mahogany

English

Swietenia mahagoni, a species of mahogany

Etymology

From Spanish mahogani, possibly from a Mayan name.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /məˈhɒɡəni/
• Rhymes: -ɒɡəni

Noun

mahogany (countable and uncountable, plural mahoganies)

1. (countable) Any of various tropical American evergreen trees, of the genus Swietenia, having a valuable hard red-brown wood.
2. (uncountable) The wood of these trees, mostly used to make furniture.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess‎^[1]:

     A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away, […].

3. A reddish-brown color, like that of mahogany wood.
   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 6:

     Better she, my dear, than a black Mrs. Sedley, and a dozen of mahogany grandchildren.

   mahogany:  

4. A table made from mahogany wood; a dining table.
   • 1842, Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal

     Poets eat and drink without stint — and seldom at their own cost — for what man of mark or likelihood in the moneyed world is there, who is not eager to get their legs under his mahogany?

   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

     Yet habit—strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?—Gayer sallies, more merry mirth, better jokes, and brighter repartees, you never heard over your mahogany  […]

Derived terms

terms derived from mahogany

• African mahogany (Khaya senegalensis)
• African scented mahogany ()
• American mahogany ()
• Australian mahogany ()
• bastard mahogany ( or )
• birch-leaf mahogany, birch leaf mahogany, birchleaf mahogany ()
• black mahogany ()
• blue mahogany ()
• Brazilian mahogany (; , )
• brown mahogany ()
• Burma mahogany ()
• cedar mahogany ()
• cherry mahogany (
• Colombian mahogany ()
• Cuban mahogany ( spp.)
• desert mahogany ()
• Dominican mahogany ()
• dry zone mahogany (Khaya senegalensis)
• Florida mahogany ()
• forest mahogany (Eucalyptus spp,)
• gaboon mahogany ()
• Gambia mahogany (Khaya senegalensis)
• ground mahogany ()
• Hawaiian mahogany ()
• Honduras mahogany/Honduran mahogany (, )
• horseflesh mahogany ()
• Indian mahogany (, )
• Madeira mahogany ()
• mahogany acid
• mahogany bean ()
• mahogany beebalm (Monarda didyma)
• mahogany birch (Betula lenta)
• mahogany browning
• mahogany glider ()
• mahogany gum (Eucalyptus spp., esp. )
• mahogany Japanese iris ()
• mahogany lily ()
• mahogany peony (Paeonia lactiflora)
• monarda mahogany (Monarda didyma)
• mahogany pine ()
• mahogany rot
• mahogany snapper ()
• mahogany soap
• mahogany tree from ()
• mountain mahogany ( spp.)
• Natal mahogany (, )
• Pacific Coast mahogany ()
• Philippine mahogany (Shorea spp., , )
• Philipine red mahogany ()
• pink mahogany ()
• pod mahogany ()
• red mahogany (, )
• Rhodesian mahogany (, )
• rose mahogany ()
• rusty mahogany ()
• Santos mahogany ()
• sapele mahogany ()
• scented mahogany ()
• Senegal mahogany (Khaya senegalensis)
• sipo mahogany ()
• small-leaved mahogany ()
• Spanish mahogany ()
• swamp mahogany ()
• Tabasco mahogany ()
• to be under the mahogany
• to put one's legs under some one's mahogany
• true mahogany (Swietenia spp., esp. )
• West Indian mahogany ()
• white mahogany ()
• yellow mahogany (

Translations

tropical tree

• Armenian: մահագոնի (mahagoni), կարմրածառ (hy) (karmracaṙ)
• Catalan: caoba f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 桃花心木 (zh) (táohuāxīnmù)

• Danish: mahogni
• Dutch: mahonie (nl)
• Esperanto: mahagono (eo)
• Estonian: mahagonipuu
• Finnish: mahonki (fi)
• French: acajou (fr) m, mahagoni (fr)
• German: Mahagonibaum m
• Greek: μαόνι (el) n (maóni)
• Haitian Creole: akajou
• Hawaiian: mahakonia
• Hindi: महोगनी (hi) m (mahognī)
• Hungarian: mahagóni (hu)
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• Indonesian: mahoni (id)
• Italian: mogano (it) m
• Japanese: マホガニー (mahoganī)
• Maori: mahokane
• Norman: méaguinné m, acajou m
• Polish: mahoniowiec m
• Portuguese: mogno (pt) m
• Romanian: mahon (ro) m, acaju (ro) m
• Russian: кра́сное де́рево (ru) n (krásnoje dérevo), махаго́ниевое де́рево n (maxagónijevoje dérevo), акажу́ (ru) n (akažú)
• Spanish: caoba (es) f
• Tagalog: kaoba
• Thai: มะฮอกกานี (th) (mahokkani)
• Vietnamese: dái ngựa
• Volapük: mahun, mahunep, mahunabim

wood

• Catalan: caoba f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 桃花心木 (zh) (táohuāxīnmù)

• Czech: mahagon m
• Danish: mahogni n or c
• Dutch: mahonie (nl)
• Esperanto: mahagono (eo)
• Faroese: reyðaviður m
• Finnish: mahonki (fi)
• French: acajou (fr) m
• German: Mahagoni (de) n
• Greek: μαόνι (el) n (maóni), ερυθρόξυλο n (erythróxylo)
• Haitian Creole: akajou
• Hindi: महोगनी (hi) m (mahognī)
• Hungarian: mahagóni (hu)
• Italian: mogano (it) m
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• Japanese: マホガニー (mahoganī)
• Norman: méaguinné m, acajou m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: mahogni m

  Nynorsk: mahogni m

• Polish: mahoń (pl) m
• Portuguese: mogno (pt) m
• Romanian: mahon (ro) m, acaju (ro) m
• Russian: кра́сное де́рево (ru) n (krásnoje dérevo), махаго́ни (ru) n (maxagóni)
• Spanish: caoba (es) f
• Swedish: mahogny (sv) c
• Tagalog: kaoba
• Thai: มะฮอกกานี (th) (mahokkani)
• Volapük: mahun, mahunaboad

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• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} mahon (ro) m, ^{(please verify)} acaju (ro) m
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Adjective

mahogany (comparative more mahogany, superlative most mahogany)

1. Made of mahogany.
2. Having the colour of mahogany; dark reddish-brown.

References

• “mahogany”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• Hogmanay