freckle

English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈfɹɛkəl/, X-SAMPA: /"frEk@l/
• Rhymes: -ɛkəl

Etymology

Middle English freken, frekel, from Old Norse freknur (plural) (compare Swedish fräkne, Danish fregne), s-less variant of Proto-Germanic *sprekalan 'freckle' (compare dialectal Norwegian sprekla, Middle High German spreckel), from Proto-Indo-European *sp(h)er(e)g- 'to strew, sprinkle'. Cognate with Albanian fruth (“measles”). More at spark. Related to spry, sprack.

Noun

freckle (plural freckles)

1. A small brownish or reddish pigmentation spot on the surface of the skin.

   Steve has brown hair, blue eyes and freckles on his cheeks and nose.

2. Any small spot or discoloration.

Synonyms

• ephelis
• lentigo

Translations

small pigmentation spot on the skin

• Arabic: نمش (ar) (namaš) m pl

  Egyptian Arabic: نمش (namaš) m pl

• Catalan: piga (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 雀斑 (cmn) (quèbān), 斑點 (cmn), 斑点 (cmn) (bāndiǎn)

• Coptic: ⲁⲣϣⲁⲛ (aršan) m
• Czech: piha (cs) f
• Danish: fregne (da) c
• Dutch: sproet (nl) c
• Esperanto: lentugo (eo)
• Faroese: frøkna (fo) f
• Finnish: kesakko (fi), pisama (fi), teerenpilkku (fi)
• French: tache de rousseur (fr) f
• Georgian: ჭორფლი (ka) (čorp’li)
• German: Sommersprosse (de) f
• Greek: φακίδα (el) (fakída) f
• Hebrew: נמש (he) (nemesh) m
• Hungarian: szeplő (hu)
• Icelandic: frekna (is) f
• Italian: lentiggine (it)
• Japanese: 雀斑 (ja) (そばかす, sobakasu), そばかす (ja) (sobakasu)

• Korean: 주근깨 (ko) (jugeunkkae)
• Latin: lenticula (la) f
• Luxembourgish: Speechelen (lb)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fregne (no) m and f

  Nynorsk: frekne (no) f

• Ottoman Turkish: چل (çyl)
• Polish: pieg (pl) m
• Portuguese: sarda (pt)
• Romanian: pistrui (ro) n
• Russian: веснушка (ru) (vesnúška) f
• Serbo-Croatian: пега (sh), пјега (sh)

  Roman: pega (sh) f, pjega (sh) f

• Slovak: peha (sk) f
• Spanish: peca (es) f
• Swedish: fräkne (sv) c
• Turkish: çil (tr)
• Volapük: feelid (vo)

Verb

freckle (third-person singular simple present freckles, present participle freckling, simple past and past participle freckled)

1. (transitive) To cover with freckles.
2. (intransitive) To become covered with freckles.

Translations

cover with freckles

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (no such verb exists) 有雀斑 (yǒu quèbān), 長雀斑, 长雀斑 (zhǎng quèbān)

• Finnish: täplittää (fi)

become covered with freckles

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (no such verb exists) 有雀斑 (yǒu quèbān), 長雀斑, 长雀斑 (zhǎng quèbān)

• Finnish: täplittyä (fi)

• Portuguese: cobrir de sardas (pt)
• Spanish: tener peca (es)

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• Georgian: დაჭორფვლა (ka) (dačorp’vla)

• Slovak: pehavieť (sk), opehavieť (sk), spehavieť (sk)

Related terms

• freckled
• freckleface
• freckly