Borrowed fromLatin ānālis . Bysurface analysis ,anus +-al .
Psychological sense shortened fromanal-retentive .
anal (comparative moreanal ,superlative mostanal )
( not comparable ) Of,related to,intended for orinvolving theanus .[from 18th c.] anal thermometerananal examination anal sex( psychoanalysis ) Of the stage in psychosexual development when the child's interest isalleged to be concentrated on the anal region.[from 20th c.] ( psychology , also vulgar informal) Of a person,compulsive andstubborn , obsessed withneatness andaccuracy (usually in anegosyntonic way), supposedly from not having progressed beyond theanal stage .[from 20th c.] Please don't touch his furniture, as he can get veryanal about things like that.
1995 , Leonard Shengold,Delusions of Everyday Life , page39 :He was a model ofanal defensiveness: fastidious in his dress and appearance, a collector and putter of things in order, a classifier and labeler.
( informal , vulgar ) Of tasks, questions, subject matter, etc., obsessively fussy or precise.This questionnaire goes into the most ridiculous amount of detail. It's totallyanal .
( entomology , of a vein) Proximate to thethorax .of, related to, intended for or involving the anus
of the stage in psychosexual development
of a person, compulsive and stubborn
Chinese:Mandarin:吹毛求疵的 ( chuīmáoqiúcīde ) Finnish:anaalinen (fi) German:zwanghaft (de) ,stur (de) ,pingelig (de) ,kleinlich (de) ,pedantisch (de) ,etepetete (de) ,heikel (de) ,eigen (de) ,zimperlich (de) ,übergenau (de) ,überkorrekt ,spießig (de) Lithuanian:smulkmeniškas Polish:pedantyczny (pl) Portuguese:anal (pt) m or f Russian:буквое́д (ru) ( bukvojéd ) Spanish:fastidioso (es) ,meticuloso (es) Swedish:bajsnödig (sv)
anal (countable anduncountable ,plural anals )
( countable ) Any of the analscales of areptile .( uncountable , informal ) Anal sex .In the right mood, I'll acceptanal .
I'll do anything exceptanal .
anal (third-person singular simple present anals ,present participle ( US ) analing or ( UK ) analling ,simple past and past participle ( US ) analed or ( UK ) analled )
( transitive , slang , rare , chiefly inpornography ) Topenetrate anally.The man with the small cockanaled the hot chick.
2011 , “L.E.S.”, inCamp , performed byChildish Gambino :Analling anyone is the plan for the evening / I'm kidding, stop
anal f (plural analioù )
breath anal m or f (masculine and feminine plural anals )
anal “anal ”, inDiccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language ] (in Catalan), second edition,Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan:Institut d'Estudis Catalans ], April 2007 “anal ”, inGran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana ,Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana ,2025 “anal” inDiccionari normatiu valencià ,Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua .“anal” inDiccionari català-valencià-balear , Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.FromMiddle Cornish anel , fromProto-Brythonic *anadl , fromProto-Celtic *anatlā . Cognate withBreton anal ,Irish anáil ,Manx ennal ,Scottish Gaelic anail , andWelsh anadl .
anal f
breath Synonym: hwyth Learned borrowing fromLatin ānālis , or coined in French fromanus +-al .
anal (feminine anale ,masculine plural anaux ,feminine plural anales )
( relational ) anus ;anal anal m (uncountable )
( informal ) ellipsis ofsexe anal (Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium .)
IPA (key ) : /aˈnal/ [aˈnɑɫ] Rhymes:-al Hyphenation:a‧nal anal m or f (plural anais )
anal Borrowed fromLatin ānālis .
anal (strong nominative masculine singular analer ,not comparable )
anal Positive forms ofanal (uncomparable )
FromDutch anaal , fromFrench anal , fromLatin ānālis .
IPA (key ) : [ˈanal] Hyphenation:anal anal (comparative lebih anal ,superlative paling anal )
anal : of, related to, intended for or involving the anusBack-formation fromanalny .
anal m inan
( colloquial , vulgar ) anal ( anal sex ) Coordinate term: oral anal inWielki słownik języka polskiego , Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
Rhymes:( Portugal ) -al ,( Brazil ) -aw Hyphenation:a‧nal FromLatin annālis , equivalent toano +-al .Doublet ofanual .
annal ( pre-standardization spelling ) anal m (plural anais )
( chiefly in theplural ) annal ( record of events ) Osanais da história não registam este facto. ―Theannals of history have no record of this fact. anal m or f (plural anais )
( obsolete ) annual ,yearly ( happening once a year ) Synonym: anual Learned borrowing fromLatin ānālis , equivalent toân(us) +-al .
anal m or f (plural anais ,notcomparable )
anal anal m (plural anais )
ellipsis ofsexo anal Borrowed fromFrench anal ,Latin ānālis .
anal m or n (feminine singular anală ,masculine plural anali ,feminine and neuter plural anale )
anal IPA (key ) : /aˈnal/ [aˈnal] Rhymes:-al Syllabification:a‧nal Borrowed fromLatin ānālis .
anal m or f (masculine and feminine plural anales )
anal anal m (plural anales )
( slang ) An act ofanal sex .Borrowed fromLatin annālis .Doublet ofañal .
anal m (plural anales )
annal NRV XXI, 2 Kings 10:34Los demás hechos de Jehú ... están escritos en losanales de los reyes de Israel. The other deeds of Jehu ... are written in theannals of the kings of Israel. FromNew Latin analis
anal (notcomparable )
anal (of or related to the anus)Inflection ofanal Indefinite positive comparative superlative1 common singular anal — — neuter singular analt — — plural anala — — masculine plural2 anale — — Definite positive comparative superlative masculine singular3 anale — — all anala — —
1 The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.2 Dated or archaic.3 Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.