scalp

Etymology
From, ,. Originally a northern word, and therefore probably from a source, although the sense-development is unclear; compare Sylt 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  The top of the head; the skull.
 * 2) The part of the head where the hair grows from, or used to grow from.
 * 3)  A part of the skin of the head, with the hair attached, formerly cut or torn off from an enemy by warriors in some cultures as a token of victory.
 * 4)  The skin of the head of a stag, to which the horns are attached.
 * 5)  A victory, especially at the expense of someone else.
 * 6)  A bed or stratum of shellfish.
 * 7)  The top; the summit.
 * 1)  The skin of the head of a stag, to which the horns are attached.
 * 2)  A victory, especially at the expense of someone else.
 * 3)  A bed or stratum of shellfish.
 * 4)  The top; the summit.
 * 1)  A bed or stratum of shellfish.
 * 2)  The top; the summit.
 * 1)  A bed or stratum of shellfish.
 * 2)  The top; the summit.
 * 1)  The top; the summit.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Danish:
 * Finnish:
 * German: Oberkopf
 * Macedonian: теме
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:


 * Afrikaans: kopvel
 * Arabic: فَرْوَة اَلرَّأْس
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: скалп
 * Catalan: cuir cabellut
 * Cherokee: ᎤᏍᏗᏁᎦᎸᎢ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish: hovedskalp
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: skalpo
 * Finnish: hiusmarto
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Hebrew: קרקפת
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: craiceann an chinn
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer: ស្បែកក្បាល
 * Latin: calva
 * Latvian: skalps
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: скалп
 * Malayalam: തലയോട്ടി,
 * Maori: kiri angaanga, kawiu
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: hodebunn
 * Polish: góra głowy
 * Portuguese: couro cabeludo
 * Russian:, ко́жа головы́
 * Serbo-Croatian: ,
 * Spanish: cuero cabelludo
 * Swedish: huvudsvål,
 * Thai: หนังศีรษะ, หนังหัว
 * Tibetan:
 * Turkish: kafa derisi, saç derisi
 * Turkmen: kelläň depesi
 * Vietnamese: da đầu
 * Volapük: skalp


 * Bulgarian: скалп
 * Danish: skalp
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Italian: ,
 * Maori: kawiu
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai: หนังหัว


 * Danish: skalp
 * Finnish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkmen: kelläň depesi

Verb

 * 1) To remove the scalp (part of the head from where the hair grows), by brutal act or accident.
 * 2)  To resell, especially tickets, usually for an inflated price, often illegally.
 * 3)  To bet on opposing competitors so as to make a profit from the bookmaker.
 * 4)  On an open outcry exchange trading floor, to buy and sell rapidly for one's own account, aiming to buy from a seller and a little later sell to a buyer, making a small profit from the difference (roughly the amount of the bid/offer spread, or less).
 * 5) To screen or sieve ore before further processing.
 * 6)  To remove the skin of.
 * 7)  To remove the grass from.
 * 8)  To destroy the political influence of.
 * 9)  To brush the hairs or fuzz from (wheat grains, etc.) in the process of high milling.
 * 1)  On an open outcry exchange trading floor, to buy and sell rapidly for one's own account, aiming to buy from a seller and a little later sell to a buyer, making a small profit from the difference (roughly the amount of the bid/offer spread, or less).
 * 2) To screen or sieve ore before further processing.
 * 3)  To remove the skin of.
 * 4)  To remove the grass from.
 * 5)  To destroy the political influence of.
 * 6)  To brush the hairs or fuzz from (wheat grains, etc.) in the process of high milling.
 * 1)  To remove the grass from.
 * 2)  To destroy the political influence of.
 * 3)  To brush the hairs or fuzz from (wheat grains, etc.) in the process of high milling.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: скалпирам
 * Cherokee: ᎠᏍᏛᏁᎦᎵᎭ
 * Czech: skalpovat
 * Esperanto: skalpi
 * Finnish: viedä päänahka
 * French:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian: fare lo scalpo,, scalpare
 * Latvian: noskalpēt
 * Maori: hore kiriangaanga
 * Old English: hættian, behættian
 * Portuguese:, escalpar
 * Romanian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: skalpera
 * Welsh: iadflingo

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  hair-covered skin, especially as a trophy

Etymology
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