yellowish

English

Etymology

From Middle English ȝelowisch; equivalent to yellow +‎ -ish.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈjɛləʊɪʃ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈjɛlɔʊɪʃ/

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Adjective

yellowish (not comparable)

1. Somewhat yellow in colour.
   • 1955 January, R. S. McNaught, “From the Severn to the Mersey by Great Western”, in Railway Magazine, pages 18-19:

     But, like more than one similar North Wales beauty-spot, there had to be (at least at the time of which I write), a quarry, or ironworks, or some kind of industrial plant, which lay perpetually under a cloud of yellowish smoke—literally a blot on the landscape.

   • 2017 January 18, AJ Willingham, “New moth named in honor of Donald Trump”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     A biologist has named a newly discovered species of moth after our next president. The Neopalpa donaldtrumpi is a wee little creature found in parts of California and Baja, Mexico. […] It seems nature favors fancy golden hairdos as much as the man himself (who could forget China’s beloved Trump bird?), because the N. donaldtrumpi sports a very familiar-looking crown of yellowish scales.

Synonyms

• yellowy

Translations

somewhat yellow

• Armenian: դեղնավուն (hy) (deġnavun)
• Breton: arvelen (br), azvelen (br), damvelen (br)
• Bulgarian: жълтеникав (žǎltenikav)
• Catalan: groguenc (ca), grogós (ca)
• Czech: žlutavý
• Danish: gulagtig, gullig (da)
• Dutch: gelig (nl), geelachtig (nl)
• Esperanto: flaveta, dubeflava
• Estonian: kollakas
• Finnish: kellertävä (fi), kellahko
• French: jaunâtre (fr)
• Galician: amarelado (gl), amarelento (gl)
• Georgian: მოყვითალო (moq̇vitalo)
• German: gelblich (de)
• Hebrew: צְהַבְהַב (he) (ts'havháv)
• Hungarian: sárgás (hu)
• Icelandic: gulleitur
• Interlingua: aliquanto jalne
• Irish: scothbhuí, leathbhuí
• Italian: giallastro, gialliccio (it), giallognolo (it)
• Kalmyk: шарвцр (şarvtsr)
• Kazakh: сарғылт (kk) (sarğylt)
• Latin: galbinus, luteolus m
• Latvian: iedzeltens, dzeltengans, dzeltenīgs
• Marathi: पिवळट (pivḷaṭ), पिवळसर (pivaḷsar)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gulaktig (no)

  Nynorsk: gulaktig

• Ottoman Turkish: صاریمسی (sarımsı)
• Polish: żółtawy (pl)
• Portuguese: amarelado (pt), amarelento, tirante a amarelo
• Romanian: gălbui (ro), gălbenatic (ro), gălbeniu (ro), gălbiu (ro)
• Russian: желтова́тый (ru) (želtovátyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: fo-bhuidhe
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: жу̏ћкаст

  Roman: žȕćkast m

• Shor: сарғамдық
• Southern Altai: сарызымак (sarïzïmak)
• Spanish: amarillento (es)
• Swedish: gulaktig (sv)
• Turkish: sarımsı (tr)
• Volapük: yelovilik (vo), yeliblik (older term), luyelibik (older term)