tricolour

See also: Tricolour

English

Alternative forms

tricolor (American spelling)

Etymology

An anglicisation of the French tricolore; the flag originated in France. Equivalent to tri- +‎ colour.

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Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtrɪkələ, -lɔː/; /ˈtraɪˌkʌlə/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈtraɪˌkʌlɚ/

Noun

tricolour (plural tricolours) (British spelling)

A flag consisting of three stripes that are either vertical or horizontal, all of equal size, and each of a different colour.
Tricolours are seen in the national flags of over twenty countries, including Belgium, France, India, Italy, Russia, The Netherlands and Ireland.
- 2023 November 24, Rory Carroll, “‘Government is not listening’: anger over immigration spills into riot on Dublin’s streets”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:
  Journalists too were unwelcome and photographers had to conceal cameras. “He’s with the Guardian,” a man in his 60s, holding a tricolour, shouted.
(uncommon) Anything which is composed of three colours.
- 1946, Russell Humke Fitzgibbon, Flaud C. Wooton, Flaud Conaroe Wooton, Latin America: Past and Present, page 38:
  […] to the Indian red. The black, to complete the racial tricolor, was yet to come. The white population settled, as the more advanced Indian groups had, in areas having the most comfortable temperatures.
- 2019 January 31, W. Ian Bourland, Bloodflowers: Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Photography, and the 1980s, Duke University Press, →ISBN:
  David Hammons would go one^[sic] to produce his own national colors, to subvert the boundaries of nation with his Pan-African Flag (1990), a version of the American tricolor reimagined in the black internationalist tones of red, green, and black.

Translations

A flag with three stripes of different colours

Arabic: عَلَم ثُلَاثِيّ الْأَلْوَانِ m (ʕalam ṯulāṯiyy al-ʔalwāni)
Armenian: եռագույն (hy) (eṙaguyn)
Azerbaijani: üçrəngli, üçrəngli bayraq
Belarusian: трыкалор m (trykalór)
Bulgarian: трикольор (bg) m (trikoljor), трибагреник (bg) m (tribagrenik), трицвет (bg) m (tricvet)
Catalan: tricolor m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 三色旗 (zh) (sānsèqí)
Czech: trikolóra (cs) f
Danish: trikolore
Dutch: driekleur (nl) m, nationale driekleur m
Esperanto: trikoloro
Estonian: trikoloor
Finnish: trikolori (fi)
French: tricolore (fr) m
Galician: tricolor m
Georgian: სამფერი დროშა (samperi droša)
German: Trikolore (de) f
Greek: τρίχρωμη σημαία (tríchromi simaía)
Hebrew: טריקולור m (trikolor)
Hindi: तिरंगा (hi) (tiraṅgā)
Hungarian: trikolór (hu)
Indonesian: triwarna
Irish: trídhathach
Italian: tricolore (it)
Japanese: 三色旗 (ja) (さんしょくき, sanshokuki)
Korean: 삼색기 (ko) (samsaekgi)
Ladin: triculëur m
Latvian: trikolors m
Lithuanian: trispalvė (lt) f
Malay: triwarna
Malayalam: ത്രിരംഗ (triraṅga), ത്രിവർണം (trivaṟṇaṁ)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: trikolor m

Nynorsk: trikolor m
Persian: پرچم سه‌رنگ (parčam se-rang)
Polish: flaga trójkolorowa f, trójkolorowy (pl) m
Portuguese: tricolor (pt)
Romanian: tricolor (ro) n
Russian: триколо́р (ru) m (trikolór), трёхцве́тный фла́г m (trjoxcvétnyj flág)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: тробојка f, тробојница f

Roman: trobojka (sh) f, trobojnica (sh) f
Slovak: trikolóra f
Slovene: tribarvnica f
Spanish: tricolor (es)
Swedish: trikolor (sv) c
Thai: ธงไตรรงค์ (tong-dtrai-rong)
Turkish: üç renkli
Ukrainian: триколо́р m (trykolór)
Vietnamese: cờ tam tài
Welsh: trilliw m

Adjective

tricolour (not comparable)

(British spelling)

Having three colours.
tricolour film

Synonyms

Derived terms

Translations

having three colors

Bhojpuri: तिरंगा (tiraṅgā)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 三色的 (zh) (sānsè de)
Dutch: driekleurig (nl)
Finnish: kolmivärinen
French: trichromate (fr), tricolore (fr)
German: dreifarbig (de)
Irish: trídhathach
Italian: tricolore (it)
Japanese: 三色 (ja) m (sanshoku)
Korean: 삼색 (ko) (samsaek)
Latin: tricolor
Manx: tree-chroamatagh, treeghaagh
Polish: trójkolorowy (pl), trójbarwny (pl)
Portuguese: tricolor (pt), tricromático
Russian: трёхцве́тный (ru) (trjoxcvétnyj)
Spanish: tricolor (es), tricrómico
Volapük: kilkölik (vo), (older term) kilakölik