gray

See also: Gray

English

Various shades of gray.

Alternative forms

• grey (used in the UK and the Commonwealth and also in the US)

Etymology 1

See grey.

Pronunciation

• enPR: grā, IPA^(key): /ɡɹeɪ/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -eɪ
• Homophones: grey, greige

Adjective

gray (comparative grayer, superlative grayest) (American spelling, spelled “grey” in the UK and the Commonwealth)

1. Having a color somewhere between white and black, as the ash of an ember.
2. Dreary, gloomy.
   • (Can we date this quote by Daniel C. Gerould and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     the era of gray, boring banality and stagnation

3. Having an indistinct, disputed or uncertain quality.
4. Relating to older people.

   the gray dollar, i.e. the purchasing power of the elderly

Derived terms

Terms derived from gray

• battleship gray
• gray area
• graybeard
• gray ghost
• gray-haired
• grayhound
• gray matter
• grayness
• gray power
• graysexual
• graysexuality
• gunmetal gray

 

Translations

having a color somewhere between white and black, as the ash of an ember

• Afrikaans: grys
• Akan: nso
• Albanian: hirtë (sq)
• Arabic: رَمَادِيّ (ramādiyy), أَشْيَب m (ʔašyab) (of hair), أَشْهَب m (ʔašhab) (of horses)
• Aragonese: griso m
• Armenian: գորշ (hy) (gorš), մոխրագույն (hy) (moxraguyn)
• Asturian: gris
• Azerbaijani: boz (az), çal
• Basque: gris (eu)
• Belarusian: шэ́ры (šéry)
• Bengali: ধূসর (dhuśor)
• Breton: louet (br)
• Bulgarian: сив (bg) (siv)
• Burmese: မီးခိုးရောင် (my) (mi:hkui:raung)
• Catalan: gris (ca)
• Cebuano: abohon
• Cherokee: ᎤᏍᎪᎸ ᏌᎪᏂᎨ (usgolv sagonige)
• Chickasaw: shobbokoli
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 灰色 (fui¹ sik¹)

  Mandarin: 灰色 (zh) (huīsè)

• Cornish: loos
• Czech: šedý (cs) m
• Danish: grå (da)
• Dutch: grijs (nl)
• Esperanto: griza (eo)
• Estonian: hall (et)
• Faroese: gráur
• Finnish: harmaa (fi)
• French: gris (fr)
• Galician: gris (gl)
• Georgian: რუხი (ruxi), ნაცრისფერი (nacrisperi)
• German: grau (de)

  Alemannic German: graaw

• Greek: γκρίζος (el) (gkrízos), φαιός (el) (faiós)

  Ancient: πολιός (poliós)

• Gujarati: નિસ્તેજ (nistej)
• Haitian Creole: gri
• Halkomelem: Template:t-simple

  Vancouver Island: Template:t-simple

• Hebrew: אָפוֹר (he) (afór)
• Hiligaynon: abóhon, baúg
• Hindi: धूसर (hi) (dhūsar)
• Hopi: maasi
• Hungarian: szürke (hu) (all senses except hair color), ősz (hu) (only for hair color)
• Icelandic: grár (is)
• Ido: griza (io)
• Indonesian: abu-abu (id)
• Irish: liath (ga), glas (ga) (of animals, cloth, eyes)
• Italian: grigio (it)
• Japanese: 灰色 (ja) (はいいろ, hai-iro), 鼠色 (ねずみいろ, nezumi-iro)
• Kannada: ಬೂದುಬಣ್ಣದ ಉಡುಪು (kn) (būdubaṇṇada uḍupu)
• Kazakh: сұр (kk) (sūr)
• Khmer: ប្រផេះ (km) (prɑpʰeh)
• Kongo: ya putulu
• Korean: 회색의 (ko) (hoesaegui)
• Kwak'wala: Template:t-simple
• Kyrgyz: сур (ky) (sur), боз (ky) (boz), көк (ky) (kök)
• Lao: ສີສວາດ (sīt wāt)
• Latgalian: palāks, (of hair) sierms
• Latin: rāvus, cinereus, pullus (la), (of hair) canus (la) m
• Latvian: pelēks (lv), (of hair) sirms
• Lingala: mbwé
• Lithuanian: pilkas, (of hair) žilas
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Low German:

