paint

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• South-Asia: /pɛjɳʈ/
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• South-Asia: /peɳʈ/ pane–pain merger
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *peyḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-né- Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *pinéḱti Proto-Italic *pingō Latin pingō Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tos Latin -tus Latin pictus Vulgar Latin *pinctus French peint Proto-Italic *-āzi ▲ Latin -ereinflu. Latin -āre Old French -ier Old French peintierder. Middle English peynten English paint From Middle English peynten, from Old French peintier, paincter, itself from paint, the past participle of paindre, from Latin pingō (“to paint”) (perfect passive participle pictus). Displaced native Old English tēafor (“paint”), *tīefran (“to paint”); and Old English mētan (“to paint”) and mǣlan (“to paint, mark with colour”).

365 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Alabama: istaposohka — substance
• Alabama: iisastapasoilka — substance
• Albanian: bojë — substance
• Southern Altai: бойу (boyu) — substance
• Arabic: دِهَان (dihān) — substance
• Armenian: ներկ (nerk) — substance
• Asturian: pintura — substance
• Avar: бил (bil) — substance
• Azerbaijani: boya — substance
• Azerbaijani: rəng — substance
• Bashkir: буяу (buyaw) — substance
• Basque: margo — substance
• Belarusian: фа́рба (fárba) — substance
• Belarusian: кра́ска (kráska) — substance
• Belarusian: хва́рба (xvárba) — substance
• Bengali: রং (roṅ) — substance
• Bulgarian: боя́ (bojá) — substance
• Burmese: ဆေး (hce:) — substance
• Catalan: pintura — substance
• Chechen: басар (basar) — substance
• Chinese Cantonese: 油漆 (jau4 cat1) — substance
• Chinese Cantonese: 油 — substance
• Chinese Mandarin: 油漆 (yóuqī) — substance
• Chinese Mandarin: 塗料 /涂料 (túliào) — substance
• Czech: barva — substance
• Danish: maling — substance
• Danish: farve — substance
• Dutch: verf — substance
• Dutch: tjet — substance
• Esperanto: farbo — substance
• Estonian: värv — substance
• Finnish: maali — substance
• French: peinture — substance
• Galician: pintura — substance
• Georgian: საღებავი (saɣebavi) — substance
• German: Farbe — substance
• German: Lack — substance
• Greek: βαφή (vafí) — substance
• Greek: χρώμα (chróma) — substance
• Haitian Creole: penti — substance
• Hebrew: צֶבַע (tséva) — substance
• Hindi: रंग (raṅg) — substance
• Hindi: पेंट (pẽṭ) — substance
• Hungarian: festék — substance
• Iban: chat — substance
• Icelandic: málning — substance
• Ido: farbo — substance
• Indonesian: cat — substance
• Interlingua: tinta — substance
• Italian: vernice — substance
• Italian: colore — substance
• Italian: pittura — substance
• Japanese: ペンキ (penki) — substance
• Japanese: 塗料 (toryō) — substance
• Japanese: ペイント (peinto) — substance
• Javanese: cèt — substance
• Kazakh: бояу (boäu) — substance
• Khmer: ថ្នាំលាប (thnam liəp) — substance
• Khmer: ថ្នាំ (thnam) — substance
• Korean: 페인트 (peinteu) — substance
• Korean: 도료 (doryo) — substance
• Central Kurdish: بۆیە (boye) — substance
• Central Kurdish: رەنگ (reng) — substance
• Northern Kurdish: sibox — substance
• Northern Kurdish: boyax — substance
• Kyrgyz: боёк (boyok) — substance
• Lao: ສີ (sī) — substance
• Latin: pigmentum — substance
• Latvian: krāsa — substance
• Lithuanian: dažai — substance
• Macedonian: боја (boja) — substance
• Malay: cat — substance
• Malay: چت — substance
• Maltese: żebgħa — substance
• Maltese: verniċ — substance
• Māori: pani — substance
• Māori: peita — substance
• Mongolian: будаг (budag) — substance
• Mongolian: ᠪᠤᠳᠤᠭ (buduɣ) — substance
• Neapolitan: pittùra — substance
• Neapolitan: culóre — substance
• Norwegian Bokmål: maling — substance
• Norwegian Nynorsk: måling — substance
• Occitan: pintura — substance
• Old English: tēafor — substance
• Pashto: رنګ (rang) — substance
• Iranian Persian: رَنْگ (rang) — substance
• Plautdietsch: Foaw — substance
• Polish: farba — substance
• Portuguese: pintura — substance
• Portuguese: tinta — substance
• Romanian: culoare — substance
• Romanian: vopsea — substance
• Romansh: lac — substance
• Romansh: vernisch — substance
• Romansh: verneisch — substance
• Russian: кра́ска (kráska) — substance
• Scottish Gaelic: peanta — substance
• Serbo-Croatian: фа̑рба — substance
