English
Etymology
From head + louse. Compare North Frisian hoodlüs (“headlouse”), Dutch hoofdluis (“headlouse”), Swedish huvudlus (“headlouse”), Icelandic höfuðlús (“headlouse”).
Noun
head louse (plural head lice)
- A parasitic insect, Pediculus humanus capitis, which lives among the hairs on the head of a human and feeds on blood.
Translations
insect
- Catalan: poll del cabell m
- Chepang: स्रय्क्, सेक्
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 頭蝨 / 头虱 (zh) (tóushī)
- Danish: hovedlus c
- Estonian: peatäi
- Faroese: høvuðlús f
- Finnish: päätäi (fi)
- German: Kopflaus (de) f
- Hindi: जूँ (hi) (jū̃)
- Igala: íná
- Irish: treaghdán m, míol gruaige m, babhdaí m
- Italian: pidocchio del capo m
- Khasi: ksi
- Korean: 머릿니 (meorinni)
- Lao: ເຫົາ (hao)
- Macedonian: во́шка f (vóška)
- Malay: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: hodelus m or f
- Nynorsk: hovudlus f
- Portuguese: piolho-da-cabeça m
- Romanian: păduche de cap
- Russian: головна́я вошь f (golovnája vošʹ)
- S'gaw Karen: သူၣ် (thoò)
- Saaroa: kucu'u
- Shan: ႁဝ် (shn) (hǎo)
- Spanish: piojo de la cabeza m
- Swedish: huvudlus (sv) c
- Thai: เหา (th) (hǎo)
- Unami: xaihu
- Vietnamese: chấy (vi), chí (vi)
- Welsh: lleuen pen f
- Yoruba: iná
- Yurok: mohkoh
- Zaghawa: we
- Zhuang: raeu
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