BREAST  乳房

PAIR of BODY PARTS on the CHEST of WOMEN.
Hypernym
  • NIPPLEBODY PART on the BREAST THROUGH which a BABY SUCKS MILK.
    Hyponym
    • UDDER　BREAST of an ANIMAL, TYPICALLY A BOVINE.
      Old Chinese Criteria
      1. The standard term for the breast is apparently rǔ 乳, but since the breast of the woman was exceedingly rarely referred to in the non-excavated literature, it is hard to be sure whether the word was not something of a taboo in dignified discourse. Only Zhuangzi breaks the taboo. See NIPPLE.

      Modern Chinese Criteria
      乳房

      乳

      奶

      奶子

      rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／

      • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 4.40

      • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 4.41

      • De differentiis ( DIFFERENTIAE I) p. 382

        372. Ex Etymolog. lib. XI, cap. 1.

        Ibid. In Editione Grialii erat mammillas. [AREV.]

        ]

        372. Inter Mamillas et mammas, et ubera. Mamillae virorum sunt, mammae mulierum, ubera pecorum [ Al., pecudum]. Papillae autem sunt nuclea summa mammarum, quae sugentes comprehendunt.

      • Lateinische Synonyme und Etymologien ( DOEDERLEIN 1840) p.

        BREAST

        mamma refers to the visible breast as a fleshy part of the body, mostly of females.

        uber refers to nourishing breast as filled with milk, which is only found in the femal body.

      • A Russian-English Collocational Dictionary of the Human Body ( IORDANSKAJA 1996) p. 102

      • Dictionnaire culturel en langue francaise ( REY 2005) p. 4.667

      Attributions by syntactic funtion

      • n : 2

      Attributions by text

      • 莊子 : 1
      • 百喻經 : 1

      Words

      乳  rǔ OC: njoʔ MC: ȵi̯o 2 AttributionsWD

      The standard term for the breast is rǔ 乳.

        Syntactic words
      • n(women's or men's) breast; animal's udder
      嬭  nǎi OC: mrleelʔ MC: ɳɣɛ 0 AttributionsWD
        Syntactic words
      • nbreasts; milk of breasts

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