pubis

English

Etymology

Genitive of Latin pubes (“the pubic hair”, collective). The noun was generalized from medical Latin os pubis, the pubic bone.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpju.bɪs/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

pubis (plural pubes)

1. The pubic bone; the part of the hipbone forming the front arch of the pelvis.

   Synonym: pubic bone

Coordinate terms

• ilium
• ischium

Derived terms

• postpubis
• prepubis

Related terms

• epipubis
• mons pubis
• osteitis pubis
• symphysis pubis

Translations

the pubic bone

• Arabic: عَانَة f (ʕāna)

  Egyptian Arabic: عانة f (ʕana), سيوة f (seūwa)

• Bulgarian: срамна кост f (sramna kost)
• Catalan: pubis (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 恥骨 / 耻骨 (zh) (chǐgǔ)

• Czech: stydká kost f
• Danish: skamben n, kønsben n
• Dutch: schaambeen (nl) n
• Esperanto: pubosto
• Faroese: kokubein n
• Finnish: häpyluu (fi)
• French: pubis (fr) m
• Galician: pube (gl) f
• Georgian: ბოქვენის ძვალი (bokvenis ʒvali)
• German: Schambein (de) n, Schamknochen m
• Greek: εφήβαιο (el) n (efívaio)
• Hungarian: szeméremcsont (hu)
• Icelandic: lífbein (is) n
• Ido: pubio (io)
• Irish: púbas m, cnámh phúbasach f
• Italian: pube (it) m, osso pubico m
• Japanese: 恥骨 (ja) (ちこつ, chikotsu)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: hestiyê rûv

• Latin: os pubis n
• Lithuanian: gaktikaulis, gakta
• Low German: Schaambeen n
• Māori: puke (mi)
• Navajo: ʼá naníʼaʼ
• Norwegian: skamben n, kjønnsben n, venusben n
• Polish: kość łonowa f
• Portuguese: púbis (pt) m, osso púbico m
• Russian: лобо́к (ru) m (lobók)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Latin: stidna kost f, preponjača

• Spanish: pubis (es) m, hueso del pubis m
• Swedish: blygdben (sv) n
• Telugu: జఘనాస్థి (te) (jaghanāsthi)
• Tocharian B: yoñiye
• Tooro: ekiinyi class 7
• Turkish: kasık kemiği, çatı kemiği
• Ukrainian: лобкова кістка (lobkova kistka)
• Volapük: pubid

See also

• bone

Further reading

• “pubis”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “pubis”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Albanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /puˈbis/

Noun

pubis m

1. pubic hair

Estonian

Noun

pubis

1. inessive singular of pubi

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pubis, the genitive of pubes (“pubic hair”). The noun was generalized from medical Latin expressions such as os pubis, the pubic bone.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /py.bis/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

pubis m (invariable)

1. pubis; pubes

Further reading

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

Latin

Noun

pūbis

1. genitive singular of pūbēs

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French pubis.

Noun

pubis n (plural pubise)

1. pubis

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	pubis	pubisul	pubise	pubisele
genitive-dative	pubis	pubisului	pubise	pubiselor
vocative	pubisule		pubiselor

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpubis/ [ˈpu.β̞is]
• Rhymes: -ubis
• Syllabification: pu‧bis

Noun

pubis m (plural pubis)

1. pubis

Further reading

• “pubis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025