• Serbo-Croatian: бо̀ја — substance
• Serbo-Croatian: краска — substance
• Serbo-Croatian: fȃrba — substance
• Serbo-Croatian: bòja — substance
• Serbo-Croatian: kraska — substance
• Slovak: farba — substance
• Slovak: lak — substance
• Slovene: barva — substance
• Spanish: pintura — substance
• Swahili: rangi — substance
• Swedish: färg — substance
• Swedish: målarfärg — substance
• Tajik: ранг (rang) — substance
• Lower Tanana: be'aɬ xwdedebeni — substance
• Tausug: sat — substance
• Telugu: రంగు (raṅgu) — substance
• Thai: สี (sǐi) — substance
• Tibetan: ཚོན་རྩི (tshon rtsi) — substance
• Tibetan: ཚོན (tshon) — substance
• Tibetan: ཚོས (tshos) — substance
• Turkish: boya — substance
• Ottoman Turkish: بویا (boya) — substance
• Turkmen: boýag — substance
• Ukrainian: фа́рба (fárba) — substance
• Ukrainian: ба́рва (bárva) — substance
• Urdu: رَن٘گ (raṅg) — substance
• Urdu: پینْٹ (penṭ) — substance
• Uyghur: بوياق (boyaq) — substance
• Uyghur: رەڭ (reng) — substance
• Uzbek: boʻyoq — substance
• Uzbek: rang — substance
• Vietnamese: nước sơn — substance
• Welsh: paent — substance
• Yiddish: פֿאַרב (farb) — substance
• Finnish: värit — paints: set of containers or blocks of paints of different colours
• Icelandic: málning — paints: set of containers or blocks of paints of different colours
• Icelandic: litir — paints: set of containers or blocks of paints of different colours
• Central Kurdish: رەنگ (reng) — paints: set of containers or blocks of paints of different colours
• Latin: pigmentum — paints: set of containers or blocks of paints of different colours
• Polish: farbki — paints: set of containers or blocks of paints of different colours
• Russian: кра́ски (kráski) — paints: set of containers or blocks of paints of different colours
• Scottish Gaelic: peantaichean — paints: set of containers or blocks of paints of different colours
• Ukrainian: фа́рби (fárby) — paints: set of containers or blocks of paints of different colours
• Welsh: paentiau — paints: set of containers or blocks of paints of different colours
• Albanian: ngjyros — to apply paint to
• Southern Altai: бойор (boyor) — to apply paint to
• Arabic: لَوَّنَ (lawwana) — to apply paint to
• Armenian: ներկել (nerkel) — to apply paint to
• Asturian: pintar — to apply paint to
• Azerbaijani: boyamaq — to apply paint to
• Azerbaijani: boyalamaq — to apply paint to
• Azerbaijani: rəngləmək — to apply paint to
• Azerbaijani: kraskalamaq — to apply paint to
• Bashkir: буяу (buyaw) — to apply paint to
• Breton: livañ — to apply paint to
• Bulgarian: бояди́свам (bojadísvam) — to apply paint to
• Bulgarian: бояди́сам (bojadísam) — to apply paint to
• Catalan: pintar — to apply paint to
• Chechen: баса (basa) — to apply paint to
• Chinese Cantonese: 油 (jau4) — to apply paint to
• Chinese Mandarin: 油漆 (yóuqī) — to apply paint to
• Chinese Mandarin: 漆 (qī) — to apply paint to
• Corsican: dipinghje — to apply paint to
• Czech: malovat — to apply paint to
• Dalmatian: depiandro — to apply paint to
• Dalmatian: piandro — to apply paint to
• Daur: bodu- — to apply paint to
• Dutch: verven — to apply paint to
• Dutch: schilderen — to apply paint to
• Egyptian: Y3-Y1V (zẖꜣ) — to apply paint to
• Esperanto: farbi — to apply paint to
• Faroese: mála — to apply paint to
• Finnish: maalata — to apply paint to
• Finnish: sivellä — to apply paint to
• French: peindre — to apply paint to
• French: peinturer — to apply paint to
• Friulian: penzi — to apply paint to
• Friulian: pengi — to apply paint to
• Friulian: dipenzi — to apply paint to
• Friulian: dipengi — to apply paint to
• Galician: pintar — to apply paint to
• Georgian: ღებვა (ɣebva) — to apply paint to
• German: bemalen — to apply paint to
• German: anmalen — to apply paint to
• German: streichen — to apply paint to
• German: malen — to apply paint to
• Greek: βάφω (váfo) — to apply paint to
• Hebrew: צבע (tzavá) — to apply paint to
• Hindi: पोतना (potnā) — to apply paint to
• Hungarian: fest — to apply paint to
• Hungarian: lefest — to apply paint to
• Hungarian: befest — to apply paint to
• Icelandic: mála — to apply paint to
• Ido: farbizar — to apply paint to
• Indonesian: mencat — to apply paint to
• Ingrian: kraasata — to apply paint to
• Interlingua: pinger — to apply paint to
• Irish: péinteáil — to apply paint to
• Italian: verniciare — to apply paint to
• Italian: dipingere — to apply paint to
