purple

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• Australian, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈpɜː.pl̩/
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• General-American: /ˈpɝ.pl̩/
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• New-Zealand, Wales: /ˈpøːpl̩/
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• Scotland: /pʌɾpl̩/
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• /peːpl̩/ Liverpool, fair–fur merger
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• /pɛːpl̩/ Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
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• rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)pəl
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• CMU ARPABET: P ER1 P AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English purple, purpel, from Old English purpul (“purple”, adjective), taken from Old English purpure (“purple colour”, noun), from Latin purpura (“purple dye, shellfish”), from Ancient Greek πορφύρα (porphúra, “purple-fish”), perhaps of Semitic origin. Doublet of purpura and purpure. The sense of "imperial power" is from the wearing of the color purple by emperors and kings.

287 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: llullaq — colour
• Albanian: vjollcë — colour
• Amharic: ሃምራዊ (hamrawi) — colour
• Arabic: أُرْجُوَانِيّ (ʔurjuwāniyy) — colour
• Arabic: بَنَفْسَجِيّ (banafsajiyy) — colour
• Armenian: ծիրանի (cirani) — colour
• Asturian: moráu — colour
• Asturian: púrpura — colour
• Belarusian: фіяле́тавы (fijaljétavy) — colour
• Bulgarian: виоле́тов (violétov) — colour
• Bulgarian: пу́рпурен (púrpuren) — colour
• Bulgarian: мо́рав (mórav) — colour
• Catalan: porpra — colour
• Catalan: purpuri — colour
• Chichewa: chofiilira — colour
• Chinese Mandarin: 紫色 (zǐsè) — colour
• Chinese Mandarin: 紫 (zǐ) — colour
• Chinese Mandarin: 紺 /绀 (gàn) — colour
• Cornish: glasrudh — colour
• Cornish: purpur — colour
• Czech: nachový — colour
• Czech: purpurový — colour
• Danish: lilla — colour
• Dutch: paars — colour
• Dutch: purperen — colour
• Esperanto: purpura — colour
• Estonian: purpurne — colour
• Finnish: sinipunainen — colour
• Finnish: violetti — colour
• French: violet — colour
• French: pourpre — colour
• Saterland Frisian: sangen — colour
• Galician: morado — colour
• Georgian: იისფერი (iisperi) — colour
• Georgian: იასამნისფერი (iasamnisperi) — colour
• Georgian: მოწითალო-მოლურჯო (moc̣italo-molurǯo) — colour
• Georgian: მოვარდისფრო-მოიისფრო (movardispro-moiispro) — colour
• German: purpurn — colour
• German: purpurrot — colour
• Greek: πορφυρός (porfyrós) — colour
• Greek: βιολετής (violetís) — colour
• Greek: μοβ (mov) — colour
• Haitian Creole: mov — colour
• Haitian Creole: vyolèt — colour
• Hebrew: סָגֹל (sagól) — colour
• Hindi: बैंगनी (baiṅgnī) — colour
• Hindi: बैगनी (baignī) — colour
• Hopi: tsorongpu — colour
• Hungarian: bíbor — colour
• Hungarian: bíborszín — colour
• Icelandic: fjólublár — colour
• Icelandic: purpuralitur — colour
• Ido: purpurea — colour
• Interlingua: purpuree — colour
• Irish: corcra — colour
• Irish: purpair — colour
• Japanese: 紫色 (murasaki-iro) — colour
• Japanese: 紫の (murasaki no) — colour
• Japanese: パープル (pāpuru) — colour
• Khmer: ពណ៌ស្វាយ (poa svaa yɔɔ) — colour
• Korean: 보라색의 (borasaegui) — colour
• Latin: purpureus — colour
• Latin: ostrīnus — colour
• Latin: blatteus — colour
• Latvian: purpurs — colour
• Latvian: lillā — colour
• Latvian: violets — colour
• Louisiana Creole: vyolé — colour
• Louisiana Creole: vyolèt — colour
• Louisiana Creole: lila — colour
• Luxembourgish: mof — colour
• Malay: ungu — colour
