuvan: сидик (sidik)
• Udi: чишпӏун (čišṗun)
• Ugaritic: 𐎘𐎐𐎚 (ṯnt)
• Ukrainian: се́ча f (séča)
• Unami: shkì
• Urdu: پیشاب m (peśāb), موت m (mūt), موتر (ur) m (mūtra)
• Uyghur: سۈيدۈك (ug) (süydük)
• Uzbek: siydik (uz), peshob (uz)
• Venetan: piso m, pis (vec) m
• Vietnamese: nước tiểu (vi), nước đái (vi)
• Volapük: yurin (vo), (older term) luvat
• Waray-Waray: ihi
• Welsh: surdrwnc m, troeth (cy) m, trwnc (cy) m, piso (cy) m
• Wiradjuri: geel
• Woiwurrung: blak
• Yakut: иик (iik)
• Yiddish: אורין m (urin)
• Yoruba: ìtọ̀
• Yucatec Maya: wiix

Verb

urine (third-person singular simple present urines, present participle urining, simple past and past participle urined)

1. (obsolete) To urinate.
   • 1814, The Medical and Physical Journal, volume 31, page 226:

     He got out of bed every time he urined, or tried to urine.

Further reading

• “urine”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “urine”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “urine”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• Nueir, in ure, inure, ruine

Albanian

Noun

urine

1. indefinite dative/genitive/ablative singular of urinë

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch urine, from older orine, from Old French orine, urine, from Latin urina.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /yˈri.nə/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: uri‧ne
• Rhymes: -inə

Noun

urine f (plural urines, no diminutive)

1. urine

   Synonyms: blaasvocht, pies, pis, plas, zeik

Derived terms

• urineleider

Descendants

• → Indonesian: urine

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French urine, from Old French orine (modified per the Latin word), from Latin urīna. Old French orine likely derived from a Vulgar Latin *aurīna, influenced by aurum (“gold”). Compare Italian orina.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /y.ʁin/

Noun

urine f (plural urines)

1. urine

Verb

urine

1. inflection of uriner:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “urine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Anagrams

• nuire, réuni, ruine, ruiné

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch urine, from Middle Dutch urine, from older orine, from Old French orine, urine, from Latin urina.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian)
  • IPA^(key): /uˈrinə/ [uˈri.nə]
    • Rhymes: -inə
  • IPA^(key): /ˈurinə/ [ˈu.ri.nə]
    • Rhymes: -urinə
• Syllabification: u‧ri‧ne

Noun

urinê (plural urine-urine)

1. (physiology) synonym of air seni (“urine”)

Alternative forms

• urin (proscribed, nevertheless common)
• urin (Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore)

Derived terms

• berurine

Further reading

• “urine”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Ingrian

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈurine/, [ˈuriˑn]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈuriːne/, [ˈurˑiːne̞]
• Rhymes: -urin, -uriːne
• Hyphenation: u‧ri‧ne

Noun

urine

1. purring (of a cat)

Declension

Declension of urine (type 6/lähe, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	urine	urineet
genitive	urineen	urinein
partitive	urinetta	urineita
illative	urineesse	urineisse
inessive	urinees	urineis
elative	urineest	urineist
allative	urineelle	urineille
adessive	urineel	urineil
ablative	urineelt	urineilt
translative	urineeks	urineiks
essive	urineenna, urineen	urineinna, urinein
exessive1)	urineent	urineint
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

Related terms

• urissa (“to purr”)

References

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971), Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 625

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uˈri.ne/
• Rhymes: -ine
• Hyphenation: u‧rì‧ne

Noun

urine f

1. plural of urina

Anagrams

• unire

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French orine, respelled urine to reflect the Latin spelling urina.

Noun

urine f (plural urines)

1. urine

Portuguese

Verb

urine

1. inflection of urinar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative