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From Middle English whitisch , whytyssh , equivalent to white + -ish .
whitish (comparative more whitish , superlative most whitish )
Somewhat white , pale or almost white.
1910 , The Year Book of Dermatology , page 124 :The skin was somewhat pigmented, especially in certain regions, while over the whole there appeared whitish , rounded or oval mottlings or dapplings, most obvious where the surrounding cuticle was most deeply colored.
somewhat white
Arabic:
Egyptian Arabic: ابيضاني ( abyaḍāni )
Armenian: սպիտակավուն (hy) ( spitakavun )
Bulgarian: белезникав ( beleznikav ) , възбя́л ( vǎzbjál )
Catalan: blanquinós
Chinese:
Mandarin: 髮白 的/ 发白 的 ( fàbó de )
Czech: bělavý (cs)
Danish: hvidlig
Esperanto: blanketa
Estonian: valkjas
Finnish: valkeahko (fi)
French: blanchâtre (fr)
Galician: albelo , pálido (gl) , albeiro (gl)
Georgian: მოთეთრო ( motetro )
German: weißlich (de) , ( Swiss ) weisslich (de)
Hebrew: לְבַנְבַּן (he)
Hungarian: fehéres (hu)
Ido: blankatra (io)
Irish: scothbhán (ga) , fobhán
Italian: biancastro (it) , bianchiccio
Japanese: 白っぽい ( しろっぽい, shiroppoi )
Javanese: nom (jv) , nèm , timur
Kalmyk: цаһавтр ( tsağavtr )
Kazakh: ақтау ( aqtau )
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: gewr (ku)
Latin: subalbus , alburnus ( Mediaeval )
Latvian: iebalts
Malagasy: fotsifotsy (mg)
Manx: fo-vane
Maori: kōmā
Norwegian:
Bokmål: hvitaktig
Polish: białawy (pl)
Portuguese: esbranquiçado (pt)
Russian: белова́тый (ru) ( belovátyj ) , белесова́тый (ru) ( belesovátyj ) , белёсый (ru) ( beljósyj ) , беля́вый (ru) ( beljávyj )
Shor: ағылдырым
Spanish: blancuzco , blanquecino (es) , blanquinoso , blanquizo ( archaic ) , blanquizco
Swedish: vitaktig (sv)
Tajik: сафедча ( safedča )
Turkish: akça (tr)
Vietnamese: hơi trắng
Volapük: vietilik (vo) , vietlik ( older term )