A tear rolled down her cheek.
Source: tatoeba (34686)
Cheek
//t͡ʃiːk//
Synonyms for "cheek" (107 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (22)
Strong matches (32)
Related words (53)
Related word relations
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More general
8 entriesSynonyms
8 entriesRelated terms
2 entriesderived
43 entriesShowing 16 of 43 words.
derived from
1 entrieshas context
3 entriesis a
5 entriesmanner of
1 entriespart of
1 entriesrelated to
54 entriesShowing 16 of 54 words.
Translations
347 translations across 196 languages.
Abkhaz
1 entries- аʒамҩа noun (part of face)
Afrikaans
1 entries- wang noun (part of face)
Ahom
1 entries- 𑜀𑜧𑜪 noun (part of face)
Albanian
1 entries- faqe noun (part of face)
Amharic
1 entries- ጉንጭ noun (part of face)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- παρειά noun (part of face)
Angloromani
1 entries- cham noun (part of face)
Apabhramsa
2 entries- कवोल noun (part of face)
- 𑆑𑆮𑆾𑆬 noun (part of face)
Arabic
4 entries- حنك noun (part of face)
- خد noun (part of face)
- خَدّ noun (part of face)
- وَجْنَة noun (part of face)
Aragonese
1 entries- caixo noun (part of face)
Armenian
3 entries- այտ noun (part of face)
- թուշ noun (part of face)
- թուշ noun (colloquial: buttock)
Aromanian
3 entries- bucã noun (part of face)
- bucã noun (colloquial: buttock)
- maste noun (part of face)
Asturian
3 entries- carriellu noun (part of face)
- mexella noun (part of face)
- papu noun (part of face)
Avar
1 entries- кӏаркьен noun (part of face)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- ovurd noun (part of face)
- yanaq noun (part of face)
Bambara
1 entries- dafuruku noun (part of face)
Bangi
1 entries- litama noun (part of face)
Bashkir
1 entries- яңаҡ noun (part of face)
Basque
1 entries- masail noun (part of face)
Bau Bidayuh
2 entries- panding noun (part of face)
- paning noun (part of face)
Belarusian
2 entries- палі́чка noun (part of face)
- шчака́ noun (part of face)
Bengali
1 entries- গাল noun (part of face)
Bouyei
1 entries- jeemc noun (part of face)
Breton
2 entries- boc'h noun (part of face)
- jod noun (part of face)
Bulgarian
4 entries- бу́за noun (part of face)
- бу́за noun (colloquial: buttock)
- на́глост noun (colloquial: impudence)
- наха́лство noun (colloquial: impudence)
Burmese
1 entries- ပါး noun (part of face)
Catalan
2 entries- galta noun (part of face)
- natja noun (colloquial: buttock)
Central Dusun
1 entries- pingas noun (part of face)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- گووپ noun (part of face)
Central Melanau
1 entries- pipei noun (part of face)
Chechen
1 entries- бесни noun (part of face)
Chepang
1 entries- गेर् noun (part of face)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 面珠 noun (part of face)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 兩頰 /两颊 noun (part of face)
- 腮 noun (part of face)
- 腮 noun (part of face)
- 腮幫子 /腮帮子 noun (part of face)
Classical Nahuatl
1 entries- cantli noun (part of face)
Coptic
1 entries- ⲟⲩⲟϫⲓ noun (part of face)
Cornish
1 entries- bogh noun (part of face)
Cree
1 entries- mikwaskonew noun (part of face)
Cypriot Greek
2 entries- βούκκα noun (part of face)
- βούκκος noun (part of face)
Czech
2 entries- líčko noun (part of face)
- půlka noun (colloquial: buttock)
Danish
4 entries- balde noun (colloquial: buttock)
- frækhed noun (colloquial: impudence)
- kind noun (part of face)
- uforskammethed noun (colloquial: impudence)
Dari
1 entries- کومَه noun (part of face)
Dhivehi
1 entries- ކޯ noun (part of face)
Dolgan
1 entries- hyngäk noun (part of face)
Dongxiang
2 entries- qycha noun (part of face)
