shave

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: shāv, IPA^(key): /ʃeɪv/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -eɪv

Etymology 1

From Middle English shaven, schaven, from Old English sċafan (“to shave, scrape, shred, polish”), from Proto-Germanic *skabaną (“to scratch”), from Proto-Indo-European *skabʰ- (“to cut, split, form, carve”). Cognate with West Frisian skave, Dutch schaven (“to shave, plane”), Low German schaven (“to scrape, scratch, shave”), German schaben (“to scrape, shave”), Danish skave, Norwegian Nynorsk skava, Swedish skava (“to scrape, chafe”), Icelandic skafa, Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌱𐌰𐌽 (skaban, “to shear, shave”).

Verb

shave (third-person singular simple present shaves, present participle shaving, simple past shaved or (obsolete) shove, past participle shaved or shaven)

1. (transitive) To make bald or shorter by using a tool such as a razor or pair of electric clippers to cut the hair close to the skin.
2. (transitive) To cut anything in this fashion.
   • Template:RQ:Gay Sports

     The labourer with the bending scythe is seen / Shaving the surface of the waving green.

3. (intransitive) To remove hair from one's face by this means.

   I had little time to shave this morning.

4. (transitive) To cut finely, as with slices of meat.
5. To skim along or near the surface of; to pass close to, or touch lightly, in passing.
   • Template:RQ:Milton PL
   • 1899 March, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number MI, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part II:

     […] I watched for sunken stones; I was learning to clap my teeth smartly before my heart flew out, when I shaved by a fluke some infernal sly old snag that would have ripped the life out of the tin–pot steamboat and drowned all the pilgrims; […]

6. To reduce in size or weight.
   • 2017 September 19, Gwilym Mumford, “Kingsman: The Golden Circle review – spy sequel reaches new heights of skyscraping silliness”, in the Guardian‎^[1]:

     Kingsman’s two-hour 20-minute running time could have been shaved by around a fifth, without losing a great deal.

7. (archaic, transitive) To be hard and severe in a bargain with; to practice extortion on; to cheat.
8. (US, slang, dated, transitive) To buy (a note) at a discount greater than the legal rate of interest, or to deduct in discounting it more than the legal rate allows.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• aftershave
• God Shave the Queen
• reshave
• shave brush / shaving brush

• shaving bump
• shave cream / shaving cream
• shave foam / shaving foam
• shave down

• shave off
• shaveling
• unshaved

Translations

to remove hair from

• Albanian: rruhem (sq)
• Arabic: حَلَقَ (ar) (ḥalaqa)

  Egyptian Arabic: حلق (ḥalaʾ)

• Armenian: թրաշել (hy) (tʻrašel), սափրել (hy) (sapʻrel), խուզել (hy) (xuzel)
• Aromanian: sursescu
• Assamese: খুৰা (khura)
• Asturian: afaitar, afeitar
• Azerbaijani: qırxmaq (az)
• Belarusian: галі́ць impf (halícʹ), брыць impf (brycʹ)
• Bulgarian: бръ́сна (bg) impf (brǎ́sna)
• Burmese: ရိတ် (my) (rit), တုံး (my) (tum:)
• Catalan: afaitar (ca), rapar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 剃 (tai³)

  Mandarin: 剃 (zh) (tì), 刮 (zh) (guā)

• Czech: holit (cs) impf, oholit pf
• Danish: rage (da), barbere (da)
• Dutch: scheren (nl)
• Elfdalian: råkå
• Esperanto: razi
• Estonian: raseerima
• Faroese: raka
• Finnish: ajaa (fi), ajella (fi)
• French: raser (fr), se raser (fr)
• Galician: afeitar (gl), rapar
• Georgian: პარსვა (ṗarsva)
• German: rasieren (de)
• Greek: ξυρίζω (el) (xyrízo)

  Ancient: ξυρέω (xuréō)

• Greenlandic: unngiarpoq
• Hebrew: גילח (giléakh)
• Hindi: दाढ़ी बनाना (dāṛhī banānā)
• Hungarian: borotvál (hu)
• Icelandic: raka
• Irish: bearr
• Italian: radere (it)
• Japanese: そる (ja) (soru)
• Kazakh: қырқу (qyrqu), қыру (kk) (qyru)
• Khmer: កោរ (km) (kao)
• Korean: 면도하다 (ko) (myeondohada), 꺾다 (ko) (kkeokda)
• Lao: ກັນ (kan), ປົງຜົມ (pong phom), ແຖ (thǣ), ແຖຜົມ (thǣ phom)
• Latgalian: skust, škiut
• Latin: abrādō, rādō, tondeō
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Latvian: skūt (lv)
• Lithuanian: skusti
• Luxembourgish: raséieren
• Macedonian: бричи impf (briči)
• Malay: cukur, mencukur, bercukur
• Maore Comorian: umea
• Maori: heu, whakatiwha (the head)
• Mongolian: хусах (mn) (xusax)
• Nahuatl:xima
• Norman: râser (Jersey)
• Northern Sami: ráhput, ráhket
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: barbere (no), rake

  Nynorsk: barbera, raka

• Occitan: rasar (oc)
• Persian: تراشیدن (fa) (tarâšidan)
• Polish: golić (pl) impf, ogolić (pl) pf, podgolić pf (to partially shave from under)
• Portuguese: barbear (pt), raspar (pt)
• Romanian: rade (ro), bărbieri (ro)
• Romansch: far la barba
• Russian: брить (ru) impf (britʹ), побри́ть (ru) pf (pobrítʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: beàrr
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бри̏јати impf

