beige

(Angielski)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.
2. (countable, uncountable) Debeige; a kind of woollen or mixed dress goods.

Adj

1. Having a slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.
2. (informal) Comfortably dull and unadventurous, in a way that suggests middle-class suburbia.

Wymawiane jako (IPA)

/ˈbeɪʒ/

Etymologia (Angielski)

Pokrewny z francuski: bis

Pokrewny z kataloński: bis

Pokrewny z włoski: bigio

In summary

Unadapted borrowing from French (dialectal) beige, from Old French bege (“color of undyed wool or cotton”), from an Alpine language (compare Franco-Provençal bézho, Romansch besch (“dull grey”)), from Vulgar Latin *bysseus (“cottony grey”) (compare French bis, Catalan bis, Italian bigio), from Late Latin byssus (“cotton”), from Ancient Greek βύσσος (bússos, “cotton homespun”), from Semitic (compare Hebrew/Aramaic בוץ (būṣ)). Doublet of bice.

Koncepcje

beż

beżowy

beżowo

Synonimy

ecru

light brown

off-white

cream-colored

stone

🪨

tan

milky

light gray

Tłumaczenia

beige

beige

beige

beige

μπεζ

beige

Beige

bej

بيج

beix

bege

bigio

beige

beis

بِيج