shinbone

English

From Middle English schinboon, schineboon, from Old English sċinbān (“shin, shinbone”), from Proto-Germanic *skinōbainą, equivalent to shin +‎ bone. Cognate with Dutch scheenbeen (“shinbone”), German Schienbein (“shinbone”), Danish skinneben (“shin, shinbone”), Swedish skenben (“shinbone”).

shinbone (plural shinbones)

(anatomy) The inner and usually the larger of the two bones of the leg or hind limb below the knee
(zoology) A segment of an insect's leg.

inner bone of the hind limb below the knee

Italian: tibia (it) f
Japanese: 脛骨 (ja) (けいこつ, keikotsu)
Korean: 정강이뼈 (ko) (jeonggangippyeo)
Latin: gongus osseus, tibia
Lithuanian: blauzdikaulis
Macedonian: цеваница f (cevánica)
Malay: tulang kering, tulang betis, tibia
Manx: craue lurgey
Maori: takakaha
Norwegian: skinneben
Polish: kość piszczelowa
Portuguese: tíbia f
Romanian: tibia (ro) f, fluier (ro) n (popular)
Russian: большеберцо́вая кость f (bolʹšebercóvaja kostʹ)
Scottish Gaelic: cnàimh-mòr-na-lurgainn m
Serbo-Croatian: golen f, golenica f, cevanica (sh) f
Slovene: golenica (sl) f
Spanish: tibia (es) f
Swedish: skenben (sv)
Tagalog: butunlulod
Ukrainian: велика гомілкова кістка f (velyka homilkova kistka), великогомілкова кістка f (velykohomilkova kistka)
Volapük: tibiad

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