• Manchu: ᡧᡠᡧᡠ (šušu) — colour
• Māori: waiporoporo — colour
• Māori: poroporo — colour
• Maranao: kasomba — colour
• Norman: pourpre — colour
• Old English: basu — colour
• Old English: blǣhǣwen — colour
• Old English: basureadan — colour
• Old English: weolucbasu — colour
• Old Tupi: umbyk — colour
• Persian: ارغوانی (arġavâni) — colour
• Plautdietsch: purpur — colour
• Polish: purpurowy — colour
• Polish: fioletowy — colour
• Portuguese: púrpura — colour
• Portuguese: roxo — colour
• Punjabi: ਜਾਮਨੀ (jāmnī) — colour
• Quechua: kulli — colour
• Quechua: sañi — colour
• Romansh: violet — colour
• Russian: фиоле́товый (fiolétovyj) — colour
• Russian: пу́рпурный (púrpurnyj) — colour
• Russian: пурпу́рный (purpúrnyj) — colour
• Scottish Gaelic: purpar — colour
• Scottish Gaelic: purpaidh — colour
• Scottish Gaelic: còrcair — colour
• Serbo-Croatian: пурпуран — colour
• Serbo-Croatian: љубичаст — colour
• Serbo-Croatian: purpuran — colour
• Serbo-Croatian: ljubičast — colour
• Slovak: purpurový — colour
• Somali: dugul — colour
• Spanish: morado — colour
• Spanish: púrpura — colour
• Spanish: purpúreo — colour
• Spanish: purpurino — colour
• Spanish: coccíneo — colour
• Spanish: múrice — colour
• Swahili: -a zambarau — colour
• Swedish: lila — colour
• Swedish: violett — colour
• Swedish: purpurfärgad — colour
• Tajik: қирмизӣ (qirmizi) — colour
• Tatar: шәмәхә (şämäxä) — colour
• Tày: cắm — colour
• Telugu: ఊదా (ūdā) — colour
• Thai: ม่วง (mûuang) — colour
• Turkish: mor — colour
• Turkish: erguvani — colour
• Ukrainian: фіоле́товий (fiolétovyj) — colour
• Unami: chàkinkwèmikte — colour
• Unami: chàkinkwèminakwsi — colour
• Urdu: جامنی (jāmanī) — colour
• Vietnamese: đỏ tía — colour
• Vietnamese: màu tím — colour
• Volapük: purpurik — colour
• Welsh: porffor — colour
• Welsh: piws — colour
• Welsh: glasgoch — colour
• Afrikaans: pers — colour
• Akan: pɛpol — colour
• Arabic: بنفسجي غامق (benafsegi ġameʔ) — colour
• Arabic: موف — colour
• Arabic: بنفسجي (banifsiji) — colour
• Arabic: بنفسجي (banáfsaji) — colour
• Arabic: نهدي (nahdi) — colour
• Arabic: ليلكي (lēlaki) — colour
• Aragonese: purpurenco — colour
• Asturian: moráu — colour
• Asturian: púrpura — colour
• Azerbaijani: tünd qırmızı — colour
• Azerbaijani: bənövşəyi — colour
• Basque: gorrindol — colour
• Bengali: রক্তবর্ণ (roktoborno) — colour
• Bengali: বেগুনী (beguni) — colour
• Breton: limestra — colour
• Bulgarian: пурпурен (purpuren) — colour
• Burmese: ခရမ်းရောင်နု (hka.ram:raungnu.) — colour
• Catalan: porpra — colour
• Catalan: púrpura — colour
• Chechen: шекъан бос (šeqʼan bos) — colour
• Chechen: лилула-сийна (lilula-siı̇na) — colour
• Cherokee: ᏕᎷᎨ (deluge) — colour
• Chichewa: wofiirira — colour
• Chinese Cantonese: 紫色 (zi2 sik1) — colour
• East Circassian: шакъафэ (šaqafɛ) — colour
• Cornish: rudhlas — colour
• Montagnais: kaiapitshiminet — colour
• Czech: fialový — colour
• Danish: violet — colour
• Danish: purpur — colour
• Dutch: purper — colour
• Esperanto: purpuro — colour
• Estonian: lilla — colour
• Faroese: korkalitur — colour
• Faroese: purpur — colour
• Faroese: purpurlitur — colour
• Fijian: lokaloka — colour
• Finnish: purppura — colour
• West-Frisian: pears — colour
• Galician: morado — colour
• Georgian: მეწამული (mec̣amuli) — colour
• Georgian: ძოწეული (ʒoc̣euli) — colour
• German: lila — colour
• German: purpur — colour
• German: violett — colour
• Greek: πορφυρό (porfyró) — colour
• Ancient Greek: πορφύρεος (porphúreos) — colour
• Ancient Greek: πορφυροῦς (porphuroûs) — colour
• Ancient Greek: ἁλουργής (halourgḗs) — colour
• Gujarati: જાંબુડિયું (jā̃buḍiyũ) — colour
• Gujarati: જાંબલી (jā̃blī) — colour
