shinbone

English

Etymology

From Middle English schinboon, schineboon, from Old English sċinbān (“shin, shinbone”), from Proto-West Germanic *skinubain, from Proto-Germanic *skinōbainą, equivalent to shin +‎ bone. Cognate with Dutch scheenbeen (“shinbone”), German Schienbein (“shinbone”), Danish skinneben (“shin, shinbone”), Swedish skenben (“shinbone”).

Noun

shinbone (plural shinbones)

1. (anatomy) The inner and usually the larger of the two bones of the leg or hind limb below the knee
2. (zoology) A segment of an insect's leg.

Synonyms

• tibia, shankbone

Derived terms

• Shinboner

Translations

inner bone of the hind limb below the knee

• Arabic: قَصَبَة f (qaṣaba)

  Egyptian Arabic: قصبة الرجل f (ʔaṣabet er-regl)

• Armenian: ոլոք (hy) (olokʻ)
• Aromanian: fluir n, aridã f, cãlami f, chilunghi f
• Basque: tibia
• Bau Bidayuh: togeg
• Bulgarian: голям пищял m (goljam pištjal), костен гонг m (kosten gong)
• Catalan: tíbia (ca) f
• Central Melanau: wud
• Chamicuro: to'sona
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 脛骨／胫骨 (zh) (jìnggǔ)

• Czech: holenní kost f
• Danish: skinneben n
• Dutch: scheenbeen (nl) n
• Esperanto: tibio (eo)
• Faroese: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: sääriluu (fi)
• French: tibia (fr) m
• Galician: tibia (gl) f
• Georgian: წვივი (c̣vivi)
• German: Schienbein (de) n

  Alemannic German: Schinbein

• Greek:

  Ancient: προκνήμιον n (proknḗmion)

• Gujarati: નળો m (naḷo)
• Hebrew: שוֹקָה f (shoká)
• Hungarian: sípcsont (hu)
• Ido: tibio (io)
• Indonesian: tulang kering (id), tibia
• Italian: tibia (it) f
• Japanese: 脛骨 (ja) (けいこつ, keikotsu)
• Kapampangan: lulud
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 정강이뼈 (ko) (jeonggang'ippyeo), 경골 (脛骨) (gyeonggol)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: qamîşe

• Latin: tibia f
• Lithuanian: blauzdikaulis
• Macedonian: цеваница f (cevanica)
• Malay: tulang kering, tulang betis, tibia
• Manx: craue lurgey
• Maori: takakaha
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: шаант (mn) (šaant), шилбэний чөмөг (šilbenii čömög) (China)

• Norwegian: skinneben
• Old English: sċinbān n
• Ottoman Turkish: اینجك (incik)
• Persian: درشت‌نی (doroštney)
• Polish: piszczel (pl) f, kość piszczelowa
• Portuguese: tíbia (pt) f
• Romanian: tibia (ro) f, fluier (ro) n (popular)
• Russian: большеберцо́вая кость f (bolʹšebercóvaja kostʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: cnàimh-mòr-na-lurgainn m
• Serbo-Croatian: golen f, golenica f, cevanica (sh) f
• Slovene: golenica (sl) f
• Spanish: tibia (es) f
• Swedish: skenben (sv)
• Tagalog: butunlulod
• Thai: กระดูกแข้ง (grà-dùuk-kɛ̂ng)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: kaval kemiğı
• Ukrainian: велика гомілкова кістка f (velyka homilkova kistka), великогомілкова кістка f (velykohomilkova kistka)
• Uzbek: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: xương chày, xương ống chân
• Volapük: tibiad
• Zulu: please add this translation if you can

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