adj
Meaning 1
Having a brown color/colour.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
brown
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈbɹaʊ̯n/
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/ˈbɹæʊ̯n/ Southern US, Midland US, Mid-Atlantic US, New York City, Australian, New Zealand, /aʊ̯/-fronting
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/ˈbɹaːn/ Pittsburgh, General South African, /aʊ̯/-monophthongization
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Northumbria: /bɹuːn/
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adj
Meaning 2
Gloomy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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adj
Meaning 3
Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.
Latino/Latin American
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Usage: US, capitalized, sometimes
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adj
Meaning 4
Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.
of color.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, broadly, capitalized, sometimes
Qualifier: vague
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adj
Meaning 5
Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.
South Asian or sometimes Middle Eastern or North African
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Usage: capitalized, sometimes
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adj
Meaning 6
Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.
Southeast Asian, Pacific Islander, or sometimes Native American
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Usage: capitalized, sometimes
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adj
Meaning 7
Not green (environmentally irresponsible); anti-green (against environmental protection).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Near-synonyms: nongreen, antigreen
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: nongreen, antigreen
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 8
Alternative letter-case form of brown (“of a dark complexion”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canada, UK, US, alt-of, often
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name
Meaning 9
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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name
Meaning 10
A surname.
An English and Scottish surname transferred from the nickname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 11
A surname.
An Irish surname of Anglo-Norman origin, a translation of de Brún.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 12
A locale in the United States.
An unincorporated community in California; named for hotelier George Brown.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 13
A locale in the United States.
An unincorporated community in Louisiana; named for landowner George W. Brown.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 14
A locale in the United States.
An unincorporated community in Oklahoma; named for postmaster Robert H. Brown.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 15
A locale in the United States.
An unincorporated community in West Virginia; named for early settler John Brown.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 16
A locale in the United States.
A ghost town in Nevada.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 17
A locale in the United States.
A number of townships in the United States, listed under Brown Township.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 18
Brown University.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 19
A colour like that of chocolate or coffee.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- The browns and greens in this painting give it a nice woodsy feel.
- He wore brown jeans for his birthday.
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noun
Meaning 20
One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 4 points.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
Topics: ball-games, games, hobbies, lifestyle, snooker, sports
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noun
Meaning 21
Black tar heroin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
Meaning 22
A copper coin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, countable, slang
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noun
Meaning 23
A brown horse or other animal.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 24
A person of mostly Latin American (or Latino), Middle Eastern/North African, South Asian, and sometimes Southeast Asian, Pacific Islander, or rarely Native American descent; a brown-skinned person; someone of mulatto, or biracial appearance.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: capitalized, countable, ethnic, informal, slur, sometimes
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noun
Meaning 25
Any of various nymphalid butterflies of subfamily Satyrinae (formerly the family Satyridae), such as those of the genera Heteronympha and Melanitis.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: biology, entomology, natural-sciences
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noun
Meaning 26
A brown trout (Salmo trutta).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, informal, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 27
A mass of birds or animals that may be indiscriminately fired at.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: hobbies, hunting, lifestyle
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noun
Meaning 28
Alternative letter-case form of brown (“person with a dark complexion”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of
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verb
Meaning 29
To become brown.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Examples
- Fry the onions until they brown.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: embrown, brownify
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 30
poop.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- i've just browned myself.
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verb
Meaning 31
To cook something until it becomes brown.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Topics: cooking, food, lifestyle
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verb
Meaning 32
To tan.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, transitive
Examples
- Light-skinned people tend to brown when exposed to the sun.
