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[edit] Etymology
From Middle English broun (the color brown from 13th century) < Old English brūn (“‘dark, shining’”) < Proto-Germanic *brunaz < Proto-Indo-European *bher- (“‘shining, brown’”). Cognates include Dutch bruin, Icelandic brúnn, Swedish brun, German braun, Lithuanian brunas, beras, Sanskrit babhru, and Medieval Latin brunus, Spanish bruno, French brun. Confer bruin, beaver, burnish, brunette.
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brown (plural browns)
- A red-orange colour, including the colour 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.
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colour
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- Japanese: 茶色 (chairo), 褐色 (kasshoku)
- Korean: 갈색 ko(ko) (galsaek)
- Kurdish: çakar, qehweyî, qehwerengî, قاوهیی
- Luhya: ekawa
- Malayalam: തവിട്ട് (thavittu)
- Norwegian: brun no(no)
- Ossetian: морæ (moræ)
- Polish: brąz pl(pl) m.
- Portuguese: castanho pt(pt) m., marrom pt(pt) m.
- Scots: broon
- Scottish Gaelic: donn (dark brown), ruadh (reddish-brown)
- Slovene: rjava f.
- Spanish: marrón es(es) m., café es(es) m. (Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Mexico), canelo es(es) m. (Spain's Canary Islands), carmelita es(es) m. (Cuba), carmelito es(es) m. (Colombia) ; (for hair) castaño es(es) m. ; (for brown bear) pardo es(es) m. ; (for skin) moreno es(es) m. ; (for suntanned skin) bronceado es(es) m., moreno es(es) m. (Spain)
- Swahili: kahawia sw(sw)
- Swedish: brun sv(sv)
- Turkish: kahverengi tr(tr)
- Uzbek: jigarrang uz(uz)
- Vietnamese: màu nâu, màu sạm
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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)
- (color/colour) Having a brown colour.
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having brown colour
- American Sign Language: B@Cheek-PalmForward B@Jaw-PalmForward
- Amharic: ቡናይነት (bunaynät)
- Arabic: أسمر ar(ar) ('ásmar) m., سمراء ar(ar) (samraa') f., سمر ar(ar) (sumr) pl., بني ar(ar) (búnniy)
- Armenian: շագանակագույն (šaganakaguyn)
- Bosnian: smeđa f.
- Breton: brun, gell
- Bulgarian: кафяв bg(bg)
- Catalan: marró, m. & f., bru m., bruna f.
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 褐色 cmn(cmn) (hèsè), 棕色 cmn(cmn) (zōngsè), (coffee colour) 咖啡色 cmn(cmn) (kāfēisè)
- Cornish: owr
- Czech: hnědý cs(cs) m.
- Danish: brun da(da)
- Dutch: bruin nl(nl)
- Esperanto: bruna eo(eo)
- Faroese: brúnur fo(fo)
- Finnish: ruskea fi(fi)
- French: brun fr(fr), marron fr(fr)
- German: braun de(de)
- Greek: καστανός el(el) m. (kastanós)
- Hiligaynon: abelyána
- Hungarian: barna hu(hu)
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- Indonesian: coklat id(id)
- Irish: donn ga(ga)
- Japanese: 茶色い ja(ja) (ちゃいろい, chairoi), 褐色 ja(ja) (かっしょく, kasshoku)
- Javanese: soklat
- Kurdish: çakar, qehweyî, qehwerengî
- Lithuanian: rudas lt(lt) m.
- Novial: bruni
- Persian: قهوهای (qahve’i)
- Polish: brązowy pl(pl) m.
- Portuguese: castanho pt(pt), marrom pt(pt)
- Romanian: maro ro(ro), brun ro(ro)
- Russian: коричневый ru(ru) (koríčnevyj), (of eyes) карий ru(ru) (kárij), (of hair) каштановый ru(ru) (kaštánovyj)
- Scots: broon
- Scottish Gaelic: donn
- Slovak: hnedá
- Slovene: rjav m., rjava f., rjavo n.
- Spanish: marrón es(es), café es(es), pardo es(es)
- Swedish: brun sv(sv)
- Turkish: kahverengi tr(tr)
- Vietnamese: (màu) nâu, sạm; rám nắng, sạm nắng (skin)
- West Frisian: brún fy(fy)
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to brown (third-person singular simple present browns, present participle browning, simple past and past participle browned)
- To become brown.
- Light-skinned people tend to brown when exposed to the sun.
- (cooking) To cook something until it becomes brown.
- Brown the onions in a large frying pan.
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