flay

Etymology 1
From, , , from "to cause to fly, put to flight, frighten"; found only in compounds:, from , causative of.

Verb

 * 1)  To cause to fly; put to flight; drive off (by frightening).
 * 2)  To frighten; scare; terrify.
 * 3)  To be fear-stricken.
 * 1)  To be fear-stricken.

Noun

 * 1)  A fright; a scare.
 * 2)  Fear; a source of fear; a formidable matter; a fearsome or repellent-looking individual.

Etymology 2
From, from , from , from.

Verb

 * 1) To strip the skin off; to skin.
 * 2) To lash or whip.
 * 1) To lash or whip.

Translations

 * Arabic: سَلَخَ
 * Egyptian Arabic: سلخ
 * Aromanian: bilescu
 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech: stáhnout kůži, stáhnout z kůže
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: δέρω
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: feann
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kabuverdianu: sfola, sfolá
 * Kazakh: сою
 * Latin: dēglūbō, dēcutiō
 * Lithuanian: dìrti
 * Maori: tīhore
 * Norwegian:
 * Ottoman Turkish: یوزمك
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: iqhay
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, сдира́ть шку́ру
 * Sicilian: spiḍḍari
 * Slovak: stiahnuť kožu, stiahnuť, odrať
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: здирати шкіру, здерти шкіру