• Japanese: 塗る (nuru) — to apply paint to
• Khmer: លាប (liep) — to apply paint to
• Korean: 칠하다 (chilhada) — to apply paint to
• Kyrgyz: боёо (boyoo) — to apply paint to
• Ladin: depenjer — to apply paint to
• Ladin: depenje — to apply paint to
• Ladino: enkalar — to apply paint to
• Ladino: boyadear — to apply paint to
• Latin: pingō — to apply paint to
• Latvian: krāsot — to apply paint to
• Ligurian: dipinze — to apply paint to
• Māori: peita — to apply paint to
• Middle English: peynten — to apply paint to
• Central Sierra Miwok: tel·a- — to apply paint to
• Mongolian: будах (budax) — to apply paint to
• Norman: peindre — to apply paint to
• Norman: broudaïr — to apply paint to
• Norwegian: male — to apply paint to
• Norwegian: lakkere — to apply paint to
• Occitan: pintar — to apply paint to
• Southern Ohlone: enne — to apply paint to
• Old English: tīefran — to apply paint to
• Old English: mētan — to apply paint to
• Old Norse: fá — to apply paint to
• Paicî: tämî — to apply paint to
• Polish: malować — to apply paint to
• Polish: pomalować — to apply paint to
• Portuguese: pintar — to apply paint to
• Quechua: llimphiy — to apply paint to
• Romanian: picta — to apply paint to
• Romanian: vopsi — to apply paint to
• Russian: кра́сить (krásitʹ) — to apply paint to
• Sardinian: pintai — to apply paint to
• Scottish Gaelic: peant — to apply paint to
• Serbo-Croatian: фарбати — to apply paint to
• Serbo-Croatian: бојити — to apply paint to
• Serbo-Croatian: рисовати — to apply paint to
• Serbo-Croatian: farbati — to apply paint to
• Serbo-Croatian: bojiti — to apply paint to
• Serbo-Croatian: risovati — to apply paint to
• Sicilian: pittari — to apply paint to
• Spanish: pintar — to apply paint to
• Sranan Tongo: ferfi — to apply paint to
• Swedish: måla — to apply paint to
• Thai: ทา (taa) — to apply paint to
• Northern Thai: ᨴᩤ (ta) — to apply paint to
• Tibetan: ཚོན་བཏང (tshon btang) — to apply paint to
• Tongan: vali — to apply paint to
• Turkish: resim yapmak — to apply paint to
• Turkish: boyamak — to apply paint to
• Ottoman Turkish: بویالامق (boyalamak) — to apply paint to
• Ukrainian: фарбува́ти (farbuváty) — to apply paint to
• Unami: elahkën — to apply paint to
• Venetan: depinxer — to apply paint to
• Venetan: depinzer — to apply paint to
• Venetan: depénxar — to apply paint to
• Venetan: depénzar — to apply paint to
• Vietnamese: sơn — to apply paint to
• Walloon: ponde — to apply paint to
• Walloon: mete e coleur — to apply paint to
• Welsh: peintio — to apply paint to
• Welsh: paentio — to apply paint to
• Armenian: ներկել (nerkel) — to apply in the manner of paint
• Esperanto: farbi — to apply in the manner of paint
• Finnish: sivellä — to apply in the manner of paint
• German: streichen — to apply in the manner of paint
• Greek: βάφω (váfo) — to apply in the manner of paint
• Hungarian: mázol — to apply in the manner of paint
• Italian: verniciare — to apply in the manner of paint
• Latin: pingere — to apply in the manner of paint
• Ligurian: dipinze — to apply in the manner of paint
• Old Norse: fá — to apply in the manner of paint
• Portuguese: pintar — to apply in the manner of paint
• Scottish Gaelic: peant — to apply in the manner of paint
• Serbo-Croatian: рисовање — to apply in the manner of paint
• Serbo-Croatian: risovanje — to apply in the manner of paint
• Spanish: pintar — to apply in the manner of paint
• Welsh: peintio — to apply in the manner of paint
• Welsh: paentio — to apply in the manner of paint
• German: pinseln — medicine: to apply with a brush in order to treat some body part
• Hungarian: ecsetel — medicine: to apply with a brush in order to treat some body part
• Hungarian: beecsetel — medicine: to apply with a brush in order to treat some body part
• Bulgarian: изобразявам (izobrazjavam) — to create an image
• Czech: malovat — to create an image
• Danish: male — to create an image
• Dutch: schilderen — to create an image
• German: malen — to create an image
• Greek: απεικονίζω (apeikonízo) — to create an image
• Greek: ζωγραφίζω (zografízo) — to create an image
• Ancient Greek: ζωγραφέω (zōgraphéō) — to create an image
• Hungarian: fest — to create an image
• Hungarian: megfest — to create an image
• Ingrian: risuittaa — to create an image
• Ingrian: risovoittaa — to create an image
• Khmer: គូរ (kuu) — to create an image
