skull

Etymology 1
From, (also , ), probably from a dialectal form of , itself probably related to 🇨🇬. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and especially dialectal.

Alternatively, perhaps from, , akin to 🇨🇬, dialectal 🇨🇬, , 🇨🇬, , 🇨🇬, , and 🇨🇬,. Compare also,.

Noun

 * 1)  The main bones of the head considered as a unit; including the cranium, facial bones, and mandible.
 * 2) These bones as a symbol for death; death's-head.
 * 3)  The mind or brain.
 * 4) A crust formed on the ladle, etc. by the partial cooling of molten metal.
 * 5) The crown of the headpiece in armour.
 * 6)  A shallow bow-handled basket.
 * 1) A crust formed on the ladle, etc. by the partial cooling of molten metal.
 * 2) The crown of the headpiece in armour.
 * 3)  A shallow bow-handled basket.

Meronyms

 * Thesaurus:skull

Translations

 * Adyghe: шъхьэкъупшъхь
 * Afrikaans:
 * Ainu: オナシ
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic: ጭንቅላት, የራስ ቅል
 * Arabic: جُمْجُمَة
 * Egyptian Arabic: جمجمة
 * Aragonese: cranio
 * Aramaic:
 * Hebrew: גולגלתא
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: cafcã, cãpitsãnã, craniu, cafcalã, cãrãfetã, cocã
 * Assamese: লাওখোলা
 * Asturian:
 * Avar: гвангвара
 * Aymara: amay pekge
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: баш һөйәге
 * Basque: burezur
 * Bau Bidayuh: tikuruok
 * Belarusian: чэ́рап
 * Bengali:
 * Breton:
 * Bube: mötyuèkököra
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: bagolbagol, kalabera
 * Central Melanau: abekulou
 * Cherokee: ᎤᏍᎦ
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 腦殼
 * Hakka: 腦殼
 * Hokkien: 頭蓋骨,
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Classical Nahuatl: tzontecomatl
 * Classical Syriac: ܩܪܩܦܬܐ
 * Czech:
 * Danish: kranium, kranie
 * Dhivehi: ބޮލުގެ ނާށިގަނޑު
 * Dutch:, , , cranium
 * Egyptian:
 * Esperanto: kranio
 * Estonian: kolju, pealuu, kolp
 * Farefare: zuwaŋrɛ
 * Faroese: skøltur, heysur, skalli, skróvbein
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Friulian: crepe
 * Galician: ,
 * Georgian: თავის ქალა, ქალა
 * German: ,
 * Gothic: 𐍈𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌽𐌴𐌹
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: κρανίον
 * Greenlandic: qaratserfik
 * Guaraní: akã kangue
 * Gujarati: ખોપરી
 * Haitian Creole: zo tèt
 * Hausa: kwanyar
 * Hawaiian: iwi poʻo
 * Hebrew:
 * Hiligaynon: bagol
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Ido:
 * Igbo: okpukpo isi
 * Indonesian:, ,
 * Ingrian: pääluu
 * Interlingua: cranio
 * Irish: blaosc,, blaosc an chinn, blaosc an chloiginn
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Javanese: tengkorak
 * Kabuverdianu:
 * ALUPEC: kraniu
 * Badiu: kraniu
 * Kabyle: abbaɣ
 * Kalmyk: һавл
 * Kannada:
 * Kazakh: бас сүйек
 * Khmer: លលាដ៍ក្បាល
 * Kinaray-a: bagol
 * Komi-Permyak: юр лы
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: کاپۆڵ
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz: баш сөөгү, баш сөөк
 * Lak: бакӏрал ттаркӏ
 * Lao: ກະໂຫລກ, ກະລາ, ກະໂຫຼກ
 * Latgalian: čereps
 * Latin: calvāria, calva, crānium
 * Latvian:, miroņgalva
 * Lezgi: келле
 * Limburgish: sjeiel
 * Lingala: ebɛbɛlɛ
 * Lithuanian: kaukolė
 * Lü: ᦡᦳᧅᧈᦷᦠ
 * Luxembourgish: Hirschuel, Schiedel
 * Macedonian: череп
 * Malagasy:
 * Malay:, batok kepala, jumjumah
 * Malayalam: തലയോട്ടി
 * Maltese: kranju, qorriegħa
 * Maori: angaanga, papa angaanga, pareho, korotū, pārihirihi
 * Marathi: कवटी
 * Mirandese:
 * Mon: ဂၞာက္ဍဟ်
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Mongolian: ᠭᠠᠪᠠᠯᠠ
 * Nahuatl:
 * Nepali:
 * Norman: cranne
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, , hjerneskalle,
 * Nynorsk: hovudskalle, skult
 * Occitan:
 * Odia: ମୁଣ୍ଡଖପୁରି,
 * Ojibwe: nishtigwaanigegan
 * Old English: hēafodpanne, hēafodbān
 * Old Galician-Portuguese: caaveira
 * Ossetian: сӕргӕхц
 * Pali:
 * Mon: သဳသကပလ
 * Pangasinan: lapislapis
 * Pashto: کوپړۍ
 * Persian:, , کدفت
 * Plautdietsch: Schädel
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Punjabi: ਖੋਪਰੀ
 * Quechua: uma tullu
 * Rajasthani:
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Romansch: chavazza
 * Russian:
 * Samogitian: kramė
 * Sanskrit:
 * Santali: ᱠᱷᱟᱯᱨᱤ
 * Sardinian: cràniu
 * Scottish Gaelic: claigeann
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: лу̀бања, ло̀бања
 * Roman:, lòbanja
 * Shona: dehenya
 * Sicilian:, cucuzzuni
 * Sindhi:
 * Sinhalese:, තට්ටය
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Somali: lafmadax
 * Spanish: (1),  (2)
 * Swahili: fuvu la kichwa
 * Swedish:, , kranie
 * Tagalog: bungo
 * Tajik: косаи сар, косахонаи сар
 * Tamil:
 * Taos: pʼìtąmúluną
 * Tarifit: aqešqaš
 * Telugu: ,
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: ཀ་པ་ལ
 * Tigrinya: ሽክና ርእሲ, ሓምሓም ርእሲ
 * Turkish:, , baş kasesi
 * Turkmen: kelleçanak
 * Tày: búc bẩu
 * Ukrainian: че́реп
 * Urdu: کَپال
 * Uyghur: باش سۆڭىكى
 * Uzbek: bosh suyagi
 * Vietnamese:, đầu lâu
 * Volapük:
 * Walloon:
 * Waray-Waray: bungo
 * Welsh:, siol
 * West Coast Bajau: bengkurung
 * West Flemish: dutsekop, schedel
 * West Frisian:
 * White Hmong: pob txha tab hau
 * Wolof: kaaŋ mi
 * Xhosa: ukhakayi
 * Yámana: taša
 * Yiddish: שאַרבן
 * Yoruba: egungun agbárí
 * Yucatec Maya: tseek’
 * Zhuang: ndokgyaeuj
 * Zulu: ugebhezi


