Hebrew word senses marked with topical category "Colors"
Parent categories: Light, Vision, Energy, Senses, Nature, Perception, Body
Subcategories: Blues, Browns, Greens, Oranges, Pigments, Purples, Yellows
Total 40 word senses
- אדמדם (Adjective) reddish
- אורנז׳ (Noun) orange (the colour of a ripe fruit of an orange tree, midway between red and yellow)
- אפור (Noun) defective spelling of איפור
- אפרסק (Noun) peach (any tree of species Prunus persica, native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit); peach (a light yellow-red colour)
- אפרפר (Adjective) grayish
- ארגון (Noun) purple
- ארגמן (Noun) Tyrian purple, or a garment dyed with it (a purple-dye associated with royalty, as it was very expensive to produce)
- ורדרד (Adjective) pinkish
- ורוד (Adjective) pink
- זהב (Noun) gold (a deep yellow colour, resembling the metal gold)
- זית (Noun) olive tree (an evergreen tree, Olea europaea, that produces olives as fruit)
- זית (Noun) olive (the small oval fruit of this tree, eaten ripe (usually black) or unripe (usually green)); olive (a dark yellowish-green color, that of an unripe olive)
- זעפרן (Noun) saffron
- חום (Adjective) Brown, brown-colored.
- טורקיז (Noun) turquoise (a sky-blue, greenish-blue, or greenish-gray semi-precious gemstone); turquoise (a pale greenish-blue colour, like that of the gemstone)
- ירוק (Adjective) green
- ירקרק (Adjective) greenish
- כחול (Adjective) blue, a darker shade than תְּכֵלֶת (tchélet)
- כחלחל (Adjective) bluish
- כתום (Adjective) orange
- כתמתם (Adjective) orangish
- לבן (Adjective) white (color)
- לבן (Adjective) white, White (race)
- לבן (Noun) defective spelling of לובן
- לבן (Verb) defective spelling of ליבן
- לבן (Verb) defective spelling of לובן
- לבן (Proper name) Laban
- לבנבן (Adjective) whitish
- סגול (Noun) segol (a Hebrew niqqud diacritical mark (ִ◌ֶ) in the form of three dots arranged as an upside-down triangle, pronounced in Modern Hebrew as /e/)
- סגלגל (Adjective) oval, elliptical
- צבע (Noun) color, colour
- צהוב (Adjective) yellow (color)
- צחור (Adjective) white
- קנום (Adjective) cinnamon-colored
- שחום (Adjective) dark brown
- שחור (Adjective) black
- שחמחם (Adjective) brownish
- שחרחר (Adjective) blackish
- תכלת (Noun) biblical blue
- תכלת (Noun) wool dyed biblical blue
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