sideburns

English

Ambrose Burnside

Etymology

Reformed from burnside, named after American Army general Ambrose Burnside (1824–1881), noted for his unusual facial hair.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsaɪd.bɜː(ɹ)nz/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsaɪd.bɚnz/

Noun

sideburns pl (normally plural, singular sideburn)

1. Facial hair reaching from the top of the head down the side of the face to the side of the chin.

   Synonyms: burnside, (chiefly Britain) sideboards, (dated) side whiskers

Hyponyms

• muttonchop, mutton-chop whiskers

Translations

facial hair reaching from the top of the head down the side of the face to the side of the chin

• Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can
• Afrikaans: bakkebaarde
• Albanian: baseta
• Arabic: سَوَالِف m pl (sawālif), سَالِف اَلشَّعْر m (sālif aš-šaʕr)

  Egyptian Arabic: سالف m (salef), سوالف f pl (sawalef)

• Armenian: այտամորուք (aytamorukʻ)
• Assamese: খত (khot)
• Avar: бакенбардал (bakenbardal)
• Azerbaijani:

  Abjad: يان سقال (yān saqqāl)

  Roman: yarımsaqqal, yan saqqal

• Bengali: জুলফি (bn) (zulfi)
• Bikol Central: pispis (bcl)
• Bulgarian: бакенбарди (bg) (bakenbardi)
• Catalan: patilles (ca) f pl, garrofes (ca) f pl
• Chechen: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 連鬢鬍子／连鬓胡子 (zh) (lián bìn húzi); 鬢腳／鬓脚 (zh) (bìn jiǎo)

• Czech: kotlety f pl, licousy m pl
• Danish: bakkenbarter pl
• Dutch: tochtlatten (nl), bakkebaarden (nl) m pl
• Esperanto: vangharoj f
• Estonian: põskhabe
• Faroese: kjálkaskegg n, vangaskegg n
• Finnish: poskiparta (fi), pulisongit (fi)
• French: favoris (fr) m pl, rouflaquettes (fr) f pl (slang)
• Georgian: ქილვაში (kilvaši), ბაკენბარდები (baḳenbardebi)
• German: Koteletten (de) n pl, Backenbart (de) m, Seitenhaare n pl
• Greek: φαβορίτες (el) f pl (favorítes)
• Hebrew: פאה (he)
• Hungarian: barkó (hu), oldalszakáll (hu), pofaszakáll (hu), császárszakáll (hu), pajesz (hu), pakompart (hu)
• Icelandic: bartar m pl
• Irish: féasóg leicinn f
• Italian: basette (it) f pl, basettoni m pl, scopettoni m pl
• Japanese: 揉み上げ (もみあげ, momiage), 頬髭 (ほおひげ, hoohige)
• Karelian: korviparta
• Korean: 구레나룻 (ko) (gurenarut)
• Latin: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: vaigu bārda f
• Lithuanian: žandenos f pl
• Macedonian: бакенбарди m pl (bakenbardi)
• Malay: jambang (ms)
• Maori: hurupāpāringa
• Mongolian: хууз (mn) (xuuz)
• Navajo: bítłʼah chʼíntłʼo
• Norwegian: kinnskjegg (no) n
• Ossetian: please add this translation if you can
• Ottoman Turkish: یان صقال (yân saqâl)
• Persian: خط ریش (xatt-e riš), ساج (fa) (sâj) (archaic, dialectal, Gorgan)
• Plautdietsch: Bakenboat m
• Polish: baki, bokobrody (pl)
• Portuguese: patilhas f pl, costeletas f pl
• Romanian: favoriți m pl, cotleți n pl
• Russian: бакенба́рды (ru) pl (bakenbárdy), бачки (ru) (bački), ба́ки (ru) m pl (báki)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: зулуфи m pl, залисци m pl

  Roman: zulufi m pl, zalisci m pl, zaliske

• Spanish: patillas (es) f pl
• Swedish: polisong (sv) c
• Tagalog: patilya
• Thai: จอน (th) (jɔɔn)
• Turkish: favori (tr), duluk (tr)

See also

• beard
• lovelock
• moustache, mustache
• goatee

Further reading

• sideburns on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• burnsides