bleak

Mane (Îngilîzî)

Adj

1. Without color; pale; pallid.
2. Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.
3. Unhappy; cheerless; miserable; emotionally desolate.

Noun

A small European river fish (Alburnus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae.

Hevwate

dreary

dismal

chilly

cold

🥶

gloomy

desolate

somber

nasty

miserable

cheerless

horrible

sad

☹️

gaunt

dark

grim

dim

sullen

raw

ghastly

grisly

bare

barren

depressing

stark

obscure

lugubrious

exposed

black

morose

lonely

ungracious

sombre

uninhabited

cutting

drear

naked

unkind

lonesome

harsh

hopeless

distasteful

grievous

disconsolate

disagreeable

frosty

forlorn

deserted

desert

🏜️

dull

unpleasant

Werger

ablette

Ukelei

alver

alborella

trostlos

morne

yermo

öde

kahl

ψυχρός

Laube

naar

sombre

froid

🥶

Wekî (IPA) tê bilêvkirin

/bliːk/

Etîmolojî (Îngilîzî)

Ji Middle English mîras hatiye girtin: bleke

Ji Middle English mîras hatiye girtin: blak

Ji Old English mîras hatiye girtin: blǣc

Hevwate bi holendî: bleek

Hevwate bi nedersaksî: blek

Hevwate bi almanî: bleich

Hevwate bi danmarkî: bleg

Hevwate bi swêdî: blek

Hevwate bi norwecî (bokmål): bleik

Hevwate bi norwecî (nynorsk): bleik

Hevwate bi ferî: bleikur

Hevwate bi îzlendî: bleikur

Ji Old English mîras hatiye girtin: blǣġe

In summary

From Middle English bleke (also bleche, whence the English doublet bleach (“pale, bleak”)), and bleike (due to Old Norse), and earlier Middle English blak, blac (“pale, wan”), from Old English blǣc, blǣċ, blāc (“bleak, pale, pallid”) and Old Norse bleikr (“pale, whitish”), all from Proto-Germanic *blaikaz (“pale, shining”).
Cognate with Dutch bleek (“pale, wan, pallid”), Low German blek (“pale”), German bleich (“pale, wan, sallow”), Danish bleg (“pale”), Swedish blek (“pale, pallid”), Norwegian Bokmål bleik, blek (“pale”), Norwegian Nynorsk bleik (“pale”), Faroese bleikur (“pale”), Icelandic bleikur (“pale, pink”).