yellow

Reikšmė (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

Tariamas kaip (IPA)

/ˈjɛl.əʊ/

Etimologija (English)

Inherited from Vidurio Anglijos: yelow

Inherited from senoji anglų: ġeolwe

Inherited from senoji anglų: ġeolu

Cognate with valų: gwelw

Cognate with lotynų: helvus

Cognate with airių: geal

Cognate with italų: giallo

Cognate with lietuvių: žalias

Cognate with senovės graikų: χλωρός

Cognate with persų: زرد

Cognate with sanskritas: हरि

Cognate with rusų: жёлтый

Cognate with rusų: зелёный

Cognate with vokiečių: gelb

Cognate with olandų: geel

Inherited from senoji anglų: 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.

Sakiniai

Do not cross the yellow line .

Neperženkite geltonos linijos.

A young girl is mixing something yellow in a bowl .

Jauna mergina dubenyje maišo ką nors geltonos.

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

„Spectre“ bėga, o Hikaru sugeba sumažinti ir užfiksuoti geltoną.