white wine

English

A glass of white wine

Etymology

From Middle English white wyn, whit win.

Noun

white wine (countable and uncountable, plural white wines)

1. Light-coloured wine (usually yellow with a hint of green but not pink).
   • 2005, Barbara Nowak, Beverly Wichman, The Everything Wine Book:

     In contrast to making red wine, the juice for white wine is fermented without the skins and seeds.

2. (obsolete, slang) Gin.
   • 1820, Thomas Moore, W. Simpkin, R. Marshall, Jack Randall's Diary of Proceedings at the House of Call for Genius:

     Jack Randall then impatient rose, / And said, ‘Tom's speech were just as fine / If he would call that first of goes / By that genteeler name—white wine.'

Coordinate terms

• orange wine
• red wine
• rosé wine

Translations

light coloured wine

• Albanian: verë e bardhë
• Arabic: نَبِيذ أَبْيَض m (nabīḏ ʔabyaḍ); (less common) خَمْر أَبْيَض m (ḵamr ʔabyaḍ)
• Armenian: սպիտակ գինի (spitak gini)
• Basque: ardo zuri
• Belarusian: бе́лае віно́ n (bjélaje vinó)
• Bulgarian: бя́ло вино́ n (bjálo vinó)
• Catalan: vi blanc m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 白葡萄酒 (zh) (báipútaojiǔ)

• Cornish: gwin gwynn m
• Czech: bílé víno (cs) n
• Danish: hvidvin (da) c
• Dutch: witte wijn (nl)
• Estonian: valge vein
• Faroese: hvítvín n
• Finnish: valkoviini (fi)
• French: vin blanc (fr) m
• Galician: viño branco (gl) m
• Georgian: თეთრი ღვინო (tetri ɣvino)
• German: Weißwein (de) m
• Greek: λευκό κρασί n (lefkó krasí)
• Hebrew: יַיִן לָבָן (he) m (yáyin laván)
• Hungarian: fehérbor (hu)
• Hunsrik: Weiswein m
• Icelandic: hvítvín (is) n
• Irish: fíon geal m, fíon bán m
• Italian: vino bianco (it) n
• Japanese: 白ワイン (shirowain), 白葡萄酒 (しろぶどうしゅ, shirobudōshu)
• Khmer: ស្រាស (sraa sɑɑ)
• Korean: 백포도주(白葡萄酒) (ko) (baekpodoju)
• Latvian: baltvīns (lv) m
• Lithuanian: baltasis vynas m
• Low German:

  German Low German: Wittwien m

• Macedonian: бе́ло ви́но n (bélo víno)
• Malay: wain putih
• Maltese: nbid abjad m
• Manx: feeyn gial m
• Norman: blianc vîn m (Jersey)
• Northern Sami: vilgesviidni
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hvitvin m, kvitvin m

  Nynorsk: kvitvin m

• Polish: białe wino n
• Portuguese: vinho branco (pt) m
• Romanian: vin alb
• Russian: бе́лое вино́ (ru) n (béloje vinó)
• Scottish Gaelic: fìon-geal m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бело вино n, бијело вино n

  Roman: belo vino n, bijelo vino n

• Slovak: biele víno n
• Slovene: belo vino (sl) n
• Spanish: vino blanco m
• Swedish: vitt vin (sv) n, vitvin (sv)
• Tagalog: puting bino, bino-blangko
• Turkish: beyaz şarap (tr)
• Ukrainian: бі́ле вино́ (uk) n (bíle vynó)
• Welsh: gwin gwyn m

See also

• Riesling
• Chardonnay

References

• (white wine): John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

Further reading

• white wine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia