lower back

English

muscles of the lower back

a lower back tattoo

Pronunciation

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Noun

lower back (plural lower backs)

1. The region of the back above the waist, also known as the lumbar region; the area surrounding the five vertebrae between the rib cage and the pelvis.

Synonyms

• low back
• lumbar
• small of the back

Translations

the lumbar region — see also waist

• Arabic: مُسْتَدَقّ الظَّهْر m (mustadaqq aẓ-ẓahr)

  Egyptian Arabic: ^{(please verify)} خربة f (ḵorba)

• Azerbaijani: bel (az)
• Bashkir: бил (bel)
• Belarusian: паясні́ца f (pajasníca), крыж m (kryž), крыжаві́на f (kryžavína)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (formal) 腰骶部 (yāodǐbù), (informal) 腰部 (zh) (yāobù)

• Czech: bedra (cs) n pl
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: onderrug (nl) f
• Finnish: alaselkä, lanneselkä
• French: cambrure (des reins) (fr) f, bas du dos m
• Galician: rens m pl, rexión lumbar f, cadrís m pl
• German: Kreuz (de) n
• Greek: μέση (el) f (mési), οσφύς (el) f (osfýs)
• Hebrew: החלק הצר של הגב (hakhélek hatsár shel hagáv, literally “the narrow part of the back”), הגב התחתון
• Hindi: कमर f (kamar)
• Icelandic: mjóbak n
• Italian: zona lombare f, fondo della schiena m
• Japanese: 腰のくびれ (こしのくびれ, koshi no kubire)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ^{(please verify)} korsrygg m

• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: nerki f pl (colloquial), lędźwie (pl) pl (literary)
• Portuguese: região lombar f, lombar (pt) f, rins, cruzes
• Russian: поясни́ца (ru) f (pojasníca), (archaic) чре́сла (ru) n pl (črésla), че́ресла n pl (čéresla) (dialectal), чересла́ n pl (čereslá) (dialectal)
• Spanish: región lumbar f, lomo (es) m, lombo (es) m
• Swedish: ländrygg (sv) c, korsrygg (sv) c
• Tagalog: sasapnan
• Talysh: çobənd
• Tamil: கீழ் முதுகு (kīḻ mutuku)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: bel (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: بل (bel)

• Ukrainian: по́перек m (póperek), попере́к m (poperék), кри́жі m pl (krýži) (dialectal), че́ресла n pl (čéresla) (dialectal)
• Vietnamese: thắt lưng (vi), lưng dưới

References

• lower back on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “lower back”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• cablework