English
A human forehead .
Etymology
From Middle English forhed , forheed , from Old English fōrehēafod , foranhēafod ( “ forehead ” ) , corresponding to fore- + head . Cognate with
Scots foreheid ( “ forehead ” ) ,
Dutch voorhoofd ( “ forehead ” ) , German Vorhaupt ( “ forehead ” ) , Danish forhoved ( “ brow; forehead; face ” ) . Compare also West Frisian foarholle ( “ forehead ” ) , German Low German Vörkopp ( “ forehead ” ) .
Pronunciation
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Noun
forehead (countable and uncountable , plural foreheads )
( countable ) The part of the face above the eyebrows and below the hairline .
1865 , Lewis Carroll , Alice's Adventures in Wonderland , Macmillan
'This question the Dodo could not answer without a great deal of thought, and it sat for a long time with one finger pressed upon its forehead (the position in which you usually see Shakespeare, in the pictures of him), while the rest waited in silence. At last the Dodo said, ‘everybody has won, and all must have prizes.’'
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Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. [ …] She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.
1963 , Margery Allingham , chapter 17, in The China Governess [1] :The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead , whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue. [ …] .
( uncountable ) confidence ; audacity
Synonyms
Translations
part of face above eyebrows
Abkhaz: алахь ( alaxʲ )
Afrikaans: voorkop
Albanian: ballë (sq) f
Amharic: ግምባር ( gəmbar )
Arabic: جَبْهَة f ( jabha )
Egyptian Arabic: قورة f ( ʾoura ) , جبين m ( gebyin )
Aragonese: frent f
Armenian: ճակատ (hy) ( čakat )
Aromanian: frãmti f
Asturian: frente (ast) f
Atayal: lihuy
Avar: нодо ( nodo )
Azerbaijani: alın (az)
Banjarese: dahi
Bashkir: маңлай ( mañlay ) , маңдай ( mañday ) ( Eastern Bashkir )
Basque: kopeta , kopetan
Bau Bidayuh: oro
Belarusian: лоб m ( lob ) , чало́ n ( čaló )
Bengali: কপাল (bn) ( kopal )
Brunei Bisaya: kadat
Bulgarian: чело́ (bg) n ( čeló )
Burmese: နဖူး (my) ( na.hpu: )
Catalan: front (ca) m
Central Melanau: beleang
Central Sierra Miwok: ṭóp·ele
Chamicuro: tolo
Chechen: хьаж ( ḥʳaž )
Chichewa: mphumi
Chinese:
Cantonese: 額頭 / 额头 ( ngaak6 tau4 ) , 额头 ( ngaak6 tau4 )
Dungan: бынлу ( bɨnlu ) , ңыйлу ( ŋɨylu )
Hakka: 額角 / 额角 , 额角 ( ngiak-kok )
Mandarin: 前額 / 前额 (zh) ( qián'é ) , 前额 (zh) ( qián'é ) , 額頭 / 额头 (zh) ( étóu ) , 额头 (zh) ( étóu ) , 額 / 额 (zh) or 頟 / 额 (zh) ( é ) , 额 (zh) ( é ) , 額門 / 额门 ( émén ) , 额门 ( émén ) , 眉宇 (zh) ( méiyǔ ) ( literary )
Min Dong: 額頭 / 额头 ( ngiăh→ngiĕh -tàu ) , 额头 ( ngiăh-tàu ) , 額 / 额 , 额 ( ngiăh )
Min Nan: 頭額 / 头额 (zh-min-nan) , 头额 ( thâu-hia̍h )
Wu: 額角頭 / 额角头 , 额角头 ( ngaq koq deu )
Chuvash: ҫамка ( śamk̬a )
Coptic: ⲧⲉϩⲛⲓ f ( tehni )
Cornish: tal f
Czech: čelo (cs) n
Dalmatian: fruant
Danish: pande (da) c
Dargwa: анда ( anda )
Darkinjung: ngurran
Dhivehi: ނިއްކުރި ( nikkuri )
Dutch: voorhoofd (nl) n
Erzya: коня ( końa )
Esperanto: frunto (eo)
Estonian: laup (et)
Faroese: panna f
Fijian: yadre
Finnish: otsa (fi)
French: front (fr) m
Friulian: front m
Galician: fronte (gl) m
Georgian: შუბლი ( šubli )
German: Stirn (de) f
Greek: μέτωπο (el) n ( métopo )
Ancient: μέτωπον n ( métōpon )
Guaraní: syva
Gujarati: કપાળ m ( kapāḷ )
Guugu Yimidhirr: bidi , gaman
Haitian Creole: fon
Hausa: please add this translation if you can
Hawaiian: lae
Hebrew: מֵצַח (he) ( metsah )
Hindi: माथा (hi) m ( māthā ) , माथ (hi) m ( māth ) , ललाट (hi) m ( lalāṭ )
Hungarian: homlok (hu)
Iban: bangi
Icelandic: enni n
