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entrails

/ˈɛn.tɹeɪlz/

entrails noun: the internal organs of an animal, especially the intestines.

Noun

entrails

  1. (archaic) The internal organs of an animal, especially the intestines.
    • Elizabethan audiences relished shocks and surprises as much as they did trumpets, thunder and savage realism in bloody scenes of torture and death which were made all the more horrible by the use of animals’ entrails.1987, Christopher Hibbert, The English: A Social History, 1066-1945, →ISBN, page 244
  2. (archaic, obsolete) The seat of the emotions.

entrails meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam

entrails in Hindi

internal organs
ओझ ojh

entrails in Tamil

குடல் உறுப்புகள்

entrails in Urdu

آلائش, اندرونہ, اوجھڑی

entrails in Malayalam

കുടൽമാല, അന്തർഭാഗം
More languagesFewer languages
entrails in Kannada
ಕರುಳು, ಅಂತ್ರ
entrails in Punjabi
ਓਝ ojha
entrails in Sanskrit
कोष्ठ koṣṭha
entrails in Assamese
পেটু petu, আঁত ãt, পেন্দ pendo
entrails in Arabic
فَرَث faraṯ
entrails in Persian
امعا و احشا am'â-o-ahšâ, دل و روده del-o-rude

Synonyms of entrails

All synonyms of entrails

Origin of entrails

From Middle English entraille, entrailles, from Old French entrailles, from Vulgar Latin intrālia, from Latin interānea, from interāneus, from inter. Compare Spanish entraña.

Questions about entrails

What does entrails mean?
Entrails means the internal organs of an animal, especially the intestines.
What is entrails in Hindi?
Entrails in Hindi is ओझ (ojh). See Entrails meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is entrails?
Entrails is a noun.
How do you pronounce entrails?
Entrails is pronounced /ˈɛn.tɹeɪlz/.

Words near entrails in the dictionary

  1. entrada
  2. entradas
  3. entrail
  4. entrailed
  5. entrailing
  6. entrails
  7. entrain
  8. entrainability
  9. entrainable
  10. entrained
  11. entrained thinking

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: entrails (page history and authors); entrails (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); entrails (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); entrails (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); entrails (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਓਝ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); कोष्ठ (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); আঁত (Assamese) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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