English Explanatory Dictionary

nasal

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Of or pertaining to the nose or to the nasion.
  2. Having a sound imparted by means of the nose; and specifically, made by lowering the soft palate, in some cases with closure of the oral passage, the voice thus issuing (wholly or partially) through the nose, as in the consonants m, n, ng.
  3. Characterized by resonance in the nasal passage.
  4. Sharp, penetrating.
noun
  1. A medicine that operates through the nose; an errhine.
  2. Ellipsis of nasal consonant.
  3. Ellipsis of nasal vowel.
  4. The part of a helmet projecting to protect the nose; a nose guard.
  5. Ellipsis of nasal bone.
  6. A plate, or scale, on the nose of a fish, etc.
name
  1. An Austronesian language spoken in Indonesia

Pronunciation

nā'zəl /ˈneɪ.zəl/ [ˈnej.zl̩] LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-nasal.wav /ˈnæɪ.zəl/ [ˈnæɪ.zl̩]

Word forms

nasal more nasal most nasal nasals

Etymology

From Middle English, from Medieval Latin nāsālis, from nāsus (“the nose”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix). Doublet of nasalis.

Synonyms

nosely nosey

Related words

Wiktionary’s coverage of Nasal terms

Derived words

alinasal alveolonasal antronasal basinasal binasal bucconasal circumnasal craniofrontonasal denasal dorsal nasal artery dorsonasal endonasal epinasal ethmonasal extranasal frontonasal hypernasal hyponasal hyponasality inferior nasal concha inferonasal infranasal internasal intranasal labionasal lacrimonasal laryngonasal linguo-nasal linguonasal maxillonasal mesonasal muconasal nasalance nasal bone nasal breathing nasal cannula nasal capsule nasal cavity nasal concha nasal congestion nasal consonant nasal cycle nasal demon nasal discharge nasal douche nasal fossa nasal index nasal irrigation nasalism nasality nasalize nasalise nasallang nasal lavage nasally nasal mutation nasal nerve nasalness nasal obstruction nasal polyp

Translations

Asturian: nasal Belarusian: насавы́ Belarusian: наза́льны Catalan: nasal Czech: nosní Finnish: nenä- Finnish: nenän French: nasal Galician: nasal German: nasal Hungarian: orr- Ido: nazala Irish: srónach Italian: nasale Central Kurdish: لووتی Central Kurdish: کەپوویی Mongolian: хамрын Norwegian: nasal Norwegian Bokmål: nese- Norwegian Nynorsk: nase- Occitan: nasal Polish: nosowy Portuguese: nasal Russian: носово́й Russian: наза́льный Spanish: nasal Swedish: nasal Swedish: näs- Turkish: genizsil Turkish: nazal Ukrainian: носови́й Ukrainian: наза́льний Welsh: trwynol
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