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verb
Meaning 33
To make brown or dusky.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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Synonyms: embrown
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verb
Meaning 34
To give a bright brown colour to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coating of oxide on their surface.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
Meaning 35
To turn progressively more Hispanic or Latino, in the context of the population of a geographic region.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: derogatory, ethnic, intransitive, offensive, slang, slur, transitive, usually
Topics: demographics, demography
Examples
- the browning of America
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adjective satellite
Meaning 36
(of skin) deeply suntanned
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: browned
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 37
of a color similar to that of wood or earth
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: brownish, chocolate-brown, dark-brown
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 38
a university in Rhode Island
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Brown University
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: university
noun
Meaning 39
an orange of low brightness and saturation
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: brownness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour
Narrower terms: Vandyke brown, chestnut, chocolate, coffee, deep brown, umber, burnt umber, hazel, light brown, mocha, reddish brown, sepia, burnt sienna, Venetian red, mahogany, yellowish brown, raw sienna, buff, caramel, caramel brown, puce, olive brown, taupe
noun
Meaning 40
abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1859)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: John Brown
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: abolitionist, emancipationist
noun
Meaning 41
Scottish botanist who first observed the movement of small particles in fluids now known a Brownian motion (1773-1858)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Robert Brown
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: botanist, phytologist, plant scientist
verb
Meaning 42
make brown in color
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the draught browned the leaves on the trees in the yard
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: embrown
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: color, colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize, colour, color in, colour in
verb
Meaning 43
fry in a pan until it changes color
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- brown the meat in the pan
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Synonyms: none provided
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Broader terms: cook
History
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English broun, from Old English brūn (“brown; dark; dusky”), from Proto-West Germanic *brūn, from Proto-Germanic *brūnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bherH-. Doublet of bruin. Cognates * Dutch bruin * German braun * Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish brun * Ancient Greek φρύνη (phrúnē), φρῦνος (phrûnos, “toad”) * Latin brunneus (“brown”) * Lithuanian bė́ras (“brown”) * Sanskrit बभ्रु (babhrú, “reddish-brown”) * West Frisian brún
From Middle English Broun, originally a nickname for someone with brown hair or a dark complexion. In the United States, sometimes an anglicization and translation of German Braun. Doublet of Bruno and Braun.
Across languages
Translations
530 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: bruin — having a brown color/colour
- Albanian: zeshkan — having a brown color/colour
- Albanian: bojë kafe — having a brown color/colour
- Amharic: ቡናይነት (bunaynät) — having a brown color/colour
