Arabic word senses marked with topical category "Colors"
Parent categories: Light, Vision, Energy, Senses, Nature, Perception, Body, Human
Subcategories: Blacks, Blues, Browns, Pigments, Reds, Whites, Yellows
Total 85 word senses
- آتشيوت (Noun) annatto, achiote
- أبيض (Adjective) white
- أحم (Adjective) black
- أحمر (Adjective) red
- أحور (Adjective) having large round limpid dark eyes; doe-eyed
- أحور (Adjective) having clear healthy-looking supple white skin; milk-white
- أخضر (Adjective) green; verdant
- أدهم (Adjective) shady, darkened much, almost black
- أربد (Proper name) A male given name of historical usage
- أرجوان (Noun) amethyst
- أرجواني (Adjective) redbud-related
- أزرق (Adjective) flickering, glinting
- أسمانجوني (Adjective) sky blue
- أسمر (Adjective) brown, tawny, deep yellow
- أسود (Adjective) black
- أسود (Noun) black person
- أشهب (Adjective) gray
- أشهل (Adjective) The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:; having "a mixture of colours" (usually blue or red with black), variegated (likely from a confusion with أَشْكَل (ʔaškal) although Abu Mansur al-Azhari considered them to be synonyms):; bluish-black, deep blue;
- أصفر (Adjective) yellow (“having yellow as its color”)
- أصقع (Adjective) white in the middle of the head (of a horse or bird)
- أصهب (Adjective) of a color that is a mix of yellow and red; yellow-red or brownish-red; rufous
- أغبر (Adjective) dust-covered, dusty, dingy
- أمغر (Adjective) reddish-white, ruddy, ochre
- إسرنج (Noun) red lead, minium
- اشهل (Verb) Synonym of شَهِلَ (šahila).
- برتقالي (Adjective) orange (color)
- برتقاني (Adjective) orange (color)
- بنفسجي (Adjective) violet (color), purple
- بني (Adjective) brown, coffee-colored
- جون (Proper name) a male given name from English, equivalent to English John.
- حذفي (Adjective) teal-related
- حلقوس (Noun) a pigment for art on the human skin composed of henna, siwak, cloves, gallnut, incense, orpiment, ferrous oxide cooked together in a pot of clay or copper
- حناء (Noun) henna; the plant (Lawsonia inermis)
- حناء (Noun) henna; dye prepared from (Lawsonia inermis)
- خضاب (Noun) pigment, dye
- ذرآني (Adjective) white (maybe only ever used by مِلْح (milḥ) for white salt)
- ذرأ (Verb) to create
- ذرأ (Verb) to become white, to have whiteness intermixed into the saturated colour
- ذرأ (Verb) to be or become rusty
- ذرأ (Noun) whiteness intermixed into saturated colour
- ذرأ (Noun) rust
- ردن (Verb) to purr, to murmur
- رمادي (Adjective) gray (color)
- زبرجد (Noun) chrysolite, olivine, peridot
- زرقون (Noun) red lead, minium
- زعفران (Noun) saffron
- زمرد (Noun) emerald
- زنجفر (Noun) cinnabar
- زنجفر (Noun) vermilion
- سبج (Noun) the gemstones jet and obsidian or similar minerals
- سبيداج (Noun) ceruse, white lead
- سماوي (Adjective) sky blue
- سماوي (Noun) sky blue
- شرشيري (Adjective) teal-related
- شيربام (Noun) milk-white
- عسلي (Adjective) hazel, honey-colored
- عصفر (Verb) to dye with safflower
- غبرة (Noun) dust colour, gray
- غربيب (Adjective) raven-black, jet-black, pitch-black
- غيهب (Noun) intensely black, of peculiarly dark colour
- فرفير (Noun) violet color
- فرفيري (Adjective) violet
- فستقي (Adjective) pistachio green
- فوشي (Adjective) fuchsia-related
- فوشي (Adjective) fuchsia-colored
- فوشية (Noun) fuchsia
- فيروزي (Adjective) turquoise-colored, turquoise
- قان (Noun) (obsolete, only genitive attribute of أَحْمَر (ʔaḥmar, “red”)) blood; blood
- قرمز (Noun) kermes dye color, a shade of red similar to crimson, scarlet or vermillion.
- قرمزي (Adjective) crimson, scarlet, vermillion, red
- قشدي (Adjective) creamy
- كتم (Noun) A species of boxwood, Buxus dioica, used in Yemen with henna to dye hair reddish
- كتم (Noun) mock privet, Phillyrea spp., used in Al-Andalus with henna to dye hair reddish
- كحلي (Adjective) dark blue, blue-black, navy blue
- كميت (Adjective) dark bay (of horses, then also wine)
- لازوردي (Noun) azure-colored, cerulean, sky-blue
- لبني (Adjective) milk-white
- لون (Noun) color
- ليموني (Adjective) lemon …
- ليمي (Adjective) lime (color); lime-colored
- مريق (Noun) safflower (Carthamus tinctorius)
- مغرة (Noun) colour inclining to red, ochre
- نيلي (Adjective) indigo
- وردي (Adjective) of a yellow-red color
- ورس (Noun) Flemingia macrophylla syns. Flemingia rhodocarpa, Flemingia grahamiana, a perennial shrub native to Yemen cultivated because the red glands of it secrete a yellow powder used as a pigment and medicinally, but also for a red pigment from the ground hairs of the red fruits, as well as for medicinal purposes
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