yellow

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) The color of sunflower petals and lemons; the color obtained by mixing green and red light, or by subtracting blue from white light; the color evoked by light of wavelength around 580 nm; one of the three primary colors in subtractive color systems.
2. (US, countable, uncountable) The middle 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. (countable, uncountable) One of the color balls used in snooker, with a value of 2 points.
4. (countable, uncountable) 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. (countable, uncountable) A yellow card.
6. (countable, uncountable) Any of various pierid butterflies of the subfamily Coliadinae, especially the yellow colored species. Compare sulphur.

Adj

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

Verb

1. (intransitive) To become yellow or yellower.
2. (transitive) To make (something) yellow or yellower.

Intj

Used to indicate that the speaker needs a temporary break from current sexual activity.

Conceptos

amarillo

amarilla

mono

amarillecer

cobarde

rosa

🌹

yema

gualdo

temeroso

😨

color dorado

anaranjado

🍊

amarillento

amarilloso

miedoso

😨

mona

yema ''f''

celoso

ocre

pálido

ponerse amarillo

Opuesto a

nonyellow, unyellow

Sinónimos

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

Traducciones

jaune

giallo

gelb

geel

amarelo

groc

sarı

κίτρινος

Gelb

flavus

أصفر

ingiallire

zer

jaunir

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈjɛl.əʊ/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: yelow

Heredado de inglés antiguo: ġeolwe

Heredado de inglés antiguo: ġeolu

Cognado con galés: gwelw

Cognado con latín: helvus

Cognado con irlandés: geal

Cognado con italiano: giallo

Cognado con lituano: žalias

Cognado con griego antiguo: χλωρός

Cognado con persa: زرد

Cognado con sánscrito: हरि

Cognado con ruso: жёлтый

Cognado con ruso: зелёный

Cognado con alemán: gelb

Cognado con neerlandés: geel

Heredado de inglés antiguo: 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”).
Cognate with Scots yella (“yellow”), North Frisian gööl, güül (“yellow”), Saterland Frisian jeel (“yellow”), West Frisian giel (“yellow”), Cimbrian gel, ghéel (“yellow”), Dutch geel (“yellow”), Dutch Low Saxon gael, gel (“yellow”), German gelb, gehl (“yellow”), German Low German gel, geel, gęl, gäl (“yellow”), Luxembourgish giel (“yellow”), Vilamovian gaoł (“yellow”), Yiddish געל (gel), געלב (gelb, “yellow”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish gul (“yellow”), Faroese and Icelandic gulur (“yellow”). Compare also Welsh gell (“bay, tawny”), 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”).
The verb is from Middle English yelwen, ȝalowen, ȝolewen, from Old English ġeolwian, from the adjective.

Oraciones

Do not cross the yellow line .

No cruce la línea amarilla.

A young girl is mixing something yellow in a bowl .

Una niña está mezclando algo amarillo en un tazón.

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

Spectre huye, y Hikaru logra reducir el tamaño y capturar el amarillo.