eyebrow

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.
3. A clump of waste fibres that builds up in a roller machine.

Synonyms

• (hair): brow, supercilium, vallum

Hyponyms

• (hair): monobrow, unibrow

Derived terms

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

 

Translations

hair that grows over the bone ridge above the eye socket

Afar: minin Afrikaans: wenkbrou Albanian: vetull (sq) f Arabic: حَاجِب‎ 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 (qaş) 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 (cs) n Dalmatian: čeja f Danish: øjenbryn (da) n Dhivehi: ބުމަ‎ (buma) Dupaningan Agta: kiray Dutch: wenkbrauw (nl) m or f Egyptian: (jnḥ) Elfdalian: ogenbråin n Esperanto: brovo (eo) Estonian: kulm (et) 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 Haitian Creole: sousi 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) Ilocano: kiday 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) Jeju: 눈썹 (nunsseop), 눈섭 (nunseop) Kalmyk: күмсг (kümsg) Kazakh: қас (kk) (qas) Khmer: ចិញ្ចើម (km) (jəñjaəm) Kimaragang: kudou Korean: 눈썹 (ko) (nunsseop), 눈섭 (ko) (nunseop) (North Korea) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: بِرۆ‎ (ku) (biro) Northern Kurdish: birû (ku) pl Kyrgyz: каш (kaş) 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 (ms), 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) (xömsög) Navajo: anátʼéézh, anátsʼiin (bone of the eyebrow ridge) Nepali: आँखीभौं (ā̃khībha͠u) Ngazidja Comorian: nɗazi class 9/10 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 Oromo: nyaara 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 Punjabi: ਭਰਵੱਟਾ m (bharvaṭṭā) Romanian: sprânceană (ro) f, arcadă (ro) f Romansch: survantscheglia f Rungus: sambakon Russian: бровь (ru) f (brovʹ) Sabah Bisaya: kirai Saho: minin Salar: kürlük Sami: Inari: čalmekulme Kildin: кулльм (kullʹm) 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 Sinhalese: බැම (bæma) 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: ìpéǹpéjù, bèbè ojú Zazaki: bırwe Zhuang: bwnda

Verb

eyebrow (third-person singular simple present eyebrows, present participle eyebrowing, simple past and past participle eyebrowed)

1. (intransitive) To build up waste fibres in a roller machine.
2. (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

• eyelash
• eyelid

References

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