- Arabic: أَسْمَر (ʔasmar) — having a brown color/colour
- Arabic: سَمْرَاء (samrāʔ) — having a brown color/colour
- Arabic: سُمْر (sumr) — having a brown color/colour
- Arabic: بُنِّيّ (bunniyy) — having a brown color/colour
- Arabic: أسمر (asmar) — having a brown color/colour
- Aragonese: marrón — having a brown color/colour
- Aragonese: pardo — having a brown color/colour
- Armenian: շագանակագույն (šaganakaguyn) — having a brown color/colour
- Asturian: marrón — having a brown color/colour
- Asturian: castañu — having a brown color/colour
- Azerbaijani: qəhvəyi — having a brown color/colour
- Azerbaijani: darçını — having a brown color/colour
- Bashkir: көрән (körən) — having a brown color/colour
- Basque: marroi — having a brown color/colour
- Belarusian: кары́чневы (karýčnjevy) — having a brown color/colour
- Belarusian: ка́ры (káry) — having a brown color/colour
- Belarusian: кашта́навы (kaštánavy) — having a brown color/colour
- Bengali: বাদামি (badami) — having a brown color/colour
- Bhojpuri: भुअर (bhuar) — having a brown color/colour
- Breton: brun — having a brown color/colour
- Breton: gell — having a brown color/colour
- Bulgarian: кафя́в (kafjáv) — having a brown color/colour
- Burmese: ညို (nyui) — having a brown color/colour
- Catalan: marró — having a brown color/colour
- Chickasaw: lakna — having a brown color/colour
- Chinese Mandarin: 褐色 (hèsè) — having a brown color/colour
- Chinese Mandarin: 棕色 (zōngsè) — having a brown color/colour
- Chinese Mandarin: 咖啡色 (kāfēisè) — having a brown color/colour
- Chuvash: хӑмӑр (hămăr) — having a brown color/colour
- Cornish: gell — having a brown color/colour
- Cornish: gorm — having a brown color/colour
- Crimean Tatar: qave renki — having a brown color/colour
- Czech: hnědý — having a brown color/colour
- Danish: brun — having a brown color/colour
- Dutch: bruin — having a brown color/colour
- Esperanto: bruna — having a brown color/colour
- Estonian: pruun — having a brown color/colour
- Faroese: brúnur — having a brown color/colour
- Finnish: ruskea — having a brown color/colour
- French: brun — having a brown color/colour
- French: marron — having a brown color/colour
- West-Frisian: brún — having a brown color/colour
- Galician: marrón — having a brown color/colour
- Galician: castaño — having a brown color/colour
- Galician: pardo — having a brown color/colour
- Georgian: ყავისფერი (q̇avisperi) — having a brown color/colour
- German: braun — having a brown color/colour
- German: bruun — having a brown color/colour
- Greek: καστανός (kastanós) — having a brown color/colour
- Greek: ορφνός (orfnós) — having a brown color/colour
- Gujarati: ભૂરો (bhūro) — having a brown color/colour
- Gujarati: બદામી (badāmī) — having a brown color/colour
- Hebrew: חוּם (khúm) — having a brown color/colour
- Hiligaynon: abelyána — having a brown color/colour
- Hindi: भूरा (bhūrā) — having a brown color/colour
- Hungarian: barna — having a brown color/colour
- Icelandic: brúnn — having a brown color/colour
- Igbo: brawu — having a brown color/colour
- Indonesian: cokelat — having a brown color/colour
- Ingush: бора (bora) — having a brown color/colour
- Irish: donn — having a brown color/colour
- Italian: marrone — having a brown color/colour
- Italian: bruno — having a brown color/colour
- Japanese: 茶色い (chairoi) — having a brown color/colour
- Japanese: 褐色 (kasshoku) — having a brown color/colour
- Javanese: soklat — having a brown color/colour
- Kalmyk: күрң (kürñ) — having a brown color/colour
- Kannada: ಕಂದು (kandu) — having a brown color/colour
- Kazakh: қоңыр (qoñyr) — having a brown color/colour
- Khakas: кӱрең (küreñ) — having a brown color/colour
- Khmer: ត្នោត (tnaot) — having a brown color/colour
- Korean: 갈색의 (galsaeg-ui) — having a brown color/colour
- Northern Kurdish: çakar — having a brown color/colour
- Northern Kurdish: qehweyî — having a brown color/colour
- Northern Kurdish: qehwerengî — having a brown color/colour
- Kyrgyz: күрөң (küröŋ) — having a brown color/colour
