# forehead
## English
### Alternative forms

* for'ead, forrad, forread, forred, forrid (variable or uncertain spellings representing dialect or variant pronunciation)

### Etymology

From Middle English forhed, forheed, from Old English forehēafod, from Proto-West Germanic *forēhaubid, 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

* (UK) IPA: /ˈfɔː(ɹ)hɛd/, /ˈfɔːɹɛd/, /ˈfɒɹɪd/, /ˈfɒɹɛd/
* Audio (UK):(file)
* (US) IPA: /ˈfɔɹˌhɛd/, (somewhat dated) /ˈfɔɹɛd/, /ˈfɔɹɪd/, /ˈfɑɹɪd/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)hɛd, -ɒɹɪd, -ɔɹɪd, -ɑɹɪd

### 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.’'
** 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC: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: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC: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; impudence.
** c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii], lines 691-93:Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood, Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility
* The upper part of a mobile phone, above the screen.

#### Synonyms

* brow
* ibby fod

#### Derived terms

* fivehead
* foreheaded
* forehead thermometer
* midforehead

#### Translations

Abkhaz: алахь (alaxʲ)
Acehnese: dhoe
Afrikaans: voorkop
Albanian: ballë (sq) f
Aleut: tanix̂
Amharic: ግምባር (gəmbar)
Apache:
Western Apache: bitaʼ
Arabic: جَبْهَة f (jabha)
Egyptian Arabic: قورة f (ʔūra), جبين m (gebyin)
Hijazi Arabic: جَبْهة f (jabha)
Moroccan Arabic: جبهة f (jabha)
Aragonese: frent f
Archi: нодо (nodo)
Armenian: ճակատ (hy) (čakat)
Aromanian: frãmti f
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܩܸܨܵܐ m (qiṣṣā)
Asturian: frente (ast) f
Atayal: lihuy
Avar: нодо (nodo)
Azerbaijani: alın (az)
Banjarese: dahi (bjn)
Bashkir: маңлай (mañlay), маңдай (mañday) (Eastern Bashkir)
Basque: kopeta, kopetan
Bau Bidayuh: oro
Belarusian: лоб m (lob), чало́ n (čaló)
Bengali: কপাল (bn) (kopal), পেশানী (bn) (peśani), জবীন (jobin)
Bhojpuri: माथा (māthā)
Bikol Central: angog (bcl)
Breton: tal (br)
Brunei Bisaya: kadat
Bulgarian: чело́ (bg) n (čeló), лоб m (lob) (dated)
Burmese: နဖူး (my) (na.hpu:)
Catalan: front (ca) m
Cebuano: agtang
Central Melanau: beleang
Central Sierra Miwok: ṭóp·ele
Chamicuro: tolo
Chechen: хьаж (ḥʳaž)
Chepang: जेल्‍ह्
Cherokee: ᎠᎬᏓᎨᏂ (agvdageni)
Chichewa: mphumi
Chinese:
Cantonese: 額頭 / 额头 (ngaak$^6$ tau$^4$)
Dungan: бынлу (bɨnlu), ңыйлу (ŋɨylu)
Eastern Min: 額頭 / 额头 (ngiăh-tàu), 額 / 额 (ngiăh)
Hakka: 額角 / 额角 (ngiak-kok)
Hokkien: 頭額 / 头额 (zh-min-nan) (thâu-hia̍h)
Literary Chinese: 顙 (sǎng)
Mandarin: 前額 / 前额 (zh) (qián'é), 額頭 / 额头 (zh) (étóu), 額 / 额 (zh) or 頟 / 额 (zh) (é), 額門 / 额门 (émén), 眉宇 (zh) (méiyǔ) (literary)
Wu: 額角頭 / 额角头
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)
Drung: mvrdaq
Dutch: voorhoofd (nl) n
Eastern Cham: ꨖꨬ (dhei)
Egyptian: (dhnt)
Erzya: коня (końa)
Esperanto: frunto (eo)
Estonian: laup (et)
Even: омкат (omkat)
Evenki: хэе (həje), омкото (omkoto)
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)
Greenlandic: qaaq
Guaraní: syva
Gujarati: કપાળ m (kapāḷ), ભાળ (gu) (bhāḷ)
Guugu Yimidhirr: bidi, gaman
Haitian Creole: fon
Hausa: please add this translation if you can
Hawaiian: lae
Hebrew: מֵצַח (he) m (métsakh)
Higaonon: tangad
Hindi: माथा (hi) m (māthā), माथ (hi) m (māth), ललाट (hi) m (lalāṭ), मस्तक (hi) m (mastak)
Hungarian: homlok (hu)
Iban: bangi
Icelandic: enni n
Ido: fronto (io)
