adj
Meaning 1
Dust-coloured; of the colour of dust.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
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Standard Lemma guide
khaki
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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South-Asia: /xɑki/
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South-Asia: /khɑki/
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Australian, New-Zealand, Received-Pronunciation: kä-k'ē
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Australian, New-Zealand, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkɑː.ki/
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Australia: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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General-American: kă-k'ē
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General-American: /ˈkæ.ki/
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Canada: kär-k'ē
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Canada: kä-k'ē
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Canada: kă-k'ē
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Canada: /ˈkɑɹ.ki/
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Canada: /ˈkɑː.ki/
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Canada: /ˈkæ.ki/
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homophone: car key (most non-rhotic accents, Canada with /ɑɹ/)
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homophone: cocky (with /ɑ/ and father-bother merger)
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rhymes with -ɑːki
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rhymes with -æki
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rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)ki
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CMU ARPABET: K AA1 K IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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CMU ARPABET 2: K AE1 K IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A dull, yellowish-brown colour, the colour of dust.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
Khaki green, a dull green colour.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- 1921, War work of the Bureau of Standards, no. 46, page 54. The English Government for a long time has used a type of pigmented dope cover, khaki colored by iron pigments and lampblack, which is called P. C. 10.
- 2007, Yuji Matsuki, American Fighters Over Europe: Colors & Markings of USAAF Fighters in WWII, page 4, →ISBN. At the end of World War I, the U.S. Army Air Service painted everything khaki. This khaki was practically the same as British PC10 and can be considered the basis of the later olive drab color.
Meaning relationships
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noun
Meaning 4
A strong cloth of wool or cotton, often used for military or other uniforms.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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noun
Meaning 5
A soldier wearing a khaki uniform.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, rare, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
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noun
Meaning 6
A British person.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: South-Africa, countable, derogatory, slang, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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noun
Meaning 7
Khaki clothing or uniform.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, in-plural, uncountable
Examples
- 1915 Out West magazine The porter in going through the rear coach, which was almost empty, noticed one of the occupants, a muscular, soldierly man in khakies to be apparently asleep in his seat.
Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 8
of a yellowish brown color
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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noun
Meaning 9
a sturdy twilled cloth of a yellowish brown color used especially for military uniforms
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: fabric, cloth, material, textile
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Hindustani خاکی (xākī) / ख़ाकी (xākī), from Classical Persian خَاکِی (xākī, “dusty, earthy, earth-colored”). Noun sense 5 was coined in reference to the colour of the uniform of British troops during the Second Boer War; compare rooinek.
Across languages
Translations
76 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: كَاكِي (kākī) — dust-coloured
- Arabic: خَاكِي (ḵākī) — dust-coloured
- Bulgarian: хаки (haki) — dust-coloured
- Catalan: caqui — dust-coloured
- Chinese Mandarin: 黃褐色 /黄褐色 (huánghèsè) — dust-coloured
- Dutch: kakikleurig — dust-coloured
- Esperanto: kakia — dust-coloured
- Finnish: khakinvärinen — dust-coloured
- Georgian: ხაკი (xaḳi) — dust-coloured
- Georgian: ხაკისფერი (xaḳisperi) — dust-coloured
- German: kaki — dust-coloured
- German: khaki — dust-coloured
- German: kakifarben — dust-coloured
- German: khakifarben — dust-coloured
- Hindi: ख़ाकी (xākī) — dust-coloured
- Interlingua: khaki — dust-coloured
- Interlingua: de color khaki — dust-coloured
- Italian: cachi — dust-coloured
- Japanese: カーキ色 (kāki-iro) — dust-coloured
- Māori: pākā kōrito — dust-coloured
- Persian: خاکی (xâki) — dust-coloured
- Portuguese: cáqui — dust-coloured
- Portuguese: caqui — dust-coloured
- Romanian: kaki — dust-coloured
- Russian: ха́ки (xáki) — dust-coloured
- Urdu: خاکی (xākī) — dust-coloured
- Vietnamese: màu kaki — dust-coloured
- Vietnamese: màu khaki — dust-coloured
- Armenian: խակի (xaki) — yellowish-brown colour
- Bulgarian: хаки (haki) — yellowish-brown colour
- Catalan: caqui — yellowish-brown colour
- Chinese Mandarin: 卡其色 (kǎqísè) — yellowish-brown colour
- Chinese Mandarin: 黃褐色 /黄褐色 (huánghèsè) — yellowish-brown colour
- Czech: khaki — yellowish-brown colour
- Dutch: kaki — yellowish-brown colour
- Finnish: khaki — yellowish-brown colour
- Georgian: ხაკი (xaḳi) — yellowish-brown colour
- Georgian: ხაკისფერი (xaḳisperi) — yellowish-brown colour
- German: Kaki — yellowish-brown colour
- German: Khaki — yellowish-brown colour
- Hebrew: חָקִי (khakí) — yellowish-brown colour
- Hindi: ख़ाकी (xākī) — yellowish-brown colour
- Hungarian: khaki — yellowish-brown colour
- Indonesian: kaki — yellowish-brown colour
- Italian: cachi — yellowish-brown colour
- Japanese: カーキ色 (kāki-iro) — yellowish-brown colour
- Kashmiri: خٲکؠ (khạ̄k') — yellowish-brown colour
- Khmer: កាគី (kaakii) — yellowish-brown colour
- Korean: 카키색 (kakisaek) — yellowish-brown colour
- Malayalam: ഖാക്കി (khākki) — yellowish-brown colour
- Māori: pākā kōrito — yellowish-brown colour
- Marathi: खाकी (khākī) — yellowish-brown colour
- Norman: kaki — yellowish-brown colour
- Persian: خاکی (xâki) — yellowish-brown colour
- Polish: khaki — yellowish-brown colour
- Portuguese: cáqui — yellowish-brown colour
- Portuguese: caqui — yellowish-brown colour
- Romanian: kaki — yellowish-brown colour
- Russian: ха́ки (xáki) — yellowish-brown colour
- Russian: цвет ха́ки (cvet xáki) — yellowish-brown colour
- Spanish: caqui — yellowish-brown colour
- Thai: กากี (gaa-gii) — yellowish-brown colour
- Ukrainian: ха́кі (xáki) — yellowish-brown colour
- Urdu: خاکی (xākī) — yellowish-brown colour
- Vietnamese: màu kaki — yellowish-brown colour
- Catalan: caqui — strong cloth of wool or cotton
- Chinese Mandarin: 卡其布 (kǎqíbù) — strong cloth of wool or cotton
- Dutch: legerkledij — strong cloth of wool or cotton
- Finnish: khaki — strong cloth of wool or cotton
- Finnish: khakikangas — strong cloth of wool or cotton
- Italian: cachi — strong cloth of wool or cotton
- Norman: kaki — strong cloth of wool or cotton
- Portuguese: caqui — strong cloth of wool or cotton
- Spanish: caqui — strong cloth of wool or cotton
- Vietnamese: vải kaki — strong cloth of wool or cotton
- Vietnamese: vải khaki — strong cloth of wool or cotton