brown

Bedeutung (Englisch)

Noun

1. A colour like that of chocolate or coffee.
2. One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 4 points.
3. Black tar heroin.
4. (slang) A copper coin.
5. A brown horse or other animal.
6. (informal) A person of Latino, Middle Eastern or South Asian descent; a brown-skinned person; someone of mulatto or biracial appearance.
7. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of subfamily Satyrinae (formerly the family Satyridae).
8. Any of certain species of nymphalid butterflies of subfamily Satyrinae, such as those of the genera Heteronympha and Melanitis.
9. (informal) A brown trout (Salmo trutta).
10. A mass of birds or animals that may be indiscriminately fired at.

Adj

1. Having a brown colour.
2. (obsolete) Gloomy.
3. Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.
4. Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.
5. Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.

Verb

1. To become brown.
2. To cook something until it becomes brown.
3. To tan.
4. To make brown or dusky.
5. To give a bright brown colour to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coating of oxide on their surface.
6. (slang) To turn progressively more Hispanic or Latino, in the context of the population of a geographic region.

Konzepte

braun

Braun

kaffeebraun

bräunen

braune

grau

anbraten

rösten

schokoladenbraun

sonnengebräunt

sonnenverbrannt

aschfarben

Schwarzbraun

Karl Ferdinand Braun

Bronzefarbe

braun gebraten

graublau

kaffeefarben

graugrünlich

anschwitzen

😓

eingebrannt

anbräunen

braten

braungebrannt

bräunlich

Bronze

kastanienbraun

Synonyme

red

brownish

tan

tanned

tawny

grey

gray

embrown

sunburnt

bay

fulvous

bronzed

hazel

dark

browned

swarthy

blue

chocolate-brown

greyish-brown

reddish-brown

chestnut

🌰

suntan

dark-brown

yellow

brownness

snake

🐍

sunbathe

sunburned

suntanned

swarthiness

toast

unbleached

yellowish

ash-colored

ash-gray

get sunburnt

light brown

reddish brown

very thin

sunburn

ash-coloured

reddish black

be black

be dark-complexioned

palm colour

vulture plume

auburn

partly webbed

bittern

black

bronze

brunette

char

darken

dark red

dark-skinned

dinginess

dun

dustiness

frog

🐸

fry

gloomy

grizzly

leaden

light blue

orange

🍊

roast

rotten

saute

sear

sepia

serious

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/bɹaʊn/

Etymologie (Englisch)

Geerbt von Mittelenglisch: broun

Geerbt von Altenglisch: brūn

Verwandt mit Niederländisch: bruin

Verwandt mit Deutsch: braun

Verwandt mit Altgriechisch: φρύνη

Verwandt mit Latein: brunneus

Verwandt mit Litauisch: bė́ras

Verwandt mit Sanskrit: बभ्रु

Verwandt mit Westfriesisch: brún

In summary

From Middle English broun, from Old English brūn (“brown; dark; dusky”), from Proto-West Germanic *brūn, from Proto-Germanic *brūnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH-. Doublet of bruin.
cognates
* Dutch bruin
* German braun
* Ancient Greek φρύνη (phrúnē), φρῦνος (phrûnos, “toad”)
* Latin brunneus (“brown”)
* Lithuanian bė́ras (“brown”)
* Sanskrit बभ्रु (babhrú, “reddish-brown”)
* West Frisian brún