dandruff

English

Alternative forms

• dandriff (rare)

Etymology

The word is first attested in 1545; the first element is obscure, the second element derives from a Northumbrian or East Anglian term huff or hruff, hurf (“scab”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Norse hrufa, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *hreubaz, *hreufaz (“rough, scabby”), source of Old English hrēofla (“leprosy, leper”). More at reef (etymology 2).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdændɹʌf/, /ˈdændɹʊf/

Noun

dandruff (usually uncountable, plural dandruffs)

1. Scaly white dead skin flakes from the human scalp; Pityriasis capitis.

   Dandruff is on my collar again.

Derived terms

• dander

Translations

skin flakes

• Abaza: хъа́пӏа (qápʼa)
• Albanian: vrokth (sq) m, zbokth (sq) m
• Amharic: ፎሮፎር (forofor)
• Arabic: قِشْرَةْ الّرَأْس f (qišrat allraʔs)

  Egyptian Arabic: قشرة f (ʾešra)

  Hijazi Arabic: قِشْرة f (gišra)

• Aragonese: mollisca f
• Aramaic:

  Syriac: ܪܳܨܺܝܢܽܘܬܳܐ

• Armenian: թեփ (hy) (tʻepʻ)
• Assamese: উফি (uphi)
• Asturian: caspa (ast) f, faílla (ast) f
• Avar: бакълачӏин (baqxʼlačʼin), хӏабатӏ (ḥʳabatʼ), хир (xir)
• Azerbaijani: kəpək
• Bashkir: ҡауаҡ (qawaq)
• Basque: zahi
• Belarusian: пе́рхаць f (pjérxacʹ)
• Bengali: মরামাস (moramaś), খুশকি (khuśoki)
• Bikol Central: kulisap, kaspa
• Breton: kenn, skant
• Bulgarian: пъ̀рхот m (pǎ̀rhot)
• Burmese: ေဗာက္
• Catalan: caspa (ca) f, arna (ca) f (Balearic)
• Cebuano: kaspa
• Chavacano: kaspa, caspa
• Chechen: чич (čič)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 頭皮屑／头皮屑 (tau⁴ pei⁴ sit³), 頭皮／头皮 (tau⁴ pei⁴), 头皮 (tau⁴ pei⁴)

  Dungan: please add this translation if you can

  Hakka: 頭皮／头皮, 头皮 (thèu-phì)

  Mandarin: 頭皮屑／头皮屑 (zh) (tóupíxiè), 头皮屑 (zh) (tóupíxiè), 頭皮／头皮 (zh) (tóupí), 头皮 (zh) (tóupí)

  Min Nan: 頭麩／头麸 (zh-min-nan), 头麸 (thâu-pho͘)

  Wu: please add this translation if you can

• Chuvash: лӗкӗ (lĕk̬ĕ)
• Corsican: forfula f
• Crimean Tatar: кепек, kepek
• Czech: lupy (cs) m pl
• Danish: skæl n
• Dutch: roos (nl) f, hoofdroos (nl) f, pellekes f (Brabantian)
• Emilian: sgaramòffia f (Bolognese)
• Erzya: лав (lav)
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: kõõm
• Evenki: экэри (əkəri)
• Faroese: flus n, skóv f
• Finnish: hilse (fi)
• French: pellicules (fr) f pl
• Friulian: schelfe f
• Gagauz: konak
• Galician: caspa (gl) f, carepa f, faísca (gl) f, feila f, freila f, ceila f
• Georgian: ქერტლი (kerṭli), თებო (tebo)
• German: Schuppen (de) f pl, Kopfschuppen f pl
• Greek: πιτυρίδα (el) f (pityrída)

  Ancient: ἄχωρ m (ákhōr)

• Greenlandic: qaqortualuk
• Hawaiian: kēpia
• Hebrew: קשקשים (kaskasin), קַשְׂקֶשֶׂת (he) f (kaskéset)
• Hiligaynon: adíkdik, alíkdik
• Hindi: रूसी (hi) (rūsī)
• Hungarian: korpa (hu)
• Icelandic: flasa (is) f
• Ilocano: lasi
• Indonesian: ketombe (id), kelemumur (id)
• Ingush: чич (čič), керта чич (kerta čič)
• Interlingua: furfure
• Irish: sail chnis
• Italian: forfora (it) f
• Japanese: 雲脂 (ふけ, fuke), 頭垢 (ふけ, fuke)
• Kabyle: taslest, tinesnest
• Karachay-Balkar: габу (gabu)
• Karelian: köyhen
• Kashubian: pierzch
• Kazakh: қайызғақ (qaiyzğaq)
• Khmer: អង្គែ (km) (ɑngkɛɛ)
• Komi-Permyak: киль (kiľ)
• Korean: 비듬 (ko) (bideum)
• Kumyk: бугъакъ (buhaq)
• Kunigami: 鱗 (いりちー, irichii)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: کِڕێش (kirrêş), کِڕێژ (kirrêj)