 * Bulgarian:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ქალა
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Latvian: miroņgalva
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: dødninghode,
 * Nynorsk: daudingskalle, daudinghovud
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,


 * Bulgarian:
 * Portuguese:

Verb

 * 1) To hit in the head with a fist, a weapon, or a thrown object.
 * 2)  To strike the top of (the ball).
 * 3) To drink everything that remains in a glass by upending it.
 * 1) To drink everything that remains in a glass by upending it.

Etymology 2
See.

Noun

 * 1) * 1601, (translator),  (author), , book IX, chapter xv: “Of the names and natures of many fishes.”:
 * These fishs, togither with the old Tunies and the young, called Pelamides, enter in great flotes and skulls, into the sea Pontus, for the sweet food that they there find: and every companie of them hath their fever all leaders and captaines; and before them all, the Maquerels lead the way; which, while they be in the water, have a colour of brimstone; but without, like they be to the rest.
 * 1) * 1601, (translator),  (author), , book IX, chapter xv: “Of the names and natures of many fishes.”:
 * These fishs, togither with the old Tunies and the young, called Pelamides, enter in great flotes and skulls, into the sea Pontus, for the sweet food that they there find: and every companie of them hath their fever all leaders and captaines; and before them all, the Maquerels lead the way; which, while they be in the water, have a colour of brimstone; but without, like they be to the rest.

Etymology
An alternative form of, from , from , from. Compare and.

Used to indicate for whom or why something is done.

Noun

 * 1) sake