Kidney

Noun

 * 1) An organ in the body that produces urine.
 * 2) This organ (of an animal) cooked as food
 * 3)  constitution, temperament, nature

Adjectives for Kidney
hard-worked; distressing; paining.

Verbs for Kidney
b block—; congest—; dilate—; engorge —; impair—; inflame—; obstruct—; pad—; support—; —enlarges; —excretes; —niters; —floats; —fuses; —moves; —swells.

Thesaurus
abatis, abdomen, animus, anus, appendix, aptitude, bent, bias, blind gut, blood, bowels, brain, brains, brand, breed, cast, cecum, character, chitterlings, clan, cockscomb, colon, color, constitution, denomination, description, designation, diathesis, disposition, duodenum, eccentricity, endocardium, entrails, feather, foregut, form, genre, genus, giblets, gizzard, glomerulonephritis, grain, guts, haslet, heart, hindgut, idiosyncrasy, ilk, inclination, individualism, innards, inner mechanism, insides, internals, intestine, inwards, jejunum, kidney stone, kidneys, kin, kind, kishkes, label, large intestine, leaning, line, liver, liver and lights, lot, lung, make, makeup, manner, mark, marrow, mental set, mettle, midgut, mind, mind-set, mold, nature, nephritis, nephrolithosis, nephrosis, number, perineum, persuasion, phylum, predilection, predisposition, preference, proclivity, propensity, pump, pylorus, race, rectum, renal calculus, renal hematuria, set, shape, slant, small intestine, sort, species, spleen, stamp, stomach, strain, streak, stripe, style, sweetbread, temper, temperament, tendency, the like of, the likes of, ticker, tongue, tribe, tripe, tripes, turn, turn of mind, twist, type, uremia, variety, vermiform appendix, viscera, vitals, warp, works

Etymology
From kednei:, kidenei:, from earlier kidnere:, kidenere:. Of uncertain origin. Probably a compound consisting of *undefined:, from  cwiþ:, cwiþa: +  nere:, from  *undefined:, from, from. If so, then related to nier:,  Niere:,  nyre:.

Alternate etymology traces the first element to ceod:, codd:, as the terms for testicle and kidney were often interchangeable in Germanic (compare  nioro:, Old  vigniauri:. More at.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: nier
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: giltzurrun
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: ronyó
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 腎臟, 肾脏,  ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian:
 * Ewe: ayiku
 * Faroese: nýra
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:, ,
 * Hebrew: כליה
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:


 * Kurdish:
 * Latgalian:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: niere
 * Lithuanian: inkstas
 * Maltese: kilwa
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk:
 * Old English:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: бубрег
 * Roman: bubreg
 * Sichuan Yi:
 * Slovak: oblička
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik:
 * Turkish:
 * Volapük: roin


 * Basque: giltzurrun
 * Czech:
 * French:
 * Italian:
 * Maltese: kilwa


 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk:
 * Polish: cynaderka
 * Russian:

Synonyms

 * nephros
 * ren

Related terms

 * renal
 * suprarenal