cornea

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Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Cornea.

From Latin cornea tela (“horny tissue”), from cornu (“horn”).

55 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: قَرْنِيَّة (qarniyya) — layer forming the front of the eye
• Arabic: قرنية (qaraneya) — layer forming the front of the eye
• Armenian: եղջերաթաղանթ (eġǰeratʻaġantʻ) — layer forming the front of the eye
• Bulgarian: роговица (rogovica) — layer forming the front of the eye
• Catalan: còrnia — layer forming the front of the eye
• Chinese Mandarin: 角膜 (jiǎomó) — layer forming the front of the eye
• Chinese Mandarin: 眼角膜 (yǎnjiǎomó) — layer forming the front of the eye
• Czech: rohovka — layer forming the front of the eye
• Danish: hornhinde — layer forming the front of the eye
• Esperanto: korneo — layer forming the front of the eye
• Finnish: sarveiskalvo — layer forming the front of the eye
• French: cornée — layer forming the front of the eye
• Galician: córnea — layer forming the front of the eye
• Georgian: რქოვანა (rkovana) — layer forming the front of the eye
• German: Hornhaut — layer forming the front of the eye
• Greek: κερατοειδής χιτώνας (keratoeidís chitónas) — layer forming the front of the eye
• Hungarian: szaruhártya — layer forming the front of the eye
• Indonesian: kornea — layer forming the front of the eye
• Irish: coirne — layer forming the front of the eye
• Italian: cornea — layer forming the front of the eye
• Japanese: 角膜 (kakumaku) — layer forming the front of the eye
• Khmer: គ្រាប់ភ្នែក (kroap pnɛɛk) — layer forming the front of the eye
• Korean: 각막 (gangmak) — layer forming the front of the eye
• Northern Kurdish: korniye — layer forming the front of the eye
• Latin: cornea — layer forming the front of the eye
• Latvian: radzene — layer forming the front of the eye
• Lithuanian: ragena — layer forming the front of the eye
• Macedonian: рожница (rožnica) — layer forming the front of the eye
• Māori: kiriwhatu — layer forming the front of the eye
• Mongolian: эвэрлэг бүрхэвч (everleg bürxevč) — layer forming the front of the eye
• Mongolian: эвэр бүрхэвч (ever bürxevč) — layer forming the front of the eye
• Norwegian Bokmål: hornhinne — layer forming the front of the eye
• Norwegian Nynorsk: hornhinne — layer forming the front of the eye
• Persian: قرنیه (qarniye) — layer forming the front of the eye
• Polish: rogówka — layer forming the front of the eye
• Portuguese: córnea — layer forming the front of the eye
• Punjabi: ਪਾਰਦਰਸ਼ੀ ਝਿੱਲੀ (pārdaraśī jhillī) — layer forming the front of the eye
• Romanian: cornee — layer forming the front of the eye
• Russian: рогови́ца (rogovíca) — layer forming the front of the eye
• Serbo-Croatian: kornea — layer forming the front of the eye
• Serbo-Croatian: rožnica — layer forming the front of the eye
• Serbo-Croatian: rožnjača — layer forming the front of the eye
• Shan: တႃသႂ် (tǎa sǎue) — layer forming the front of the eye
• Slovak: rohovka — layer forming the front of the eye
• Spanish: córnea — layer forming the front of the eye
• Swedish: hornhinna — layer forming the front of the eye
• Swedish: kornea — layer forming the front of the eye
• Tagalog: sikwit-mata — layer forming the front of the eye
• Thai: กระจกตา (grà-jòk-dtaa) — layer forming the front of the eye
• Turkish: kornea — layer forming the front of the eye
• Turkish: saydam tabaka — layer forming the front of the eye
• Ukrainian: рогі́вка (rohívka) — layer forming the front of the eye
• Vietnamese: giác mạc — layer forming the front of the eye
• Volapük: korned — layer forming the front of the eye
• Welsh: cornbilen — layer forming the front of the eye