jawbone

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From Middle English jawe bone, a partial calque of earlier Middle English chawlbone, chawylbon, chavylbone, chawle boon, chavyl bon (“jaw bone”, literally “chavel bone”), see chavel-bone; equivalent to jaw + bone.

70 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Catalan: mandíbula — bone of the lower jaw
• Chinese Mandarin: 顎骨 /颚骨 (ègǔ) — bone of the lower jaw
• Finnish: alaleuanluu — bone of the lower jaw
• Finnish: leukaluu — bone of the lower jaw
• French: mâchoire inférieure — bone of the lower jaw
• French: mandibule — bone of the lower jaw
• Galician: queixada — bone of the lower jaw
• Galician: queixo — bone of the lower jaw
• Galician: mandíbula — bone of the lower jaw
• Georgian: ყბის ძვალი (q̇bis ʒvali) — bone of the lower jaw
• Greek: κάτω γνάθος (káto gnáthos) — bone of the lower jaw
• Ancient Greek: σιαγών (siagṓn) — bone of the lower jaw
• Hungarian: állkapocscsont — bone of the lower jaw
• Japanese: 顎骨 (gakkotsu) — bone of the lower jaw
• Malay: tulang rahang — bone of the lower jaw
• Malay: rahang bawah — bone of the lower jaw
• Malay: mandibel — bone of the lower jaw
• Mongolian: эрүүний яс (erüünii jas) — bone of the lower jaw
• Pannonian Rusyn: видлїцова косц (vidljicova kosc) — bone of the lower jaw
• Polish: żuchwa — bone of the lower jaw
• Polish: dolna szczęka — bone of the lower jaw
• Portuguese: mandíbula — bone of the lower jaw
• Portuguese: queixo — bone of the lower jaw
• Russian: че́люстная кость (čéljustnaja kostʹ) — bone of the lower jaw
• Russian: че́люсть (čéljustʹ) — bone of the lower jaw
• Scottish Gaelic: pìos ìosal a' ghuib — bone of the lower jaw
• Serbo-Croatian: чељуст — bone of the lower jaw
• Serbo-Croatian: čeljust — bone of the lower jaw
• Lower Sorbian: crjono — bone of the lower jaw
• Spanish: mandíbula — bone of the lower jaw
• Swahili: utaya — bone of the lower jaw
• Swedish: underkäksben — bone of the lower jaw
• Tagalog: sihang — bone of the lower jaw
• Tamil: தாடை (tāṭai) — bone of the lower jaw
• Lower Tanana: -yatth'ena' — bone of the lower jaw
• Tauya: wereya — bone of the lower jaw
• Turkish: çene kemiği — bone of the lower jaw
• Walloon: badjawe — bone of the lower jaw
• Walloon: babetch — bone of the lower jaw
• Welsh: genogl — bone of the lower jaw
• Yiddish: קינביין (kinbeyn) — bone of the lower jaw
• Afrikaans: kakebeen — any of the bones in the jaw
• Brunei Bisaya: ajai — any of the bones in the jaw
• Dutch: kaaksbeen — any of the bones in the jaw
• Finnish: leuan luu — any of the bones in the jaw
• French: mâchoire — any of the bones in the jaw
• Galician: queixada — any of the bones in the jaw
• Georgian: ყბის ძვალი (q̇bis ʒvali) — any of the bones in the jaw
• German: Kiefer — any of the bones in the jaw
• German: Kieferknochen — any of the bones in the jaw
• Greek: γνάθος (gnáthos) — any of the bones in the jaw
• Hungarian: állkapocscsont — any of the bones in the jaw
• Korean: 턱뼈 (teokppyeo) — any of the bones in the jaw
• Korean: 거흠 (geoheum) — any of the bones in the jaw
• Northern Kurdish: cêlefek — any of the bones in the jaw
• Malay: tulang rahang — any of the bones in the jaw
• Malay: tulang pengancing — any of the bones in the jaw
• Malay: tulang bercagak — any of the bones in the jaw
• Central Melanau: tuleang ingaih — any of the bones in the jaw
• Pannonian Rusyn: видлїцова косц (vidljicova kosc) — any of the bones in the jaw
• Polish: szczęka — any of the bones in the jaw
• Portuguese: mandíbula — any of the bones in the jaw
• Scottish Gaelic: peirceall — any of the bones in the jaw
• Lower Sorbian: crjono — any of the bones in the jaw
• Swedish: käkben — any of the bones in the jaw
• Walloon: djawe — any of the bones in the jaw
• Walloon: mashale — any of the bones in the jaw
• Finnish: puhua ympäri — to persuade
• Finnish: taivutella — to persuade
• German: einnorden — to persuade