Igbo: egbugbere ihu
Indonesian: dahi (id)
Ingrian: otsakeero, loba
Ingush: хьажа (ḥʳaža)
Interlingua: fronte
Inupiaq: qauq
Iranun: beneng
Irish: clár éadain m
Old Irish: étan m
Italian: fronte (it) f
Iu Mien: biorngh
Japanese: 額 (ja) (ひたい, hitai), お凸 (おでこ, odeko)
Javanese: bathuk (jv)
Kabuverdianu: tésta
Kalmyk: маңна (mañna)
Kannada: ನೊಸಲು (kn) (nosalu)
Kapampangan: kanwan, kanuan
Karakalpak: mańlay (kaa)
Kazakh: маңдай (kk) (mañdai)
Khmer: ថ្ងាស (km) (thngaah)
Kimaragang: rabas
Komi-Zyrian: кымӧс (kymös)
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
Roman: frente f
Lak: неиттабакӏ (neit:abakʼ)
Lao: ຫນ້າຜາກ (nā phāk), ໜ້າຜາກ (lo) (nā phāk)
Latin: frōns f
Latvian: piere f
Lezgi: пел (pel)
Lingala: eboló
Lithuanian: kaktà f
Livonian: vȱntsa
Lotud: kadat
Lushootseed: sʔililc
Luxembourgish: Stir f
Macedonian: чело n (čelo)
Malagasy: betro (mg), handrina (mg)
Malay: dahi (ms), jidat (ms)
Malayalam: നെറ്റി (ml) (neṟṟi)
Maltese: ġbin m
Manchu: ᡧᡝᠩᡤᡳᠨ (šenggin)
Manx: glaare eddin, baaish f
Maori: rae
Marathi: कपाळ (mr) n (kapāḷ)
Moksha: коня (konä)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: магнай (mn) (magnaj), манлай (mn) (manlaj), дух (mn) (dux) (Mongolia)
Mongolian: ᠮᠠᠩᠨᠠᠢ (mangnai), ᠮᠠᠩᠯᠠᠢ (manglai), ᠳᠤᠬᠤ (duqu)
Nanai: пэе (peje)
Nepali: निधार (ne) (nidhār)
Nogai: манълай (mañlay)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: panne (no) m or f
Nynorsk: panne (no) f
Nyunga: bap
Occitan: front (oc) m
Ojibwe: (my forehead) nikatig
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: чело n (čelo)
Old East Slavic: чело n (čelo), чоло n (čolo)
Old English: forehēafod n
Old French: frunt m
Old Tupi: sybá
Oromo: adda
Ottoman Turkish: آلن (alın), جبین (cebin), پیشانی (pişâni)
Pacoh: padyiêl, payiêl
Pangasinan: muling
Pannonian Rusyn: чоло n (čolo)
Pashto: تندى (tanday)
Persian:
Dari: پیشَانِی (pēšānī)
Iranian Persian: پیشانی (fa) (pišâni)
Polish: czoło (pl) n
Portuguese: testa (pt) f
Punjabi:
Gurmukhi: ਮੱਥਾ m (matthā)
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)
S'gaw Karen: ခိၣ်တိသၣ် (khoh̀ toh thà)
Salar: meñzi
Sami:
Northern: gállu
Southern: gaalloe
Sanskrit: ललाटम् (sa) m or n (lalāṭam)
Santali: ᱢᱚᱞᱚᱝ (môlôṅ)
Sardinian: fronte m, fronti, frunte
Scottish Gaelic: bathais f
Sebop: anang
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: чѐло n
Roman: čèlo (sh) n
Shan: ၼႃႈၽၢၵ်ႇ (shn) (nāa phàak)
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 (maŋday)
Spanish: frente (es) f, testuz (es) m or f, testera (es) f, sobrecejo (es) m, sobreceja f (rare)
Sumerian: 𒆠𒉆𒀀𒇒𒊏 (KI-NAM-ESIR-RA)
Swedish: panna (sv)
Tagal Murut: rabas
Tagalog: (literally) noo n
Tajik: пешона (pešona)
Tamil: நெற்றி (ta) (neṟṟi)
Tarifit: tanyart f
Tatar: маңгай (tt) (mañgay)
Telugu: నుదురు (te) (nuduru)
Thai: หน้าผาก (th) (nâa-pàak), เถิก (th) (tə̀ək)
Tibetan: དཔྲལ་བ (dpral ba)
Tigrinya: ግንባር (gənbar)
Timugon Murut: rabas
Tocharian B: ānte
Turkish: alın (tr)
Turkmen: aalyn, maňlaý
Tutelo: paniaminte
Udmurt: кымес (kymes)
Ukrainian: лоб (uk) m (lob), чоло́ n (čoló)
Urdu: ماتھا m (māthā), پیشانی f (peśānī), جَبِین f (jabīn)
Uyghur: ماڭلاي (manglay)
Uzbek: manglay (uz)
Venetan: front m
Vietnamese: trán (vi)
Volapük: flom (vo)
Waray-Waray: ag-tang
Welsh: talcen (cy) m
West Coast Bajau: lindo'
West Frisian: foarholle, poatte c
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: iwájú orí, oti
Zazaki: çare (diq) n
Zhuang: najbyak
Zulu: please add this translation if you can :