  Southern Kurdish: کِڕاشک (kirraşk)

• Kyrgyz: какач (ky) (kakac)
• Ladin: parpaiola f
• Lak: чӏачаран (čʼačaran)
• Lao: ຂີ້ຫົວ (khī hūa)
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• Latgalian: plauki m pl
• Latin: porrīgō f
• Latvian: blaugzna f
• Laz: kartu
• Lezgi: хъуьр (qür), гецӏ (gec̣)
• Limburgish: roes
• Lithuanian: pleiskana f
• Lombard: röfa f
• Luxembourgish: Schubber
• Macedonian: првут m (prvut)
• Malagasy: angadrano (mg)
• Malay: kelemumur
• Manx: cuddym, far-scryss
• Maori: maihi, māungaunga, inaho
• Mari:

  Hill: лӹгӹ (lÿgÿ)

  Meadow:

• Middle English: brā̆n, furfur
• Mingrelian: ქერცი (kerci), ქერცა (kerca)
• Mirandese: falhisca f
• Moksha: лав (lav)
• Mongolian: үсний хаг (üsnii xag)
• Nahuatl: cuatenextli, cuāzōcyō
• Navajo: tsiitł'óół
• Nepali: चाया (ne) (cāyā)
• Nogai: кайызгак (kayızgak)
• Norman: crache f (Jersey)
• Northern Sotho: lehlono
• Norwegian: flass n
• Okinawan: 鱗 (いりち, irichi)
• Ossetian: кӕнк (kænk)
• Pashto: دسر پخه
• Persian: شوره سر (šure-ye sar), شوره (fa) (šure)
• Piedmontese: furfa f
• Plautdietsch: Schenn n
• Polish: łupież (pl) m
• Portuguese: caspa (pt) f
• Quechua: qara pʼaspa
• Rapa Nui: raha
• Rarotongan: paku
• Romanian: mătreață (ro)
• Romansch: crappagls m pl, stgalias f or pl
• Russian: пе́рхоть (ru) f (pérxotʹ)
• Rusyn: парплї (parplji), порплї (porplji)
• Rwanda-Rundi: imvuvu (Rwanda)
• Sango: nzombö
• Sanskrit: दारुणा (sa) (dāruṇā)
• Sardinian: tizòla f
• Scots: kell, scruif
• Scottish Gaelic: eanach f, sgailc-mhullaich f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: перут m

  Roman: perut (sh) m

• Shona: makwenu
• Sicilian: canigghiola (scn) f
• Sinhalese: ඉස්හොරි (ishori)
• Slovak: lupina f
• Slovene: prhljaj (sl) m
• Somali: toxob
• Spanish: caspa (es) f
• Sundanese: kotombé, totombé
• Svan: ქა̈რჩ (kärč)
• Swahili: mba (sw) class 11/10
• Swedish: mjäll (sv) n or c
• Tabasaran: гацӏ (gac̣)
• Tagalog: balakubak
• Tamil: பொடுகு (ta) (poṭuku)
• Tatar: кавык (tt) (qawıq), баш кавыгы (baş qawığı)
• Telugu: చుండ్రు (te) (cuṇḍru)
• Thai: ขี้รังแค (kêe rangkâe), รังแค (th) (rangkâe)
• Tibetan: ཀོག་ཤི (kog shi), སྐོག་སྐྱི (skog skyi)
• Turkish: kepek (tr)
• Turkmen: goňak
• Udmurt: киль (kiľ)
• Ukrainian: лупа́ f (lupá)
• Urdu: دیوار (devār)
• Uyghur: كېپەك (këpek)
• Vietnamese: gàu (vi)
• Welsh: cen m, marwdon m
• West Flemish: pellekes f
• West Frisian: roas m or f
• Westrobothnian:
• Xhosa: inkwethu
• Yakut: хоҕоһо (qoğoho)
• Yiddish: שופּן n pl (shupn)
• Yucatec Maya: ta’ pool

Verb

dandruff (third-person singular simple present dandruffs, present participle dandruffing, simple past and past participle dandruffed)

1. To fall or cover with white flakes, like dandruff.
   • 2014, Kaethe Schwehn, Tailings: A Memoir (page 82)

     The toaster is broken and salt is dandruffing my wool sweater.