dimple

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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈdɪm.pəl/
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• CMU ARPABET: D IH1 M P AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dhewb- Proto-Germanic *dumpaz Proto-Germanic *dumpilaz Proto-West Germanic *dumpil Old English *dympel Middle English dimpel English dimple From Middle English dimpel, dimpil, dympull, from Old English *dympel (“pit, depression”), from Proto-West Germanic *dumpil, from Proto-Germanic *dumpilaz (“sink-hole, dimple”), from Proto-Germanic *dumpaz (“hole, hollow, pit”), from Proto-Indo-European *dhewb- (“deep, hollow”), equivalent to dialectal dump (“deep hole, pool”) + -le (diminutive suffix). Cognate with German Low German Dümpel, German Tümpel (“pond, pool”). Related also to Old English dyppan (“to dip”).

100 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: نُقْرَة (nuqra) — small depression or indentation in a surface
• Arabic: غمازة (ġamāza) — small depression or indentation in a surface
• Bulgarian: падина (padina) — small depression or indentation in a surface
• Catalan: clotet — small depression or indentation in a surface
• Chinese Mandarin: 凹 (āo) — small depression or indentation in a surface
• Dutch: bult — small depression or indentation in a surface
• Dutch: gaatje — small depression or indentation in a surface
• Finnish: kolo — small depression or indentation in a surface
• Finnish: lommo — small depression or indentation in a surface
• Finnish: kolhu — small depression or indentation in a surface
• French: alvéole — small depression or indentation in a surface
• German: Delle — small depression or indentation in a surface
• German: Beule — small depression or indentation in a surface
• Irish: loigín — small depression or indentation in a surface
• Italian: bozza — small depression or indentation in a surface
• Japanese: 凹み (kubomi) — small depression or indentation in a surface
• Japanese: へこみ (hekomi) — small depression or indentation in a surface
• Portuguese: covinha — small depression or indentation in a surface
• Romanian: adâncitură — small depression or indentation in a surface
• Romanian: cufundătură — small depression or indentation in a surface
• Romanian: scobitură — small depression or indentation in a surface
• Romanian: scufundătură — small depression or indentation in a surface
• Russian: я́мка (jámka) — small depression or indentation in a surface
• Russian: вы́боина (výboina) — small depression or indentation in a surface
• Spanish: hoyuelo — small depression or indentation in a surface
• Swedish: bula — small depression or indentation in a surface
• Swedish: buckla — small depression or indentation in a surface
• Swedish: inbuktning — small depression or indentation in a surface
• Turkish: göçük — small depression or indentation in a surface
• Ottoman Turkish: چوقور (çukur) — small depression or indentation in a surface
• Welsh: pannwl — small depression or indentation in a surface
• Welsh: crych — small depression or indentation in a surface
• Welsh: pant — small depression or indentation in a surface
• Arabic: غَمّازة (ḡammāza) — indentation in the cheek
• Aromanian: grupicã — indentation in the cheek
• Azerbaijani: qəmzə — indentation in the cheek
• Bulgarian: трапчинка (trapčinka) — indentation in the cheek
• Catalan: clotet — indentation in the cheek
• Hakka Chinese: 酒窟仔 (jiuˋ fudˋ eˇ) — indentation in the cheek
• Chinese: 酒窟仔 (zh-min-nan) — indentation in the cheek
• Chinese Mandarin: 酒窩 /酒窝 (jiǔwō) — indentation in the cheek
• Chinese Mandarin: 靨 /靥 (yè) — indentation in the cheek
• Chinese Mandarin: 酒渦 /酒涡 (jiǔwō) — indentation in the cheek
• Czech: důlek — indentation in the cheek
• Czech: dolík — indentation in the cheek
• Dutch: kuiltje — indentation in the cheek
• Finnish: hymykuoppa — indentation in the cheek
• French: fossette — indentation in the cheek
• German: Grübchen — indentation in the cheek
• Greek: λακκάκι (lakkáki) — indentation in the cheek
• Hebrew: גומת חן \ גֻּמַּת חֵן (gumát khén) — indentation in the cheek
• Hebrew: גומה \ גֻּמָּה (gumá) — indentation in the cheek
• Hindi: हिलकोरा (hilkorā) — indentation in the cheek
• Hungarian: gödröcske — indentation in the cheek
• Icelandic: spékoppur — indentation in the cheek
• Indonesian: lesung pipi — indentation in the cheek
• Irish: loigín — indentation in the cheek
• Italian: fossetta — indentation in the cheek
• Japanese: 靨 (ekubo) — indentation in the cheek
• Japanese: えくぼ (ekubo) — indentation in the cheek
• Japanese: ディンプル (dinpuru) — indentation in the cheek
• Korean: 보조개 (bojogae) — indentation in the cheek
• Korean: 볼우물 (borumul) — indentation in the cheek
• Latin: gelasīnus — indentation in the cheek
• Luxembourgish: Kailchen — indentation in the cheek
• Malay: lesung pipit — indentation in the cheek
• Māori: ngongo — indentation in the cheek
• Marathi: खळी (khaḷī) — indentation in the cheek
• Navajo: aniishtłʼah — indentation in the cheek
• Norwegian Bokmål: smilehull — indentation in the cheek
• Norwegian Nynorsk: smilehól — indentation in the cheek
• Polish: dołeczek — indentation in the cheek
• Portuguese: covinha — indentation in the cheek
• Romanian: gropiță — indentation in the cheek
• Russian: я́мочка (jámočka) — indentation in the cheek
• Slovak: jamka — indentation in the cheek
• Spanish: hoyuelo — indentation in the cheek
• Spanish: camanance — indentation in the cheek
• Spanish: chocoyo — indentation in the cheek
• Swedish: smilgrop — indentation in the cheek
• Swedish: skrattgrop — indentation in the cheek
• Tagalog: biloy — indentation in the cheek
• Thai: ลักยิ้ม (lák-yím) — indentation in the cheek
• Turkish: gamze — indentation in the cheek
• Ottoman Turkish: غمزة (gamze) — indentation in the cheek
• Vietnamese: lúm đồng tiền — indentation in the cheek
• Welsh: bochdwll — indentation in the cheek
• Yiddish: חן־גריבל (kheyn-gribl) — indentation in the cheek
• Māori: tamarua — small indentation made on metal object
• Dutch: blutsen — to form in
• Dutch: indeuken — to form in
• Dutch: deuken — to form in
• Finnish: kolhaista — to form in
• Finnish: kolhia — to form in
• Finnish: tehdä lommo — to form in
• German: eindellen — to form in
• German: einbeulen — to form in
• Greek: πτυχώσει (ptychósei) — to form in
• Portuguese: ondear — to form in
• Romanian: cresta — to form in