different between brunette vs marron

English

Alternative forms

• brunet

Etymology

Borrowed from French brunette, the feminine form of brunet, from brun (“brown”). Doublet of burnet.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /b?u?n?t/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /b?u?n?t/
• Hyphenation: bru?nette
• Rhymes: -?t

Adjective

brunette (not comparable)

1. (of hair, eyes, skin, etc.) of a dark color or tone.
2. (of a person) having brown or black hair and, often, dark eyes and darkish or olive skin.

Translations

Noun

brunette (plural brunettes)

1. A person, especially female, with brown or black hair and, often, dark eyes and darkish or olive skin.

See also

• blonde
• noirette

Translations

Anagrams

• Buettner, Burnette

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from French brunette, the feminine form of brunet, from brun (“brown”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /brun?t?/, [b??u?n?d??]

Noun

brunette c (singular definite brunetten, plural indefinite brunetter)

1. brunette (a girl or woman with brown or black hair)

Inflection

See also

• blondine ("blonde", a blond female)

Dutch

Alternative forms

• bruinet (archaic)
• bruinette (archaic)
• brunet

Etymology

Borrowed from French brunette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bry?n?.t?/
• Hyphenation: bru?net?te
• Rhymes: -?t?

Noun

brunette f (plural brunettes or brunetten, diminutive brunetje n or brunettetje n)

1. brunette (brown-haired or dark-haired female)

Descendants

• Afrikaans: brunet

Adjective

brunette

1. Inflected form of brunet
2. Dated form of brunet.

Italian

Noun

brunette f

1. plural of brunetta

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French brunette

Noun

brunette f or m (definite singular brunetta or brunetten, indefinite plural brunetter, definite plural brunettene)

1. a brunette (woman or girl with dark brown hair)

References

• “brunette” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French brunette

Noun

brunette f (definite singular brunetta, indefinite plural brunetter, definite plural brunettene)

1. a brunette (as above)

References

• “brunette” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

English

Etymology 1

Variant form of maroon (“chestnut”), later reinforced by French marron.

Noun

marron (plural marrons)

1. A sweet chestnut. [from 19th c.]
   • 2007, Craig Silvey, Jasper Jones, Allen & Unwin 2007, p. 137:

     ‘I mean, shit, even if I had've come down here of a weekend and taken back a sack full of marron, I would have killed the pig up there.’

Derived terms

• marron glacé

Etymology 2

Wikispecies

From Nyunga marran.

Noun

marron (plural marrons)

1. Cherax tenuimanus, a type of freshwater crayfish from Western Australia.

Synonyms

• hairy marron, Margaret River marron

See also

• gilgie, jilgie
• yabby, yabbie

Anagrams

• Morran

Dutch

Alternative forms

• Marron

Etymology

Borrowed from French marron (“feral; fugitive”, adjective), from Spanish cimarrón (“fugitive, wild, feral”), from Taíno simaran.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??r?n/
• Hyphenation: mar?ron
• Rhymes: -?n

Noun

marron m (plural marrons)

1. Maroon (descendant of escaped African slaves in the Americas or Caribbean; escaped slave)

   Synonyms: bosneger, boslandcreool

Finnish

Noun

marron

1. Genitive singular form of marto.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.???/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian marrone.

Noun

marron m (plural marrons)

1. horse-chestnut
2. chestnut
3. chestnut brown
4. A token used as a control of the presence of someone at his post
5. (pyrotechnics) firecracker (on a rocket)
6. (informal) punch (with the fist)
7. (informal) head

Adjective

marron (invariable)

1. (France) brown

Usage notes

• This adjective is used mainly in France. Elsewhere, the usual adjective is brun.
• Like most colors that take their name from animals and plants, the adjective is invariable. However, by analogy with the corresponding noun which has a plural, some people may erroneously consider it variable in number and use marrons as the plural.

Derived terms

• marron glacé
• cochon marron

Descendants

• ? Asturian: marrón
• ? Catalan: marró
• ? Galician: marrón
• ? Portuguese: marrom
• ? Spanish: marrón

Etymology 2

From a West Indies creole, from Spanish cimarrón, from cima.

Adjective

marron (feminine singular marronne, masculine plural marrons, feminine plural marronnes)

1. that has become wild again (used of a slave or animal who has returned to a free or wild state)
2. illicit, crooked (of professions)

Noun

marron m (plural marrons, feminine marronne)

1. maroon (a slave or animal who has run away to live free)

Further reading

• “marron” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).