Sasha Ivanov
Senior Member
Russian
Please, help me with what native speakers call these things, with the non-scientific terminology.
1) brown, small to medium specks on your skin, there can be one, there can be very many. They usually don't protrude, but there are instances when this speck, which at a younger age looked very sensual, above your upper lip, it starts to grow and protrude and ends up as a brown ball of any size, with hairs sticking out of it. I google translated it it it says, nevus, moles, birthmarks, beauty marks.
2) they are the grown version of the first thing, or they are from birth very round and protruding, happen in any place on the body, frequently on the nose. We call them warts.
3) these, I'm not interested in, they are bigger areas of skin pigmentation, not protruding, happen anywhere on the body. My dictionary says: birthmarks. But my American friend told me the 1) thing can easily be called a birthmark. So, there's confusion.
I would like to know the specific names, as in Russian. I wouldn't call a tiny cute sexy mole on your lip a birthmark (in Russian). In Russian a birthmark must have at least the area of a coin.
Second, in an American movie I saw an actor with a huge brown ball, with hair sticking out of it. And people called it "a mole!". So, as I understand it, you don't call them warts, you call them "moles". So you call both a little sexy dot, and a gross growth with hairs, "a mole"?
If somebody said, "She has such a sensual mole on her lip", how can I be sure it is not a wart?
1) brown, small to medium specks on your skin, there can be one, there can be very many. They usually don't protrude, but there are instances when this speck, which at a younger age looked very sensual, above your upper lip, it starts to grow and protrude and ends up as a brown ball of any size, with hairs sticking out of it. I google translated it it it says, nevus, moles, birthmarks, beauty marks.
2) they are the grown version of the first thing, or they are from birth very round and protruding, happen in any place on the body, frequently on the nose. We call them warts.
3) these, I'm not interested in, they are bigger areas of skin pigmentation, not protruding, happen anywhere on the body. My dictionary says: birthmarks. But my American friend told me the 1) thing can easily be called a birthmark. So, there's confusion.
I would like to know the specific names, as in Russian. I wouldn't call a tiny cute sexy mole on your lip a birthmark (in Russian). In Russian a birthmark must have at least the area of a coin.
Second, in an American movie I saw an actor with a huge brown ball, with hair sticking out of it. And people called it "a mole!". So, as I understand it, you don't call them warts, you call them "moles". So you call both a little sexy dot, and a gross growth with hairs, "a mole"?
If somebody said, "She has such a sensual mole on her lip", how can I be sure it is not a wart?