- Lakota: ǧiyá — having a brown color/colour
- Lao: ນ້ໍາຕານ (nam tān) — having a brown color/colour
- Latin: spādīx — having a brown color/colour
- Latin: ustīcius — having a brown color/colour
- Latin: brunneus — having a brown color/colour
- Latvian: brūns — having a brown color/colour
- Ligurian: brûn — having a brown color/colour
- Lithuanian: rudas — having a brown color/colour
- Louisiana Creole: maron — having a brown color/colour
- Louisiana Creole: brun — having a brown color/colour
- Low German: bruun — having a brown color/colour
- Low German: brun — having a brown color/colour
- Luxembourgish: brong — having a brown color/colour
- Macedonian: кафен (kafen) — having a brown color/colour
- Malay: perang — having a brown color/colour
- Malay: merah — having a brown color/colour
- Malay: sawo — having a brown color/colour
- Malay: coklat — having a brown color/colour
- Malayalam: കാക്കി (kākki) — having a brown color/colour
- Māori: parauri — having a brown color/colour
- Marathi: कथ्था (kaththā) — having a brown color/colour
- Western Mari: кӹрӓн (kÿrän) — having a brown color/colour
- Marshallese: būrawūn — having a brown color/colour
- Mongolian: бор (bor) — having a brown color/colour
- Mongolian: хүрэн (xüren) — having a brown color/colour
- Muong: nu — having a brown color/colour
- Nepali: खैरो (khairo) — having a brown color/colour
- Norwegian Bokmål: brun — having a brown color/colour
- Norwegian Bokmål: mørkbrun — having a brown color/colour
- Norwegian Bokmål: mørkebrun — having a brown color/colour
- Norwegian Nynorsk: brun — having a brown color/colour
- Norwegian Nynorsk: mørkbrun — having a brown color/colour
- Norwegian Nynorsk: mørkebrun — having a brown color/colour
- Occitan: brun — having a brown color/colour
- Occitan: burèl — having a brown color/colour
- Occitan: maurèl — having a brown color/colour
- Old English: brūn — having a brown color/colour
- Old English: eorp — having a brown color/colour
- Oromo: magaala — having a brown color/colour
- Pannonian Rusyn: кафови (kafovi) — having a brown color/colour
- Pannonian Rusyn: браон (braon) — having a brown color/colour
- Papiamentu: bruin — having a brown color/colour
- Pashto: بور (bore) — having a brown color/colour
- Pashto: نسواري (naswâri) — having a brown color/colour
- Dari: نَسْوَارِی (naswārī) — having a brown color/colour
- Dari: قَهْوَهایِ (qahwa-yī) — having a brown color/colour
- Iranian Persian: قَهْوِهای (ġahve-i) — having a brown color/colour
- Plautdietsch: brun (nds) — having a brown color/colour
- Polish: brązowy — having a brown color/colour
- Portuguese: castanho — having a brown color/colour
- Portuguese: marrom — having a brown color/colour
- Quechua: ch'umpi — having a brown color/colour
- Quechua: sañi — having a brown color/colour
- Romanian: maro — having a brown color/colour
- Romanian: brun — having a brown color/colour
- Romansh: brin — having a brown color/colour
- Romansh: bregn — having a brown color/colour
- Romansh: brün — having a brown color/colour
- Russian: кори́чневый (koríčnevyj) — having a brown color/colour
- Russian: ка́рий (kárij) — having a brown color/colour
- Russian: кашта́новый (kaštánovyj) — having a brown color/colour
- Russian: кофе́йный (koféjnyj) — having a brown color/colour
- Russian: бу́рый (búryj) — having a brown color/colour
- Russian: гнедо́й (gnedój) — having a brown color/colour
- Sanskrit: श्याव (śyāva) — having a brown color/colour
- Sanskrit: कपिला (kapilā) — having a brown color/colour
- Scots: broon — having a brown color/colour
- Scottish Gaelic: donn — having a brown color/colour
- Serbo-Croatian: сме̏ђ — having a brown color/colour
- Serbo-Croatian: бра̏он — having a brown color/colour
- Serbo-Croatian: мр̏к — having a brown color/colour
- Serbo-Croatian: smȅđ — having a brown color/colour
- Serbo-Croatian: brȁon — having a brown color/colour
- Serbo-Croatian: mȑk — having a brown color/colour
- Shor: кӱрең (küreñ) — having a brown color/colour
- Sinhalese: දුඹුරු (dumburu) — having a brown color/colour
