Meaning

4 senses
  1. An organ in the body that filters the blood, producing urine.

    Niere

    по́чкаpóčka

    ни́ркаnýrka

  2. This organ (of an animal) cooked as food.

    по́чкиpóčki

    нирки́nyrký, ни́ркиnýrky

  3. (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.

  4. (obsolete, slang)A waiter.

More definitions
  • either of two bean-shaped excretory organs that filter wastes (especially urea) from the blood and excrete them and water in urine

Examples

123 sentences
  1. I have kidney trouble.

    У мене проблеми з нирками. — deniko

    ruУ меня проблема с почками. — odexed

  2. Tom needs a kidney.

    Тому потрібна нирка. — deniko

    ruТому нужна почка. — Ooneykcall

  3. Tom gave Mary his kidney.

    Том віддав мері свою нирку. — deniko

    ruТом отдал Мэри свою почку. — marafon

  4. Tom died of kidney failure.

    Том помер від ниркової недостатності. — deniko

    ruТом умер от почечной недостаточности. — sergiomelo

  5. I had a kidney stone.

    У мене були камені в нирках. — deniko

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
an organ in the body:
food:
Русский
By meaning 2
an organ in the body:
food:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
an organ in the body:

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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