adj
Meaning 1
Yellowish.
Of a sickly pale colour.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: most regions
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Standard Lemma guide
sallow
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Sound
Pronunciation
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US: /ˈsæloʊ/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈsæləʊ/
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Australian: /ˈsæləʉ/
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Scotland: /ˈsalo/
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rhymes with -æləʊ
adj
Meaning 2
Yellowish.
Of a tan colour, associated with people from southern Europe or East Asia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Ireland
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adj
Meaning 3
Having skin (especially on the face) of a sickly pale colour.
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adj
Meaning 4
Having a similar pale, yellowish colour.
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adj
Meaning 5
Foul; murky; sickly.
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noun
Meaning 6
A European willow, Salix caprea, that has broad leaves, large catkins and tough wood.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- c. 1553, Humphrey Llwyd (translator), The Treasury of Healthe, London: William Coplande, Remedies, Chapter 44, I[f] a man eate the flowers of a sallow or wyllowe tree, or of a Poplet tree, they wyl make cold al the heate of carnall lust in hym.
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noun
Meaning 7
A willow twig or branch.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 1564, William Bullein, A Dialogue Bothe Pleasaunte and Pietifull Wherein Is a Goodly Regimente against the Feuer Pestilence with a Consolacion and Comfort against Death, London: John Kingston, [p. 22b], [...] set Sallowes about the bedde, besprinkled with vineger and rose water.
- 1767, Francis Fawkes (translator), The Idylliums of Theocritus, London, for the author, Idyllium 16, p. 156, For lo! their spears the Syracusians wield, And bend the pliant sallow to a shield:
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verb
Meaning 8
To become sallow.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
Meaning 9
To cause (someone or something) to become sallow.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- 1835, Fanny Kemble (as Frances Anne Butler), Journal, London: John Murray, Volume 1, entry for 15 September, 1832, p. 105, footnote, The climate of this country is the scape-goat upon which all ill looks and ill health of the ladies is laid; but while they are brought up as effeminately as they are, take as little exercise, live in rooms like ovens during the winter, and marry as early as they do, it will appear evident that many causes combine with an extremely variable climate, to sallow their complexions, and destroy their constitutions.
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adjective satellite
Meaning 10
unhealthy looking
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: sickly
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noun
Meaning 11
any of several Old World shrubby broad-leaved willows having large catkins; some are important sources for tanbark and charcoal
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: willow, willow tree
Narrower terms: goat willow, florist's willow, pussy willow, Salix caprea
verb
Meaning 12
cause to become sallow
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- The illness has sallowed her face
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Broader terms: discolor
History
Etymology
From Middle English salowe, from Old English salu, from Proto-West Germanic *salu, from Proto-Germanic *salwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *selH-. See also Dutch zaluw, dialectal German sal; also Irish salach (“dirty”), Welsh halog, Latin salīva, Russian соло́вый (solóvyj, “cream-colored”), and - through Frankish - French sale.
From Middle English salow, salwe, from Old English sealh, from Proto-West Germanic *salh, from Proto-Germanic *salhaz, masculine variant of *salhō, *salhijǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *sh2lk-, *sh2lik-. See also Low German Sal, Saal; Swedish sälg; also Welsh helyg, Latin salix (and also a doublet of the thence derived English borrowing salix) probably originally a borrowing from some other language.
Across languages
Translations
63 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: жълтеникав (žǎltenikav) — yellowish
- Czech: zažloutlý — yellowish
- Danish: gusten — yellowish
- Finnish: kellertävä — yellowish
- Finnish: harmaankeltainen — yellowish
- French: cireux — yellowish
- French: jaunâtre — yellowish
- German: blassgelblich — yellowish
- German: blässlich — yellowish
- German: teigig — yellowish
- Greek: ωχρός (ochrós) — yellowish
- Greek: χλωμός (chlomós) — yellowish
- Ancient Greek: ὠχρός (ōkhrós) — yellowish
- Hungarian: sárgás — yellowish
- Hungarian: fakó — yellowish
- Hungarian: sárgásfakó — yellowish
- Hungarian: sápadt — yellowish
- Hungarian: színtelen — yellowish
- Hungarian: pergamenszínű — yellowish
- Kalmyk: шар даг (şar dag) — yellowish
- Latin: lūridus — yellowish
- Latin: lūteus — yellowish
- Macedonian: жолте́никав (žolténikav) — yellowish
- Persian: زرد (zard) — yellowish
- Plautdietsch: blauss — yellowish
- Polish: ziemisty — yellowish
- Russian: земли́стый (zemlístyj) — yellowish
- Scottish Gaelic: odhar — yellowish
- Serbo-Croatian: žućkast — yellowish
- Lower Sorbian: płowy — yellowish
- Ottoman Turkish: صاری (sarı) — yellowish
- Bulgarian: зацапан (zacapan) — dirty
- Polish: brudny — dirty
- Breton: haleg-gavr — Salix caprea
- Bulgarian: ива (iva) — Salix caprea
- Czech: vrba jíva — Salix caprea
- Danish: selje-pil — Salix caprea
- Dutch: boswilg — Salix caprea
- Dutch: waterwilg — Salix caprea
- Finnish: raita — Salix caprea
- French: saule marsault — Salix caprea
- Galician: salgueiro cabuxo — Salix caprea
- German: Salweide — Salix caprea
- Greek: ιτιά (itiá) — Salix caprea
- Hungarian: kecskefűz — Salix caprea
- Icelandic: selja — Salix caprea
- Ingrian: raita — Salix caprea
- Irish: sailchearnach — Salix caprea
- Italian: salicone — Salix caprea
- Italian: salice delle capre — Salix caprea
- Korean: 호랑버들 (horangbeodeul) — Salix caprea
- Macedonian: и́ва (íva) — Salix caprea
- Polish: wierzba iwa — Salix caprea
- Russian: и́ва козья (íva kozʹja) — Salix caprea
- Serbo-Croatian: vrba iva — Salix caprea
- Southern Altai: суу-тал (suu-tal) — Salix caprea
- Spanish: zargatillo — Salix caprea
- Spanish: sauce cabruno — Salix caprea
- Spanish: salce cabruno — Salix caprea
- Swedish: sälg — Salix caprea
- Turkish: keçi söğüdü — Salix caprea
- Welsh: helyg deilgrwn — Salix caprea
- Welsh: helyg crynddail — Salix caprea