scarlet

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• General-American: /ˈskɑɹlɪt/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈskɑːlɪt/
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• Australian: /ˈskɐːlət/
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• rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)lɪt
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• CMU ARPABET: S K AA1 R L AH0 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English scarlet, scarlat, borrowed from Old French escarlate (“a type of cloth”), from Medieval Latin scarlātum (“scarlet cloth”), of uncertain origin. This was long thought to derive from Classical Persian سقرلات (saqirlāt, “a warm woollen cloth”), but the Persian word (first attested in the 1290s) is now thought to be from Arabic سِقِلَّات (siqillāt), denoting very expensive, luxury silks dyed scarlet-red using the exceptionally expensive dye, first attested around the ninth century. The most obvious route for the Arabic word siqillāt to have entered the Romance languages would be via the Arabic-speaking Iberian region of al-Andalus, particularly Almería, where kermes was produced extensively; compare especially the dialectal form سِقِرْلَاط (siqirlāṭ). The word then came to be used of woollen cloth dyed with the same dye. The Arabic word may itself be derived from Byzantine Greek σιγιλλᾶτον (sigillâton), from Latin sigillātum (“a type of fabric”, literally “sealed; sealing”) .

122 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Armenian: ալ (al) — colour
• Bulgarian: ален (alen) — colour
• Chinese Mandarin: 緋紅色 /绯红色 (fēihóngsè) — colour
• Chinese Mandarin: 深紅色 /深红色 (shēnhóngsè) — colour
• Chinese Mandarin: 猩紅色 /猩红色 (xīnghóngsè) — colour
• Dutch: scharlaken — colour
• Dutch: scharlakenrood — colour
• Dutch: vuurrood — colour
• Esperanto: skarlata — colour
• Faroese: skarlak — colour
• Finnish: helakanpunainen — colour
• Finnish: tulipunainen — colour
• French: écarlate — colour
• German: scharlachrot — colour
• German: scharlach — colour
• Greek: άλικος (álikos) — colour
• Ancient Greek: κόκκινος (kókkinos) — colour
• Higaonon: maliga — colour
• Hindi: क़िरमिज़ी (qirmizī) — colour
• Hungarian: skarlát — colour
• Hungarian: skarlátpiros — colour
• Hungarian: skarlátvörös — colour
• Hungarian: élénkvörös — colour
• Hungarian: narancsvörös — colour
• Ido: skarlata — colour
• Irish: scarlóideach — colour
• Japanese: 緋色の (hiiro no) — colour
• Latin: coccinus — colour
• Latin: puniceus — colour
• Macedonian: а́лен (álen) — colour
• Māori: ngangana — colour
• Nivkh: ӿело (helo) — colour
• Norwegian Bokmål: skarlagenrød — colour
• Norwegian Bokmål: skarlagensrød — colour
• Norwegian Bokmål: skarlagen — colour
• Norwegian Nynorsk: skarlaksraud — colour
• Old Norse: skarlak — colour
• Polish: szkarłatny — colour
• Portuguese: escarlate — colour
• Romanian: stacojiu — colour
• Russian: а́лый (ályj) — colour
• Russian: багро́вый (bagróvyj) — colour
• Russian: багря́ный (bagrjányj) — colour
• Russian: пунцо́вый (puncóvyj) — colour
• Sanskrit: मञ्जिष्ठ (mañjiṣṭha) — colour
• Spanish: escarlata — colour
• Swedish: scharlakansröd — colour
• Turkish: kızıl — colour
• Volapük: skarlatakölik — colour
• Bulgarian: блуден (bluden) — sinful
• Japanese: 性的にみだらな (seiteki ni midarana) — sinful
• Macedonian: блу́ден (blúden) — sinful
• Polish: grzeszny — sinful
• Polish: nierządny — sinful
• Romanian: desfrânat — sinful
• Romanian: stricat — sinful
• Romanian: dezmățat — sinful
• Afrikaans: bloedrooi — colour
• Albanian: ngjyrë alle — colour
• Arabic: سِقِلَّاتِيّ (siqillātiyy) — colour
• Arabic: قِرْمِزِيّ (qirmiziyy) — colour
• Azerbaijani: qönçə — colour
• Azerbaijani: al — colour
• Azerbaijani: al-qırmızı — colour
• Catalan: escarlata — colour
• Cebuano: lakha — colour
• Chinese Mandarin: 緋紅 /绯红 (fēihóng) — colour
• Chukchi: нычелляк’эн (nəsellaqen) — colour
• Cornish: kogh — colour
• Czech: šarlatová barva — colour
• Czech: purpur — colour
• Danish: skarlagen — colour
• Estonian: sarlakpunane — colour
• Estonian: ergav — colour
• Galician: escarlata — colour
• Georgian: ალისფერი (alisperi) — colour
• German: Scharlachrot — colour
• German: Scharlach — colour
• Greek: άλικο (áliko) — colour
• Greenlandic: aappallarissoq — colour
• Hebrew: שָׁנִי (shaní) — colour
• Hindi: क़िरमिज़ (qirmiz) — colour
• Ido: skarlato — colour
• Indonesian: merah tua — colour
• Irish: scarlóid — colour
• Italian: scarlatto — colour
• Japanese: 緋色 (hiiro) — colour
• Korean: 스칼렛 (seukallet) — colour
• Central Kurdish: ئاڵ (all) — colour
• Malagasy: dorehitra — colour
• Malay: merah — colour
• Malay: merah saga — colour
• Norwegian: skarlagen — colour
• Persian: اشکرلاط (eškarlât) — colour
• Persian: سقرلات (saqerlât) — colour
• Persian: آل (âl) — colour
• Polish: szkarłat — colour
• Portuguese: escarlate — colour
• Romanian: stacojiu — colour
• Serbo-Croatian: crven — colour
• Spanish: escarlata — colour
• Swahili: nyekundu — colour
• Tagalog: iskarlata — colour
• Tagalog: eskarlata — colour
• Telugu: ఎర్రని (errani) — colour
• Ukrainian: яскраво-червоний (jaskravo-červonyj) — colour
• Uzbek: qizil rang — colour
• Vietnamese: đỏ — colour
• Volapük: skarlataköl — colour
• Welsh: coch — colour
• Welsh: ysgarlad — colour
• Arabic: سِقِلَّاط (siqillāṭ) — cloth
• Arabic: سِقِلَّات (siqillāt) — cloth
• Icelandic: skarlat — cloth
• Icelandic: skarlak — cloth
• Japanese: 緋色の服 (hiiro no fuku) — cloth
• Latin: coccum — cloth
• Portuguese: escarlate — cloth
• Spanish: escarlata — cloth
• Spanish: escarlatina — cloth
• Swedish: scharlakan — cloth
• Ottoman Turkish: اسكرلت (iskerlet) — cloth