eyebrow

See also: Eyebrow

English

long eyebrows on a Chinese man

two eyebrow dormers

an eyebrow window

Etymology

From Middle English eȝebreu, alteration of Old English ēaganbrū (“eyebrow”), equivalent to eye +‎ brow. The corresponding Old English ēagbrǣw meant "eyelid". Compare Dutch oogbrauw (“eyelid; eyelash; eyebrow”), German Augenbraue (“eyebrow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɪˌbɹaʊ/

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Noun

eyebrow (plural eyebrows)

1. The hair that grows over the bone ridge above the eye socket.
2. (construction) A dormer, usually of small size, whose roof line over the upright face is typically an arched curve, turning into a reverse curve to meet the horizontal line at either end.

Derived terms

• eyebrowed
• eyebrow flash
• eyebrowing
• eyebrowless
• eyebrowlike
• eyebrow pencil
• eyebrow-raiser
• eyebrow-raising
• flea's eyebrows
• knit one's eyebrows
• Weatherby eyebrow

 

Translations

hair that grows over the bone ridge above the eye socket

• Albanian: vetull (sq) f
• Arabic: حَاجِب‎ m (ḥājib)

  Egyptian Arabic: حاجب‎ m (ḥageb)

• Aragonese: zella f
• Armenian: ունք (hy) (unkʿ), հոնք (hy) (honkʿ)
• Aromanian: sprindzeanã f, sufrãmtseauã f, dzeanã f
• Assamese: চেলাউৰি (selauri)
• Asturian: ceya (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: qaş (az)
• Bakhtiari: برگ‎ (borg)
• Baluchi: بروان‎ (burwán)
• Bashkir: ҡаш (qaš)
• Basque: bekain (eu)
• Bau Bidayuh: koning
• Belarusian: брыво́ n (bryvó)
• Bengali: ভুরু (bhuru)
• Bikol Central: kiray
• Bulgarian: вѐжда (bg) f (vѐžda)
• Burmese: မျက်ခုံး (my) (myakhkum:)
• Catalan: cella (ca) f
• Cebuano: kilay
• Central Dusun: kudou
• Central Melanau: likau
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 眼眉 (ngaan⁵ mei⁴), 眼眉毛 (ngaan⁵ mei⁴ mou⁴)

  Mandarin: 眉毛 (zh) (méimáo), 眼眉 (zh) (yǎnméi) (regional)

• Chuvash: куç (kuç)
• Coptic: ⲙⲉϫⲉⲛϩ f (mejenh)
• Cornish: abrans m
• Corsican: sopracigliu (co) m
• Crimean Tatar: qaş
• Czech: obočí n
• Dalmatian: čeja f
• Danish: øjenbryn (da) n
• Dupaningan Agta: kiray
• Dutch: wenkbrauw (nl) m, f
• Elfdalian: ogenbråin n
• Esperanto: brovo (eo)
• Estonian: kulmud
• Faroese: eygnabrún f, eygnabrúgv f
• Finnish: silmäkulma (fi), kulma (fi) (ridge), kulmakarvat (fi) pl (hair)
• French: sourcil (fr) m
• Friulian: cee f, sorecee f
• Galician: sobrecella (gl) f
• Georgian: წარბი (c̣arbi)
• German: Braue (de) f, Augenbraue (de) f

  Alemannic German: Augbraame f

• Greek: φρύδι (el) n (frýdi)

  Ancient: ὀφρύς f (ophrús)

• Greenlandic: qallu
• Guaraní: tyvyta
• Hebrew: גַּבָּה‎ (he) f (gaba)
• Hindi: अब्रू (hi) f (abrū), भव (hi) f (bhav)
• Hungarian: szemöldök (hu)
• Icelandic: augabrún (is) f
• Ido: brovo (io)
• Indonesian: alis (id)
• Inuktitut: ᖃᓪᓗ (iu) (qallu)
• Iranun: kirai
• Irish: mala f, fabhra m
• Italian: sopracciglio (it) m
• Japanese: まゆ (ja) (mayu), 眉 (ja) (まゆ, mayu), まゆ毛 (mayuge), 眉毛 (ja) (まゆげ, mayuge)
• Kalmyk: күмсг (kümsg)
• Kazakh: қас (kk) (qas)
• Khmer: ចិញ្ចើម (km) (jəñjaəm)
• Kimaragang: kudou
• Korean: 눈썹 (ko) (nunsseop)
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: birû (ku) pl