- qyža noun (part of face)
Dupaningan Agta
1 entries- padingel noun (part of face)
Dutch
4 entries- bak noun (part of face)
- bil noun (colloquial: buttock)
- kaak noun (part of face)
- koon noun (part of face)
Egyptian
1 entries- mn:n-D:t-D19 noun (part of face)
Erzya
1 entries- чамабока noun (part of face)
Esperanto
2 entries- sidvango noun (colloquial: buttock)
- vango noun (part of face)
Estonian
1 entries- põsk noun (part of face)
Finnish
4 entries- otsa noun (colloquial: impudence)
- pakara noun (colloquial: buttock)
- peppuposki noun (colloquial: buttock)
- poski noun (part of face)
French
4 entries- culot noun (colloquial: impudence)
- fesse noun (colloquial: buttock)
- joue noun (part of face)
- potence de bringuebale noun (nautical: a piece of wood cut out fork-shaped in which the brake is fastened)
Galician
4 entries- bochecho noun (part of face)
- cacha noun (colloquial: buttock)
- fazula noun (part of face)
- froia noun (part of face)
Georgian
2 entries- ლოყა noun (part of face)
- ღაწვი noun (part of face)
German
4 entries- Backe noun (part of face)
- Backe noun (colloquial: buttock)
- Mick noun (nautical: a piece of wood cut out fork-shaped in which the brake is fastened)
- Pumpenmick noun (nautical: a piece of wood cut out fork-shaped in which the brake is fastened)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐌺𐌹𐌽𐌽𐌿𐍃 noun (part of face)
Greek
4 entries- ζυγωματικά noun (part of face)
- θράσος noun (colloquial: impudence)
- κωλομέρι noun (colloquial: buttock)
- μάγουλο noun (part of face)
Greenlandic
2 entries- ersaq noun (part of face)
- uluak noun (part of face)
Gujarati
1 entries- ગાલ noun (part of face)
Guugu Yimidhirr
2 entries- gaman noun (part of face)
- nhumbul noun (part of face)
Haida
1 entries- ts'at noun (part of face)
Hausa
1 entries- kunci noun (part of face)
Hawaiian
1 entries- pāpālina noun (part of face)
Hebrew
1 entries- לֶחִי noun (part of face)
Higaonon
1 entries- pipi noun (part of face)
Hindi
1 entries- गाल noun (part of face)
Hungarian
1 entries- orca noun (part of face)
Icelandic
1 entries- kinn noun (part of face)
Ido
1 entries- vango noun (part of face)
Inari Sami
1 entries- nierâ noun (part of face)
Indonesian
1 entries- pipi noun (part of face)
Iranian Persian
2 entries- لُپ noun (part of face)
- گونِه noun (part of face)
Iranun
1 entries- bias noun (part of face)
Irish
4 entries- brusaireacht noun (colloquial: impudence)
- grua noun (part of face)
- leiceann noun (part of face)
- pluc noun (part of face)
Italian
4 entries- braccio noun (nautical: a piece of wood cut out fork-shaped in which the brake is fastened)
- braccio della tromba noun (nautical: a piece of wood cut out fork-shaped in which the brake is fastened)
- chiappa noun (colloquial: buttock)
- faccia tosta noun (colloquial: impudence)
Japanese
3 entries- ほっぺ noun (part of face)
- ほっぺた noun (part of face)
- 頬 noun (part of face)
Kabuverdianu
1 entries- buxexa noun (part of face)
Kalo Finnish Romani
1 entries- tšam noun (part of face)
Kannada
1 entries- ಗಲ್ಲ noun (part of face)
Karachay-Balkar
1 entries- жыякъ noun (part of face)
Kaurna
2 entries- marltaitya noun (part of face)
- marltawarta noun (part of face)
Kazakh
1 entries- бет noun (part of face)
Ket
3 entries- qoledäng noun (part of face)
- qoleräng noun (part of face)
- qolet noun (part of face)
Khiamniungan Naga
1 entries- ūo noun (part of face)
Khmer
1 entries- ថ្ពាល់ noun (part of face)
Kikuyu
2 entries- ikai noun (part of face)
- rũthĩa noun (part of face)
Kimaragang
1 entries- pingas noun (part of face)
Kituba
1 entries- ditama noun (part of face)
