eyelid

English

Eyelid (with eyelashes growing from it)

Etymology

From Middle English eyelidd, eye-led, eiȝelid, eghe-lydd, yȝe-lydd, ehlid, yhelidd, equivalent to eye +‎ lid. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Oogenlid (“eyelid”), West Frisian eachlid (“eyelid”), Dutch ooglid (“eyelid”), German Low German Ooglidd (“eyelid”), German Augenlid (“eyelid”).

Generally superseded non-native Middle English palpebre (“eyelid”), borrowed from Latin palpebra (“eyelid”) (see Modern English palpebra).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɪ.lɪd/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -aɪlɪd

Noun

eyelid (plural eyelids)

2. A thin skin membrane that covers and moves over an eye.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 41:18, column 2:

     By his neeſings a light doth ſhine, and his eyes are like the eye-liddes of the morning.

   • 2000, Joshua P. Warren, The Evil in Asheville, page 246:

     […] the frightened or insane eyes of an animal, sometimes with eyelids closed in escapeful slumber.

   • 2009 January 14, Natasha Singer, “Love the Eyelashes. Who Is Your Doctor?”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Allergan, the company that turned an obscure muscle paralyzer for eyelid spasms, Botox, into a blockbuster wrinkle smoother, hopes to perform cosmetic alchemy yet again.

Synonyms

• blepharon
• palpebra

Synonyms

• blepharon

Derived terms

• bat an eyelid
• double eyelid
• eyelidded
• eyelidless
• hang by the eyelids
• single eyelid
• without blinking an eyelid

 

Related terms

• eyebrow
• eyelash

 

Translations

anatomy: a thin skin membrane that covers and moves over an eye

• Afrikaans: ooglid
• Albanian: qepallë (sq)
• Alemannic German: Aaugedeggl m
• Arabic: جَفْن m (jafn)

  Egyptian Arabic: جفن m (gefn)

  Hijazi Arabic: جفن m (jifin)

• Armenian: կոպ (hy) (kop)
• Asturian: párpagu (ast) m, párpadu (ast) m
• Atayal: klabi'
• Azerbaijani: göz qapağı
• Bashkir: ҡабаҡ (qabaq), күҙ ҡабағы (küź qabağı)
• Basque: betazal (eu)
• Belarusian: паве́ка f (pavjéka)
• Bengali: চোখের পাতা (bn) (cōkher pata), নেত্রপল্লব (bn) (netropollob)
• Bhojpuri: पलक (palak)
• Bulgarian: клепка f (klepka), клепач (bg) m (klepač)
• Burmese: မျက်ခွံ (my) (myakhkwam), မျက်လွှာ (my) (myakhlwa)
• Catalan: parpella (ca) f
• Chichewa: chikope
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 眼皮 (zh) (yǎnpí), 瞼／睑 (zh) (jiǎn), 眼瞼／眼睑 (zh) (yǎnjiǎn)

• Czech: oční víčko n, víčko (cs) n
• Danish: øjelåg n, øjenlåg (da) n
• Dutch: ooglid (nl) n
• Esperanto: palpebro (eo)
• Estonian: silmalaug (et)
• Faroese: eygnalok n
• Finnish: silmäluomi (fi)
• French: paupière (fr) f
• Friulian: palpiere f
• Galician: pálpebra (gl) f, capela (gl) f
• Georgian: ქუთუთო (kututo)
• German: Augenlid (de) n, Lid (de) n
• Greek: βλέφαρο (el) n (vléfaro)

  Ancient: βλέφαρον n (blépharon)

• Gujarati: પોપચું n (popcũ), અક્ષિપુટ m (akṣipuṭ)
• Haitian Creole: poje
• Hawaiian: ʻūpoʻi maka, kuapoʻimaka, lihilihi
• Hebrew: עַפְעַף (he) m (af'af)
• Hindi: पपोटा (hi) m (papoṭā), पलक (hi) f (palak)
• Hungarian: szemhéj (hu)
• Icelandic: augnlok n, brá f, hvarmur (is) m
• Ido: palpebro (io)
• Indonesian: kelopak mata
• Interlingua: palpebra
• Irish: caipín súile m, mogall súile m, duille m
• Italian: palpebra (it) f
• Japanese: 瞼 (ja) (mabuta)
• Jeju: 눈두께 (nundukke), 눈두에 (nundue), 눈곽 (nun'gwak), 눈망둥이 (nunmangdung'i)
• Kannada: please add this translation if you can
• Kazakh: қабақ (qabaq)
• Khmer: ត្របកភ្នែក (trɑbɑɑk phnɛɛk)
• Korean: 눈꺼풀 (ko) (nunkkeopul)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: پەڵگ (pellg)

• Kyrgyz: кабак (ky) (kabak)
• Lao: ຫນັງຕາ (nang tā), ຮິມຕາ (him tā)
• Latin: palpebra f, cilium n
• Latvian: plakstiņš m
• Laz: თოლი-კამწამი (toli-ǩamǯami), ფამფარი (pampari)
• Lithuanian: akies vokas m
• Low German:

  German Low German: Ogenlid n

• Macedonian: клепка f (klepka), капак (mk) m (kapak)
• Malay: kelopak mata (ms)
• Malayalam: കൺപോള (kaṇpōḷa)
• Maltese: kappell tal-għajn m
• Manchu: ᡥᡠᠮᠰᡠᠨ (humsun)
• Maori: paeraro (lower), paerunga (upper), kimo, kimokimo, rewha
• Marathi: पापणी (mr) f (pāpṇī)
• Mingrelian: ქაქაბი (kakabi), თოლიშ ლუბა (toliš luba)
• Mongolian: зовхи (zovxi)
• Navajo: anázis
• Nepali: परेली (parelī)
• Norman: paûpiéthe f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: øyelokk n, øyenlokk n

  Nynorsk: augelok n

• Occitan: parpèla (oc) f, parpèl m
• Old Church Slavonic: вѣжда f (věžda)

  Cyrillic: вѣко n (věko)

• Old East Slavic: вѣко n (věko)
• Old English: brǣw m
• Ottoman Turkish: گوز قپاغی (göz kapağı), جفن (cefn)
• Persian: پلک (fa) (pelk), پلکه (poloke), پرک (fa) (perk), بلگ (fa) (balg), مچه (moče)
• Polish: powieka (pl) f
• Portuguese: pálpebra (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਛੱਪਰ m (chappar), ਪਲਕ m (palak)
• Rapa Nui: papare mata
• Romanian: pleoapă (ro) f
• Russian: ве́ко (ru) n (véko)
• Santali: ᱢᱮᱫ ᱠᱩᱴᱤ (met’ kuṭi)
• Scottish Gaelic: rosg m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: капак m, вјеђа f

  Roman: kapak (sh) m, vjeđa (sh) f

• Slovak: očné viečko n, viečko n
• Southern Altai: кабак (kabak), јыкпык (ǰïkpïk)
• Spanish: párpado (es) m, pálpebra f
• Svan: თალაფა (talapa)
• Swahili: kope (sw) class 5/6
• Swedish: ögonlock (sv) n
• Tagalog: takipmata, takubmata, talukapmata
• Tajik: пилк (pilk)
• Tamil: இரப்பை (ta) (irappai)
• Telugu: కనురెప్ప (te) (kanureppa), రెప్ప (te) (reppa)
• Thai: หนังตา (th) (nǎng-dtaa), เปลือกตา (th) (bplʉ̀ʉak-dtaa)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: göz kapağı (tr), gözkapağı (tr)
• Turkmen: gabak
• Ukrainian: пові́ка f (povíka), ві́ко n (víko)
• Urdu: پپوٹا m (papoṭā), پلک f (palk)
• Uyghur: قاپاق (qapaq), قات قاپاق (qat qapaq), قوش قاپاق (qosh qapaq)
• Uzbek: qovoq (uz), koʻz qovogʻI
• Venetan: palpiera f, palpera f
• Vietnamese: mí mắt, mí (vi)
• Volapük: logalip (vo)
• Welsh: amrant (cy) m or f, caead y llygad m, clawr llygad (cy) m, gran m or f, lledael f
• West Coast Bajau: kulit moto
• West Frisian: eachlid n
• White Hmong: tawv muag
• Yiddish: אויגנלעדל n (oygnledl), אויגנלעפּל n (oygnlepl)
• Yoruba: ìpéǹpéjù, bèbè ojú, awẹ́ ojú òkè (upper eyelid)
• Zhuang: buengzda
• Zulu: please add this translation if you can