different between dye vs sapan

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /da?/
• Rhymes: -a?
• Homophones: die, Di, Dai

Etymology 1

From Middle English deie, from Old English d?ah, d?ag (“color, hue, dye”), from Proto-Germanic *daug? (“colour, shade”), from *daugan?, *dug- (“to conceal, be dark”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?ewh?- (“to smoke, raise dust, camouflage”).

The verb is from Middle English deien, from Old English d?agian, from the noun.

Alternative forms

• (obsolete) die

Noun

dye (countable and uncountable, plural dyes)

1. A colourant, especially one that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is applied.
2. Any hue, color, or blee.

Synonyms

• colourant
• tincture

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• ink

Verb

dye (third-person singular simple present dyes, present participle dyeing, simple past and past participle dyed)

1. (transitive) To colour with dye, or as if with dye.

Synonyms

• (to color): tint, stain, shade, streak

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

dye (plural dyce)

1. Alternative spelling of die (“singular of dice”)
   • 1748. David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 46:

     If a dye were marked with one figure or number of spots on four sides, and with another figure or number of spots on the two remaining sides, it would be more probable, that the former would turn up than the latter;

Translations

Anagrams

• Dey, dey, ye'd, yed

Afrikaans

Noun

dye

1. plural of dy

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French dieu (“god”).

Noun

dye

1. god

English

Alternative forms

• sapann

Etymology

From Malay sepang.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??pæn/

Noun

sapan (usually uncountable, plural sapans)

1. A wood producing a red dye, usually species Caesalpinia sappan.

Synonyms

• sapan wood, sapanwood; brezel wood, brazilwood

Translations

Anagrams

• APAns, NASPA, apans, napas, paans, pasan

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *sa(r)pan. Cognate with Turkish and Crimean Tatar saban, Bashkir ????? (haban), Chuvash ?????? (surban), etc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??p?n/
• Hyphenation: sa?pan

Noun

sapan (definite accusative sapan?, plural sapanlar)

1. plough

   Synonym: kotan

Declension

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: sa?pan

Noun

sapan

1. sappanwood (Caesalpinia sappan)
2. the red dye obtained from this plant

Portuguese

Noun

sapan m (plural sapans)

1. Alternative form of sapão

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ?????? (“slingshot; strop”), derived from ?????? (sapmak, “to swerve, deviate, go astray”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [s??p?n]
• Hyphenation: sa?pan

Noun

sapan (definite accusative sapan?, plural sapanlar)

1. slingshot

Declension

References

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) , “?????”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1150