mahogany

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• Received-Pronunciation: /məˈhɒɡəni/
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• General-American: /məˈhɑɡəni/
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• rhymes with -ɒɡəni
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• CMU ARPABET: M AH0 HH AA1 G AH0 N IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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A word of unknown origin, concocted in either English or Middle Dutch from one or more exotic phytonyms and common European words. alternative etymologies Alternatively from Portuguese mogano, mógono, obsolete forms of mogno, itself of unknown origin (often suggested to be from the English word instead of the reverse), perhaps from an extinct indigenous language, such as a Mayan language originally spoken in Honduras or a South American language, but no known cognates survive. Another theory attempts to link Yoruba moganwo (“trees”, literally “tall ones”), but this has been criticized.

93 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: махаго́н (mahagón) — wood
• Catalan: caoba — wood
• Chinese Mandarin: 桃花心木 (táohuāxīnmù) — wood
• Czech: mahagon — wood
• Danish: mahogni — wood
• Dutch: mahonie — wood
• Esperanto: mahagono — wood
• Faroese: reyðaviður — wood
• Finnish: mahonki — wood
• French: acajou — wood
• German: Mahagoni — wood
• Greek: μαόνι (maóni) — wood
• Greek: ερυθρόξυλο (erythróxylo) — wood
• Haitian Creole: akajou — wood
• Hindi: महोगनी (mahognī) — wood
• Hungarian: mahagóni — wood
• Indonesian: mahoni — wood
• Ingrian: punapuu — wood
• Italian: mogano — wood
• Japanese: マホガニー (mahoganī) — wood
• Ladino: akajú — wood
• Macedonian: махагон (mahagon) — wood
• Norman: méaguinné — wood
• Norman: acajou — wood
• Norwegian Bokmål: mahogni — wood
• Norwegian Nynorsk: mahogni — wood
• Pohnpeian: maoakani — wood
• Polish: mahoń — wood
• Portuguese: mogno — wood
• Portuguese: acaju — wood
• Romanian: mahon — wood
• Romanian: acaju — wood
• Russian: кра́сное де́рево (krásnoje dérevo) — wood
• Russian: махаго́ни (maxagóni) — wood
• Spanish: caoba — wood
• Swedish: mahogny — wood
• Tagalog: kaoba — wood
• Thai: มะฮอกกานี (mahokkani) — wood
• Turkish: maun — wood
• Turkish: akaju — wood
• Volapük: mahun — wood
• Volapük: mahunaboad — wood
• Armenian: մահագոնի (mahagoni) — tree
• Armenian: կարմրածառ (karmracaṙ) — tree
• Bulgarian: махаго́н (mahagón) — tree
• Catalan: caoba — tree
• Chinese Mandarin: 桃花心木 (táohuāxīnmù) — tree
• Danish: mahogni — tree
• Dutch: mahonie — tree
• Esperanto: mahagono — tree
• Estonian: mahagonipuu — tree
• Finnish: mahonki — tree
• French: acajou — tree
• French: mahagoni — tree
• German: Mahagonibaum — tree
• Greek: μαόνι (maóni) — tree
• Gujarati: મહોગની (mahognī) — tree
• Haitian Creole: akajou — tree
• Hawaiian: mahakonia — tree
• Hindi: महोगनी (mahognī) — tree
• Hungarian: mahagóni — tree
• Indonesian: mahoni — tree
• Ingrian: punapuu — tree
• Italian: mogano — tree
• Japanese: マホガニー (mahoganī) — tree
• Malay: mahogani — tree
• Māori: mahokane — tree
• Norman: méaguinné — tree
• Norman: acajou — tree
• Pohnpeian: maoakani — tree
• Polish: mahoniowiec — tree
• Portuguese: mogno — tree
• Romanian: mahon — tree
• Romanian: acaju — tree
• Russian: кра́сное де́рево (krásnoje dérevo) — tree
• Russian: махаго́ниевое де́рево (maxagónijevoje dérevo) — tree
• Russian: акажу́ (akažú) — tree
• Spanish: caoba — tree
• Tagalog: kaoba — tree
• Thai: มะฮอกกานี (mahokkani) — tree
• Turkish: maun — tree
• Turkish: akaju — tree
• Vietnamese: dái ngựa — tree
• Volapük: mahun — tree
• Volapük: mahunep — tree
• Volapük: mahunabim — tree
• Bulgarian: махаго́н (mahagón) — reddish-brown color
• Finnish: mahonginruskea — reddish-brown color
• Finnish: mahonginpunainen — reddish-brown color
• French: acajou — reddish-brown color
• Polish: mahoń — reddish-brown color
• Portuguese: acaju — reddish-brown color
• Turkish: maun rengi — reddish-brown color