248 terms across ten languages. Same organ, wildly different metaphors: birds in Catalan, sticks in Portuguese, a demon in Japanese and a young gentleman in Dutch.

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Register labels (formal, childish, vulgar and so on) are given only where a cited source supplies them. Inclusion in a dictionary or thesaurus does not mean a word is in common everyday use.

Catalan · 31 entries

Catalan has an unusually rich vocabulary here, and an ongoing debate in the Catalan press about Spanish borrowings such as polla pushing native words out.

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• penis, fal·lus: formal.
• cigala: vulgar; literally “cicada”, from Latin cicada.
• pixa: vulgar, used fairly restrictively.
• pixorro: described as rude.
• titola, tita: childish in origin.
• cuc, cuca: childish; cuc is literally “worm”.
• pardal: literally “sparrow”.
• piu: strongly regional, especially Menorca and the Valencian Country.
• carall: informal and declining; cognate with Spanish carajo and Portuguese caralho.
• vit: archaic.
• verga, eina (“tool”), ferramenta (“tools, hardware”), aparell (“device”), mànec (“handle”), semaler: informal.
• pera: colloquial; literally “pear”.
• fava (“broad bean”), tavella (“pod”), xufa (“tiger nut”): botanical metaphors.
• canut, estaca (“stake”), tronxo (“stalk”), instrument, melindro (a sponge biscuit), nap (“turnip”), virot: further recorded terms.
• collons (singular colló): vulgar word for the testicles, from Latin coleus, “sack, scrotum”. See also the Catalan idioms.

Sources: VilaWeb on Catalan sexual vocabulary; Softcatalà English–Catalan dictionary; Nació Digital, “Ni palla ni polla”; Wiktionary entries for cigala and cojón.

Spanish · 37 entries

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• polla: vulgar slang for penis, particularly in Spain.
• badajo · bicho · cabezón · callampa · carajo · chile · chorra · chota · cipote · guasca · garompa · machete · mazo · minga · nabo · pájaro · pajarito · palo · paloma · penca · picha · pichula · pija · pijo · pico · pilila · pinga · pirula · pirulo · pito · poronga · rabo · reata · tolete · tula · verga

Source: Wiktionary Thesaurus: pene. Many of these are regional to particular Spanish-speaking countries.

French · 30 entries

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• bite: vulgar slang for penis.
• sguègue: vulgar slang for penis.
• biloute · biroute · bistouquette · braquemard · chibre · chibroque · dard · engin · gourdin · matraque · nouille · paf · pine · popaul · popol · quéquette · quiquette · queue · sabre · teub · teube · verge · zézette · zigounette · zizi · zob · zobi · zgeg

Source: Wiktionary Thesaurus: pénis.

German · 37 entries

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• Schwanz: informal, mildly vulgar; also means “tail”.
• Beidel · bestes Stück · Degen · Dödel · Fleischpeitsche · Freudenspender · Gemächt · Glied · Hans · Hansi · Johannes · kleiner Freund · Kolben · Lörres · Lurch · Lümmel · Nudel · Peter · Piephahn · Pillermann · Pimmel · Pipimann · Pullermann · Riemen · Rute · Schlange · Schlauch · Schniedelwutz · Schniedel · Schniepel · Schwengel · Spatz · Willi · Wurst · Zauberstab · Zipfel

Source: Wiktionary Thesaurus: Penis.

Italian · 30 entries

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• cazzo: vulgar word for penis.
• minchia: regional vulgar slang, originally associated with Sicilian.
• alabarda · batacchio · belìn · bigolo · bischero · bongo · calippo · fava · lancia · mazza · mazzolo · meggia · nerchia · pesce · pinca · pipi · pipo · pirla · pisello · pistolino · salsiccia · spingarda · talpa · torrone · trapano · uccello · verga · volatile

Source: Wiktionary Thesaurus: pene.

Portuguese · 36 entries

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• pau: vulgar slang; literally “stick” or “wood”.
• benga · bilau · bilola · blica · bráulio · cacete · caralho · cobra · fazedor de xixi · ferramenta · gaita · giromba · jeba · júnior · linguiça · mastro · neca · peça · peru · pica · pichota · pila · pilau · pingolim · pintinho · pinto · pipi · pirilau · piroca · piru · piupiu · piça · rola · trolha · vara

Source: Wiktionary Thesaurus: pénis.

Dutch · 22 entries

New in this edition. Dutch is the only language in the collection with dedicated words for a grower and a shower.

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• lul: vulgar; also used for an unpleasant man.
• piemel: everyday euphemism; related to piemelen, “to pee”, and cognate with German Pimmel.
• pik, lid (“member”), roede (“rod”).
• jongeheer: slang; literally “young gentleman”.
• piel: from a dialect form of pijl, “arrow”.
• bloedlul: a penis much larger erect than flaccid; a grower. Literally “blood-dick”.
• vleeslul: a penis not much larger erect than flaccid; a shower. Literally “meat-dick”.
• fluit · genotsknots · knuppel · leuter · pieleman · pielemuis · pieterman · plasser · pretpaal · snikkel · tamp · tampeloeris · zwans

Sources: Wiktionary entries for lul, piemel, jongeheer, bloedlul and vleeslul; Interglot.

Polish · 11 entries

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• prącie: the anatomical term, inherited from Proto-Slavic.
• chuj: the harshest Polish word for it.
• kutas: vulgar; also means “tassel”, which Polish comedy has not let go to waste.
• fiut: vulgar; also used for an unpleasant man.
• siusiak: childish; from siusiać, “to wee”.
• kuśka: colloquial.
• ciul: prison slang, vulgar.
• drut (“wire”) · koń (“horse”) · lacha · pała

Sources: Wiktionary entries for prącie, kutas, fiut, siusiak, kuśka, ciul and drut; ling.pl English–Polish dictionary; Cusstionary.

Japanese · 7 entries

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• まら / 魔羅 (mara): originally the Buddhist demon Māra. Its use for the penis began as slang among monks; see From the Archive.
• ちんちん (chinchin): childish; a willy.
• 息子 (musuko): literally “son”, used as innuendo.
• ちんこ (chinko) · ちんぽ (chinpo) · ちんぽこ (chinpoko) · ぽこちん (pokochin)

Sources: Wikipedia: Japanese profanity; Wiktionary: 魔羅; RomajiDesu.

Indonesian · 7 entries

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• burung: childish; literally “bird”.
• titit: childish, mildly vulgar.
• kontol: vulgar.
• peler: more vulgar.
• zakar: dated.
• anu · pelir

Source: Wiktionary: penis (Indonesian section).

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