- Slovak: hnedý — having a brown color/colour
- Slovene: rjav — having a brown color/colour
- Spanish: marrón — having a brown color/colour
- Spanish: café — having a brown color/colour
- Spanish: pardo — having a brown color/colour
- Spanish: castaño — having a brown color/colour
- Spanish: cafesoso — having a brown color/colour
- Sranan Tongo: broin — having a brown color/colour
- Swedish: brun — having a brown color/colour
- Tagalog: kayumanggi — having a brown color/colour
- Tajik: қаҳвагӣ (qahvagi) — having a brown color/colour
- Tamil: பழுப்பு (paḻuppu) — having a brown color/colour
- Tatar: көрән (körän) — having a brown color/colour
- Telugu: పింగళము (piṅgaḷamu) — having a brown color/colour
- Thai: น้ําตาล (nám-dtaan) — having a brown color/colour
- Tigrinya: ቡናዊ (bunawi) — having a brown color/colour
- Turkish: kahverengi — having a brown color/colour
- Ottoman Turkish: قوكور (koñur) — having a brown color/colour
- Turkmen: goňur — having a brown color/colour
- Turkmen: go–ur — having a brown color/colour
- Udmurt: курень (kureń) — having a brown color/colour
- Ukrainian: кори́чневий (korýčnevyj) — having a brown color/colour
- Ukrainian: ка́рий (káryj) — having a brown color/colour
- Ukrainian: кашта́новий (kaštánovyj) — having a brown color/colour
- Ukrainian: бу́рий (búryj) — having a brown color/colour
- Urdu: بُھورا (bhūrā) — having a brown color/colour
- Uyghur: قوڭۇر (qo'ngur) — having a brown color/colour
- Uzbek: qoʻngʻir — having a brown color/colour
- Vietnamese: nâu — having a brown color/colour
- Volapük: braunik — having a brown color/colour
- Volapük: blonik — having a brown color/colour
- Welsh: brown — having a brown color/colour
- Yiddish: ברוין (broyn) — having a brown color/colour
- Arabic: بْرَاوْن (brāwn) — transliterations of the English name "Brown"
- Chinese Mandarin: 布朗 (Bùlǎng) — transliterations of the English name "Brown"
- Esperanto: Braŭno — transliterations of the English name "Brown"
- Greek: Μπράουν (Bráoun) — transliterations of the English name "Brown"
- Hebrew: בראון — transliterations of the English name "Brown"
- Hindi: ब्राउन (brāun) — transliterations of the English name "Brown"
- Japanese: ブラウン (Buraun) — transliterations of the English name "Brown"
- Korean: 브라운 (Beuraun) — transliterations of the English name "Brown"
- Māori: Parāone — transliterations of the English name "Brown"
- Persian: براون — transliterations of the English name "Brown"
- Russian: Бра́ун (Bráun) — transliterations of the English name "Brown"
- Russian: Бро́ун (Bróun) — transliterations of the English name "Brown"
- Afrikaans: de Bruyn — surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion
- Afrikaans: de Bruyns — surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion
- Afrikaans: Bruyn — surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion
- Afrikaans: Bruyns — surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion
- Afrikaans: de Bruin — surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion
- Afrikaans: de Bruins — surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion
- Catalan: Bru — surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion
- Danish: Brun — surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion
- Danish: Bruun — surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion
- Dutch: Bruin — surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion
- Dutch: Bruijn — surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion
- Dutch: Bruyn — surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion
- Dutch: Bruyns — surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion
- Dutch: Bruins — surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion
- Dutch: de Bruyne — surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion
- Dutch: de Bruyn — surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion
- Dutch: de Bruin — surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion
- Dutch: de Bruine — surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion
- Dutch: de Bruijn — surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion
- Dutch: de Bruijne — surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion
- Finnish: Rusko — surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion
- French: Lebrun — surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion
- French: Brun — surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion
- French: Brunet — surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion
- German: Braun — surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion
- German: Braune — surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion
- German: Brun — surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion
- German: Brune — surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion
- German: Bruhn — surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion
- Hungarian: Barna — surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion
- Italian: Bruno — surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion
- Italian: Bruni — surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion
- Italian: Brunetti — surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion
- Italian: Moro — surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion
- Italian: Mori — surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion
- Italian: Marrone — surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion
- Italian: Mora — surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion
- Italian: Moretti — surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion
- Norwegian: Brun — surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion
- Norwegian: Bruun — surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion
- Polish: Brązowski — surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion
- Portuguese: Castanho — surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion
- Portuguese: Moreno — surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion
- Spanish: Castaño — surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion
- Spanish: Moreno — surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion
- Spanish: Pardo — surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion
- Swedish: Brun — surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion
- Swedish: Bruun — surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion
- Afrikaans: bruin — colour
- Akan: ahaban dada — colour
- Akan: ntokowa ntokowa — colour
- Albanian: bojëkafe — colour
- Southern Altai: кӱреҥ (küreŋ) — colour
- Arabic: بُنِّيّ (bunniyy) — colour
- Arabic: أَسْمَر (ʔasmar) — colour
- Arabic: بُنِّي (bunni) — colour
- Arabic: قهوي (qahwi) — colour
- Arabic: بني (binni) — colour
- Aragonese: marrón — colour
- Aragonese: pardo — colour
- Armenian: շագանակագույն (šaganakaguyn) — colour
- Armenian: դարչնագույն (darčʻnaguyn) — colour
- Armenian: սրճագույն (srčaguyn) — colour
- Armenian: կարիչնիվի (karičʻnivi) — colour
- Aromanian: murnu — colour
- Assamese: মটীয়া (motia) — colour
- Asturian: marrón — colour
- Azerbaijani: qəhvəyi — colour
- Azerbaijani: darçını — colour
- Bashkir: көрән (körən) — colour
- Basque: marroi — colour
- Belarusian: кары́чневы (karýčnjevy) — colour
- Bislama: braon — colour
- Breton: gell — colour
- Bulgarian: кафя́в цвят (kafjáv cvjat) — colour
- Bulgarian: кафя́в (kafjáv) — colour
- Burmese: အညို (a.nyui) — colour
- Catalan: marró — colour
- Cherokee: ᎤᏬᏗᎨᎢ (uwodigei) — colour
- Chichewa: bulawuni — colour
- Chickasaw: lakna — colour
- Chinese Cantonese: 啡色 (fe1 sik1) — colour
- Chinese Mandarin: 棕色 (zōngsè) — colour
- Chinese Mandarin: 褐色 (hèsè) — colour
- Chinese Mandarin: 咖啡色 (kāfēisè) — colour
- Cornish: gell — colour
- Cornish: gorm — colour
- Montagnais: katshishtemauaput — colour
- Crimean Tatar: qoñur — colour
- Czech: hněď — colour
- Danish: brun — colour
- Dutch: bruin — colour
- Esperanto: bruno — colour
- Estonian: pruun — colour
- Faroese: brúnt — colour
