ear lobe

See also: earlobe

English

Ear with ear lobe

Alternative forms

• earlobe

Noun

ear lobe (plural ear lobes)

1. The lower, exterior, fleshy, bulbous part of the human ear.
2. The fleshy patch of skin below the ear tuft of a chicken.
   • 2010, Tara Kindschi, 4-H Guide to Raising Chickens, page 13:

     The color of the female's ear lobe will tell you if she will lay a white or colored egg.

Synonyms

• burr
• earlap (archaic)

Translations

a part of the ear

• Afrikaans: oorlel, oorbel
• Arabic: شَحْمَة اَلْأُذْن f (šaḥmat al-ʔuḏn)

  Egyptian Arabic: شحمة الودن f (šaḥmat el wedn)

• Armenian: բլթակ (hy) (bltʻak)
• Azerbaijani: mərcək
• Catalan: lòbul m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 耳珠 (ji⁵ zyu¹)

  Mandarin: 耳垂 (zh) (ěrchuí)

• Czech: ušní lalůček m
• Danish: øreflip (da) c
• Dutch: oorlel (nl) f
• Faroese: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: korvanipukka (fi)
• French: lobe (fr) m (de l'oreille)
• German: Ohrläppchen (de) n
• Greek: λοβός (el) m (lovós)
• Hebrew: תְּנוּךְ (he) m (tnuch)
• Hungarian: fülcimpa (hu)
• Icelandic: eyrnasnepill (is) m
• Irish: bog na cluaise m, bun na cluaise m, liopa cluaise m, maothán cluaise m, maothán m
• Italian: lobo (it) m
• Japanese: 耳朶 (ja) (じだ, jida, みみたぶ, mimitabu)
• Kapampangan: pingul
• Kikuyu: moni class 9/10
• Korean: 귓불 (ko) (gwitbul)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: nermika guhê

• Malay: cuping telinga
• Maori: hoi, pokopoko
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: øreflipp m

  Nynorsk: øyreflipp m

• Old English: ēarlæppa m
• Persian: نرمهٔ گوش (narme-ye guš)
• Polish: małżowina (pl) f
• Portuguese: lóbulo (pt) m
• Rapa Nui: epe
• Romanian: lob al urechii m
• Russian: мо́чка (ru) f (móčka) (уха úxa)
• Spanish: lóbulo (es) m
• Swahili: ndewe (sw) class n/n
• Swedish: örsnibb (sv) c, öronsnibb c
• Tagalog: pingol
• Thai: ติ่งหู (th) (dtìng-hǔu)
• Turkish: kulak memesi (tr)
• Ukrainian: мо́чка ву́ха f (móčka vúxa)
• Uzbek: solinchak (uz), sirgʻaliq (uz)
• Vietnamese: dái tai (vi)
• Welsh: llabed clust m
• West Frisian: earlapke, earleltsje, eartipke
• Woiwurrung: kurnagar
• Yiddish: please add this translation if you can

See also

• ear lobe on Wikipedia.Wikipedia