Korean
4 entries- 볼 noun (part of face)
- 볼기 noun (colloquial: buttock)
- 뺨 noun (part of face)
- 뻔뻔 noun (colloquial: impudence)
Kyrgyz
3 entries- бет noun (part of face)
- жаак noun (part of face)
- жаңак noun (part of face)
Ladin
1 entries- masela noun (part of face)
Lao
1 entries- ແກ້ມ noun (part of face)
Latgalian
1 entries- byuds noun (part of face)
Latin
2 entries- bucca noun (part of face)
- gena noun (part of face)
Latvian
1 entries- vaigs noun (part of face)
Lingala
1 entries- litama noun (part of face)
Lithuanian
1 entries- skrúostas noun (part of face)
Lotud
1 entries- pingas noun (part of face)
Lower Sorbian
1 entries- lico noun (part of face)
Luba-Kasai
1 entries- ditama noun (part of face)
Luba-Katanga
1 entries- ditama noun (part of face)
Lushootseed
1 entries- dxʷʔilaladiʔ noun (part of face)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Bak noun (part of face)
Lü
1 entries- ᦶᦂᧄᧉ noun (part of face)
Macedonian
2 entries- образ noun (part of face)
- фелка noun (colloquial: buttock)
Malay
1 entries- pipi noun (part of face)
Maltese
1 entries- ħadd noun (part of face)
Manchu
2 entries- ᡧᠠᡴᡧᠠᡥᠠ noun (part of face)
- ᡶᡠᠯᠴᡳᠨ noun (part of face)
Mansaka
1 entries- pisngi noun (part of face)
Marathi
1 entries- गाल noun (part of face)
Mazanderani
1 entries- بیج noun (part of face)
Middle English
1 entries- cheke noun (part of face)
Mingrelian
1 entries- ღვანწკი noun (part of face)
Mizo
1 entries- biang noun (part of face)
Moksha
1 entries- щёка noun (part of face)
Mongolian
1 entries- хацар noun (part of face)
Māori
4 entries- kuruhope noun (colloquial: buttock)
- peka noun (part of face)
- pāpāringa noun (part of face)
- reherehe noun (colloquial: buttock)
Nepali
1 entries- गाला noun (part of face)
Ngazidja Comorian
1 entries- travu noun (part of face)
Northern Kurdish
3 entries- alek noun (part of face)
- gep noun (part of face)
- qalçe noun (colloquial: buttock)
Northern Sami
1 entries- muohtu noun (part of face)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- kinn noun (part of face)
Occitan
1 entries- gauta noun (part of face)
Ojibwe
1 entries- ninow noun (part of face)
Old Church Slavonic
1 entries- ланита noun (part of face)
Oromo
1 entries- maddii noun (part of face)
Ottoman Turkish
4 entries- خد noun (part of face)
- رخ noun (part of face)
- عارض noun (part of face)
- پیشانی noun (colloquial: impudence)
Pali
1 entries- kapola noun (part of face)
Pannonian Rusyn
1 entries- лїцо noun (part of face)
Pashto
1 entries- باړخو noun (part of face)
Pennsylvania German
2 entries- Backe noun (part of face)
- Wange noun (part of face)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Bak noun (part of face)
Polish
1 entries- policzek noun (part of face)
Portuguese
4 entries- bochecha noun (part of face)
- bunda noun (colloquial: buttock)
- nádega noun (colloquial: buttock)
- picota noun (nautical: a piece of wood cut out fork-shaped in which the brake is fastened)
Prakrit
3 entries- 𑀓𑀯𑁄𑀮 noun (part of face)
- 𑀕𑀁𑀟 noun (part of face)
- 𑀕𑀮𑁆𑀮 noun (part of face)
Romani
1 entries- ćham noun (part of face)
Romanian
3 entries- bucă noun (part of face)
- bucă noun (colloquial: buttock)
- obraz noun (part of face)
Romansch
4 entries- massella noun (part of face)
- misseala noun (part of face)
- missela noun (part of face)
- missella noun (part of face)
Rungus
1 entries- porilling noun (part of face)
Russian
4 entries- мик noun (nautical: a piece of wood cut out fork-shaped in which the brake is fastened)
- на́глость noun (colloquial: impudence)
- наха́льство noun (colloquial: impudence)
- полупо́пие noun (colloquial: buttock)
