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beige
English
Etymology
Borrowed 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 bìgio), from Late Latin byssus 'cotton', from Ancient Greek ?????? (bússos) 'cotton homespun', from Semitic (compare Hebrew/Aramaic ???? (b??)). Doublet of bice.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?be??/, /?be?d?/
- Rhymes: -e??, -e?d?
Noun
beige (countable and uncountable, plural beiges)
- A slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.
- Debeige; a kind of woollen or mixed dress goods.
Translations
Adjective
beige (comparative beiger or more beige, superlative beigest or most beige)
- Having a slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.
- (informal) Comfortably dull and unadventurous, in a way that suggests middle-class suburbia.
Synonyms
bland, indistinct, colorless, drab
Derived terms
- Beige Book
Translations
See also
- Appendix:Colors
Further reading
- beige on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch beige, from French beige.
Adjective
beige (attributive beige, comparative beiger, superlative beigeste)
- beige
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French beige, from Middle French beige, from Old French bege.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?b????/
- Hyphenation: bei?ge
Adjective
beige (comparative beiger, superlative meest beige or beigest)
- beige
Inflection
Derived terms
- beigeachtig
Finnish
Alternative forms
- beesi, bees
Etymology
Borrowed from French beige.
Adjective
beige (comparative beigempi, superlative beigein)
- beige
Declension
Noun
beige
- beige (color)
Declension
French
Etymology
From Old French bege.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b??/
Adjective
beige (plural beiges)
- beige
Descendants
Further reading
- “beige” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
German
Etymology 1
Borrowed from French beige.
Pronunciation
- Predicative form: IPA(key): /be??/, /b???/
- Inflected forms: IPA(key): /be???/, /b????/, /be???/, /b????/
- Rhymes: -e???, -e??, -???, -????, -e???, -????
Adjective
beige (not comparable)
- beige
Usage notes
Beige is inflected like a regular adjective in pronunciation. However, since its basic form is written with a mute -e, the inflectional ending -e is not visible in writing: das beige [be???] Haus – the beige house.
The other inflectional endings are visible: in dem beigen Haus – in the beige house.
Declension
Related terms
- Beige
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ba????/
- Hyphenation: bei?ge
Verb
beige
- first-person singular present indicative of beigen
- first-person singular present subjunctive of beigen
- third-person singular present subjunctive of beigen
- second-person singular imperative of beigen
Further reading
- “beige” in Duden online
Luxembourgish
Etymology
Borrowed from French beige.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?be??/
Adjective
beige (masculine beigen, neuter beiget, comparative méi beige, superlative am beigesten)
- beige
Declension
This adjective needs an inflection-table template.
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
- besj (alternative spelling)
Adjective
beige (singular and plural beige)
- beige
References
- “beige” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
- besj (alternative spelling)
Adjective
beige (singular and plural beige, comparative beigare, indefinite superlative beigast, definite superlative beigaste)
- beige
References
- “beige” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?bei?/, [?bei??]
- IPA(key): /?beis/, [?bei?s]
Adjective
beige (invariable)
- Alternative form of beis
Noun
beige m (uncountable)
- Alternative form of beis
Further reading
- “beige” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
Swedish
Etymology
Attested from 1895. Borrowed from French beige. The slang definition is likely associated to the perceived blandness of the color.
Pronunciation
- (Sweden) IPA(key): /be??/, /b???/
- Rhymes: -e??, -???
Adjective
beige
- beige.
- (slang) boring, uninteresting, negative.
Declension
beige From the web:
- what beige goes with agreeable gray
- what beige goes with repose gray
- what beige color goes with gray
- what beige mean
- what beige goes with revere pewter
- what beige goes with
- what beige colors
- what beige color means
beigel
English
Noun
beigel (plural beigels)
- (Britain) Alternative spelling of bagel
Anagrams
- Belgie, Biegel, Geibel
beigel From the web:
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