Dictionary Definition
nasal adj
1 of or in or relating to the nose; "nasal
passages" [syn: rhinal]
Noun
1 a continuant consonant produced through the
nose with the mouth closed [syn: nasal
consonant]
2 an elongated rectangular bone that forms the
bridge of the nose [syn: nasal bone,
os
nasale]
User Contributed Dictionary
see Nasal
English
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -eɪzəl
Adjective
- Of or pertaining to the nose.
- Having a quality imparted by means of the nose; and specifically, made by lowering the soft palate, in some cases with closure of the oral passage, the voice thus issuing (wholly or partially) through the nose, as in the consonants m, n, ng; characterized by resonance in the nasal passage; as, a nasal vowel; a nasal utterance.
Translations
pertaining to the nose
- Czech: nosní
having a quality imparted by means of the nose
- Dutch: nasaal
- Welsh: trwynol
Noun
- An elementary sound which is uttered through the nose, or through both the nose and the mouth simultaneously.
- A medicine that operates through the nose; an errhine.
- A nasal vowel or consonant.
- (armour) Part of a helmet projecting to protect the nose; a nose
guard.
- 1909, Charles Henry Ashdown, European Arms & Armor, page
78,
- The nasal continued in use until about 1140, when it was generally discarded, but isolated examples may be found in every succeeding century down to the seventeenth.
- 1909, Charles Henry Ashdown, European Arms & Armor, page
78,
- One of the nasal bones.
- A plate, or scale, on the nose of a fish, etc.
Translations
a nasal vowel or consonant
- Croatian: nazal, nosnik
Derived terms
- nasal bone (anatomy)
- nasal cavity (anatomy)
- nasal fossa (anatomy)
- nasal index (anatomy)
- nasal vowel (phonetics)
French
Adjective
nasal (plural: nasaux)- nasal
German
Pronunciation
/naˈzaːl/Adjective
nasal- nasal
Related terms
Compounds
Portuguese
Adjective
nasal (plural nasais)- nasal
Noun
nasal- nasal consonant
Noun
nasal- nasal bone
Related terms
Spanish
Adjective
- nasal
Noun
nasal- nasal consonant
Related terms
Extensive Definition
Nasal may refer to:
nasal in German: Nasal
nasal in Dutch: Nasaal
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
accented, allophone, alveolar, apical, apico-alveolar,
apico-dental, articulated, articulation, aspiration, assimilated, assimilation, asthmatic, back, barytone, bilabial, blurred, breathing, breathy, broad, cacuminal, central, cerebral, check, checked, choked, choking, close, consonant, consonantal, continuant, croaking, dental, diphthong, dissimilated, dissimilation, dorsal, drawling, drawly, dysphonic, epenthetic vowel,
errhine, expiratory, explosive, flat, front, glide, glossal, glottal, glottalization, guttural, hard, harsh, hawking, heaving, heavy, high, hoarse, huffing, inarticulate, indistinct, inspiratory, intonated, labial, labialization, labiodental, labiovelar, laryngeal, lateral, lax, light, lingual, liquid, lisping, low, manner of articulation,
mid, mispronounced, modification, monophthong, monophthongal, morphophoneme, mute, muted, muzzy, narrow, nasalized, occlusive, open, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, panting, parasitic vowel,
peak, pharyngeal, pharyngealization,
pharyngealized,
phone, phoneme, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitched, plosive, pneumonic, posttonic, prothetic vowel,
puffing, pulmonary, pulmonic, quavering, respiratory, retroflex, rhinal, rounded, segmental phoneme,
semivowel, shaking, shaky, sneezy, sniffling, sniffly, sniffy, snoring, snorting, snuffling, snuffly, snuffy, soft, sonant, sonority, speech sound,
sternutatory,
stertorous, stifled, stop, stopped, strangled, stressed, strong, surd, syllabic, syllabic nucleus,
syllabic peak, syllable, tense, thick, throaty, tonal, tonic, transition sound, tremulous, triphthong, twangy, unaccented, unrounded, unstressed, velar, vocable, vocalic, vocoid, voice, voiced, voiced sound, voiceless, voiceless sound,
voicing, vowel, vowellike, weak, wheezing, wheezy, wide