  Roman: brȉjati (sh) impf

• Slovak: holiť impf, oholiť pf
• Slovene: briti impf, obriti (sl) pf
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: truhać impf, wottruhać pf

• Spanish: afeitar (es), rapar (es), rasurar (es)
• Swedish: raka (sv)
• Tajik: тарошидан (tarošidan)
• Telugu: గొరుగు (te) (gorugu)
• Thai: โกน (th) (goon)
• Tibetan: བཞར (bzhar)
• Turkish: tıraş olmak (tr)
• Turkmen: tyraş bolmak
• Ukrainian: голи́ти impf (holýty), бри́ти (uk) impf (brýty)
• Uzbek: tarashlamoq (uz), qirmoq (uz)
• Vietnamese: cạo (vi)
• Welsh: eillio (cy), siafio (cy)
• Yiddish: גאָלן (goln)

to remove hair from one's face

• Armenian: թրաշվել (hy) (tʻrašvel), սափրվել (hy) (sapʻrvel)
• Azerbaijani: üzünü qırxmaq
• Belarusian: галі́цца impf (halícca), бры́цца impf (brýcca)
• Catalan: afaitar-se
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 剃鬚／剃须 (tai³ sou¹), 剃须 (tai³ sou¹)

  Mandarin: 刮臉／刮脸 (zh) (guāliǎn), 刮脸 (zh) (guāliǎn)

• Cornish: divarva
• Czech: holit se (cs) impf, oholit se pf
• Danish: barbere sig, rage sig
• Dutch: zich scheren
• Faroese: raka sig
• Finnish: ajaa parta, ajaa partansa (literally “to shave (one's) beard”)
• French: se raser (fr)
• Galician: afeitar (gl), barbear (gl)
• Georgian: წვერის პარსვა (c̣veris ṗarsva)
• German: sich rasieren (de)
• Greek: ξυρίζομαι (xyrízomai)

  Ancient: ξυρέομαι (xuréomai)

• Greenlandic: unngiarpoq
• Haitian Creole: fè bab
• Hebrew: התגלח
• Hungarian: borotválkozik (hu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Icelandic: raka sig
• Italian: farsi la barba, radersi, sbarbare, sbarbarsi
• Japanese: ひげをそる (hige o soru)
• Korean: 면도하다 (ko) (myeondohada)
• Lao: ແຖຫນວດ (thǣ nūat)
• Latin: rādō
• Latvian: skūt (lv)
• Manx: baarey
• Mongolian: сахлаа хусах (saxlaa xusax)
• Polish: golić się (pl) impf, ogolić się (pl) pf
• Portuguese: barbear-se (pt)
• Romanian: bărbieri (ro)
• Russian: бри́ться (ru) impf (brítʹsja), побри́ться (ru) pf (pobrítʹsja)
• Slovak: holiť sa impf, oholiť sa pf
• Spanish: afeitarse (es)
• Swedish: raka sig (sv)
• Thai: โกนหนวด
• Turkish: tıraş etmek (tr)
• Tuvan: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: голи́тися impf (holýtysja), бри́тися (uk) impf (brýtysja)
• Vietnamese: cạo mặt, cạo râu
• Welsh: eillio (cy), siafio (cy)
• Yiddish: גאָלן זיך (goln zikh)

to slice thin

• Finnish: siivuttaa (fi)
• Macedonian: ре́же impf (réže)
• Portuguese: ralar (pt)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Spanish: lonchear
• Welsh: torri'n fân
• Chinese: 雪，削

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ^{(please verify)} تاشین (ckb) (taşîn)

• Macedonian: ^{(please verify)} бри́чи impf (bríči)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Norwegian: ^{(please verify)} barbere (no)
• Swedish: (sig/någon) ^{(please verify)} raka (sv)
• Turkish: (shave yourself) ^{(please verify)} tıraş olmak , (shave someone else) ^{(please verify)} tıraş etmek

Etymology 2

From Middle English shave, from Old English sceafa, from Proto-Germanic *skabô.

Noun

shave (plural shaves)

1. An instance of shaving.

   I instructed the barber to give me a shave.

2. A thin slice; a shaving.

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3. (US, slang, dated) An exorbitant discount on a note.
4. (US, slang, dated) A premium paid for an extension of the time of delivery or payment, or for the right to vary a stock contract in any particular.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of N. Biddle to this entry?)

5. A hand tool consisting of a sharp blade with a handle at each end; a spokeshave.
6. (informal) A narrow miss or escape; a close shave.
   • 1919, Edward Frederic Benson, Across the Stream

     " […] I had an awful shave getting into the harbour," remarked Archie.

Derived terms

• close shave

Translations

an instance of shaving

• Danish: barbering (da) c
• Finnish: parranajo (fi)
• French: rasage (fr)
• Galician: afeitado
• German: Rasur (de) f
• Greek: ξύρισμα (el) n (xýrisma)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: تەراش (ckb) (teraş)

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Macedonian: бричење n (bričenje)
• Polish: golenie (pl) n
• Portuguese: barbear (pt)
• Russian: бритьё (ru) n (britʹjó)
• Spanish: afeitado (es) m
• Swedish: rakning (sv) c
• Turkish: tıraş (tr)
• Westrobothnian:

Anagrams

• haves, sheva

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Middle English

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old English sceafa, from Proto-Germanic *skabô.

Alternative forms

• schave, schafe

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃaːv(ə)/

Noun

shave (plural shaves)

1. A tool used for filing, shaving, or abrasion.

Descendants

• English: shave

References

• “shāve, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-02.

Etymology 2

Verb

shave

1. Alternative form of schaven