| Example in German | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Ich rechnete damit, dass er selber pellen muss. | I was banking on the fact he had to peel 'em. |
| Jede Woche pellen wir eine Schicht von der Zwiebel. | Each week we peel another layer off the onion. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic | بشر,قشر | Azeri | soymaq |
| Catalan | pelar | Danish | pille, skalle |
| Dutch | afpellen, afschillen, bladderen, jassen, pellen, penaliseren, schillen, vervellen | English | peel |
| Esperanto | senŝeligi | Faroese | flysa |
| Finnish | kuoria | French | peler |
| 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 |