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Parts of the face

Levantine Arabic Dialects


English translation:
Face, forehead, eyebrow, eyebrows, eye, eyes, nose, mouth, tongue, cheek, cheeks, skin, ear, ears, chin, hair

English translation:
Face, chin, cheek, cheeks, mouth, lip, lips, tongue, tooth, teeth, nose, eye, eyes, eyelashes, eyebrow, eyebrows, forehead, hair, neck, ear, ears, skin

English translation:
Face, forehead, eyebrow, eyebrows, eye, nose, mouth, lip, lips, tongue, tooth, teeth, cheek, skin, ear

English translation:
Face, forehead, eyebrow, eyebrows (dual), eyebrows, eye, eyes, nose, mouth, tongue, cheek, cheeks (dual), cheeks, skin, ear, chin, hair

Egyptian Arabic Dialects


English translation:
Face, the face, eyebrows, the eyebrows, eye, the eye, eyes (dual), the eye (dual), eyes (plural), the eyes, nose, the nose, mouth, the mouth, tooth, teeth, the tooth, the teeth, tongue, the tongue, cheek, cheeks, the cheek, the cheeks, skin (of the face), the skin (of the face)

North African Arabic Dialects


English translation:
Face, the face, eyebrows, the eyebrows, eye, the eye, eyes (plural), the eye (plural), eyes (dual), the eye (dual), nose, the nose, mouth, the mouth, tooth, teeth, the tooth, the teeth, tongue, the tongue, cheek, cheeks, the cheek, the cheeks, skin, the skin

English translation:
The face, the forehead/the forehead, the eyebrows, the eye, the eyes (plural), the nose, the mouth, the teeth, the tongue, the cheeks

English translation:
The face, the forehead, the eyebrows, the eye, the eyes, the nose, the mouth, the teeth, the tongue, the cheeks

English translation:
Face, forehead, eyebrow, eyebrows, eye, eyes, nose, tooth, teeth, tongue, mouth, cheek, cheeks

English translation:
The face, the forehead, the eyebrow, the eyebrows, the eye, the eyes, the nose/the nose, the tooth, the teeth, the tongue, the cheek, the cheeks/the cheek, the cheeks

Other Dialects


English translation:
Face, the face, eyebrows, the eyebrows, eye, the eye, eyes (dual), the eye (dual), eyes, the eyes, nose, the nose, mouth, the mouth, tooth, teeth, the tooth, the teeth, tongue, the tongue, cheek, cheeks, the cheek, the cheeks, skin, the skin

English translation:
Face, the face, eyebrows, the eyebrows, eye, the eye, eyes (dual), the eye (dual), eyes, the eyes, nose, the nose, mouth, the mouth, tooth, the tooth, teeth, the teeth, tongue, the tongue, cheek, the cheek, cheeks, the cheeks, skin, the skin

English translation:
The face, the eyebrows, the eye, the eyes, the nose/the nose, the tooth, the teeth/the teeth, the mouth, the mouths, the tongue, the cheek, the cheeks, the skin, the eyelashes, the pupil, the facial hair, the ear, the earlobe