condom

See also: Condom

English

A rolled-up condom.

Alternative forms

• condum

Etymology

Unknown. Many speculations exist. Possibly derived from Italian guantone, from guanto (“a glove”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒn.dɒm/, /ˈkɒn.dəm/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑn.dəm/, /ˈkʌn.dəm/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

condom (plural condoms)

1. A flexible sleeve made of latex or other impermeable material such as polyurethane or sheepskin, worn over an erect penis during sexual intercourse as a contraceptive or as a way to prevent the spread of STIs.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:condom

   buy a pack of condoms

   flavoured condom

   ribbed condoms

   • 2009, Albert Altchek, Liane Deligdisch, Pediatric, Adolescent and Young Adult Gynecology:

     However, substantial proportions of participants preferred the nonlatex condom or reported that they would recommend its use to others.

   • 2015, Beth Burgoon, About That Night, Don Mills, O.N.: Harlequin Superromance, →ISBN, page 123:

     We're in the small percentage of cases in which condoms are ineffective. Looks as if you have some sort of supersperm. You must be very proud.

   • 2021, Pedro Mairal, The Woman from Uruguay, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 143:

     I remember that one time I went to the kiosk next door to buy condoms, it was raining, she appeared.

2. (loosely) A flexible sleeve made of latex or other impermeable material such as polyurethane or sheepskin, worn as a barrier between an erect penis and the inner surface of the vagina, anus, or mouth during sexual intercourse to prevent pregnancy or the spread of STIs.

Synonyms

• condie (slang)
• dinger (Australian slang)
• franger (Australian slang)
• French letter (UK)
• jimmy hat (slang)
• johnny (UK slang)
• protection (euphemism)
• raincoat (slang)
• rubber (US slang)

Derived terms

• condomed
• condomization
• condomize
• condomless
• condomlike
• external condom
• female condom
• internal condom
• male condom
• my condom broke
• precondom
• USB condom

Descendants

• → Afar: kondom
• → Cantonese: condom, dom
• → Cebuano: kondom
• → Czech: kondom
• →? Danish: kondom
  • → Greenlandic: kondomi
• → Dutch: condoom
  • Indonesian: kondom
• → Finnish: kondomi
• → French: condom
• → German: Kondom
• → Italian: condom
• → Japanese: コンドーム (kondōmu)
• → Korean: 콘돔 (kondom)
• → Macedonian: кондо́м (kondóm)
• → Malay: kondom
• → Norwegian Bokmål: kondom
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: kondom
• → Polish: kondom
• → Russian: кондо́м (kondóm), гондо́н (gondón)
• → Serbo-Croatian: kondom
• → Swahili: kondomu
• → Tagalog: kondom
• → Tok Pisin: kondom
• →? Turkish: kondom

Translations

flexible sleeve worn on the penis

• Afar: kondom
• Afrikaans: kondoom (af)
• Albanian: prezervativ m
• Arabic: عَازِل ذَكَرِيّ m (ʕāzil ḏakariyy), وَاقٍ ذَكَرِيّ m (wāqin ḏakariyy), كُونْدُوم m (kūndūm), كَانْدُوم m (kāndūm) (colloquial, dialectal), عَازِل طِبِّيّ m (ʕāzil ṭibbiyy)

  Egyptian Arabic: كوندوم m (kondom), كاندوم m (kandom)

  Hijazi Arabic: كونْدُم m (kōndum)

  Moroccan Arabic: جلدة f (jalda), واقي m (wāqi)

• Armenian: պահպանակ (hy) (pahpanak), գանդոն (gandon) (vulgar)
• Asturian: condón m, preservativu m
• Azerbaijani: prezervativ, kondom
• Basque: kondoi, preserbatibo
• Belarusian: прэзерваты́ў m (prezjervatýŭ), кандо́м m (kandóm), начэ́пнік m (načépnik)
• Bengali: কন্ডম (bn) (konḍom)
• Breton: stevell f, tog (br) m
• Bulgarian: кондо́м (bg) m (kondóm), презервати́в (bg) m (prezervatív)
• Burmese: ကွန်ဒုံး (kwandum:)
• Catalan: preservatiu (ca) m, condó (ca) m, condom (ca) m
• Cebuano: kondom
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 避孕套 (bei⁶ jan⁶ tou³), 安全套 (on¹ cyun⁴ tou³), 如意套 (jyu⁴ ji³ tou³) (Singapore, Malaysia), 套 (tou³) (colloquial)