  German Low German: graag, gris

• Macedonian: сив (siv), сур (sur)
• Malagasy: volom-batolalaka
• Malay: abu (ms), kelabu
• Malayalam: ചാരം (ml) (cāraṁ)
• Maltese: griż (mt)
• Maori: pūhinahina (of hair), pūhina (of hair), kiwikiwi, māhinahina, pūmā (light colour), hinauri (dark in colour)
• Marathi: करडा m (karḍā), करडी f (karḍī), करडे n (karḍe)
• Mirandese: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian: саарал (mn) (saaral)
• Montagnais: kauapinuat
• Nama: ǀhāi
• Navajo: łibá, dinilbá
• Neapolitan: criscio
• Nootka: Template:t-simple
• Norman: gris
• Norwegian: grå (no)
• Novial:
• Occitan: gris (oc)
• Old English: græg, hasu, fealu
• Persian: خاکستری (fa) (xâkestari), توسی (tusi)
• Polish: szary (pl), siwy (pl) (for hair, horse, smoke)
• Portuguese: cinza (pt), cinzento (pt), gris (pt)
• Quechua: uqi
• Rapa Nui: 'ehu 'ehu
• Romanian: brumăriu (ro), cenușiu (ro), sur (ro)
• Romansch: grisch (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Puter, Vallader), greisch (Surmiran)
• Russian: се́рый (ru) (séryj), седо́й (ru) (sedój) (of hair), си́вый (ru) (sívyj) (rare)
• Sanskrit: पलित (sa) (palita)
• Saanich: Template:t-simple
• Scottish Gaelic: liath (light grey), glas (dark grey)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сив, сива

  Roman: siv (sh), siva (sh)

• Shona: gireyi
• Sicilian: griggiu (scn), grigiu (scn), griciu (scn)
• Slovak: sivý (sk)
• Slovene: siv (sl)
• Somali: bey
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: šery

  Upper Sorbian: šěry

• Spanish: gris (es)
• Sundanese: kulawu, hawuk, dawuk
• Swahili: kijivu
• Swazi: mphunga
• Swedish: grå (sv)
• Tagalog: abuhin (tl), kulay-abo
• Tajik: хокистарӣ (xokistarī), хокистариранг (xokistarirang)
• Tamil: சாம்பல் நிறம் (cāmpal niṟam)
• Telugu: నెరిసిన (nerisina)
• Thai: เทา (tao)
• Turkish: gri (tr), boz (tr), kır (tr)
• Turkmen: çal
• Tuvan: куу (kuu)
• Ukrainian: сі́рий (uk) (síryj)
• Urdu: سرمئی (surmaī)
• Uzbek: kulrang (uz), kul (uz), sur (uz)
• Vietnamese: (màu) xám, (grey-haired) hoa râm
• Volapük: gedik (vo)
• Welsh: llwyd (cy)
• West Frisian: griis (fy), grau
• Yiddish: גרוי (groy)
• Yoruba: àwo eléerú

dreary, gloomy

• Asturian: gris
• Basque: gris (eu)
• Dutch: grijs (nl), grauw (nl)
• Estonian: hall (et)
• Finnish: ankea (fi), harmaa (fi), synkkä (fi)
• French: gris (fr)
• German: grau (de)
• Hiligaynon: baúg
• Hungarian: borongós (hu), gyászos (hu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Irish: glas (ga)
• Norman: gris
• Portuguese: sombrio (pt) m
• Russian: се́рый (ru) (séryj)
• Slovene: siv (sl)
• Spanish: gris (es)
• Swedish: grå (sv), trist (sv), tråkig (sv), dyster (sv)
• Vietnamese: buồn (vi), buồn bã (vi), rầu (vi), rầu rĩ (vi), âm u (vi) (personality, mood), u ám (vi), âm u (vi), ảm đậm (sky, weather)

having an indistinct quality

• Dutch: grijs (nl)
• Estonian: hall (et)
• French: gris (fr)
• Japanese: グレー (gurē)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Norman: gris
• Spanish: gris (es)
• Swedish: i en gråzon (sv)
• Vietnamese: ^{(please verify)} không rõ, ^{(please verify)} lờ mờ (vi)

Verb

gray (third-person singular simple present grays, present participle graying, simple past and past participle grayed) (American spelling, spelled "grey" in the UK and the Commonwealth)

1. To become gray.

   My hair is beginning to gray.

2. To cause to become gray.
3. (demography, slang) To turn progressively older, alluding to graying of hair through aging (used in context of the population of a geographic region)

   the graying of America

4. (transitive, photography) To give a soft effect to (a photograph) by covering the negative while printing with a ground-glass plate.

