| Example in Indonesian | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Aku tak peduli jika kalian harus menyisir setiap inchi di Kalifornia. | I don't care if we have to comb every inch of California. |
| Kita menyisir perpustakaan, mencari informasi tentang bahasa Elamite. | We comb through the library, see if we can find anything else on Elamite. |
| Tapi kami akan terus menyisir area ini. | But we'll keep combing the area. |
| Kami sudah menyisir subrutin yang terpisah. | We've combed the parsing subroutine. |
| Aku akan menyisir setiap inci Atlantis. | I'll comb every inch of Atlantis. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic | مشط | Catalan | pentinar |
| Danish | rede | Dutch | kammen,uitkammen |
| English | comb | Esperanto | kombi |
| Estonian | kammima | Faroese | kemba |
| Finnish | kammata | French | peigner |
| German | durchkämmen, kämmen | Greek | χτενίζω, χτικιάζω, χτυποκαρδίζω, χύνομαι, χωματίζω, ψακώνω, ψάχνομαι |
| Hungarian | fésül | Icelandic | greiða |
| Italian | pettinare | Japanese | 解かす, 梳る |
| Lithuanian | sušukuoti, šukuoti, šukuotis | Macedonian | исчешла, чешла |
| Malay | menyisir, sisir | Norwegian | kjemme |
| Polish | czesać, naczesać, przeczesać, rozczesać, uczesać, wyczesać, zaczesywać | Portuguese | pentear |
| Quechua | ñaqch'ay | Romanian | dărăci, pieptăna |
| Russian | зачесать, зачёсывать, почесать, расчесать, чесать | Spanish | peinar |
| Swedish | kamma | Thai | หวี |
| Turkish | taramak |