freckle

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• /ˈfɹɛkəl/
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• CMU ARPABET: F R EH1 K AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English freken, frekel, from Old Norse freknur pl (compare Faroese frøknur, Swedish fräknar, Danish fregner), s-less variant of Old English sprecel from Proto-Germanic *sprekalą (“freckle”) (compare dialectal Norwegian sprekla, Middle High German spreckel), from Proto-Indo-European *sp(h)er(e)g- (“to strew, sprinkle”). Cognate with Albanian fruth (“measles”). More at spark. Related to spry, sprack.

120 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: sproet — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Arabic: نَمَش (namaš) — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Arabic: نمش (namaš) — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Tunisian Arabic: نمش (nmæċ) — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Armenian: պեպեն (pepen) — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Azerbaijani: çil — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Bashkir: һипкел (hipkel) — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Basque: orin — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Belarusian: вясну́шка (vjasnúška) — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Bulgarian: луничка (lunička) — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Carpathian Rusyn: пі́стріґ (pístrig) — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Catalan: piga — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Chinese Mandarin: 雀斑 (quèbān) — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Chinese Mandarin: 斑點 /斑点 (bāndiǎn) — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Coptic: ⲁⲣϣⲁⲛ (aršan) — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Crimean Tatar: sepkil — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Czech: piha — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Danish: fregne — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Dutch: sproet — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Esperanto: lentugo — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Estonian: tedretähn — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Estonian: tedretäht — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Faroese: frøkna — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Finnish: kesakko — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Finnish: pisama — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Finnish: teerenpilkku — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• French: tache de rousseur — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Gagauz: çil — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Galician: lentixa — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Galician: lantinxa — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Galician: marxa — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Galician: penca — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Georgian: ჭორფლი (č̣orpli) — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• German: Sommersprosse — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Greek: φακίδα (fakída) — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Ancient Greek: ἔφηλις (éphēlis) — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Hebrew: נמש (nemesh) — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Hungarian: szeplő — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Icelandic: frekna — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Ido: lentigino — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Indonesian: bintik — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Ingrian: pääsönpisama — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Ingush: тӏаьд (tʼäd) — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Irish: breicne — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Italian: lentiggine — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Italian: efelide — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Japanese: 雀斑 (sobakasu) — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Japanese: そばかす (sobakasu) — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Kalmyk: севг (sevg) — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Kalmyk: заарг (zaarg) — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Kazakh: секпіл (sekpıl) — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Khmer: អាចម៍រុយ (ʼac ruy) — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Korean: 주근깨 (jugeunkkae) — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Kyrgyz: сепкил (sepkil) — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Latin: lentigo — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Latin: lenticula — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Latvian: vasaras raibums — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Lithuanian: strazdana — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Luxembourgish: Speechelen — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Macedonian: лу́ничка (lúnička) — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Manchu: ᠮᡝᡵᠰᡝᠨ (mersen) — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Mongolian: сэвх (sevx) — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Nogai: сепкил (sepkil) — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Norman: tav'lîn — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Norwegian Bokmål: fregne — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Norwegian Nynorsk: frekne — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Occitan: tessèla — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Persian: کک و مک (kak-o-mak) — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Polish: pieg — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Portuguese: sarda — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Romanian: pistrui — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Russian: весну́шка (vesnúška) — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Scottish Gaelic: breac-sheunain — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Serbo-Croatian: пега — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Serbo-Croatian: пјега — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Serbo-Croatian: pega — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Serbo-Croatian: pjega — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Slovak: peha — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Slovene: pega — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Southern Altai: сепкил (sepkil) — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Spanish: peca — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Spanish: efélide — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Spanish: lentigo — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Swedish: fräkne — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Tagalog: pekas — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Tatar: сипкел (sipkel) — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Thai: กระ (grà) — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Tibetan: གྲོ་ཐིག (gro thig) — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Tibetan: སྨེ་ཐིག (sme thig) — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Turkish: çil — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Ottoman Turkish: چل (çyl) — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Turkmen: sepgil — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Tuvan: секпил (sekpil) — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Ukrainian: весня́нка (vesnjánka) — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Ukrainian: ластови́нка (lastovýnka) — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Uzbek: sepkil — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Vietnamese: tàn nhang — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Volapük: feelid — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Welsh: brych — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Welsh: sbot haf — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Yakut: эбир (ebir) — small pigmentation spot on the skin
• Finnish: täplä — any small spot
• Finnish: pilkku — any small spot
• Galician: marxa — any small spot
• German: Fleckchen — any small spot
• Chinese Mandarin: 有雀斑 (yǒu quèbān) — cover with freckles
• Chinese Mandarin: 長雀斑 — cover with freckles
• Chinese Mandarin: 长雀斑 (zhǎng quèbān) — cover with freckles
• Finnish: pisamoittaa — cover with freckles
• Finnish: täplittää — cover with freckles
• Ido: lentiginigar — cover with freckles
• Portuguese: cobrir de sardas — cover with freckles
• Chinese Mandarin: 有雀斑 (yǒu quèbān) — become covered with freckles
• Chinese Mandarin: 長雀斑 — become covered with freckles
• Chinese Mandarin: 长雀斑 (zhǎng quèbān) — become covered with freckles
• Finnish: pisamoitua — become covered with freckles
• Finnish: täplittyä — become covered with freckles
• Ido: lentigineskar — become covered with freckles
• Spanish: tener peca — become covered with freckles
• Tibetan: གྲོ་ཐིག་ཐོན (gro thig thon) — become covered with freckles