[edit] English
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Brown is a common hair color.
A glass of hot chocolate.
[edit] Etymology
Middle English broun, from Old English brūn 'dark, shining', from Proto-Germanic *brūnaz (compare West Frisian brún, Dutch bruin, German braun), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰruhₓnos (compare Ancient Greek phrýnē, phrŷnos ‘toad’), enlargement of *bʰrew- (“shiny, brown”) (compare Lithuanian bė́ras ‘brown’, Sanskrit babhrú ‘reddish-brown’).
[edit] Pronunciation
brown (plural browns)
- A colour like that of chocolate or coffee.
- The browns and greens in this painting give it a nice woodsy feel.
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- (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker with a value of 4 points.
[edit] Translations
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- Latvian: brūns (lv)
- Lithuanian: rudas (lt)
- Low German: Brun (nds)
- Luhya: ekawa
- Malay: coklat (ms), perang (ms)
- Malayalam: തവിട്ട് (thavittu)
- Maltese: kannella (mt) f.
- Montagnais: katshishtemauaput
- Navajo: dibéłchíʼí, yishtłʼizh
- Norwegian: brun (no)
- Ossetian: морæ (moræ)
- Polish: brąz (pl) m.
- Portuguese: castanho (pt) m., marrom (pt) m.
- Romanian: brun (ro), maro (ro) n.
- Russian: коричневый (ru) (koríčnevyj)
- Scots: broon
- Scottish Gaelic: donn (dark brown), ruadh (reddish-brown)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: смеђ (sh)
- Roman: smeđ (sh)
- Slovene: rjava (sl) f.
- Spanish: marrón (es) m., café (es) m. (Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Mexico), canelo (es) m. (Spain's Canary Islands), carmelita (es) m. (Cuba), carmelito (es) m. (Colombia) ; (for hair) castaño (es) m. ; (for brown bear) pardo (es) m. ; (for skin) moreno (es) m. ; (for suntanned skin) bronceado (es) m., moreno (es) m. (Spain)
- Swahili: kahawia (sw)
- Swedish: brun (sv)
- Tagalog: kayumanggi (tl)
- Turkish: kahverengi (tr)
- Ukrainian: коричневий (uk) (korýčnevyj)
- Uyghur: قوڭۇر (ug)
- Uzbek: jigarrang (uz)
- Vietnamese: màu nâu, màu sạm
- Volapük: braun (vo), (obsolete) blon (vo)
- Welsh: brown (cy)
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one of the colour balls used in snooker
[edit] Adjective
brown (comparative browner or more brown, superlative brownest or most brown)
- Having a brown colour.
[edit] Translations
having brown colour
- American Sign Language: B@Cheek-PalmForward B@Jaw-PalmForward
- Amharic: ቡናይነት (bunaynät)
- Arabic: أسمر (ar) (ʾásmar) m., سمراء (ar) (samrāʾ) f., سمر (ar) (sumr) pl., بني (ar) (búnniyy)
- Armenian: շագանակագույն (hy) (šaganakaguyn)
- Basque: marroi (eu)
- Belarusian: карычневы (be) (karýčnevy), (eyes) кары (be) (káry), (hair) каштанавы (be) (kaštánavy)
- Breton: brun, gell
- Bulgarian: кафяв (bg) (kafjav)
- Catalan: marró (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 褐色 (cmn) (hèsè), 棕色 (cmn) (zōngsè), (coffee colour) 咖啡色 (cmn) (kāfēisè)
- Cornish: owr
- Czech: hnědý (cs) m.
- Danish: brun (da)
- Dutch: bruin (nl)
- Esperanto: bruna (eo)
- Faroese: brúnur (fo)
- Finnish: ruskea (fi)
- French: brun (fr), marron (fr)
- Georgian: ყავისფერი (ka) (qavisp’eri)
- German: braun (de)
- Greek: καστανός (el) (kastanós) m.
- Hiligaynon: abelyána
- Hindi: भूरा (hi) (bhūrā)
- Hungarian: barna (hu)
- Icelandic: brúnn (is)
- Indonesian: coklat (id)
- Irish: donn (ga)
- Japanese: 茶色い (ja) (ちゃいろい, chairoi), 褐色 (ja) (かっしょく, kasshoku)
- Javanese: soklat
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- Khmer: នៃពណ៌ត្នោត (km) (ney poa tnaot)
- Korean: 갈색의 (ko) (galsaeg-ui)
- Kurdish: çakar, qehweyî, qehwerengî
- Lithuanian: rudas (lt) m.
- Low German: brun (nds)
- Novial: bruni
- Persian: قهوهای (fa) (qahve'i)
- Polish: brązowy (pl) m.
- Portuguese: castanho (pt), marrom (pt)
- Romanian: maro (ro), brun (ro)
- Russian: коричневый (ru) (koríčnevyj), (of eyes) карий (ru) (kárij), (of hair) каштановый (ru) (kaštánovyj), (coffee colour) кофейный (ru) (koféjnyj), бурый (ru) (búryj), (of horses - chestnut colour) гнедой (ru) (gnedój)
- Scots: broon
- Scottish Gaelic: donn
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: смеђ (sh)
- Roman: smeđ (sh)
- Sinhalese: දුඹුරු (si) (dum͡buru)
- Slovak: hnedý (sk)
- Slovene: rjav (sl)
- Spanish: marrón (es), café (es), pardo (es)
- Swedish: brun (sv)
- Thai: สีน้ำตาล (th) (sĕe nám dtaan)
- Turkish: kahverengi (tr)
- Ukrainian: коричневий (uk) (korýčnevyj), (eyes) карий (uk) (káryj), (hair) каштановий (uk) (kaštánovyj), бурий (uk) (búryj)
- Urdu: بھورا (ur) (bhūrā)
- Uyghur: قوڭۇر (ug)
- Vietnamese: (màu) nâu, sạm; rám nắng, sạm nắng (skin)
- Volapük: braunik (vo), (obsolete) blonik (vo)
- West Frisian: brún (fy)
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[edit] Descendants
brown (third-person singular simple present browns, present participle browning, simple past and past participle browned)
- To become brown.
- Fry the onions until they brown.
- (cooking) To cook something until it becomes brown.
- Brown the onions in a large frying pan.
- To tan.
- Light-skinned people tend to brown when exposed to the sun.
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