yellow

Betekenis (English)

Adj

1. Of a yellow hue.
2. (informal) Lacking courage.
3. Characterized by sensationalism, lurid content, and doubtful accuracy.
4. Of a hue attributed to Far East Asians, especially the Chinese.
5. Far East Asian (relating to Asian people).
6. Of mixed Aboriginal and Caucasian ancestry.
7. Synonym of high yellow
8. Related to the Liberal Democrats.
9. Related to the Free Democratic Party; a political party in Germany.

Noun

1. The colour of sunflower petals and lemons; the colour obtained by mixing green and red light, or by subtracting blue from white light.
2. The mid light in a set of three traffic lights, the lighting of which indicates that drivers should stop short of the intersection if it is safe to do so.
3. One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 2 points.
4. One of two groups of object balls, or a ball from that group, as used in the principally British version of pool that makes use of unnumbered balls (the (yellow(s) and red(s)); contrast stripes and solids in the originally American version with numbered balls).
5. A yellow card.
6. Any of various pierid butterflies of the subfamily Coliadinae, especially the yellow coloured species. Compare sulphur.

Verb

1. To become yellow or more yellow.
2. To make (something) yellow or more yellow.

Synonyms

green

light brown

golden

chicken

🐔

xanthous

amber

orange

🍊

yolk

waxen

fearful

😨

yellowed

yellowish

craven

timid

icteric

jaundiced

yellowness

faint-hearted

color yellow

pale

white-livered

cream

chickenhearted

spineless

light green

pusillanimous

red

yellow-bellied

scandalmongering

sensationalistic

blue

bright

brown

cowardly

be yellow

coward

lily-livered

cream-colored

gold-coloured

lead oxide

saffron-colored

turn color

yellow ochre

greenish yellow

fawn colour

vitelline

brilliant in hue

yellow light

weak kneed

boggler

lily livered

saffrony

cream-colored

cream-coloured

bashful

bird of paradise

colored

dark

dark yellow

dastard

dastardly

egg yolk

fainthearted

fox

🦊

funky

gold

grey

gutless

honeycomb

Huang He

litharge

luteous

mealymouthed

ochre

or

paint

pine

saffron

sheepish

shy

skittish

skulker

tan

timorous

turn

vitellus

white livered

xanthic

chicken hearted

become yellow

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈjɛl.əʊ/

Etimologie (English)

Inherited from Middle English: yelow

Inherited from Old English: ġeolwe

Inherited from Old English: ġeolu

Cognate with Wallies: gwelw

Cognate with Latyn: helvus

Cognate with Iers: geal

Cognate with Italiaans: giallo

Cognate with Litaus: žalias

Cognate with Antieke Grieks: χλωρός

Cognate with Persies: زرد

Cognate with Sanskrit: हरि

Cognate with Russies: жёлтый

Cognate with Russies: зелёный

Cognate with Duits: gelb

Cognate with Nederlands: geel

Inherited from Old English: ġeolwian

In summary

From Middle English yelwe, yelou, from Old English ġeolwe, oblique form of Old English ġeolu, from Proto-West Germanic *gelu, from Proto-Germanic *gelwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃wos, from *ǵʰelh₃- (“gleam, yellow”).
Compare Welsh gwelw (“pale”), Latin helvus (“dull yellow”), Irish geal (“white, bright”), Italian giallo (“yellow”) Lithuanian žalias (“green”), Ancient Greek χλωρός (khlōrós, “light green”), Persian زرد (zard, “yellow”), Sanskrit हरि (hari, “greenish-yellow”), Russian жёлтый (žóltyj, “yellow”), Russian зелёный (zeljónyj, “green”). Cognate with German gelb (“yellow”), Dutch geel (“yellow”).
The verb is from Old English ġeolwian, from the adjective.

Sinne

Do not cross the yellow line .

A young girl is mixing something yellow in a bowl .

Specter flees , and Hikaru manages to downsize and capture Yellow .