beige
English
/ˈbeɪʒ/
noun
Definitions
- A slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.
- Debeige; a kind of woollen or mixed dress goods.
Etymology
Borrowed from French (dialectal) beige derived from Old French bege (color of undyed wool cotton) derived from Latin *bysseus, byssus (silk, fine cotton cotton stuff) derived from Ancient Greek βύσσος (a very fine yellowish flax and the linen woven from it, flax, byssus, cotton homespun).
Origin
Ancient Greek
βύσσος
Gloss
a very fine yellowish flax and the linen woven from it, flax, byssus, cotton homespun
Concept
Semantic Field
Agriculture and vegetation
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
麻
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- beigeish English
- beigeist English
- beigeness English
- beigey English
- beigist English
- bice English
- byssus English
- beige Finnish
- *bysseus Latin
- -osis Latin
- bysius Latin
- bysseus Latin
- byssinum Latin
- byssus Latin
- beige German
- bézs Hungarian
- bigio Italian
- beige Dutch, Flemish
- (dialectal) beige French
- beige French
- beigeâtre French
- bis French
- biscuit French
- biser French
- bisser French
- bévue French
- беж Russian
- beis Spanish, Castilian
- βύσσινος Ancient Greek
- βύσσος Ancient Greek
- besj Norwegian Bokmål
- beige Swedish
- ベージュ Japanese
- besj Norwegian Nynorsk
- béžový Czech
- bege Old French
- beix Catalan, Valencian
- बेज Hindi
- bej Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- μπεζ Greek (modern)
- beja Ido
- bej Turkish
- бежов Bulgarian
- beige Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- בּוּץ Hebrew (modern)
- 嗶嘰 Chinese
- беж Macedonian
- *būṣ- Proto-Semitic
- بيج Hijazi Arabic