Ido: fronto (io)
Igbo: please add this translation if you can
Indonesian: dahi (id)
Interlingua: fronte
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Inupiaq: qauq
Iranun: beneng
Irish: clár éadain m
Italian: fronte (it) f
Japanese: 額 (ja) ( ひたい, hitai ) , お凸 ( おでこ, odeko )
Kabuverdianu: tésta
Kalmyk: маңна ( mañna )
Kannada: ನೊಸಲು (kn) ( nosalu )
Kapampangan: kanwan , kanuan
Kazakh: маңдай (kk) ( mañdai )
Khmer: ថ្ងាស (km) ( thngaah )
Kimaragang: rabas
Korean: 이마 (ko) ( ima )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: ناوچاوان ( nawçawan ) , تەوێڵ ( tewêll )
Laki: توڵ ( tull )
Northern Kurdish: enî (ku) f
Southern Kurdish: تێوِڵ ( têwill )
Kyrgyz: чеке (ky) ( ceke )
Ladino:
Hebrew: פ׳רינטי f , מצח (he) ( mézax )
Roman: frente f
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Lak: неиттабакӏ ( neit:abakʼ )
Lao: ຫນ້າຜາກ ( nā phāk ) , ໜ້າຜາກ (lo) ( nā phāk )
Latin: frōns f
Latvian: piere f
Lezgi: пел ( pel )
Lingala: eboló
Lithuanian: kakta f
Livonian: vȱntsa
Lotud: kadat
Luxembourgish: Stir f
Macedonian: чело n ( čelo )
Malagasy: betro (mg) , handrina (mg)
Malay: dahi (ms) , jidat
Malayalam: നെറ്റി (ml) ( neṟṟi )
Manchu: ᡧᡝᠩᡤᡳᠨ ( šenggin )
Manx: glaare eddin , baaish f
Maori: rae
Marathi: कपाळ n ( kapāḷ )
Moksha: коня ( końa )
Mongolian: магнай (mn) ( magnaj ) , манлай (mn) ( manlaj ) , дух (mn) ( dux )
Nepali: please add this translation if you can
Northern Sami: gállu
Norwegian:
Bokmål: panne (no) m or f
Nynorsk: panne (no) f
Nyunga: bap
Old Church Slavonic: чело n ( čelo )
Old English: steorn f , fōrehēafod n , foranhēafod n , fōreweard hēafod n
Old French: frunt m
Ottoman Turkish: آلن ( alın ) , آلین ( alyn ) , جبهه ( cebhe ) , پیشانی ( pişâni )
Pangasinan: muling
Pashto: تندى ( tanday )
Persian: پیشانی (fa) ( pišâni )
Polish: czoło (pl) n
Portuguese: testa (pt) f
Quechua: urku , mati
Romagnol: frònta f
Romanian: frunte (ro) f
Romansch: frunt m , frùnt , front
Rungus: rabbas
Russian: лоб (ru) m ( lob ) , чело́ (ru) n ( čeló ) ( archaic, poetic )
Sanskrit: ललाटम् (sa) m or n ( lalāṭam )
Sardinian: fronte m , fronti , frunte
Scottish Gaelic: bathais f
Sebop: anang
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: чело n
Roman: čelo (sh) n
Sicilian: frunti (scn) f
Sindhi: please add this translation if you can
Slovak: čelo (sk) n
Slovene: čelo (sl) n
Somali: please add this translation if you can
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: coło n
Upper Sorbian: čoło n
Southern Altai: маҥдай ( mañday )
Spanish: frente (es) f
Sumerian: 𒆠𒉆𒀀𒇒𒊏 ( KI-NAM-ESIR-RA )
Swedish: panna (sv)
Tagal Murut: rabas
Tagalog: ( literally ) noo n
Tajik: пешона ( pešona )
Tamil: நெற்றி (ta) ( neṟṟi )
Tatar: маңгай (tt) ( mañgay )
Telugu: నుదురు (te) ( nuduru )
Thai: หน้าผาก (th) ( nâa-pàak )
Tibetan: དཔྲལ་བ ( dpral ba )
Tigrinya: ግንባር ( gənbar )
Timugon Murut: rabas
Turkish: alın (tr)
Turkmen: aalyn , maňlaý
Tutelo: paniaminte
Udmurt: кымес ( kymes )
Ukrainian: лоб (uk) m ( lob ) , чоло́ n ( čoló )
Urdu: ماتھا m ( māthā ) , ماتھ m ( māth ) , للاٹ m ( lalāṭ )
Uyghur: ماڭلاي ( manglay )
Uzbek: manglay (uz)
Venetian: front m
Vietnamese: trán (vi)
Volapük: flom (vo)
Waray-Waray: ag-tang
Welsh: talcen (cy) m
West Coast Bajau: lindo'
West Frisian: foarholle
White Hmong: please add this translation if you can
Winnebago: pee
Wolof: please add this translation if you can
Xhosa: please add this translation if you can
Yakut: сүүс ( süüs )
Yiddish: שטערן m ( shtern )
Yoruba: please add this translation if you can
Zazaki: çare n
Zhuang: najbyak
Zulu: please add this translation if you can