| Example in Malay | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| - Dilengkapi dengan kuas, sisir ... | - Fitted up with brushes, combs... |
| “Ketika angin bergerak seperti sisir Melalui ladang gandum” “mengangkat seratus selendang berwarna-warni” | "When the wind moves like a comb Through the fields of wheat" "It lifts a hundred colourful scarves" |
| Ada sisir di belakang sana. | That was a steer comb back there. |
| Istri saya sisir rambut dan bubuk wajahnya dengan debu kuning. | My wife combs her hair and powders her face with yellow dust. |
| Ini namanya sisir. | This is called a comb. |
| 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 |
| Indonesian | menyisir | Italian | pettinare |
| Japanese | 解かす, 梳る | Lithuanian | sušukuoti, šukuoti, šukuotis |
| Macedonian | исчешла, чешла | 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 |