dandruff

Etymology
The word is first attested in 1545; the first element is obscure, but compare Yorkshire dialect, dander (skin scurf). The second element derives from a Northumbrian or East Anglian term huff or hruff,, from. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Related with, , source of 🇨🇬. More at (etymology 3).

Noun

 * 1) scaly white dead skin flakes from the human scalp; Pityriasis capitis

Translations

 * Abaza: хъа́пӏа
 * Abkhaz: ақырц, ачхәы
 * Adyghe: кхъапӏэ
 * Afrikaans: skilfers
 * Ainu: レタッツ゚ル
 * Albanian:, , hedhe
 * Amharic: ፎሮፎር
 * Arabic: قِشْرَة الرَّأْس
 * Egyptian Arabic: قشرة
 * Hijazi Arabic: قِشْرة
 * Moroccan Arabic: قَشرة, قُشرة
 * Aragonese: mollisca
 * Aramaic:
 * Syriac: ܪܳܨܺܝܢܽܘܬܳܐ
 * Armenian:
 * Asi: arik-ik
 * Assamese: উফি
 * Asturian: ,
 * Avar: бакълачӏин, хӏабатӏ, хир
 * Azerbaijani: kəpək,, , dongra
 * Bashkir: ҡауаҡ
 * Basque: zahi,
 * Belarusian: пе́рхаць
 * Bengali: ,
 * Bikol Central:, kaspa,
 * Breton: kenn, skant
 * Bulgarian: пърхот, пършей
 * Burmese: ,
 * Carpathian Rusyn: парплї, порплї
 * Catalan: ,
 * Cebuano: kaspa
 * Chavacano: kaspa, caspa
 * Chechen: чич
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 頭皮屑, 頭皮
 * Dungan: быйпи, фупи
 * Eastern Min: 白㾀, 㾀
 * Gan: 頭殼
 * Hakka: 頭皮
 * Hokkien: ;
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Wu: 頭皮屑; 風屑
 * Chuvash: лӗкӗ
 * Cimbrian: grüssa
 * Corsican: forfula
 * Crimean Tatar: кепек, kepek
 * Czech:
 * Danish: skæl
 * Dutch:, , pellekes
 * Emilian: sgaramòffia
 * Erzya: лав
 * Esperanto: haŭtero
 * Estonian: kõõm
 * Evenki: экэри
 * Faroese: flus, skóv
 * Finnish:, , kehnä
 * French:
 * Friulian: schelfe
 * Gagauz: konak
 * Galician:, carepa, , , , , ceila
 * Georgian: ქერტლი, თებო
 * German: Kopfschuppen,, , , Schmelzflocken
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἄχωρ
 * Greenlandic: qaqortualuk
 * Hawaiian: kēpia
 * Hebrew: קשקשים,
 * Hiligaynon: adikdik, alíkdik
 * Hindi:, रुसी
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Ilocano: lasi
 * Indonesian:, berketombe,
 * Ingrian: pilpa
 * Ingush: чич, керта чич
 * Interlingua: furfure
 * Irish: sail chnis
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kabyle: taslest, tinesnest
 * Karachay-Balkar: габу
 * Karelian: köyhen
 * Kashubian: pierzch
 * Kazakh: қайызғақ
 * Khmer:
 * Komi-Permyak: киль
 * Korean:
 * Kumyk: бугъакъ
 * Kunigami: 鱗
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: کِڕێش, کِڕێژ
 * Southern Kurdish: کِڕاشک
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Ladin: parpaiola
 * Lak: чӏачаран
 * Lao: ຂີ້ຫົວ
 * Latgalian: plauki
 * Latin: porrigo
 * Latvian: blaugzna
 * Laz: kartu
 * Leonese: caspia
 * Lezgi: хъуьр, гецӏ
 * Ligurian: furfure
 * Limburgish:
 * Lithuanian: pleiskana
 * Lombard: röfa
 * Luxembourgish: Schubber
 * Macedonian: првут
 * Malagasy:
 * Malay:
 * Manx: cuddym, far-scryss
 * Maori: maihi, māungaunga, inaho, pakitea
 * Mari:
 * Eastern: лыге
 * Western: лӹгӹ
 * Middle English: brā̆n, furfur
 * Mingrelian: ქერცი, ქერცა
 * Mirandese: falhisca
 * Mokilese: wehn moang
 * Moksha: лав
 * Mongolian: үсний хаг,
 * Mongolian: ᠬᠠᠭ
 * Nahuatl: cuatenextli, cuāzōcyō
 * Navajo: tsiitł'óół
 * Nepali:
 * Nogai: кайызгак
 * Norman: crache
 * North Frisian: Skolp
 * Northern Sotho: lehlono
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: flass
 * Nynorsk: flass
 * Okinawan: 鱗
 * Old High German: hruf
 * Old Tupi: 'apiku'i
 * Oroqen: alʊkta
 * Ossetian: кӕнк
 * Palauan: chelecheloul
 * Pashto: دسر پخه
 * Persian: شوره سر,
 * Piedmontese: furfa, forfa, forfora
 * Plautdietsch: Schenn
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਕਰ੍ਹ,
 * Quechua: qara pʼaspa
 * Rapa Nui: raha
 * Rarotongan: paku
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: crappagls, stgalias
 * Russian:
 * Rwanda-Rundi: imvuvu
 * Saami:
 * Inari: konnâ
 * Kildin: кэ̄нн
 * Lule: gadna
 * Northern: gatna
 * Pite: gadna
 * Skolt: kõnn
 * Southern: gïtne
 * Sango:
 * Sanskrit:
 * Santali: ᱩᱯᱭᱟᱺᱥ
 * Sardinian: tizola
 * Scots: kell, scruif
 * Scottish Gaelic: eanach, sgailc-mhullaich
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: перут, прхут
 * Roman: ,
 * Shona: makwenu
 * Sicilian:
 * Sinhalese: ඉස්හොරි
 * Slovak: lupina
 * Slovene:
 * Somali: toxob
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower: spjerchlina
 * Upper: pjerchizna
 * Spanish:
 * Sundanese: kotombé, totombé
 * Svan: ქა̈რჩ
 * Swahili:, uyabisi
 * Swedish:
 * Tabasaran: гацӏ
 * Tagalog: balakubak,, dalikdik
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar:, баш кавыгы
 * Latin: qawıq
 * Telugu:
 * Ternate: booca
 * Thai: ขี้รังแค,
 * Tibetan: ཀོག་ཤི, སྐོག་སྐྱི
 * Tigrinya: ፎሮፎር
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: goňak
 * Udmurt: киль, лом, лыгы
 * Ukrainian: лупа́
 * Unami: òlèkw
 * Urdu: دیوار, روسی
 * Uyghur: كېپەك
 * Vietnamese:
 * Võro: koomõq
 * Welsh: cen pen, marwdon
 * West Flemish: pellekes
 * West Frisian: roas
 * Xhosa: inkwethu
 * Yakut: хоҕоһо
 * Yiddish: שופּ
 * Yogad: kugipa
 * Yucatec Maya: ta’ pool

Verb

 * 1) To fall or cover with white flakes, like dandruff.