English-Italian translations for navel

• ombelico
  Con questa relazione il Parlamento si ostina a guardarsi inutilmente l'ombelico e sta gettando via tutto il nostro lavoro positivo. With this report, Parliament has indulged in some unfruitful navel-gazing and is throwing out all our good work.
  Concordo sul fatto che, invece di batterci il petto e di guardarci fisso l'ombelico, dovremmo piuttosto osservare quanto è stato fatto altrove. I also agree that we perhaps should not spend so much time beating our breasts and examining our own navels. Rather we should have a look at what other countries have done.
  Pertanto la riforma del 2002 non deve servire solo per continuare a rimirarci l' ombelico delle nostre acque comunitarie, dei nostri problemi e delle nostre miserie. The 2002 reform, therefore, must not serve just for us to carry on staring at our own navel in the form of our own Community waters, our own problems and our own misfortunes.
• onfalo

Definition of navel

• The indentation or bump remaining in the abdomen of mammals where the umbilical cord was attached before birth
• A navel orange
• An eye on the underside of a carronade for securing it to a carriage

Related words

• navel-gazing
• navelwort
• navel-string
• navel piercing
• navel string
• navel rupture
• navel pipe