English [ edit ] Etymology [ edit ] From Middle English eȝebreu Old English ēaganbrū ( “ eyebrow ” ) , equivalent to eye brow ēagbrǣw oogbrauw ( “ eyelid; eyelash; eyebrow ” ) , German Augenbraue ( “ eyebrow ” ) .
Pronunciation [ edit ] eyebrow (plural eyebrows
The hair that grows over the bone ridge above the eye socket .
( 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.A clump of waste fibres that builds up in a roller machine. Synonyms [ edit ] Hyponyms [ edit ] Derived terms [ edit ] Translations [ edit ]
hair that grows over the bone ridge above the eye socket
Afar: minin
Afrikaans: wenkbrou
Albanian: vetull (sq) f
Arabic: حَاجِب (ar) m ( ḥājib )
Egyptian Arabic: حاجب m ( ḥāgeb )
Aragonese: cella f 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 (bcl)
Bulgarian: ве́жда (bg) f ( véžda )
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: куҫ ( kuś )
Classical Nahuatl: īxcuahmōlli
Coptic: ⲙⲉϫⲉⲛϩ f ( mečenh )
Cornish: abrans m
Corsican: sopracigliu (co) m
Crimean Tatar: qaş
Czech: obočí n
Dalmatian: čeja f
Danish: øjenbryn (da) n
Dhivehi: އައިބްރޯ ( aibrō )
Dupaningan Agta: kiray
Dutch: wenkbrauw (nl) m or f
Egyptian: (jnḥ
Elfdalian: ogenbråin n
Esperanto: brovo (eo)
Estonian: kulmud
Evenki: саримикта ( sarimikta )
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 )
Higaonon: kilay
Hiligaynon: kilay
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:
Central Kurdish: بِرۆ (ku) ( biro )
Northern Kurdish: birû (ku) pl
Kyrgyz: каш ( qaş )
Lao: ຄິ້ວ (lo) ( khiu )
Latgalian: izacs
Latin: supercilium n
Latvian: uzacs
Lezgi: рацӏан ( rac̣an )
Lithuanian: antakis (lt) m
Lotud: kudou kiar
Luxembourgish: Aperhoer n
Macedonian: веѓа f ( veǵa )
Malay: kening bulu kening alis kirai (ms)
Maltese: ħaġeb m
Manchu: ᡶᠠᡳᡨᠠᠨ ( faitan )
Manx: mollee f
Maori: pewa
Maranao: kiray
Mazanderani: بلفه ( bëlfe )
Meriam: iraw
Mongolian: хөмсөг (mn) ( khömsög )
Navajo: anátʼéézh anátsʼiin ( bone of the eyebrow ridge )
Nepali: आँखीभौं ( ā̃khībha͠u )
Ngazidja Comorian: nɗazi 9 or 10
Norman: soucile f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: øyebryn (no) n øyenbryn (no) n
Nynorsk: augebryn n augnebryn n augebrun f augnebrun f
Occitan: ussa (oc) f
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: брꙑ f ( bry )
Old English: oferbrū f
Ossetian: ( Digor ) ӕрфуг ( ærfug ) , ( Iron ) ӕрфыг ( 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
Pontic Greek: οφρύδιν n ( ofrýdin )
Portuguese: sobrancelha (pt) f
Romanian: sprânceană (ro) f arcadă (ro) f
Romansch: survantscheglia f
Rungus: sambakon
Russian: бровь (ru) f ( brovʹ )
Sabah Bisaya: kirai
Saho: minin
Sami:
Inari: čalmekulme
Northern: gulbmi gulbmeguolga ( hair )
Skolt: čâʹlmmkuʹlmm
Southern: haermie
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 (sl) 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 )
Tausug: kilay
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: ( dual ) pärwāne
Tok Pisin: gras bilong ai
Turkish: kaş (tr)
Turkmen: gaaş
Tuvan: хавак кирбии ( xavak kirbii )
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
West Frisian: eachbrau winkbrau wynbrau
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
eyebrow (third-person singular simple present eyebrows present participle eyebrowing simple past and past participle eyebrowed
( intransitive ) To build up waste fibres in a roller machine.( transitive ) To signal with one's eyebrows.
2015 , Kathy Reichs, Bones Never Lie (page 23)
Rodas watched Tinker disappear through the door before eyebrowing a question at Barrow. Barrow gestured at him to stay put. Rodas settled back. See also [ edit ] References [ edit ] 
eyebrow on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Eyebrows on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons 