  Hokkien: 保險套 / 保险套 (pó-hiám-thò), sak-khù, sak-khuh

  Mandarin: 避孕套 (zh) (bìyùntào), 安全套 (zh) (ānquántào), 保險套 / 保险套 (zh) (bǎoxiǎntào), 衛生套 / 卫生套 (zh) (wèishēngtào), 陰莖套 / 阴茎套 (zh) (yīnjīngtào), 如意套 (rúyìtào) (Singapore & Malaysia), 套兒 / 套儿 (zh) (tàor) (colloquial), 套套 (zh) (tàotao) (colloquial)

• Cornish: kondom m
• Czech: kondom (cs) m, prezervativ m
• Danish: kondom (da), præservativ
• Dutch: condoom (nl) m, capotje n, regenjasje (nl) n (jocular)
• Elfdalian: tjytågummi n
• Esperanto: kondomo, preventilo, penisingo
• Estonian: kondoom (et), preservatiiv, kumm (slang), kantoss (slang)
• Faroese: hít f
• Finnish: kondomi (fi), kortsu (fi) (colloquial), kumi (fi) (colloquial), spärdäri (fi) (slang)
• French: préservatif (fr) m, capote anglaise (fr) f, capote (fr) f (informal), condom (fr) m (Quebec, Louisiana, Missouri, New England)
• Galician: preservativo (gl) m, condón (gl) m (colloquial), profiláctico m
• Georgian: პრეზერვატივი (ṗrezervaṭivi), განდონი (gandoni) (vulgar)
• German: Präservativ (de) n, Kondom (de) n, Präser (de) m, Pariser (de) m, Gummi (de) n (colloquial), Fuffzicher m (East German, colloquial); Verhüterli n (Switzerland, colloquial), Ficktüte f (vulgar), Nahkampfsocke f (slang), Überzieher (de) m
• Greek: προφυλακτικό (el) n (profylaktikó)
• Greenlandic: kondomi, usuup-puua
• Gujarati: નિરોધ m (nirodh)
• Hebrew: קוֹנְדּוֹם (he) m (kondóm), כּוֹבָעוֹן m (kovaˈʔon)
• Hindi: निरोध (hi) m (nirodh), कंडोम (hi) ? (kaṇḍom)
• Hungarian: óvszer (hu), kondom (hu), koton (hu) (colloquial), gumi (hu) (colloquial)
• Icelandic: smokkur (is) m
• Indonesian: kondom (id)
• Interlingua: preservativo, condom
• Irish: coiscín m
• Italian: preservativo (it) m, profilattico (it) m, condom (it) m, goldone m (slang)
• Japanese: コンドーム (ja) (kondōmu)
• Kalmyk: белгвч (belgvç)
• Kannada: ಕಾಂಡಮ್ (kāṇḍam)
• Kashmiri: कंडोम (kaṃḍōm)
• Kashubian: prezerwatiwa f
• Kazakh: үрпекқап (ürpekqap), мүшеқап (müşeqap)
• Khmer: ស្រោមក្ត (sraom kdɑɑ), អាវភ្លៀង (aav pliəng), ស្រោមអនាម័យ (sraom ʼaʼnaamay)
• Korean: 콘돔 (ko) (kondom), 고무주머니 (gomujumeoni) (North Korea)
• Kyrgyz: презерватив (prezervativ)
• Lao: ຖົງຢາງ (thong yāng)
• Latvian: prezervatīvs m
• Lithuanian: prezervatyvas m
• Macedonian: кондо́м m (kondóm), презервати́в m (prezervatív), курто́н m (kurtón) (vulgar), накурник m (nakurnik)
• Malay: kondom (ms)
• Malayalam: ഉറ (ml) (uṟa), ഗർഭനിരോധന ഉറ (gaṟbhanirōdhana uṟa)
• Maltese: kondo
• Maori: pūkoro ure
• Marathi: निरोध (nirodh), कॉन्डोम (kŏnḍom)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: бэлгэвч (mn) (belgevč)

