| Example in Catalan | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Per tallar la carn, el pa, el formatge, i per pelar les taronges, general. | To cut bread, meat or cheese and to peel oranges, General. |
| Deixa que ho entengui. Et pago un seminari d'empresa, i tu aprens a pelar plàtans? | So , I 'll buy business seminar on you, and you learn to peel a banana ? |
| Madame LaLaurie, deu haver trigat tota la tarda per pelar aquest raïm. | Madame LaLaurie, it must have taken you all afternoon to peel these grapes. |
| Tothom parla quan els començo a pelar. | Everyone talks when I start peeling them. |
| Vol que peli un plàtan. | And then he'll want me to peel a banana. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic | بشر,قشر | Azeri | soymaq |
| Danish | pille, skalle | Dutch | afpellen, afschillen, bladderen, jassen, pellen, penaliseren, schillen, vervellen |
| English | peel | Esperanto | senŝeligi |
| Faroese | flysa | Finnish | kuoria |
| French | peler | German | pellen, schälen |
| Greek | ξεφλουδίζω, ξεφορμάρω, ξεφουρνίζω, ξεφράζω, ξεφτίζω, ξεφτιλίζω | Hawaiian | māihi |
| Hungarian | hámlik, hámoz | Icelandic | skræla |
| Indonesian | mengelupas, mengupas | Italian | dipelare, mondare, sbucciare |
| Japanese | 剥く | Lithuanian | lupti |
| Macedonian | излупи, лупи | Norwegian | skrella, skrelle |
| Polish | korować, obierać, obrać, odwarstwiać, złuszczyć | Portuguese | descascar |
| Russian | лупить, облупить, облупиться, облупливать, облупливаться | Spanish | descascarar, mondar, pelar |
| Swedish | skala | Thai | ปอก, ลอก, เลาะ |
| Turkish | soymak |