different between beige vs camel

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)

1. A slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.

2. Debeige; a kind of woollen or mixed dress goods.

Translations

Adjective

beige (comparative beiger or more beige, superlative beigest or most beige)

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.

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)

1. 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)

1. beige

Inflection

Derived terms

• beigeachtig

Finnish

Alternative forms

• beesi, bees

Etymology

Borrowed from French beige.

Adjective

beige (comparative beigempi, superlative beigein)

1. beige

Declension

Noun

beige

1. beige (color)

Declension

French

Etymology

From Old French bege.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??/

Adjective

beige (plural beiges)

1. 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)

1. 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

1. first-person singular present indicative of beigen
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of beigen
3. third-person singular present subjunctive of beigen
4. 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)

1. beige

Declension

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• besj (alternative spelling)

Adjective

beige (singular and plural beige)

1. 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)

1. beige

References

• “beige” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bei?/, [?bei??]

• IPA^(key): /?beis/, [?bei?s]

Adjective

beige (invariable)

1. Alternative form of beis

Noun

beige m (uncountable)

1. 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

1. beige.

2. (slang) boring, uninteresting, negative.

Declension

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kæm?l/
• Rhymes: -æm?l
• Hyphenation: ca?mel

Etymology 1

From Middle English camel, through Old Northern French camel (Old French chamel, modern French chameau), from Latin cam?lus, from Ancient Greek ??????? (kám?los), from a Semitic source, ultimately from Proto-Semitic *gamal-; compare Arabic ?????? (jamal) and Hebrew ???? (gamál).

Noun

camel (plural camels)

1. A beast of burden, much used in desert areas, of the genus Camelus.

   Synonym: (India (Anglo-Indian), Australia, colloquial) oont

2. A light brownish color, like that of a camel (also called camel brown).

3. Loaded vessels lashed tightly, one on each side of another vessel, and then emptied to reduce the draught of the ship in the middle.

Coordinate terms

• (Camelids) camelid; camel (dromedary, Bactrian camel), llama, guanaco, alpaca, vicuna/vicuña ^{(Category: en:Camelids)}

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Coeur d'Alene: keemel

Translations

See also

Adjective

camel (not comparable)

1. Of a light brown color like that of a camel.
   • 1999, New Woman, volume 29, page 212:

     […] try to select accessories that are in the same color family as your coat," says millinery designer Patricia Underwood. To pick up the weave of a brown tweed jacket, for instance, choose a camel hat and black gloves.

Etymology 2

From Afrikaans kameel

Noun

camel (plural camels)

2. (South Africa, obsolete) Synonym of giraffe

Further reading

• camel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Malec, calme, macle

Middle English

Alternative forms

• camelle, kamel, kamell, camell, cammel, camayle, camaile, camaille, cameylle, camele
• (From Central Old French) chamel, chamayle, schamelle, chamelle, chamell, chamoil

Etymology

From Old Northern French camel, cameil, from Latin cam?lus. Some forms are from or influenced by Old French chamel, chamoil.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kam?l/, /kam???l/, /kam??i?l/
• (From Central Old French) IPA^(key): /?t?am?l/, /t?am???l/, /t?am??i?l/

Noun

camel (plural cameles)

1. camel (mammal of the genus Camelus)

Descendants

• English: camel
• Scots: camel

References

• “cam??l, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-1.

Old French

Etymology

See chamel.

Noun

camel m (oblique plural cameus, nominative singular cameus, nominative plural camel)

1. (Old Northern French, Anglo-Norman) camel

Tocharian B

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)Compare Tocharian A cmol.

Noun

camel ?

1. birth