  Sorani: برۆ‎ (ku) (biro)

• Kyrgyz: каш (kaş)
• Lao: ຄິ້ວ (lo) (khiu)
• Latgalian: izacs
• Latin: supercilium
• Latvian: uzacs
• Lithuanian: antakis (lt) m
• Lotud: kudou, kiar
• Luxembourgish: Aperhoer n

• Macedonian: веѓа f (veǵa)
• Malay: kening, bulu kening, alis, kirai
• Maltese: ħaġeb m
• Manchu: ᡶᠠᡳᡨᠠᠨ (faitan)
• Manx: mollee f
• Maori: pewa
• Mazanderani: بلفه‎ (bëlfe)
• Meriam: iraw
• Mongolian: хөмсөг (mn) (hömsög)
• Navajo: anátʼéézh, anátsʼiin (bone of the eyebrow ridge)
• Nepali: आँखीभौं (ãkhibhauñ)
• Ngazidja Comorian: nɗazi class 9/10 (ndazi)
• Norman: soucile f
• Northern Sami: gulbmi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: øyebryn (no) n, øyenbryn (no) n

  Nynorsk: augebryn n, augnebryn n, augebrun f, augnebrun f

• Occitan: ussa (oc) f
• Old English: oferbrū f
• Ossetian: (Digor) æрфуг (ærfug), (Iron) æрфыг (ærfyg)
• Ottoman Turkish: ابرو‎ (ebrû), حاجب‎ (hâcib), قاش‎ (kaş)
• Pashto: وروځه‎ f (wrúźa)
• Persian: ابرو‎ (fa) (abru), برو‎ (fa) (baru, boru)
• Polish: brew (pl) f
• Portuguese: sobrancelha (pt) f
• Romanian: sprânceană (ro) f, arcadă (ro) f
• Romansch: survantscheglia f
• Rungus: sambakon
• Russian: бровь (ru) f (brovʹ)
• Sabah Bisaya: kirai
• Sardinian: chíciu, cígiu
• Scottish Gaelic: mala f
• Sebop: likau
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: обрва f, веђа f

  Roman: obrva (sh) f, veđa (sh) f

• Sicilian: supraccigghiu (scn) m
• Slovak: obočie (sk) n
• Slovene: obrv f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: wobwóco n, wobwócyjo n

  Upper Sorbian: brjowka f

• Southern Altai: каш (kaš)
• Spanish: ceja (es) f
• Swedish: ögonbryn (sv) n
• Tagal Murut: kurou
• Tagalog: (literally) kilay (tl) n
• Tajik: абрӯ (abrü)
• Tamil: புருவம் (ta) (puruvam)
• Tatar: каш (tt) (qaş)
• Telugu: కనుబొమ (te) ? (kanuboma)
• Thai: ภมุ (pá-mú), คิ้ว (th) (kíu)
• Tibetan: མིག་སྤུ (mig spu)
• Timugon Murut: ruru
• Tiwi: alangarrika, alangurrupwanga
• Tocharian A: pärwāṃ
• Tocharian B: pärwāne
• Tok Pisin: gras bilong ai
• Turkish: kaş (tr)
• Turkmen: gaaş
• Tuvan: хавак кирбии (havak kïrbïï)
• Ukrainian: бро́ва (uk) f (bróva)
• Urdu: ابرو‎ (ur) f (abru)
• Uyghur: قاش‎ (qash)
• Uzbek: qosh (uz)
• Vietnamese: lông mày (vi)
• Volapük: logabob (vo)
• Waray-Waray: kiray
• Welsh: ael (cy) f, aeliau (cy) f pl
• West Coast Bajau: kirei
• White Hmong: please add this translation if you can
• Winnebago: ceexahį
• Yakut: хаас (xaas)
• Yiddish: ברעם‎ f (brem)
• Yoruba: please add this translation if you can
• Zazaki: birwe
• Zhuang: bwnda

See also

• brow
• eyelash
• eyelid
• supercilium
• unibrow

References

• eyebrow on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Eyebrows on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons