fontanelle

English

Diagram of the top view of a baby's head, showing the fontanelle in the center.

Alternative forms

fontanel

Etymology

Borrowed from French fontanelle, from Old French fontenelle.

Noun

fontanelle (plural fontanelles)

(anatomy) A soft membraneous spot on the head of a baby due to incomplete fusion of the cranial bones.

Synonyms

soft spot

Translations

soft spot on a baby's head

Arabic: يَأْفُوخ‎ m (yaʔfūḵ)
Egyptian Arabic: يافوخ‎ m (yāfūḵ)
Belarusian: це́мечка n (cjémječka)
Breton: feunteunig (br) f
Bulgarian: фонтане́ла f (fontanéla)
Catalan: fontanel·la f
Cebuano: hubon
Chinese:
Mandarin: 囟門／囟门 (zh) (xìnmén), 囟腦門兒／囟脑门儿 (zh) (xìnnǎoménr)
Czech: fontanela f
Finnish: aukile (fi)
French: fontanelle (fr) f
Galician: moleira (gl) f, fontanela (gl) f
Georgian: ყიფლიანდი (q̇ipliandi), ყიფლიბანდი (q̇iplibandi)
German: Fontanelle (de) f
Hebrew: מַרְפֵּס‎ (he)
Hungarian: kutacs (hu), feje lágya
Icelandic: hausamót n pl
Ido: fontanelo (io)
Ilocano: lulonan
Irish: cró an chinn m, cró na baithise m
Italian: fontanella (it) f
Japanese: 泉門 (せんもん, senmon), 顋門 (ひよめき, hiyomeki)
Kashubian: cemiączkò n
Kazakh: еңбек (eñbek)
Korean: 숨구멍 (sumgumeong), 정문 (ko) (jeongmun)
Malay: fontanel, ubun-ubun
Maori: wāhi tāmomo, pūmotomoto
Persian: ملاج‎ (fa) (malâj)
Polish: ciemiączko n
Portuguese: fontanela f, moleira (pt) f
Romanian: fontanelă (ro) f
Russian: родничо́к (ru) m (rodničók), те́мечко (ru) n (témečko)
Slovak: fontanela f
Spanish: fontanela f, mollera f
Swedish: fontanell (sv) c
Tagalog: bumbunan
Thai: กระหม่อม (th) (grà-mɔ̀m), ขม่อม (th) (kà-mɔ̀ɔm)
Turkish: bıngıldak (tr)
Ukrainian: джере́льце n (džerélʹce), ті́м'ячко n (tímʺjačko)
Vietnamese: thóp (vi)
Yoruba: àwùjẹ̀

Further reading

fontanelle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

Old French fontenelle.

Noun

fontanelle f (plural fontanelles)

fontanelle

Further reading

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

Italian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /fon.taˈnɛl.le/
Rhymes: -ɛlle
Hyphenation: fon‧ta‧nèl‧le

Noun

fontanelle f

plural of fontanella

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