brownish

English

Etymology

brown +‎ -ish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɹaʊnɪʃ/

Adjective

brownish (comparative more brownish, superlative most brownish)

1. Of a colour which resembles brown; somewhat brown.
   • 1902, Rudyard Kipling, "How the Leopard Got His Spots" in Just So Stories, [1]

     The Giraffe and the Zebra and the Eland and the Koodoo and the Hartebeest lived there; and they were 'sclusively sandy-yellow-brownish all over […]

   • 1942, Emily Carr, The Book of Small, "Waterworks," [2]

     Two pumps stood side by side in our kitchen. One was for well water and one was a cistern pump—water from the former was hard and clear, from the cistern it was brownish and soft.

Translations

of a colour which resembles brown; somewhat brown

• Catalan: brunenc
• Czech: hnědavý
• Dutch: bruinig (nl), bruinachtig (nl)
• Esperanto: bruneta
• Estonian: pruunikas
• Faroese: brúnligur
• Finnish: ruskehtava
• French: brunâtre (fr)
• German: bräunlich (de)
• Hungarian: barnás (hu)
• Irish: scothdhonn
• Italian: brunastro m, brunastra (it) f
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• Latvian: iebrūns, brūngans, brūnīgs
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: brunlig

  Nynorsk: brunleg

• Polish: brązowawy (pl) m
• Portuguese: amarronzado
• Romanian: maroniu (ro)
• Russian: коричнева́тый (ru) (koričnevátyj), бурова́тый (ru) (burovátyj)
• Spanish: pardusco
• Swedish: brunaktig (sv)
• Turkish: kahverengimsi (tr), kahvemsi, kahvemtırak, bozumsu, bozumtırak, bozlak (tr), kumral (tr)
• Volapük: braunilik (vo)