- Fijian: dravu — colour
- Finnish: ruskea — colour
- French: marron — colour
- French: brun — colour
- Old French: brun — colour
- Old Frisian: brūn — colour
- Galician: marrón — colour
- Galician: brun — colour
- Galician: pardo — colour
- Galician: castaño — colour
- Georgian: ყავისფერი (q̇avisperi) — colour
- Georgian: წაბლისფერი (c̣ablisperi) — colour
- Georgian: მურა (mura) — colour
- Georgian: უნაბისფერი (unabisperi) — colour
- Georgian: ჟღალისფერი (žɣalisperi) — colour
- Georgian: წენგოსფერი (c̣engosperi) — colour
- German: Braun — colour
- German: Bruun — colour
- Old High German: brūn — colour
- Greek: καστανό (kastanó) — colour
- Greek: καφέ (kafé) — colour
- Ancient Greek: ὀρφνός (orphnós) — colour
- Greenlandic: kajortoq — colour
- Hebrew: חוּם (khúm) — colour
- Hiligaynon: abelyána — colour
- Hindi: भूरा (bhūrā) — colour
- Hopi: tasikpu — colour
- Hungarian: barna — colour
- Icelandic: brúnn — colour
- Ido: bruna — colour
- Igbo: nchara — colour
- Indonesian: cokelat — colour
- Ingush: бора (bora) — colour
- Iranun: maredtem — colour
- Irish: donn — colour
- Italian: marrone — colour
- Italian: castano — colour
- Japanese: 茶色 (chairo) — colour
- Japanese: 褐色 (kasshoku) — colour
- Kaitag: бера (bera) — colour
- Kalmyk: күрң (kürñ) — colour
- Kankanaey: kaman-nangu — colour
- Kapampangan: komanggi — colour
- Kapampangan: makomanggi — colour
- Karachay-Balkar: къонгур (qoñur) — colour
- Karaim: къахъвэ рэнги — colour
- Khakas: хоор (xoor) — colour
- Khmer: ពណ៌ត្នោត (poa tnaot) — colour
- Khoekhoe: ǂgama — colour
- Kongo: maron — colour
- Korean: 갈색 (galsaek) — colour
- Kumyk: къонгур (qoñur) — colour
- Central Kurdish: قاوەیی (qaweyî) — colour
- Northern Kurdish: çakar — colour
- Northern Kurdish: qehweyî — colour
- Northern Kurdish: qehwerengî — colour
- Kyrgyz: күрөң (küröŋ) — colour
- Lakota: ǧí — colour
- Latgalian: bryuns — colour
- Latin: aquilus — colour
- Latvian: brūns — colour
- Lingala: maron — colour
- Lithuanian: rudas — colour
- Louisiana Creole: maron — colour
- Louisiana Creole: brun — colour
- Low German: Bruun — colour
- Low German: Brun — colour
- Luhya: ekawa — colour
- Macedonian: кафеав (kafeav) — colour
- Macedonian: браон (braon) — colour
- Malagasy: volontany — colour
- Malagasy: fiana — colour
- Malay: perang — colour
- Malay: coklat — colour
- Malayalam: തവിട്ട് (taviṭṭŭ) — colour
- Maltese: kannella — colour
- Māori: hāuratea — colour
- Māori: pākā kōrito — colour
- Māori: pākā — colour
- Maranao: malimba — colour
- Marshallese: būrawūn — colour
- Central Sierra Miwok: tatát·-i- — colour
- Mongolian: бор (bor) — colour
- Muong: nu — colour
- Navajo: dibéłchíʼí — colour
- Navajo: yishtłizh — colour
- Norwegian Bokmål: brun — colour
- Occitan: marron — colour
- Occitan: marrona — colour
- Occitan: castanh — colour
- Occitan: castanha — colour
- Ojibwe: ozaawaanzan — colour
- Old English: brūn — colour
- Old Saxon: brūn — colour
- Oromo: magaala — colour
- Ossetian: морӕ (moræ) — colour
- Pashto: بور (bore) — colour
- Pashto: نسواري (naswâri) — colour
- Dari: نَسْوَارِی (naswārī) — colour
- Dari: قَهْوَهایِ (qahwa-yī) — colour
- Iranian Persian: قَهْوِهای (ġahve-i) — colour
- Polish: brąz — colour
- Portuguese: castanho — colour
- Portuguese: marrom — colour
- Rapa Nui: kāpē — colour
- Romanian: brun — colour
- Romanian: maro — colour
- Russian: кори́чневый (koríčnevyj) — colour
- Russian: бу́рый (búryj) — colour
- Samoan: enaena — colour
- Sardinian: castàngiu — colour
- Scots: broon — colour
- Scottish Gaelic: donn — colour
- Scottish Gaelic: ruadh — colour
- Serbo-Croatian: сме̏ђ — colour
- Serbo-Croatian: бра̏он — colour
- Serbo-Croatian: мр̏к — colour
- Serbo-Croatian: smȅđ — colour
- Serbo-Croatian: brȁon — colour
- Serbo-Croatian: mȑk — colour
- Shona: mbise — colour
- Shor: кӱрең (küreň) — colour
- Slovak: hnedá — colour
- Slovene: rjava — colour
- Somali: boodhe — colour
- Spanish: marrón — colour
- Spanish: café — colour
- Spanish: canelo — colour
- Spanish: carmelita — colour
