Meaning

7 senses
  1. (dialectal)The top of the head; the skull.

    Oberkopf

    the skin that covers the top of the head

  2. The part of the head where the hair grows from, or used to grow from.

    Kopfhaut

    скальпskalʹp, ко́жа головы́kóža golový

  3. The part of the head where the hair grows from, or used to grow from.

    (historical)A part of the skin of the head, with the hair attached, formerly cut or torn off from an enemy by warriors in some cultures as a token of victory.

    Some tribes used to collect scalps to prove how many of the enemy they had killed in battle.

    Skalp

    скальпskalʹp

  4. The skin of the head of a stag, to which the horns are attached.

  5. (figuratively)A victory, especially at the expense of someone else.

  6. (Scotland)A bed or stratum of shellfish.

  7. (figuratively)The top; the summit.

Examples

17 sentences
  1. My scalp is itchy.

    deMir juckt die Kopfhaut. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  2. My scalp is very itchy.

    ruКожа у меня на голове очень чешется. — Tonari

    deMeine Kopfhaut juckt. — xtofu80

  3. My scalp is really itchy.

  4. My scalp itches.

  5. It's a scalp disease.

    deDas ist eine Erkrankung der Kopfhaut. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
part of head where the hair grows:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
top of the head:
part of head where the hair grows:
part of the skin of the head of an enemy kept as a trophy:

Origin

From Middle English scalp, skalp, scalpe (“crown of the head; skull”). Originally a northe

From Middle English scalp, skalp, scalpe (“crown of the head; skull”). Originally a northern word, and therefore probably from a North Germanic source, although the sense-development is unclear; compare Sylt North Frisian Skolp (“dandruff”), Old Norse skálpr (“sheath”), Old Swedish skalp, Dutch schelp (“shell”).

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