ulna

English

Ulna, highlighted in red

Ulna

Etymology

From Latin ulna (“elbow”). Doublet of ell.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʌlnə/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

ulna (plural ulnae or ulnas)

1. (anatomy) The bone of the forearm that extends from the elbow to the wrist on the side opposite to the thumb, corresponding to the fibula of the hind limb. Also, the corresponding bone in the forelimb of any vertebrate.

   Synonym: elbow bone

Derived terms

• ulnar

Translations

bone of the forearm

• Arabic: زِنْد m (zind)

  Egyptian Arabic: زند m (zend)

• Armenian: արմունկոսկր (armunkoskr)
• Bulgarian: лакътна кост (lakǎtna kost)
• Catalan: cúbit (ca) m, ulna (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 尺骨 (zh) (chǐgǔ)

• Czech: loketní kost f
• Dutch: ellepijp (nl) f
• Esperanto: ulno
• Estonian: küünarluu
• Finnish: kyynärluu (fi)
• French: ulna (fr)
• Galician: cúbito (gl) m, ulna (gl) f
• German: Elle (de) f
• Greek: ωλένη (el) f (oléni)
• Hungarian: singcsont (hu)
• Italian: ulna (it) f
• Japanese: 尺骨 (ja) (しゃっこつ, shakkotsu)
• Korean: 척골 (ko) (cheokgol), 자뼈 (ko) (jappyeo)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: hestiyê enîşkê

• Malay: tulang hasta, ulna
• Maori: kōwhiti
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: богтос (mn) (bogtos), тохойн яс (toxojn jas) (China)

• Portuguese: cúbito (pt) m (Portugal), ulna f (Brazil)
• Russian: локтева́я кость f (loktevája kostʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: cnàimh na h-uilne m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: лакатна ко̑ст

  Roman: lakatna kȏst

• Spanish: cúbito (es) m, ulna f
• Swedish: armbågsben (sv)
• Tagalog: butuntakday
• Telugu: అరత్ని (te) (aratni)
• Turkish: dirsek kemiği (tr)
• Vietnamese: xương trụ

See also

• radius

Anagrams

• Alun, An-lu, Anlu, Lu'an, Luna, auln, luan, luna, ulan, unal

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ulna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈul.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈul.na]

Noun

ulna f (plural ulnes)

1. (anatomy) ulna

   Synonym: cúbit

Further reading

• “ulna” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Galician

Etymology

From Latin ulna.

Noun

ulna f (plural ulnas)

1. (anatomy) ulna

   Synonym: cúbito

2. cubit (unit of length)

Further reading

• “ulna”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “ulna”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Irish

Etymology

From Latin ulna.

Noun

ulna m (genitive singular ulna, nominative plural ulnaí)

1. (anatomy) ulna

Declension

Declension of ulna (fourth declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative ulna ulnaí vocative a ulna a ulnaí genitive ulna ulnaí dative ulna ulnaí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an t-ulna na hulnaí genitive an ulna na n-ulnaí dative leis an ulna don ulna leis na hulnaí

Mutation

Mutated forms of ulna

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
ulna	n-ulna	hulna	t-ulna

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ulna”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “ulna”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “ulna”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm

Italian

Etymology

From Latin ulna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈul.na/
• Rhymes: -ulna
• Hyphenation: ùl‧na

Noun

ulna f (plural ulne)

1. (anatomy) ulna

   Synonym: cubito

Related terms

• ulnare

Anagrams

• Luna, luna

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *olenā, presumably from Proto-Indo-European *Heh₃l(e)n-, from the root *Heh₃l- (“to bend”), although this reconstruction remains uncertain. Related to Old Armenian ուլն (uln, “neck”), Gothic 𐌰𐌻𐌴𐌹𐌽𐌰 (aleina, “cubit”), Old Church Slavonic ланита (lanita, “cheek”), Ancient Greek ὠλένη (ōlénē, “elbow”), Sanskrit अणि (aṇi, “the point of a needle”), Albanian llërë (“upper arm”), Welsh elin (“forearm; elbow”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈul.na/, [ˈʊɫ̪nä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈul.na/, [ˈulnä]

Noun

ulna f (genitive ulnae); first declension (poetic)

1. (anatomy) elbow-bone, ulna
2. (pars pro toto) arm

   maternis in ulnis

   in mother's arms

3. a linear measure, cubit, ell

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	ulna	ulnae
genitive	ulnae	ulnārum
dative	ulnae	ulnīs
accusative	ulnam	ulnās
ablative	ulnā	ulnīs
vocative	ulna	ulnae

Descendants

• →? Proto-Albanian: *ulnā
• → Catalan: ulna (learned)
• → English: ulna
• → Galician: ulna (learned)
• → Italian: ulna (learned)
• → Portuguese: ulna (learned)
• → Spanish: ulna (learned)

References

• “ulna”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ulna”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ulna in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “ulna”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin ulna (“elbow”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈuw.nɐ/ [ˈuʊ̯.nɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈuw.nɐ/ [ˈuʊ̯.nɐ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈuw.na/ [ˈuʊ̯.na]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈul.nɐ/ [ˈuɫ.nɐ]

Noun

ulna f (plural ulnas)

1. (anatomy, Brazil) ulna

   Synonym: cúbito (Portugal)

Hypernyms

• osso

See also

• cotovelo

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin ulna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈulna/ [ˈul.na]
• Rhymes: -ulna
• Syllabification: ul‧na

Noun

ulna f (plural ulnas)

1. (anatomy) ulna

   Synonym: cúbito

Further reading

• “ulna”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28