facial hair

English

Etymology

From facial +‎ hair. First use appears c. 1830, in the Morning Herald.

Noun

facial hair (uncountable)

1. Hair on the face of a human, such as the eyebrows of a man or woman or the androgenic hair (beard or moustache) of a man.

   Synonym: face pubes

   • 1995 October 26, “Accent on Women's Art Latinas at two...”, in The Denver Post:

     Her dark, arched eyebrows and soft facial hair complement the membranous leaves behind her.

   • 2000, Daniel McNeill, The Face: A Natural History, page 198:

     The Mbaya of the Amazon remove all facial hair, including eyelashes and eyebrows, and sneer at full-browed whites as "ostrich-brothers".

   • 2004, Mark Busby, The Southwest‎^[1], page 152:

     Some tribes also practiced nose piercing, and men typically removed their eyelashes, eyebrows and facial hair through plucking.

   • 2012, Margo DeMello, Faces Around the World: A Cultural Encyclopedia of the Human Face, page 134:

     Because women naturally do not have a great deal of hair on their faces, it is considered a sign of femininity to have as little facial hair (except for eyebrows and eyelashes) as possible

2. Hair on the face of an animal.

Translations

hair on the face of a human

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鬍子／胡子 (zh) (húzi)

• Danish: ansigtsbehåring c, ansigtshår n
• Dutch: gezichtsbeharing c
• Finnish: kasvojen karvoitus; naamakarvoitus (colloquial)
• French: poils du visage m pl
• German: Gesichtsbehaarung f
• Hungarian: arcszőrzet (hu)
• Irish: gruaig aghaidhe
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ansiktshår n

  Nynorsk: ansiktshår n

• Polish: zarost (pl) m
• Portuguese: pelo facial m
• Romanian: păr facial m
• Russian: во́лосы на лице́ m pl (vólosy na licé)
• Spanish: vello facial m
• Swedish: ansiktshår (sv) n
• Tibetan: ཁ་སྤུ (kha spu, literally “mouth hair”), ཞལ་རྒྱན (zhal rgyan, literally “mouth-ornament”) (honorific)
• Ukrainian: волосся на обличчі n (volossja na oblyčči)
• Vietnamese: lông mặt
• Welsh: blew'r wyneb m

hair on the face of an animal

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 毛 (zh) (máo)

• Finnish: naamakarvoitus
• Portuguese: pelo facial m