white-haired

See also: whitehaired

English

Alternative forms

• whitehaired

Etymology

From Middle English white-heered, white-harid, white-herede, whyte-harede, white hared, equivalent to white +‎ haired. Compare Old Norse hvít-hárr and hvít-hærðr (“white-haired”).

Adjective

white-haired (not comparable)

1. Having white hair, especially from old age.

Synonyms

• hoary; see also Thesaurus:elderly

Related terms

• grey-haired, grizzled, grizzly
• silver-haired, silvery-haired

Translations

having white hair

• Arabic: أَشْيَب (ʔašyab)
• Catalan: pèl-blanc (ca), cabellblanc (ca) m
• Danish: hvidhåret
• Finnish: valkotukkainen, valkohapsinen
• French: chenu (fr)
• Galician: cano
• German: weißhaarig (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: λευκόθριξ (leukóthrix)

• Hungarian: fehér/ősz hajú
• Irish: bán (ga), fionn, bánfholtach, ceannbhán, fionngheal, ceanngheal
• Japanese: 白髪の (ja) (しらがの, shiraga no)
• Korean: 백발 (ko) (baekbal)
• Macedonian: бе́локос (bélokos)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hvithåret, hvithåra, kvithåret, kvithåra

  Nynorsk: kvithåra

• Polish: białowłosy (pl)
• Portuguese: grisalho (pt), cão (pt)
• Spanish: peliblanco (es)
• Swedish: vithårig (sv)