# eyebrow
## English
### 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: /ˈaɪˌbɹaʊ/
** Audio (US):(file)
* (South Asia) IPA: /ˈaɪˌbɾoː/

### Noun

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

* (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
* guybrows
* knit one's eyebrows
* old man's eyebrow
* raise an eyebrow
* raise eyebrows
* Weatherby eyebrow

#### Translations

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) (unkʻ), հոնք (hy) (honkʻ)
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 (bn) (bhuru)
Bhojpuri: भौंह (bhaunh)
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 (ngaan$^5$ mei$^4$), 眼眉毛 (ngaan$^5$ mei$^4$ mou$^4$)
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: ogenbråyn 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, cella (gl) f
Georgian: წარბი (ka) (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: भौंह (bha͠uh)
Hungarian: szemöldök (hu)
Icelandic: augabrún (is) f
Ido: brovo (io)
Ilocano: kiday
Indonesian: alis (id)
Ingrian: kulma
Inuktitut: ᖃᓪᓗ (iu) (qallo)
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)
Kapampangan: kile
Kazakh: қас (kk) (qas)
Khmer: ចិញ្ចើម (km) (jəñjaəm)
Khowar: بروُ (bruú)
Kimaragang: kudou
Korean: 눈썹 (ko) (nunsseop), 눈섭 (ko) (nunseop) (North Korea)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: بِرۆ (ckb) (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)
Malagasy: volomaso (mg)
Malay: kening (ms), bulu kening, alis (ms), kirai (ms)
Maltese: ħaġeb m
Manchu: ᡶᠠᡳᡨᠠᠨ (faitan)
Manx: mollee f
Maori: tukemata, pewa
Maranao: kiray
Marathi: भुवई (mr) f (bhuvaī)
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
Northern Sami: gulbmi
Norwegian:
Bokmål: øyebryn (no) n, øyenbryn (no) n
Nynorsk: augebryn n, augnebryn n, augebrun f, augnebrun f
Occitan: ussa (oc) f, cilha (oc) f
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: брꙑ f (bry)
Old East Slavic: бръвь f (brŭvĭ)
Old English: oferbrū f
Oromo: nyaara
Ossetian: (Digor) ӕрфуг (ærfug), (Iron) ӕрфыг (ærfyg)
Ottoman Turkish: قاش (kaş), ابرو (ebrû), حاجب (hâcib)
Pashto: وروځه f (wrúźa)
Pennsylvania German: Aagebrau f
Persian: ابرو (fa) (abru), برو (fa) (baru, boru)
Polish: brew (pl) f
Pontic Greek: οφρύδιν n (ofrýdin)
Portuguese: sobrancelha (pt) f
Punjabi:
Gurmukhi: ਭਰਵੱਟਾ m (bharvaṭṭā)
Shahmukhi: بَھرْوَٹّا 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 (kull’m)
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)
Talysh: bəv
Tamil: புருவம் (ta) (puruvam)
Tarifit: timmi f
Tat: bürg
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
Woiwurrung: yarra mirring
Yakut: хаас (qaas)
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)
* (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

* eyelash
* eyelid

### References

* eyebrow on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* Category:Eyebrows on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons