cheekbone

Englisch

A side view of the skull, showing the cheekbone under the name zygomatic.

Alternative forms

• cheek bone

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English chekebon, chekbone, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English ċēacbān (“cheekbone”), equivalent to . Compare Dutch kaakbeen (“jawbone”).

Nomen

cheekbone (plural cheekbones)

1. The small prominent bone of the cheek.

Synonyms

• malar bone
• zygoma
• zygomatic bone

Translations

bone

• Arabic: عَظْم وَجْنِيّ m (ʕaẓm wajniyy)

  Egyptian Arabic: كرسي الخد m (kursi el xad)

• Bulgarian: скула f (skula)
• Catalan: pòmul m, zigoma m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 頰骨／颊骨 (zh) (jiágǔ), 颊骨 (zh) (jiágǔ)

• Chuvash: пит шăмми (pit šămmi)
• Czech: lícní kost f
• Dutch: jukbeen (nl) n
• Esperanto: vangosto, zigomo
• Estonian: sarnaluu
• Finnish: poskiluu (fi)
• French: pommette (fr) f
• German: Jochbein (de) n, Wangenknochen m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Ido: zigomato (io)
• Italian: zigomo (it) m
• Japanese: 頬骨 (ja) (きょうこつ, kyōkotsu)
• Kalmyk: шана (şana)
• Korean: 광대뼈 (ko) (gwangdaeppyeo)
• Malay: tulang pipi, pasu-pasu, tulang bercagak, zigoma
• Maori: rei
• Nogai: бет суьеги (bet süyegi)
• Persian: استخوان گونه (fa) (ostoxan-e-gune)
• Portuguese: zigoma (pt) m, zigomático
• Russian: скула́ (ru) f (skulá)
• Slovene: ličnica (sl) f
• Spanish: pómulo (es) m, cigoma (es) f
• Swedish: okben n, kindben (sv) n, kindknota c
• Tagalog: buto ng pisngi, butumpisngi