- Spanish: carmelito — colour
- Spanish: castaño — colour
- Spanish: pardo — colour
- Spanish: moreno — colour
- Spanish: bronceado — colour
- Spanish: moreno — colour
- Sranan Tongo: broin — colour
- Swahili: kahawia — colour
- Swazi: nsúndvu — colour
- Swedish: brun — colour
- Tagalog: kayumanggi — colour
- Tagalog: malakalaw — colour
- Tahitian: 'ina'ina — colour
- Tajik: каҳвагӣ (kahvagi) — colour
- Tajik: қаҳваранг (qahvarang) — colour
- Tarifit: aqehwi — colour
- Thai: สีน้ําตาล (sǐi-nám-dtaan) — colour
- Tibetan: རྒྱ་སྨུག — colour
- Tibetan: སྨུག་པོ — colour
- Tigrinya: ቡናዊ (bunawi) — colour
- Tofa: һүреӈ (hüreň) — colour
- Tok Pisin: braun — colour
- Tok Pisin: braunpela — colour
- Tongan: palauni — colour
- Tongan: melomelo — colour
- Turkish: kahverengi — colour
- Turkish: kongur — colour
- Turkish: konur — colour
- Tuvan: хүрең (xüreñ) — colour
- Udmurt: курень (kureń) — colour
- Ukrainian: кори́чневий (korýčnevyj) — colour
- Urdu: بُھورا (bhūrā) — colour
- Urum: кӱрен — colour
- Urum: конур — colour
- Uyghur: قوڭۇر (qo'ngur) — colour
- Uzbek: jigarrang — colour
- Vietnamese: nâu — colour
- Volapük: braun — colour
- Volapük: blon — colour
- Welsh: brown — colour
- Yakut: күрэҥ (küreŋ) — colour
- Yoruba: pupa — colour
- Finnish: ruskea — one of the colour balls used in snooker
- Finnish: kupariraha — copper coin
- Finnish: rautias — brown horse or other animal
- Finnish: raudikko — brown horse or other animal
- Finnish: ruskeaihoinen — brown-skinned person
- Finnish: heinäperhonen — nymphalid butterfly of subfamily Satyrinae
- Catalan: s'enrossir — to become brown
- Chickasaw: lakna — to become brown
- Czech: zhnědnout — to become brown
- Danish: brune — to become brown
- Dutch: bruin worden — to become brown
- Faroese: brúnka — to become brown
- Finnish: ruskistua — to become brown
- French: brunir — to become brown
- German: bräunen — to become brown
- German: anbräunen — to become brown
- Greek: μαυρίζω (mavrízo) — to become brown
- Greek: σκουραίνω (skouraíno) — to become brown
- Irish: donnaigh — to become brown
- Marshallese: kabūrawūn — to become brown
- Persian: قهوهای شدن (qahve'i šodan) — to become brown
- Polish: brązowieć — to become brown
- Polish: zbrązowieć — to become brown
- Portuguese: acastanhar — to become brown
- Slovak: zhnednúť — to become brown
- Spanish: pardear — to become brown
- Turkish: kahverengileşmek — to become brown
- Turkish: karamelize etmek — to become brown
- Vietnamese: trở nên màu nâu — to become brown
- Volapük: braunikön — to become brown
- Yiddish: ברוינען זיך (broynen zikh) — to become brown
- Catalan: enrossir — to cook until brown
- Czech: zhnědnout — to cook until brown
- Danish: brune — to cook until brown
- Dutch: bruinbakken — to cook until brown
- Faroese: brúnka — to cook until brown
- Finnish: ruskistaa — to cook until brown
- French: faire dorer — to cook until brown
- French: faire revenir — to cook until brown
- French: faire roussir — to cook until brown
- Galician: dourar — to cook until brown
- Galician: rustrir — to cook until brown
- Galician: esturruxar — to cook until brown
- German: bräunen — to cook until brown
- German: anbräunen — to cook until brown
- Greek: κοκκινίζω (kokkinízo) — to cook until brown
- Greek: ροδίζω (rodízo) — to cook until brown
- Irish: donnaigh — to cook until brown
- Italian: rosolare — to cook until brown
- Italian: dorare — to cook until brown
- Lakota: ǧiyÁ — to cook until brown
- Louisiana Creole: kwi — to cook until brown
- Polish: przyrumienić — to cook until brown
- Polish: przyrumieniać — to cook until brown
- Polish: przypiec — to cook until brown
- Polish: przypiekać — to cook until brown
- Polish: zapiec — to cook until brown
- Portuguese: dourar — to cook until brown
- Spanish: dorar — to cook until brown
- Swedish: bryna — to cook until brown
- Turkish: karamelize olmak — to cook until brown
- Ottoman Turkish: اوتولمك (ütülemek) — to cook until brown
- Volapük: braunükön — to cook until brown
Real reading context