• Latin: pingō — to create an image
• Māori: waituhi — to create an image
• Middle English: peynten — to create an image
• Portuguese: pintar — to create an image
• Romanian: picta — to create an image
• Scottish Gaelic: peant — to create an image
• Swedish: måla — to create an image
• Thai: วาด (wâat) — to create an image
• Tocharian B: pik- — to create an image
• Ukrainian: малюва́ти (maljuváty) — to create an image
• Walloon: ponde — to create an image
• Welsh: peintio — to create an image
• Welsh: paentio — to create an image
• Albanian: pikturon — to practise the art of painting pictures
• Arabic: لَوَّنَ (lawwana) — to practise the art of painting pictures
• Armenian: նկարել (nkarel) — to practise the art of painting pictures
• Asturian: pintar — to practise the art of painting pictures
• Breton: liva — to practise the art of painting pictures
• Bulgarian: рисувам (risuvam) — to practise the art of painting pictures
• Catalan: pintar — to practise the art of painting pictures
• Chinese Mandarin: 畫 /画 (huà) — to practise the art of painting pictures
• Chinese Mandarin: 繪畫 /绘画 (huìhuà) — to practise the art of painting pictures
• Czech: malovat — to practise the art of painting pictures
• Dutch: schilderen — to practise the art of painting pictures
• Esperanto: pentri — to practise the art of painting pictures
• Finnish: maalata — to practise the art of painting pictures
• French: peindre — to practise the art of painting pictures
• Galician: pintar — to practise the art of painting pictures
• German: malen — to practise the art of painting pictures
• Greek: ζωγραφίζω (zografízo) — to practise the art of painting pictures
• Hungarian: fest — to practise the art of painting pictures
• Icelandic: mála — to practise the art of painting pictures
• Ido: piktar — to practise the art of painting pictures
• Ingrian: risuittaa — to practise the art of painting pictures
• Ingrian: risovoittaa — to practise the art of painting pictures
• Italian: dipingere — to practise the art of painting pictures
• Japanese: 画く (kaku) — to practise the art of painting pictures
• Japanese: 描く (kaku) — to practise the art of painting pictures
• Korean: 그리다 (geurida) — to practise the art of painting pictures
• Latin: pingō — to practise the art of painting pictures
• Middle English: peynten — to practise the art of painting pictures
• Neapolitan: pittà — to practise the art of painting pictures
• Neapolitan: pentà — to practise the art of painting pictures
• Neapolitan: depégnere — to practise the art of painting pictures
• Norman: peindre — to practise the art of painting pictures
• Old English: tīefran — to practise the art of painting pictures
• Old English: mētan — to practise the art of painting pictures
• Polish: malować — to practise the art of painting pictures
• Polish: namalować — to practise the art of painting pictures
• Portuguese: pintar — to practise the art of painting pictures
• Romanian: picta — to practise the art of painting pictures
• Russian: рисова́ть (risovátʹ) — to practise the art of painting pictures
• Russian: писа́ть (pisátʹ) — to practise the art of painting pictures
• Campidanese Sardinian: pintai — to practise the art of painting pictures
• Scottish Gaelic: peant — to practise the art of painting pictures
• Serbo-Croatian: сликати — to practise the art of painting pictures
• Serbo-Croatian: рисати — to practise the art of painting pictures
• Serbo-Croatian: slikati — to practise the art of painting pictures
• Serbo-Croatian: risati — to practise the art of painting pictures
• Spanish: pintar — to practise the art of painting pictures
• Swedish: måla — to practise the art of painting pictures
• Thai: วาด (wâat) — to practise the art of painting pictures
• Tibetan: རི་མོ་བྲིས (ri mo bris) — to practise the art of painting pictures
• Turkish: resim yapmak — to practise the art of painting pictures
• Ukrainian: малюва́ти (maljuváty) — to practise the art of painting pictures
• Ukrainian: вимальо́вувати (vymalʹóvuvaty) — to practise the art of painting pictures
• Ukrainian: розпи́сувати (rozpýsuvaty) — to practise the art of painting pictures
• Walloon: ponde — to practise the art of painting pictures
• Welsh: peintio — to practise the art of painting pictures
• Welsh: paentio — to practise the art of painting pictures
• Welsh: arlunio — to practise the art of painting pictures