A pair of sunglasses could hide a stye.
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Stye
//ˈstaɪ//
Synonyms for "stye" (6 found)
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Translations
89 translations across 58 languages.
Aromanian
1 entries- ulcior noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- itdirsəyi noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
Belarusian
1 entries- ячме́нь noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
Bikol Central
1 entries- kulatoy noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
Bulgarian
1 entries- ечеми́к noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
Catalan
1 entries- urçol noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 偷針眼 /偷针眼 noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
- 針眼 /针眼 noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
- 麥粒腫 /麦粒肿 noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
Czech
1 entries- ječné zrno noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
Danish
1 entries- bygkorn noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
Dutch
2 entries- stijg noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
- strontje noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
Eastern Mari
1 entries- шинча шож noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
Esperanto
1 entries- hordeolo noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
Estonian
1 entries- odraiva noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
Finnish
1 entries- näärännäppy noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
French
2 entries- compère loriot noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
- orgelet noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
Friulian
1 entries- vuarbit noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
Gagauz
1 entries- arpacık noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
Galician
4 entries- orizó noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
- orzón noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
- tirizó noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
- toromelo noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
German
2 entries- Gerstenkorn noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
- Hordeolum noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
Greek
2 entries- κριθή noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
- κριθαράκι noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
Hungarian
1 entries- árpa noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
Indonesian
1 entries- ketimbir noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
Ingrian
1 entries- koirannännä noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
Irish
1 entries- sleamhnán noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
Italian
1 entries- orzaiolo noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
Japanese
2 entries- ̼ものもらい noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
- 麦粒腫 noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
Karakalpak
1 entries- terisken noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
Kazakh
1 entries- теріскен noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
Komi-Zyrian
2 entries- понкольк noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
- понпуш noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
Korean
2 entries- 다래끼 noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
- 맥립종 noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
Latin
2 entries- hordeolus noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
- varulus noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
Lithuanian
1 entries- miežis noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Weeschësser noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
Macedonian
1 entries- јачменче noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
Māori
1 entries- kiritoi noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
Northern Sami
1 entries- lottáš noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
Norwegian
1 entries- byggkorn noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
Norwegian Nynorsk
3 entries- byggkorn noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
- hordeolum noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
- sti noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- آرپهجق noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
Pannonian Rusyn
1 entries- ярец noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
Persian
1 entries- گل مژه noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
Polish
1 entries- jęczmień noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
Portuguese
3 entries- hordéolo noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
- terçol noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
- treçolho noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
Romanian
1 entries- urcior noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
Russian
1 entries- ячме́нь noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- ječmenac noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
- čmičak noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
- чмичак noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
- јечменац noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
Sicilian
2 entries- agghialoru noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
- occhialoru noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
Slovak
1 entries- jačmenné zrno noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
Spanish
4 entries- ansuelo noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
- orzuelo noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
- tutupiche noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
- urzuelo noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
Swedish
1 entries- vagel noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
Tagalog
1 entries- kuliti noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
Thai
1 entries- กุ้งยิง noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
Turkish
1 entries- arpacık noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
Udmurt
1 entries- йыды noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
Ukrainian
1 entries- ячмі́нь noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
Unami
1 entries- tuhënëshènkw noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
Venetan
4 entries- orbegoło noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
- orbioło noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
- orxoło noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
- rebegoło noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
Welsh
2 entries- llefelyn noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
- llefrithen noun (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
A sty or stye is commonly caused by staphlycoccus bacteria that along with dead skin cells clog glands in your eyelids, along the lash line.
Source: tatoeba (9518616)
have a stye
Source: wiktionary
suffer from a stye
Source: wiktionary
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