Translations

to become gray

• Asturian: canecer, encanecer
• Danish: gråne
• Dutch: grijzen (nl)
• Estonian: halliks minema
• Finnish: harmaantua (fi), harmentua
• French: griser (fr)
• German: ergrauen (de), grau werden
• Greek: γκριζάρω (el) (gkrizáro)
• Hungarian: szürkül (hu), elszürkül
• Ido: grizeskar (io)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Irish: liath (ga)
• Italian: ingrigire
• Navajo: yiibááh
• Norman: grisi
• Portuguese: acinzentar (pt)
• Russian: сере́ть (ru) (serétʹ), (of hair) седе́ть (ru) (sedétʹ)
• Spanish: encanecer (es)
• Swedish: gråna (sv)
• Turkish: grileşmek
• Vietnamese: bạc (vi)

to cause to become gray

• Finnish: harmaannuttaa, harmentaa
• French: griser (fr)
• Hungarian: szürkít, elszürkít
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Ido: grizigar (io)
• Portuguese: acinzentar (pt)

Noun

gray (plural grays) (American spelling, spelled “grey” in the UK and the Commonwealth)

1. An achromatic colour intermediate between black and white.

   grey:  

2. An animal or thing of grey colour, such as a horse, badger, or salmon.
3. (chiefly US, ufology) an extraterrestrial humanoid with grayish skin, bulbous black eyes, and an enlarged head.
4. (US, two-up) A penny with a tail on both sides, used for cheating.

Translations

colour

• Armenian: մոխրագույն (hy) (moxraguyn)
• Asturian: gris m
• Basque: gris (eu)
• Catalan: gris (ca) m
• Cherokee: ᎤᏍᎪᎸ ᏌᎪᏂᎨ (usgolv sagonige)
• Chichewa: imvi
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 灰 (zh) (huī), 灰色 (zh) (huīsè)

• Czech: šedá (cs)
• Danish: grå (da)
• Dutch: grijs (nl)
• Esperanto: grizo
• Estonian: hall (et)
• Faroese: gráur m, grátt n
• Finnish: harmaa (fi)
• French: gris (fr)
• Galician: gris (gl) m
• Georgian: ნაცრისფერი (nacrisperi), რუხი (ruxi)
• German: Grau (de) n
• Greek: γκρι (el) n (gkri), σταχτί (el) n (stachtí), φαιό (el) n (faió)
• Gujarati: ગ્રે (gre)
• Hebrew: אָפוֹר (he) (afór)
• Icelandic: grár (is)
• Indonesian: abu-abu (id)
• Irish: liath (ga) m, (of animals, cloth, eyes) glas (ga) m
• Italian: grigio (it) m
• Japanese: 灰色 (ja) (はいいろ, hai-iro), 鼠色 (ねずみいろ, nezumi-iro)
• Khmer: ពណ៌ប្រផេះ (poa prɑpʰeh)
• Korean: 회색 (ko) (hoesaek) (灰色 (ko))
• Latvian: pelēks (lv)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Ligurian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: pilka
• Luxembourgish: Gro
• Malay: abu (ms), kelabu, kelabu arang
• Mirandese: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian: саарал (mn) (saaral)
• Norwegian: grå (no)
• Occitan: please add this translation if you can
• Pashto: خړپړ (ps) (ḵaṛ paṛ), خړ (ps) (ḵaṛ)
• Persian: خاکِستَری (fa) (xâkestari)
• Polish: szarość (pl) f, szary (pl) m
• Portuguese: cinza (pt), gris (pt)
• Romanian: gri (ro)
• Romansch: grisch m
• Russian: се́рый (ru) (séryj)
• Slovak: sivá, šedivá
• Slovene: siva f
• Spanish: gris (es) m
• Sundanese: kulawu
• Swedish: grå (sv)
• Tagalog: abo (tl)
• Tajik: хокистарӣ (xokistarī)
• Telugu: బూడిద (te) (būḍida)
• Thai: สีเทา (th) (sǐi-tao)
• Turkish: gri (tr), boz (tr)
• Vietnamese: màu xám
• Volapük: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: llwyd (cy) f
• Yiddish: גרוי f (groy)

extraterrestrial being

• French: Gris (fr) m
• German: Graue m, Grauen (de) f pl
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Portuguese: grey (pt) m, gray (pt) m
• Spanish: grises (es) m pl

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Breton: ^{(please verify)} louet (br), ^{(please verify)} gris (br)
• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} kelabu (id), ^{(please verify)} abu-abu (id)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} gris (ia)
• Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} siv (sh)

See also

Colors/Colours in English (layout · text)
red	orange	yellow	green	blue (incl.      indigo;              cyan, teal, turquoise)	purple / violet
pink (including          magenta)	brown		white	grey/gray	black

Etymology 2

Named after English physicist Louis Harold Gray (1905–1965).

