variegated

English

WOTD – 27 April 2008

Pronunciation

• enPR: vârʹēəgā'tĭd, IPA^(key): /ˈveəɹɪəˌɡeɪtɪd/, /ˈvæɹi.əˌɡeɪtɪd/
• enPR: vârʹēəgā'tĭd, IPA^(key): /ˈveəɹɪəˌɡeɪtɪd/

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Adjective

variegated (comparative more variegated, superlative most variegated)

1. Streaked, spotted, or otherwise marked with a variety of color; very colorful.

Synonyms

• (marked with a variety of color): patterned; see also Thesaurus:marked
• (very colourful): motley, multicolored, polychromatic; see also Thesaurus:multicolored

Related terms

• variegate

Translations

streaked or spotted with a variety of colours

• Bashkir: сыбар (sıbar)
• Belarusian: страка́ты (strakáty), пёстры (pjóstry) (regional), пярэ́сты (pjarésty)
• Bulgarian: пъ̀стър (bg) (pǎ̀stǎr)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 雜色的／杂色的 (zh), 杂色的 (zh) (zásè de)

• Czech: pestrý (cs), pestrobarevný
• Dutch: bont (nl)
• Finnish: kirjava (fi)
• French: bigarré (fr), multicolore (fr)
• Georgian: ჭრელი (č̣reli), ფერად-ფერადი (perad-peradi), ნაირ-ფერი (nair-peri)
• German: bunt (de)
• Greek: ποικίλος (el) (poikílos)
• Hungarian: tarka (hu)
• Italian: variegato (it)
• Japanese: 多彩 (たさい, tasai)
• Kashubian: bestri
• Korean: 잡색의 (japsaegui)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: ,

• Latvian: raibs
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• Lithuanian: raibas
• Macedonian: ша́рен (šáren)
• Maori: iraira
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: пьстръ (pĭstrŭ)

• Polish: srokaty (pl), pstry (pl)
• Portuguese: variegado (pt)
• Romanian: vărgat (ro), bălțat (ro)
• Russian: пёстрый (ru) (pjóstryj), разноцве́тный (ru) (raznocvétnyj)
• Sanskrit: शर्वर (sa) (śarvara)
• Scottish Gaelic: ballach
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: шарен

  Roman: šaren (sh)

• Slovak: pestrý
• Slovene: pester
• Spanish: variegado (es) m
• Swedish: färgsprakande
• Tagalog: kabang
• Ukrainian: строка́тий (strokátyj), пістри́й (pistrýj) (regional)

Verb

variegated

1. simple past and past participle of variegate