"milk-white" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

Forms: more milk-white [comparative], most milk-white [superlative]
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English milke white, mylk-whyte, mylkquyte, mylk-whit, milc-whit, from Old English meolchwīt (“milk-white”), equivalent to milk + white. Compare Dutch melkwit (“milk-white”), German milchweiß (“milk-white”), Swedish mjölkvit (“milk-white”). Etymology templates: {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|en|enm|milke white|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Middle English milke white, {{inh+|en|enm|milke white}} Inherited from Middle English milke white, {{inh|en|ang|meolchwīt|t=milk-white}} Old English meolchwīt (“milk-white”), {{af|en|milk|white}} milk + white, {{cog|nl|melkwit|t=milk-white}} Dutch melkwit (“milk-white”), {{cog|de|milchweiß|t=milk-white}} German milchweiß (“milk-white”), {{cog|sv|mjölkvit|t=milk-white}} Swedish mjölkvit (“milk-white”) Head templates: {{en-adj}} milk-white (comparative more milk-white, superlative most milk-white)
  1. Having a slightly bluish white color, that of milk. Synonyms: milkwhite Related terms: pale as milk Translations (having a slightly bluish white color, that of milk): لَبَنِيّ (labaniyy) (Arabic), شِيرْبَام (šīrbām) (Arabic), млечнобя́л (mlečnobjál) (Bulgarian), mælkehvid (Danish), melkwit (Dutch), maidonvalkoinen (Finnish), laiteux (French), milchweiß (German), milchweiss [Liechtenstein, Switzerland] (German), schneeweiß (German), schneeweiss [Liechtenstein, Switzerland] (German), laktoblanka (Ido), lacteus (Latin), melkehvit (Norwegian Bokmål), melkekvit (Norwegian Bokmål), mjølkehvit (Norwegian Bokmål), mjølkekvit (Norwegian Bokmål), mjølkekvit (Norwegian Nynorsk), mlecznobiały [masculine] (Polish), молочно-бе́лый (moločno-bélyj) (Russian), bàn-gheal (Scottish Gaelic), mjölkvit (Swedish), llaethwyn (Welsh)

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