frown

English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /fɹaʊn/

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  Rhymes: -aʊn

Etymology

From Old French frognier (“to frown or scowl”), from Gaulish frogna (“nostril”).

Noun

frown (plural frowns)

1. A facial expression in which the eyebrows are brought together, and the forehead is wrinkled, usually indicating displeasure, sadness or worry, or less often confusion or concentration.

Translations

facial expression

• Afrikaans: frons (af)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 愁眉苦臉 (cmn), 愁眉苦脸 (cmn) (chóuméikǔliǎn)

• Dutch: fronsen (nl)
• Esperanto: malrideto (eo)
• Finnish: otsan rypistys (fi), kulmakarvojen (fi) kurtistus (fi)
• French: froncement (fr)
• Georgian: მოღუშული გარეგნობა (ka) (moḡušuli garegnoba) , წარბის შეკვრა (ka) (carbis šekvra) 
• German: finsterer Blick (de), Stirnrunzeln (de) n
• Greek: συνοφρύωση (el) (synofrýosi) f 
• Icelandic: gretta (is), ygglibrún (is), vanþóknunarsvipur (is)

• Irish: púic (ga) f
• Italian: accigliato (it) m
• Lojban: frumu (jbo)
• Polish: zmarszczenie brwi (pl)
• Romanian: încruntare (ro) f
• Russian: нахмуренные брови (ru) (naxmúrennyje bróvi) f pl , насупленные брови (ru) (nasúplennyje bróvi) f pl , хмурый взгляд (ru) (xmúryj vzgljad) m 
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мр̀ште̄ње (sh) n, мр̀гође̄ње (sh) n

  Roman: mr̀štēnje (sh) n, mr̀gođēnje (sh) n

• Spanish: ceño (es) m
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can

Verb

frown (third-person singular simple present frowns, present participle frowning, simple past and past participle frowned)

1. (intransitive) To have a frown on one's face.
2. (intransitive) To manifest displeasure or disapprobation; to look with disfavour or threateningly.

   Noisy gossip in the library is frowned upon.

   • Shakespeare

     The sky doth frown and lower upon our army.

3. (transitive) To repress or repel by expressing displeasure or disapproval; to rebuke with a look.

   Frown the impudent fellow into silence.

Derived terms

• frown at
• frown on
• frown upon

Translations

to have a frown on one's face

• Afrikaans: frons (af)
• Arabic: عبس (ar) (3ábasa)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 皺眉 (cmn), 皱眉 (cmn) (zhòuméi), 蹙額 (cmn), 蹙额 (cmn) (cù'é), 蹙眉 (cmn) (cùméi)

• Czech: mračit se (cs)
• Dutch: fronsen (nl)
• Estonian: kulmu kortsutama (et), kulme kortsutama (et)
• Finnish: ‎rypistää otsaansa, ‎kurtistaa kulmiaan
• French: froncer les sourcils (fr)
• German: die Stirn runzeln (de), runzeln (de)
• Icelandic: hnykla brýnnar (is), hleypa brúnum (is), yggla sig (is)

• Italian: accigliarsi (it), corrucciarsi (it)
• Japanese: 顔を顰める (ja) (かおをしかめる, kao-o shikameru)
• Polish: marszczyć brwi (pl)
• Portuguese: fazer cara feia (pt), franzir o cenho (pt)
• Romanian: încrunta (ro)
• Russian: хмуриться (ru) (xmúrit’sja)  impf., нахмуриться (ru) (naxmúrit’sja)  pf.
• Slovak: mračiť sa (sk)
• Sotho: sosobana (st)
• Spanish: fruncir el ceño (es)
• Swedish: ‎rynka pannan

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.

Translations to be checked

• French: râler (fr)

• German: finster dreinblicken (de) (1), missbilligen (de) (2)
• Spanish: fruncir (es) (1)