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brown
English
Etymology
From Middle English broun, from Old English br?n (“brown; dark; dusky”), from Proto-Germanic *br?naz (compare West Frisian brún, Dutch bruin, German braun), from Proto-Indo-European *b?erH- (compare Ancient Greek ????? (phrún?), ?????? (phrûnos, “toad”); Latin brunneus (“brown”)), compare Lithuanian b??ras (“brown”), Sanskrit ????? (babhrú, “reddish-brown”)). Doublet of bruin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b?a?n/
- Rhymes: -a?n
Noun
brown (countable and uncountable, plural browns)
- (countable and uncountable) A colour like that of chocolate or coffee.
- (snooker, countable) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 4 points.
- (uncountable) Black tar heroin.
- (slang, archaic, countable) A copper coin.
- A brown horse or other animal.
- (sometimes capitalised, countable) A person of Middle Eastern, Latino or South Asian descent; a brown-skinned person; someone of mulatto or biracial appearance.
- (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of subfamily Satyrinae (formerly the family Satyridae).
- (entomology) Any of certain species of nymphalid butterflies of subfamily Satyrinae, such as those of the genera Heteronympha and Melanitis.
- (informal) A brown trout (Salmo trutta).
- (hunting, as "the brown") A mass of birds or animals that may be indiscriminately fired at.
- 1928, R. Pigot, Twenty-five Years Big Game Hunting (page 166)
- The temptation to have a shot into the brown was great. There was not a head there which was not a big one and the one by himself was not too easy a shot since it is always difficult to shoot when lying in soft snow.
- 1979, Kevin Andrews, Athens Alive (page 223)
- My anger mounted at this, I opened the courtyard door and raised my musket to fire into the brown; I had loaded it with small shot, and if it had gone off that would have been the death of us and the ruin of all of us in the house.
- 1928, R. Pigot, Twenty-five Years Big Game Hunting (page 166)
Derived terms
- mummy brown
Descendants
- Bislama: braon
- Tok Pisin: braun
- ? Welsh: brown
- ? Tongan: palauni
Translations
Adjective
brown (comparative browner or more brown, superlative brownest or most brown)
- Having a brown colour.
- (obsolete) Gloomy.
- (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.
- (US) Latino
- (of Asians) South Asian
- (of East Asians) Southeast Asian
Descendants
- American Sign Language: B@Cheek-PalmForward B@Jaw-PalmForward
Translations
Verb
brown (third-person singular simple present browns, present participle browning, simple past and past participle browned)
- (intransitive) To become brown.
- (cooking, transitive) To cook something until it becomes brown.
- (intransitive, transitive) To tan.
- (transitive) To make brown or dusky.
- (transitive) To give a bright brown colour to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coating of oxide on their surface.
- (demography, transitive, intransitive, slang, ethnic slur, usually derogatory, offensive) To turn progressively more Middle Eastern, Hispanic or Latino, in the context of the population of a geographic region.
- (transitive) To treat with deference, or respect.
Translations
Derived terms
Related terms
- brunet
- burnet
See also
- golding
Welsh
Etymology
Borrowed from English brown.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /brou?n/
Adjective
brown (feminine singular brown, plural brown, equative browned, comparative brownach, superlative brownaf)
- brown
Mutation
See also
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citrine
English
Alternative forms
- citrean
- citrinous
Etymology
From French citrin, from Latin citrus.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?s?t?in/, /?s?t??n/, /?s?t?ain/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?s?t?i?n/, /?s?t?in/
Noun
citrine (countable and uncountable, plural citrines)
- A goldish-yellow colour, like that of a lemon.
- 1598, Francis Thynne, Animadversions […]
- […] the urine becometh citrine, or of a deep yellowe color […]
- c. 1398, quoted in Hans Kurath & Sherman M. Kuhn, eds., Middle English Dictionary, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, ISBN 978-0-472-01044-8, 1962, page 1242:
- dorr??, d?r? adj. & n. […] Golden or reddish-yellow […] (a. 1398) *Trev. Barth. 59b/a: ?elou? colour [of urine] […] tokeneþ febleness of hete […] dorrey & citrine & li?t red tokeneþ mene.
- 1598, Francis Thynne, Animadversions […]
- A brownish-yellow quartz.
Translations
Adjective
citrine (not comparable)
- Of a goldish-yellow colour.
Translations
See also
- false topaz
- Appendix:Colors
Anagrams
- citiner, crinite, inciter, neritic, retinic, tricine
French
Noun
citrine f (plural citrines)
- citrine
Further reading
- “citrine” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Adjective
citrine
- feminine plural of citrino
Anagrams
- cretini, incerti, recinti, ricinte
Latin
Adjective
citr?ne
- vocative masculine singular of citr?nus
Middle English
Alternative forms
- citryn, sitrine, citherin, citryne, cytryne, citrin
Etymology
Medieval Latin citr?nus.
Pronunciation
- (Early ME) IPA(key): /tsit(?)?ri?n?/
- IPA(key): /sit(?)?ri?n(?)/
Noun
citrine (plural citrines)
- citron (Citrus medica)
- orange, red-yellow, amber (colour)
- brownish-yellow (colour)
- sallow, having yellowish skin
Descendants
- English: citrine
References
- “citr?n(e, adj. & n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.
- “citr?ne, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.
Adjective
citrine
- orange, red-yellow, amber (colour)
- brownish-yellow (colour)
- sallow, having yellowish skin
Descendants
- English: citrine
References
- “citr?n(e, adj. & n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.
See also
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