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English
Etymology
From Middle English white-heered, white-harid, white-herede, whyte-harede, white hared, equivalent to white + haired. Compare Old Norse hvít-hárr and hvít-hærðr (“white-haired”).
Adjective
white-haired (not comparable)
- Having white hair, especially from old age.
Synonyms
Translations
having white hair
- Arabic: أَشْيَب (ʔašyab)
- Catalan: pèl-blanc (ca), cabellblanc (ca) m
- Danish: hvidhåret
- Finnish: valkotukkainen, valkohapsinen
- French: chenu (fr)
- Galician: cano
- German: weißhaarig (de)
- Greek:
- Ancient: λευκόθριξ (leukóthrix)
- Hungarian: fehér/ősz hajú
- Irish: bán (ga), fionn, bánfholtach, ceannbhán, fionngheal, ceanngheal
- Japanese: 白髪の (しらがの, shiraga no)
- Korean: 백발(白髪)의 (baekbar-ui)
- Macedonian: бе́локос (bélokos)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: hvithåret, hvithåra, kvithåret, kvithåra
- Nynorsk: kvithåra
- Polish: białowłosy (pl)
- Portuguese: grisalho (pt), cão (pt)
- Spanish: peliblanco (es)
- Swedish: vithårig (sv)
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