Sabah Bisaya
1 entries- bingal noun (part of face)
Sanskrit
3 entries- see Thesaurus:गल्ल noun (part of face)
- कपोल noun (part of face)
- गण्ड noun (part of face)
Santali
1 entries- ᱛᱷᱚᱛᱱᱟ noun (part of face)
Sardinian
4 entries- cantelza noun (part of face)
- canterza noun (part of face)
- càvana noun (part of face)
- càvanu noun (part of face)
Scottish Gaelic
4 entries- aghaidh noun (colloquial: impudence)
- bathais noun (colloquial: impudence)
- gruaidh noun (part of face)
- pluic noun (part of face)
Sebop
1 entries- pinga noun (part of face)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- òbraz noun (part of face)
- о̀браз noun (part of face)
Shor
1 entries- наақ noun (part of face)
Sinhalese
1 entries- කම්මුල noun (part of face)
Skolt Sami
1 entries- njiõrr noun (part of face)
Slovak
2 entries- líce noun (part of face)
- tvár noun (part of face)
Slovene
1 entries- lice noun (part of face)
Somali
1 entries- dhaban noun (part of face)
Sotho
1 entries- lerama noun (part of face)
Southern Altai
1 entries- јаак noun (part of face)
Southern Sami
1 entries- searome noun (part of face)
Spanish
4 entries- cacha noun (part of face)
- cachete noun (part of face)
- carrillo noun (part of face)
- descaro noun (colloquial: impudence)
Svan
1 entries- ჰაყბა noun (part of face)
Swahili
2 entries- shavu noun (part of face)
- tako noun (colloquial: buttock)
Swedish
3 entries- kind noun (part of face)
- pumpknä noun (nautical: a piece of wood cut out fork-shaped in which the brake is fastened)
- skinka noun (colloquial: buttock)
Tagal Murut
1 entries- pingal noun (part of face)
Tagalog
1 entries- pisngi noun (part of face)
Tajik
1 entries- гуна noun (part of face)
Tamil
1 entries- கன்னம் noun (part of face)
Taos
1 entries- tʼàmų́na noun (part of face)
Tarifit
2 entries- agemmiz noun (part of face)
- ameggiz noun (part of face)
Tatar
1 entries- яңак noun (part of face)
Telugu
1 entries- చెంప noun (part of face)
Thai
1 entries- แก้ม noun (part of face)
Tibetan
1 entries- འགྲམ་པ noun (part of face)
Tigrinya
1 entries- ጉንጪ noun (part of face)
Timugon Murut
1 entries- pingas noun (part of face)
Turkish
2 entries- yanak noun (part of face)
- yanak noun (colloquial: buttock)
Turkmen
1 entries- ýaňak noun (part of face)
Tày
1 entries- kẻm noun (part of face)
Ukrainian
1 entries- щока́ noun (part of face)
Urdu
1 entries- گال noun (part of face)
Uyghur
1 entries- مەڭز noun (part of face)
Uzbek
1 entries- yonoq noun (part of face)
Venetan
1 entries- ganasa noun (part of face)
Vietnamese
2 entries- má noun (part of face)
- đít noun (colloquial: buttock)
Volapük
2 entries- cüg noun (part of face)
- glüet noun (colloquial: buttock)
Waray-Waray
1 entries- bay-hon noun (part of face)
Welsh
2 entries- boch noun (part of face)
- grudd noun (part of face)
West Coast Bajau
1 entries- papa noun (part of face)
West-Frisian
1 entries- wang noun (part of face)
White Hmong
1 entries- plhu noun (part of face)
Woiwurrung
1 entries- wang noun (part of face)
Wolof
1 entries- lex noun (part of face)
Xhosa
1 entries- isidlele noun (part of face)
Yakut
1 entries- иэдэс noun (part of face)
Yiddish
1 entries- באַק noun (part of face)
Yoruba
1 entries- ẹ̀rẹ̀kẹ́ noun (part of face)
Zhuang
1 entries- gemj noun (part of face)
Zulu
1 entries- isihlathi noun (part of face)
Sample sentences
22 total sentences available.
The girl kissed her father on the cheek.
Source: tatoeba (46479)
The puppy licked her on the cheek.
Source: tatoeba (47365)
The dead body was identified by a mole on the cheek.
Source: tatoeba (49643)
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