• Hausa: shunayya — colour
• Hawaiian: poni — colour
• Hawaiian: mākuʻe — colour
• Hebrew: סגול (sagol) — colour
• Hindi: जामुनी (jāmunī) — colour
• Hungarian: lila — colour
• Icelandic: fjólublár — colour
• Icelandic: purpuralitur — colour
• Ido: purpuro — colour
• Igbo: odòdo — colour
• Igbo: òdòdò — colour
• Indonesian: ungu — colour
• Interlingua: purpura — colour
• Irish: corcairghorm — colour
• Irish: purpair — colour
• Italian: viola — colour
• Japanese: 紫 (murasaki) — colour
• Kaitag: дандур (dandur) — colour
• Kannada: ಕೆನ್ನೀಲಿ (kennīli) — colour
• Kannada: ಕೆನ್ನೇರಳೆ (kennēraḷe) — colour
• Kannada: ನೇರಳೆ (nēraḷe) — colour
• Kazakh: күлгін (külgın) — colour
• Kongo: viole — colour
• Korean: 자주색 (jajusaek) — colour
• Korean: 보라색 (borasaek) — colour
• Central Kurdish: مۆر (mor) — colour
• Lakota: šátȟo — colour
• Lakota: tȟóluta — colour
• Latgalian: liļovs — colour
• Latin: purpura — colour
• Latin: ostrum — colour
• Latvian: violets — colour
• Luganda: kimuli — colour
• Macedonian: пурпурна (purpurna) — colour
• Malagasy: volomparasy — colour
• Malayalam: ധൂമ്രനൂൽ (dhūmranūl) — colour
• Māori: pāpura — colour
• Marathi: जांभळा (jāmbhḷā) — colour
• Mokilese: pwijehn mwoal — colour
• Mongolian: хөх ягаан (xöx jagaan) — colour
• Mongolian: ᠬᠥᠬᠡ ᠶᠠᠭᠠᠨ (köke yaɣan) — colour
• Navajo: tsédídéehgo dootłʼizh — colour
• Nepali: बैंगनी (baiṅganī) — colour
• Norwegian: lilla — colour
• Norwegian: fiolett — colour
• Occitan: porpra — colour
• Ojibwe: miinaande — colour
• Old English: bleoread — colour
• Old English: godwebben — colour
• Persian: بنفش (banafš) — colour
• Persian: ارغوانی (arġavānī) — colour
• Polish: fiolet — colour
• Portuguese: violeta — colour
• Rapa Nui: 'īnika — colour
• Romanian: purpuriu — colour
• Romanian: mov — colour
• Romanian: violet — colour
• Romanian: purpură — colour
• Romansh: violet — colour
• Russian: пурпу́ровый (purpúrovyj) — colour
• Samoan: viole — colour
• Scottish Gaelic: purpar — colour
• Serbo-Croatian: љубичаста — colour
• Serbo-Croatian: пурпурна — colour
• Serbo-Croatian: ljubičasta — colour
• Serbo-Croatian: purpurna — colour
• Somali: carwaajiis — colour
• Spanish: morado — colour
• Spanish: púrpura — colour
• Spanish: múrice — colour
• Sundanese: gandola — colour
• Swedish: lila (blueish) — colour
• Swedish: purpur — colour
• Swedish: gredelin — colour
• Tagalog: haban — colour
• Tagalog: lila — colour
• Tamil: ஊதா (ūtā) — colour
• Telugu: లేత ఎరుపు రంగు (lēta erupu raṅgu) — colour
• Thai: สีม่วง (sǐi-mûuang) — colour
• Tok Pisin: hap ret — colour
• Turkmen: benewşe — colour
• Turkmen: melewşe — colour
• Ukrainian: фіолетовий (fioletovyj) — colour
• Uzbek: qirmizi — colour
• Vietnamese: tía — colour
• Volapük: purpur — colour
• Yiddish: לילאַ (lila) — colour
• Yiddish: פּערפּעלן (perpeln) — colour
• Yiddish: פּורפּור (purpur) — colour
• Yoruba: àwo elésè àlùkò — colour
• Yup'ik: pelicqiq — colour
• Zazaki: mor f more (diq) — colour
• Zulu: okusabukhwebezane — colour
• Bulgarian: багреница (bagrenica) — a purple robe, worn as an emblem of rank or authority
• Catalan: porpra — a purple robe, worn as an emblem of rank or authority
• Georgian: ძოწეული (ʒoc̣euli) — a purple robe, worn as an emblem of rank or authority
• Georgian: პორფირი (ṗorpiri) — a purple robe, worn as an emblem of rank or authority
• Gothic: 𐍀𐌰𐌿𐍂𐍀𐌿𐍂𐌰 (paurpura) — a purple robe, worn as an emblem of rank or authority
• Hungarian: bíborpalást — a purple robe, worn as an emblem of rank or authority
• Russian: пу́рпур (púrpur) — a purple robe, worn as an emblem of rank or authority
• Finnish: purppurakotilo — mollusk
• Greek: πορφύρα (porfýra) — mollusk
• Russian: багря́нка (bagrjánka) — mollusk