kidney
An organ in the body that filters the blood, producing urineAn organ in the body that filters the blood, producing urine.
» I have kidney trouble.
У меня проблема с почками.
У меня проблемы с почками.
У мене проблеми з нирками.
Meaning
4 sensesAn organ in the body that filters the blood, producing urine.
Niere
по́чкаpóčka
ни́ркаnýrka
This organ (of an animal) cooked as food.
по́чкиpóčki
нирки́nyrký, ни́ркиnýrky
(dated, figuratively)Constitution, temperament, nature, type, character, disposition. (usually used of people)
30th June, 1788, Robert Burns, letter to Mr Robert Ainslie Your poets, spendthrifts, and other fools of that kidney, pretend, forsooth, to crack their jokes on prudence.
(obsolete, slang)A waiter.
- either of two bean-shaped excretory organs that filter wastes (especially urea) from the blood and excrete them and water in urine
Examples
123 sentencesI have kidney trouble.
У мене проблеми з нирками.
ruУ меня проблема с почками.
Tom needs a kidney.
Тому потрібна нирка.
ruТому нужна почка.
Tom gave Mary his kidney.
Том віддав мері свою нирку.
ruТом отдал Мэри свою почку.
Tom died of kidney failure.
Том помер від ниркової недостатності.
ruТом умер от почечной недостаточности.
I had a kidney stone.
У мене були камені в нирках.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English kideney, kydeney, alteration of earlier kidenere (“kidney”) after ey (From Middle English kideney, kydeney, alteration of earlier kidenere (“kidney”) after ey (“egg”), of obscure origin and formation. Probably a compound consisting of Middle English *kidde (“sack”) + Middle English nere (“kidney”). The first element would be from Old English *cydde (“sack, scrotum”), from Proto-Germanic *kuddijā (“sack”), as the terms for testicle and kidney were often interchangeable in Germanic (compare Old High German nioro (“kidney", also "testicle”), Old Swedish vig-niauri (“testicle”)); the second is from Old English *nēora or Middle Low German nêre (“kidney”), from Proto-West Germanic *neurō, from Proto-Germanic *neurô (“kidney”), from Proto-Indo-European *negʷʰr- (“kidney”). If so, then related to dialectal English near (“kidney”), Scots neir (“kidney”), Saterland Frisian Njuure (“kidney”), West Frisian nier (“kidney”), Dutch nier (“kidney”), German Niere (“kidney”), Danish nyre (“kidney”), Norwegian nyre (“kidney”), Swedish njure (“kidney”), Ancient Greek νεφρός (nephrós, “kidney”).
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