adj
Meaning 1
Having a pale purple colour.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
mauve
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Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /məʊv/
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/mɔv/ without the cot–caught merger
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/moʊv/ without the cot–caught merger
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cot-caught-merger: /mɑv/
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cot-caught-merger: /moʊv/
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Scotland: /mov/
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Wales: /moːv/ without the toe–tow merger
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rhymes with -əʊv
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rhymes with -ɔːv
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CMU ARPABET: M AO1 V Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A rich purple synthetic dye, which faded easily, briefly popular c. 1859‒1873 and now called mauveine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, historical, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 3
A pale purple or violet colour, like the colour of the dye after it has faded.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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adjective satellite
Meaning 4
of a pale to moderate greyish violet color
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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noun
Meaning 5
a moderate purple
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: purple, purpleness
History
Etymology
Borrowed from French mauve (“mallow”), from Latin malva, which has a purple colour. Doublet of mallow. Coined in 1856 by the chemist William Henry Perkin, when he accidentally created the first aniline dye.
Across languages
Translations
63 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: بَنَفْسَجِيّ (banafsajiyy) — colour
- Arabic: حمْسي (ḥəmsi) — colour
- Bulgarian: бледоморав (bledomorav) — colour
- Czech: světle fialový — colour
- Czech: lila — colour
- Czech: slézový — colour
- Dutch: mauve — colour
- Dutch: paars — colour
- Esperanto: malva — colour
- Estonian: kahvatulilla — colour
- Finnish: malvanvärinen — colour
- French: mauve — colour
- Japanese: 薄紫の (usumurasaki no) — colour
- Japanese: 藤色の (fujiiro no) — colour
- Māori: poroporo — colour
- Persian: ارغوانی (arġavâni) — colour
- Portuguese: lilás — colour
- Romanian: mov — colour
- Romanian: liliachiu — colour
- Russian: розовато-лиловый (rozovato-lilovyj) — colour
- Russian: мальвовый (malʹvovyj) — colour
- Scottish Gaelic: liath-phurpur — colour
- Vietnamese: (màu) cẩm quỳ — colour
- Walloon: måve — colour
- Welsh: porffor gwelw — colour
- Polish: moweina — dye
- Turkish: eflatun — dye
- Welsh: mof — dye
- Catalan: malva — colour
- Chinese Mandarin: 藕荷色 (ǒuhésè) — colour
- Chinese Mandarin: 藕合色 (ǒuhésè) — colour
- Chinese Mandarin: 錦葵紫 /锦葵紫 (jǐnkuízǐ) — colour
- Czech: světle fialová barva — colour
- Czech: slézová barva — colour
- Dutch: mauve — colour
- Dutch: paars — colour
- Esperanto: malvo — colour
- Finnish: malvanväri — colour
- French: mauve — colour
- German: fliederfarben — colour
- German: blasslila — colour
- German: mauve — colour
- German: malvenfarben — colour
- German: malvenfarbig — colour
- Greek: μωβ (mov) — colour
- Greek: ιώδες (iódes) — colour
- Greek: μαβί (maví) — colour
- Greek: πορφυρό (porfyró) — colour
- Hungarian: mályva — colour
- Ido: malva — colour
- Italian: malva — colour
- Japanese: 薄紫 (usumurasaki) — colour
- Japanese: 藤色 (fujiiro) — colour
- Norman: lîlas — colour
- Portuguese: lilás — colour
- Romanian: mov — colour
- Scottish Gaelic: liath-phurpur — colour
- Slovene: lila — colour
- Slovene: lilasta — colour
- Spanish: malva — colour
- Turkish: eflatun — colour
- Welsh: mof — colour
- Welsh: rhuddlaswyn — colour