indigo

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• Received-Pronunciation: ĭn'dĭgō
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɪn.dɪˌɡəʊ/
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• US: ĭn'dĭgō
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• US: /ˈɪndɪˌɡoʊ/
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• Scotland: /ˈɪn.dɪˌɡo/
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• Wales: /ˈɪn.dɪˌɡoː/ without the toe–tow merger
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• CMU ARPABET: IH1 N D AH0 G OW2 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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• CMU ARPABET 2: IH1 N D IH0 G OW2 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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16th century (as indico, modern spelling from the 17th century), Spanish índigo, Portuguese endego (modern índigo), or Dutch (via Portuguese) indigo, all from Latin indicum (“indigo”), from Ancient Greek ἰνδικόν (indikón, “Indian dye”), from Ἰνδία (Indía). Doublet of Indic.

164 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: نِيلِيّ (nīliyy) — colour
• Belarusian: індыга (indyha) — colour
• Bulgarian: индиго (indigo) — colour
• Burmese: မဲနယ် (mai:nai) — colour
• Chinese Mandarin: 靛藍 /靛蓝 (diànlán) — colour
• Chinese Mandarin: 靛青 (diànqīng) — colour
• Dutch: indigo — colour
• Dutch: indigoblauw — colour
• Dutch: indigoblauwe — colour
• Esperanto: indiga — colour
• Faroese: indigo — colour
• Finnish: indigonsininen — colour
• French: indigo — colour
• Georgian: ინდიგოსფერი (indigosperi) — colour
• German: indigofarben — colour
• Hindi: नील (nīl) — colour
• Icelandic: indígóblár — colour
• Interlingua: indigo — colour
• Italian: indaco — colour
• Japanese: インジゴ (indigo) — colour
• Japanese: 藍色 (aiiro) — colour
• Korean: 남색 (namsaek) — colour
• Korean: 남빛 (nambit) — colour
• Korean: 쪽빛 (jjokbit) — colour
• Kyrgyz: индиго (indigo) — colour
• Macedonian: индиго (indigo) — colour
• Māori: tūāuri — colour
• Māori: tuauri — colour
• Persian: نیلی (nili) — colour
• Middle Persian: 𐭭𐭩𐭫 — colour
• Polish: indygo — colour
• Portuguese: anil — colour
• Portuguese: índigo — colour
• Romanian: indigo — colour
• Russian: цве́та инди́го (cvéta indígo) — colour
• Russian: инди́говый (indígovyj) — colour
• Sinhalese: ඉන්ඩිගෝ (inḍigō) — colour
• Spanish: índigo — colour
• Spanish: añil — colour
• Swedish: indigo — colour
• Thai: คราม (kraam) — colour
• Turkish: indigo — colour
• Turkish: indigo renkli — colour
• Ukrainian: індиго (indyho) — colour
• Yiddish: אינדיגאָ (indigo) — colour
• Albanian: llullaq — colour
• Albanian: vjollcë — colour
• Albanian: indigo — colour
• Albanian: çivit — colour
• Azerbaijani: indiqo — colour
• Bambara: gala — colour
• Catalan: indi — colour
• Catalan: anyil — colour
• Czech: indigo — colour
• Dutch: indigo — colour
• Esperanto: indigo — colour
• Finnish: indigo — colour
• French: indigo — colour
• Galician: índigo — colour
• Galician: anil — colour
• German: Indigo — colour
• Greek: ινδικό (indikó) — colour
• Hebrew: אינדיגו (índigo) — colour
