beige

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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈbeɪʒ/
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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈbeɪd͡ʒ/
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• British, Southern, Standard: /ˈbɛjʒ/
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• British, Southern, Standard: /ˈbɛjd͡ʒ/
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• Australian, New-Zealand: /ˈbæɪʒ/
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• Australian, New-Zealand: /ˈbæɪd͡ʒ/
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• Scotland: /ˈbeʒ/
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• Scotland: /ˈbed͡ʒ/
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• Wales: /ˈbeiʒ/ without the toe–tow merger
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• Wales: /ˈbeid͡ʒ/ without the toe–tow merger
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• rhymes with -eɪʒ
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Unadapted borrowing from French (dialectal) beige, from Old French bege (“color of undyed wool or cotton”), from an Alpine language (compare Franco-Provençal bézho, Romansch besch (“dull grey”)), from Vulgar Latin *bysseus (“cottony grey”) (compare French bis, Catalan bis, Italian bigio), from Late Latin byssus (“cotton”), from Ancient Greek βύσσος (bússos, “cotton homespun”), from Semitic (compare Hebrew/Aramaic בוץ (būṣ)). Doublet of bice.

127 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: beige — having a slightly yellowish gray colour
• Arabic: بِيج (bīj) — having a slightly yellowish gray colour
• Arabic: بيج (bēj) — having a slightly yellowish gray colour
• Bulgarian: бе́жов (béžov) — having a slightly yellowish gray colour
• Catalan: beix — having a slightly yellowish gray colour
• Chinese Mandarin: 米黃 /米黄 (mǐhuáng) — having a slightly yellowish gray colour
• Chinese Mandarin: 米色 (mǐsè) — having a slightly yellowish gray colour
• Czech: béžový — having a slightly yellowish gray colour
• Finnish: beesi — having a slightly yellowish gray colour
• French: beige — having a slightly yellowish gray colour
• Galician: beixe — having a slightly yellowish gray colour
• German: beige — having a slightly yellowish gray colour
• Hungarian: bézs — having a slightly yellowish gray colour
• Irish: béasa — having a slightly yellowish gray colour
• Italian: bigio — having a slightly yellowish gray colour
• Japanese: ベージュ (bēju) — having a slightly yellowish gray colour
• Kazakh: сарғыш (sarğyş) — having a slightly yellowish gray colour
• Korean: 베이지색 (beijisaek) — having a slightly yellowish gray colour
• Korean: 베이지 (beiji) — having a slightly yellowish gray colour
• Latin: cēreus — having a slightly yellowish gray colour
• Louisiana Creole: bèj — having a slightly yellowish gray colour
• Macedonian: бе́жов (béžov) — having a slightly yellowish gray colour
• Malay: kuning air — having a slightly yellowish gray colour
• Polish: beżowy — having a slightly yellowish gray colour
• Polish: beż — having a slightly yellowish gray colour
• Portuguese: bege — having a slightly yellowish gray colour
• Romanian: bej — having a slightly yellowish gray colour
• Russian: бе́жевый (béževyj) — having a slightly yellowish gray colour
• Spanish: beis — having a slightly yellowish gray colour
• Spanish: beige (beish) — having a slightly yellowish gray colour
• Welsh: lliw gwlanen — having a slightly yellowish gray colour
• Welsh: llwydfelyn — having a slightly yellowish gray colour
• Afrikaans: beige — colour
• Albanian: bezh — colour
• Arabic: بِيج (bīj) — colour
• Arabic: بِيج (bēj) — colour
• Armenian: բեժ (bež) — colour
• Azerbaijani: bej — colour
• Bambara: bɔ́gɔji — colour
• Bengali: বেইজ (beij) — colour
• Bulgarian: бежов цвят (bežov cvjat) — colour
• Bulgarian: бе́жов (béžov) — colour
• Bulgarian: беж (bež) — colour
• Burmese: အဝါနုရောင်ရှိသော (a.wanu.raunghri.sau:) — colour
• Catalan: beix — colour
• Chinese Mandarin: 米黃 /米黄 (mǐhuáng) — colour
• Chinese Mandarin: 米色 (mǐsè) — colour
• Czech: béžový — colour
• Danish: beige — colour
• Dutch: beige — colour
• Esperanto: flavgriza — colour
• Esperanto: beĵa — colour
• Estonian: beež — colour
• Faroese: ljósbrúngulur — colour
• Finnish: beesi — colour
• Finnish: beige — colour
• French: beige — colour
• West-Frisian: bêzje — colour
• Galician: beis — colour
• Galician: beixe — colour
• Georgian: ბეჟი (beži) — colour
• Georgian: ჩალისფერი (čalisperi) — colour
• Georgian: კრემისფერი (ḳremisperi) — colour
• Georgian: ქარვისფერი (karvisperi) — colour
• Georgian: მოთეთრო-მოყვითალო (motetro-moq̇vitalo) — colour
• Georgian: ქარცი (karci) — colour
• Georgian: ბაცი (baci) — colour
• Georgian: ბაცი ყავისფერი (baci q̇avisperi) — colour
• Georgian: ხორცისფერი (xorcisperi) — colour
• German: Beige — colour
• Greek: μπεζ (bez) — colour
• Hebrew: בֵּז׳ (bezh) — colour
• Hindi: बेज (bej) — colour
• Hindi: बेझ़ (beź) — colour
• Hungarian: bézs — colour
• Icelandic: ljósbrúnn — colour
• Icelandic: grábrúnn — colour
• Icelandic: drappaður — colour
• Ido: beja — colour
• Igbo: edo edo — colour
• Indonesian: krem — colour
• Indonesian: putih kuam — colour
• Irish: béas — colour
• Italian: bigio — colour
• Italian: beige — colour
• Japanese: ベージュ (bēju) — colour
• Khmer: បន៍ត្នោតខ្ចី (b tnaot khchei) — colour
• Korean: 베이지 (beiji) — colour
• Korean: 베이지색 (beijisaek) — colour
• Northern Kurdish: bej — colour
• Latin: cēreus — colour
• Louisiana Creole: bèj — colour
• Macedonian: беж (bež) — colour
• Malagasy: beg — colour
• Malay: krim — colour
• Malay: kuning air — colour
• Maltese: bexx — colour
• Māori: kirīmi — colour
• Nepali: बेज (bej) — colour
• Persian: بژ (bež) — colour
• Polish: beżowy — colour
• Portuguese: bege — colour
• Romanian: bej — colour
• Russian: беж (bež) — colour
• Russian: бе́жевый (béževyj) — colour
• Rwanda-Rundi: bije — colour
• Samoan: ena — colour
• Serbo-Croatian: bež — colour
• Sicilian: viciu — colour
• Sicilian: beige — colour
• Slovak: béžový — colour
• Somali: midab beej — colour
• Spanish: beis — colour
• Spanish: beige (beish) — colour
• Swedish: beige — colour
• Tagalog: murang kayumanggi — colour
• Tajik: каҳваранг (kahvarang) — colour
• Tetum: krem — colour
• Turkish: bej — colour
• Ukrainian: беж (bež) — colour
• Ukrainian: бе́жевий (béževyj) — colour
• Uzbek: sargʻish — colour
• Uzbek: bej — colour
• Vietnamese: be — colour
• Vietnamese: màu be — colour
• Welsh: lliw gwlanen — colour
• Welsh: llwydfelyn — colour