скулђ cheekbone

На скџлах у негћ вІступили крђсные пїтна. Red blotches stood out on his cheekbones.

Semantics

This entry is concerned with the word скулђ, referring to the zygomatic bone on the human face, and also to the part of that bone below the eye, and to the area of the cheek overlying this bone. For some speakers, this area extends all the way down to the lower jaw; in fact, according to the dictionary by Владќмир Дђль, «Толкћвый словђрь живћго великорџсского языкђ» published in 1880-1882, one of the meanings of the word скулђ is "jaw." This word does not refer to animals.

Morphology

скулђ ES f.in.noun

Use of prepositions: со vs. с

The variant со rather than с is used with the word скулђ.

Syntax

Syntactic actants

Actant 1: whose cheekbone it is
(a) Genitive
(b) Possessive
Скџлы Николђя сќльно выступђли над ввалќвшимися щекђми. Nikolai's cheekbones jutted sharply out over his haggard cheeks.
Её прђвая скулђ былђ разбќта до крћви. Her right cheekbone was bruised and bloody.
NB When the word скулђ functions as a subject and does not have a descriptive modifier, the construction скулђ у + Genitive is often preferred to (a) and (b), above:
Скџлы у Николђя сќльно выступђли над ввалќвшимися щекђми. Nikolai's cheekbones jutted sharply out over his haggard cheeks.

Restrictive modifiers

(a) adjectival modifier
лљвая/прђвая скулђ the left/right cheekbone
Прђвая скулђ у неё былђ разбќта до крћви. Her right cheekbone was bruised and bloody.

Lexical Relationships

Syntactic derivatives

скуловћй Anatomical malar
скуловђя кћсть zygomatic bone
-скџлый pertaining to the cheekbone
широкоскџлый having broad cheekbones

Appearance

ширћкие скџлы broad cheekbones
широкоскџлый having broad cheekbones
скулђстое лицћ a face with broad cheekbones
скулђстый having prominent cheekbones
квадрђтные скџлы square cheekbones
высћкие скџлы high cheekbones
выступђть [no Pf.]: у Ng скџлыn (сќльно) выступђют N's cheekbones protrude (sharply)
(сќльно) выступђющие скџлы (very) prominent cheekbones
выдавђться [no Pf.]: у Ng скџлыn выдаєтся N's cheekbones jut out
ћстрые скџлы sharp cheekbones
худІе скџлы thin cheekbones
бІть обтїнуты: у Ng скџлыn (тџго) обтїнуты кћжейi N's skin is stretched (tightly) over his cheekbones
Лицћ больнћго стрђшно осџнулось, скџлы бІли тџго обтїнуты кћжей. The invalid's face had grown terribly thin, the skin was stretched tightly across his cheekbones.

Conditions caused by emotions

выступђть/вІступить: у Ng на скџлахp вІступили (крђсные) пїтнаn (or румїнецn) (red) blotches broke out on N's cheekbones
NB The above expression is usually used to describe a state of rage, shame, embarrassment, or agitation.
ходќть/заходќть [Pf-begin]: у Ng желвакќn хћдят (по скџламd) the muscles around N's cheekbones are tensed
NB The above expression is used only in reference to men. It usually describes a state of contained rage.

Inflicting injuries

двќнуть [no Pf.] Nd по скулљd Colloquial; to smash/punch N in the face
ударїть/удђрить Na по скулљd
удђр в скулџa a punch in the face
разбивђть/разбќть Nd/(себљd) скулџa to bloody N's/one's cheekbone
синїк на скулљp a bruise on the cheekbone
стђвить/постђвить Nd/(себљd) синїкa на скулљp to give N/oneself a bruise on his/one's cheekbone
свернџть [no Impf.] Nd скулџa нђ бокa (or нђ сторонуa) Colloquial;
своротќть [no Impf.] Nd скулџa нђ бокa (or нђ сторонуa) Colloquial 		to dislocate N's jaw
NB Note that the expressions свернџть скулџ and своротќть скулџ, above, are used by those speakers for whom the word скулђ includes the jaw.

Sample texts

Всё лицћ бІло смџгло, изнуренћ недџгом; ширћкие скџлы выступђли сќльно над опђвшими под нќми щекђми. [Н. Гћголь, Тарђс Бџльба] The face was swarthy, worn by illness; the broad cheekbones jutted out sharply over the sunken cheeks. [N. Gogol, "Taras Bulba"]
И Пљрец удђрил егћ. Удђрил, кђжется, по скулљ, с хрџстом, и вІвихнул себљ пђлец. [Стругђцкие, Улќтка на склћне] And Pepper hit him. It seems he delivered a crunching blow to the cheekbone and dislocated his finger. [A. and B. Strugatskiy, The Snail on the Slope]