• Hiligaynon: anyil — colour
• Hungarian: indigó — colour
• Indonesian: biru — colour
• Indonesian: nila — colour
• Irish: indeagó — colour
• Italian: indaco — colour
• Japanese: インジゴ (injigo) — colour
• Kaitag: ахсинекк (aꭓsinekk) — colour
• Kapampangan: tayum — colour
• Kapampangan: magingtayum — colour
• Korean: 남색 (namsaek) — colour
• Latin: indicum — colour
• Ligurian: éndego — colour
• Macedonian: индиго (indigo) — colour
• Macedonian: чивит (čivit) — colour
• Malagasy: aika — colour
• Malay: biru nila — colour
• Maltese: nir — colour
• Navajo: diłhiłgo dootłʼizh — colour
• Pashto: نيلي (nili) — colour
• Persian: نیلی (nīlī) — colour
• Persian: نیلگون (nīlgun) — colour
• Polish: indygo — colour
• Portuguese: anil — colour
• Portuguese: índigo — colour
• Romanian: indigo — colour
• Russian: инди́го (indígo) — colour
• Scottish Gaelic: guirmean — colour
• Serbo-Croatian: ìndigo — colour
• Serbo-Croatian: čìvit — colour
• Spanish: índigo — colour
• Spanish: añil — colour
• Spanish: turquí — colour
• Swedish: indigoblå — colour
• Tagalog: indigo — colour
• Tagalog: anyil — colour
• Tajik: индиго (indigo) — colour
• Tajik: нил (nil) — colour
• Tajik: нилгун (nilgun) — colour
• Tajik: нилоб (nilob) — colour
• Tajik: нилобӣ (nilobi) — colour
• Tajik: лоҷвард (lojvard) — colour
• Tamil: கருநீலம் (karunīlam) — colour
• Tibetan: རམས (rams) — colour
• Turkish: çivit mavisi — colour
• Vietnamese: chàm — colour
• Albanian: ngjyrë blu-vjollcë — dye
• Bambara: galaji — dye
• Bhojpuri: नील (nīl) — dye
• Bulgarian: индиго (indigo) — dye
• Chinese Mandarin: 靛青 (diànqīng) — dye
• Chinese Mandarin: 靛藍 /靛蓝 (diànlán) — dye
• Finnish: indigo — dye
• Finnish: indigonsininen — dye
• French: indigo — dye
• Galician: índigo — dye
• Galician: anil — dye
• German: Indigo — dye
• Ancient Greek: Ἰνδικόν (Indikón) — dye
• Hiligaynon: anyil — dye
• Hindi: नील (nīl) — dye
• Irish: plúirín — dye
• Irish: indeagó — dye
• Italian: indaco — dye
• Japanese: インジゴ (injigo) — dye
• Japanese: 藍色 (aiiro) — dye
• Kazakh: индиго (indigo) — dye
• Kyrgyz: индиго (indigo) — dye
• Macedonian: индиго (indigo) — dye
• Macedonian: чивит (čivit) — dye
• Persian: نیل (nīl) — dye
• Polish: indygo — dye
• Portuguese: anil — dye
• Portuguese: índigo — dye
• Romanian: indigo — dye
• Russian: инди́го (indígo) — dye
• Scottish Gaelic: guirmean — dye
• Serbo-Croatian: ìndigo — dye
• Serbo-Croatian: čìvit — dye
• Spanish: índigo — dye
• Spanish: añil — dye
• Swedish: indigo — dye
• Thai: คราม (kraam) — dye
• Tibetan: རམས (rams) — dye
• Turkish: indigo — dye
• Turkish: çivit mavisi — dye
• Ottoman Turkish: چیویت (çivit) — dye
• Ottoman Turkish: نیل (nil) — dye
• Vietnamese: bột chàm — dye
• Vietnamese: thuốc nhuộm chàm — dye
• Czech: indigovník — plant
• Finnish: indigo — plant
• Finnish: väri-indigo (Indgigofera tinctoria) — plant
• Finnish: sulkapensas — plant
• Finnish: etelänherne — plant
• Malayalam: അമരി (amari) — plant
• Polish: indygowiec — plant
• Romanian: indigo — plant
• Scottish Gaelic: guirmean — plant
• Ottoman Turkish: چیویت (çivit) — plant
• Ottoman Turkish: نیل (nil) — plant