Noun

gray (plural grays)

2. In the International System of Units, the derived unit of absorbed dose of radiation (radiation absorbed by a patient); one joule of energy absorbed per kilogram of the patient's mass. Symbol: Gy

   Coordinate term: rad

Derived terms

• kilogray

Translations

SI unit of absorbed radiation

• Czech: gray (cs) m
• French: gray (fr) m
• German: Gray (de) n
• Greek: γκρέυ n (gkréy)
• Hungarian: gray (hu)
• Indonesian: gray
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Malay: gray
• Polish: grej (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: gray (pt) m
• Russian: грей (ru) m (grej)
• Swedish: gray (sv) c

Further reading

• gray (unit) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Gary, Yarg, gyra

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Czech

Noun

1. gray (unit of absorbed radiation)

Further reading

• Template:R:ASCS

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Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡrei̯/, [ˈɡre̞i̯]

Noun

gray

1. gray (SI unit)

Declension

Inflection of gray (Kotus type 21/rosé, no gradation)
nominative		gray	grayt
genitive		grayn	grayiden grayitten
partitive		graytä	grayitä
illative		grayhin grayhyn	grayihin
		singular	plural
nominative		gray	grayt
accusative	nom.	gray	grayt
	gen.	grayn
genitive		grayn	grayiden grayitten
partitive		graytä	grayitä
inessive		grayssä	grayissä
elative		graystä	grayistä
illative		grayhin grayhyn	grayihin
adessive		grayllä	grayillä
ablative		grayltä	grayiltä
allative		graylle	grayille
essive		graynä	grayinä
translative		grayksi	grayiksi
abessive		grayttä	grayittä
instructive		—	grayin
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

Possessive forms of gray (Kotus type 21/rosé, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative grayni grayni accusative nom. grayni grayni gen. grayni genitive grayni grayideni grayitteni partitive graytäni grayitäni inessive grayssäni grayissäni elative graystäni grayistäni illative grayhini grayhyni grayihini adessive graylläni grayilläni ablative grayltäni grayiltäni allative graylleni grayilleni essive graynäni grayinäni translative graykseni grayikseni abessive grayttäni grayittäni instructive — — comitative — grayineni second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative graysi graysi accusative nom. graysi graysi gen. graysi genitive graysi grayidesi grayittesi partitive graytäsi grayitäsi inessive grayssäsi grayissäsi elative graystäsi grayistäsi illative grayhisi grayhysi grayihisi adessive graylläsi grayilläsi ablative grayltäsi grayiltäsi allative grayllesi grayillesi essive graynäsi grayinäsi translative grayksesi grayiksesi abessive grayttäsi grayittäsi instructive — — comitative — grayinesi first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative graymme graymme accusative nom. graymme graymme gen. graymme genitive graymme grayidemme grayittemme partitive graytämme grayitämme inessive grayssämme grayissämme elative graystämme grayistämme illative grayhimme grayhymme grayihimme adessive grayllämme grayillämme ablative grayltämme grayiltämme allative grayllemme grayillemme essive graynämme grayinämme translative grayksemme grayiksemme abessive grayttämme grayittämme instructive — — comitative — grayinemme second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative graynne graynne accusative nom. graynne graynne gen. graynne genitive graynne grayidenne grayittenne partitive graytänne grayitänne inessive grayssänne grayissänne elative graystänne grayistänne illative grayhinne grayhynne grayihinne adessive grayllänne grayillänne ablative grayltänne grayiltänne allative grayllenne grayillenne essive graynänne grayinänne translative grayksenne grayiksenne abessive grayttänne grayittänne instructive — — comitative — grayinenne third-person possessor singular plural nominative graynsä graynsä accusative nom. graynsä graynsä gen. graynsä genitive graynsä grayidensä grayittensä partitive graytään graytänsä grayitään grayitänsä inessive grayssään grayssänsä grayissään grayissänsä elative graystään graystänsä grayistään grayistänsä illative grayhinsä grayhynsä grayihinsä adessive grayllään grayllänsä grayillään grayillänsä ablative grayltään grayltänsä grayiltään grayiltänsä allative graylleen grayllensä grayilleen grayillensä essive graynään graynänsä grayinään grayinänsä translative graykseen grayksensä grayikseen grayiksensä abessive grayttään grayttänsä grayittään grayittänsä instructive — — comitative — grayineen grayinensä

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁɛj/

• Audio (Paris)

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Noun

gray m (plural grays)

1. gray (SI unit)

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Etymology 1

Noun

gray m (plural s)

1. (physics) gray (SI unit of absorbed radiation)

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• grey

Noun

gray m (plural s)

1. (ufology) gray (one of a race of evil, short extraterrestrial beings)

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Swedish

Noun

gray c

1. gray (SI unit)