• Navajo: akááʼ ałtsoozígíí
• Norman: capote f
• Northern Sami: kondoma, gumme
• Norwegian: kondom m or n, gummi m or n (slang)
• Occitan: preservatiu (oc) m, condòm m
• Ojibwe: biindaʼoojigan
• Persian: کاپوت (fa) (kâput), کاندوم (fa) (kândom)
• Polish: prezerwatywa (pl) f, kondom (pl) m
• Portuguese: preservativo (pt) m, camisa de vênus f, camisinha (pt) f, capa (pt) f (colloquial), jeito (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਨਿਰੋਧ m (nirodh)
• Romanian: prezervativ (ro) n
• Romansch: condom m, preservativ m
• Russian: презервати́в (ru) m (prezervatív), кондо́м (ru) m (kondóm) (rare), гондо́н (ru) m (gondón) (vulgar), резинка (ru) f (rezinka) (colloquial)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ко̀ндо̄м m, презерва̀тӣв m, го̀лдӯн m (colloquial)

  Roman: kòndōm (sh) m, prezervàtīv (sh) m, gòldūn m (colloquial)

• Sicilian: prisirvativu m
• Slovak: prezervatív m, kondóm m
• Slovene: kondọ̑m (sl) m, prezervativ m
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: kondom m, prezerwatiw m

• Spanish: preservativo (es) m, condón (es) m, profiláctico (es) m, goma (es) f (colloquial), forro (es) (vulgar)
• Swahili: kondomu (sw) class 9/10
• Swedish: kondom (sv) c
• Tagalog: kondom
• Tajik: презерватив (prezervativ)
• Tamil: ஆணுறை (ta) (āṇuṟai)
• Telugu: కండోం (kaṇḍōṁ), తొడుగు (te) (toḍugu), నిరోధ్ (nirōdh)
• Thai: ถุงยางอนามัย (th) (tǔng-yaang-à-naa-mai), ถุงยาง (th) (tǔng-yaang)
• Tibetan: སྲུང་ཤུབས (srung shubs)
• Turkish: prezervatif (tr), kondom (tr)
• Turkmen: prezerwatiw
• Ukrainian: презервати́в m (prezervatýv), кондо́м m (kondóm)
• Urdu: کنڈوم ? (kaṇḍom)
• Uzbek: prezervativ
• Venetan: goldon (vec) m
• Vietnamese: bao cao su (vi), bao dương vật, túi cao su, áo mưa (vi)
• Volapük: tagrodaslivil
• Walloon: capote inglesse (wa) f, capote (wa) f, cabounete f
• Welsh: condom (cy) m, sach ddyrnu f
• Yiddish: קאַנדאַם m (kandam)
• Zhuang: dauqancienz, biyindau
• Zulu: ikhondomu class 5/6

Further reading

• Michael Quinion (2004) “Condom”, in Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds: Ingenious Tales of Words and Their Origins, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books in association with Penguin Books, →ISBN.
• “The word “condom”” by Anatoly Liberman, from the Oxford University Press (2022-09-21)

Anagrams

• McOndo, mod con

Chinese

Etymology

From English condom.

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kon¹ dam⁴

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: kon¹ dam⁴
    • Yale: kōn dàhm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kon¹ dam⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: kon¹ dem⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰɔːn⁵⁵ tɐm²¹/

Noun

condom (Hong Kong Cantonese)

1. condom (Classifier: 個／个 c)
2. (neologism, originally Internet slang, figuratively) someone or something easily disposed, due to their worthlessness after use

Synonyms

• (condom):

Dialectal synonyms of 避孕套 (“condom”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		避孕套, 安全套, 保險套, 陰莖套
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	避孕套兒, 套兒
	Taiwan	保險套, 衛生套, 套, 套套, 小雨傘 euphemistic, 小雨衣 euphemistic, 小夜衣 euphemistic
	Harbin	保險套兒
	Malaysia	如意套
	Singapore	如意套, 安全套
Cantonese	Hong Kong	避孕套, 安全套, 套, condom, dom, dom dom, 小雨衣 euphemistic, 小夜衣 euphemistic, 如意袋 euphemistic
Hakka	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	保險套, 保險落
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	保險落
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	保險套
Southern Min	Taipei	sak-khuh GT, 保險套 GT
	Shantou (Chaoyang)	避孕袋, 避孕套
Wu	Shanghai	套子
Note	GT - General Taiwanese (no specific region identified)

Related terms

• dom

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.dɔ̃/

Noun

condom m (plural condoms)

1. (North America) condom

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English condom.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔn.dom/
• Rhymes: -ɔndom
• Hyphenation: còn‧dom

Noun

condom m (invariable)

1. condom

   Synonyms: preservativo, profilattico