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wonder if there is a specific name for the crest in the upper lip of a human.
In Indonesian language, we don't have any name for that certain part of the body; but in one native language of ours (sundanese) we call it 'mamaungan'; refers to an old belief that people who don't have such a crest are considered a semi-human that can change their appearance into tigers.
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It's called the philtrum. Philtrum - Wikipedia
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Selamat datang! Ahmad. Anda akam mau menulis Bingley...argh, my former on-line helps for bahasa Indonesia seem to have disappeared. I want to say that you should send a Private Message as a halo to Bingley--dia tinggal Jakarta. (Sorry for the poor quality of my bahasa I.)
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Yes, it is selamat makan. But what does it matter when the food is so good. (and there are so many different 'dialects'? 'languages'?)
I love the tahu telor and the ajam rudjak , not to mention the gadu gadu, the lontong and the sajur lodeh. Ikan Bali or ikan sambal goreng. And all the rest of it.
We don't have a word for the part between nose and mouth at all either, Ahmad.
Philtrum sounds very medical to me.
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Philtrum is based on phil(ia) --love --since the spot (just above the lip is the place to put a love potion.. (so when you are kissed, the potion would be transfered.)
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I've also seen the term infranasal depression for philtrum. Alleged words in German Oberlipperinne and Japanese and Chinese 人中 can be found by googling.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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an old belief that people who don't have such a crest are considered a semi-human that can change their appearance into tigers.
That's a neat belief. In Judeo-Christian legend, there's a story about how the angel Gabriel forms the philtrum by placing his finger over a baby's lip to quiet them from crying for the first time.
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Person middle?Yup. I did find it in one reputable online Japanese-English dictionary Jim Breen's WWWJDIC. 人中 【じんちゅう】 (n) (1) in company; among people; (2) philtrum (groove in the upper lip that runs from the bottom of the nose to the lip) Also, if you search on the hanzi/kanji in Google, you'll find discussions of the word as an anatomical term.
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That's the problem with finding a word for it. I mean philtrum is plain latin. Philtre:love potion," 1587, from M.Fr. philtre (1568), from L. philtrum, from Gk. philtron "love-charm," lit. "to make oneself beloved," from philein "to love" (from philos "loving") + instrumental suffix -tron. Helen! seems a doubtful word as Lippe and lip(D.)only mean lip, those two parts of the mouth where many women put lipstick on. If I would translate this Oberlipperinne to an in Dutch non existing word : bovenlipgleufje people could confuse it with a hare-lip. Oberlipperinne to: bovenlipbinnenste would mean the inside of the upper lip. That's how I read the German word too. Or would the German word for that be Oberlipperinnenste?
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