ovulation

See also: Ovulation

English

Etymology

From ovulate +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɒvjʊˈleɪʃ(ə)n/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ɑvjəˈleɪʃ(ə)n/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

ovulation (countable and uncountable, plural ovulations)

1. (physiology) The release of an ovum from an ovary.

Derived terms

• concealed ovulation
• cryptic ovulation
• induced ovulation
• post-ovulation

 

Translations

release of an ovum from the ovary

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: авуляцыя f (avuljacyja)
• Bulgarian: овулация f (ovulacija)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 排卵 (zh) (páiluǎn)

• Dutch: eisprong (nl) m, ovulatie (nl) f
• Finnish: ovulaatio (fi)
• French: ovulation (fr) f
• German: Ovulation (de) f, Eisprung (de) m
• Hungarian: ovuláció (hu), peteérés (hu)
• Icelandic: egglos (is) n
• Indonesian: ovulasi (id)
• Irish: ubhsceitheadh m
• Italian: ovulazione (it) f
• Japanese: 排卵 (ja) (はいらん, hairan)
• Korean: 배란 (ko) (baeran)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: hêkdanan

• Malay:

  Jawi: ڤڠوۏومن

  Rumi: pengovuman

• Malayalam: അണ്ഡവിസർ‌ജനം (aṇḍavisaṟ‌janaṁ)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ovulasjon m, eggløsning m or f

  Nynorsk: ovulasjon m, eggløysing f

• Polish: owulacja (pl) f, jajeczkowanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: ovulação (pt) f
• Russian: овуля́ция (ru) f (ovuljácija)
• Spanish: ovulación (es) f
• Swedish: ägglossning (sv) c, ovulation (sv) c
• Tagalog: saitlog
• Ukrainian: овуля́ція (uk) f (ovuljácija)

References

• “ovulation”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “ovulation”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

French

Etymology

From ovule +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.vy.la.sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

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Noun

ovulation f (plural ovulations)

1. ovulation

Descendants

• → Dutch: ovulatie
  • → Indonesian: ovulasi

Further reading

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

Swedish

Noun

ovulation c

1. (physiology) ovulation

   Synonym: ägglossning

Declension

Declension of ovulation

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	ovulation	ovulations
	definite	ovulationen	ovulationens
plural	indefinite	ovulationer	ovulationers
	definite	ovulationerna	ovulationernas

References

• ovulation in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• ovulation in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• ovulation in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)