English A side view of the skull, showing the cheekbone under the name zygomatic . Alternative forms Etymology From Middle English chekebon chekbone Old English ċēacbān ( “ cheekbone ” ) ; equivalent to cheek bone Dutch kaakbeen ( “ jawbone ” ) .
Noun cheekbone (plural cheekbones
The small prominent bone of the cheek.
1922 Ben Travers , chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest [1] She was like a Beardsley Salome , he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry.
Synonyms Translations bone
Arabic: عَظْم وَجْنِيّ m ( ʕaẓm wajniyy )
Egyptian Arabic: كرسي الخد m ( kursi el xad )
Bulgarian: скула f ( skula )
Catalan: pòmul m zigoma m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 頰骨 ／ 颊骨 (zh) ( jiágǔ ) , 颊骨 (zh) ( jiágǔ )
Chuvash: пит шăмми ( pit šămmi )
Czech: lícní kost f
Dutch: jukbeen (nl) n
Esperanto: vangosto zigomo
Estonian: sarnaluu
Finnish: poskiluu (fi)
French: pommette (fr) f
German: Jochbein (de) n Wangenknochen (de) m
Hungarian: járomcsont (hu)
Ido: zigomato (io)
(deprecated template usage ) {{trans-mid }}Italian: zigomo (it) m
Japanese: 頬骨 (ja) ( きょうこつ, kyōkotsu )
Kalmyk: шана ( şana )
Korean: 광대뼈 (ko) ( gwangdaeppyeo )
Malay: tulang pipi pasu-pasu tulang bercagak zigoma
Maori: rei
Nogai: бет суьеги ( bet süyegi )
Persian: استخوان گونه (fa) ( ostoxan-e-gune )
Portuguese: zigoma (pt) m zigomático
Russian: скула́ (ru) f ( skulá )
Slovak: lícna kosť (sk)
Slovene: ličnica (sl) f
Spanish: pómulo (es) m cigoma (es) f
Swedish: okben n kindben (sv) n kindknota c
Tagalog: buto ng pisngi butumpisngi
