Standard Lemma guide

yellow

adj · intj · name · noun · verb · 27 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • rhymes with -ɛləʊ
  • homophone: yello
  • Southern-England: /ˈjɛləʊ/
  • UK: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • Northumbria, Scotland: /ˈjɛlo/
  • Northumbria, Scotland: /ˈjɛlə/
  • Wales: /ˈjɛlou/ without the toe–tow merger
  • General-American: /ˈjɛloʊ/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • /ˈjɛlə/ Southern US, folk speech
  • /ˈjɛl.ɚ/ Southern US, folk speech
  • /ˈjæl.ə/ see yeller
  • /ˈjæl.ɚ/ see yeller
  • /ˈjɑlə/ dated, uncommon, folk speech
  • /ˈjɪlə/ dated, uncommon, folk speech
  • /ˈjʌlə/ dated, uncommon, folk speech
  • Canada: /ˈjɛlo(w)/
  • [ˈjɛlo(w)] Ottawa Valley
  • [ˈjɤlʊ] Ottawa Valley
  • [-ə(w)] Ottawa Valley
  • Ireland: /ˈjɛləʊ/
  • /ˈjɛlʌo̞/ Dublin
  • Australian, New-Zealand: /ˈjeləʉ/
  • /ˈjæləʉ/ salary–celery merger
  • Australia: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • India, North: /ˈjɛːloː/
  • India, South: /ˈ(j)ɛlːoː/
  • Tamil Nadu Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • CMU ARPABET: Y EH1 L OW0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Of a yellow hue.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • He had a yellow laptop in his bag.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: nonyellow, unyellow

2

adj

Meaning 2

Lacking courage.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: informal

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: cowardly

Antonyms: none provided

3

adj

Meaning 3

Characterized by sensationalism, lurid content, and doubtful accuracy.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: journalism, media, publishing

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

adj

Meaning 4

Of a hue attributed to Far East Asians, especially the Chinese.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slur

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

adj

Meaning 5

Far East Asian (relating to Asian people).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slur

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

adj

Meaning 6

Of mixed Aboriginal and Caucasian ancestry.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Australia, dated, offensive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

adj

Meaning 7

Synonym of high yellow.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US, dated

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: high yellow

Antonyms: none provided

8

adj

Meaning 8

Related to the Liberal Democrats.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: UK

Topics: government, politics

Examples

  • yellow constituencies

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

9

adj

Meaning 9

Related to the Free Democratic Party, a political party in Germany.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: government, politics

Examples

  • the black–yellow coalition

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

10

intj

Meaning 10

Used to indicate that the speaker needs a temporary break from current sexual activity.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Qualifier: procedure word

Topics: BDSM, lifestyle, sexuality

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

11

name

Meaning 11

A surname.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

12

noun

Meaning 12

The color of sunflower petals and lemons; the color obtained by mixing green and red light, or by subtracting blue from white light; the color evoked by light of wavelength around 580 nm; one of the three primary colors in subtractive color systems.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

13

noun

Meaning 13

The middle light in a set of three traffic lights, the lighting of which indicates that drivers should stop short of the intersection if it is safe to do so.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US, countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

14

noun

Meaning 14

One of the color balls used in snooker, with a value of 2 points.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: ball-games, games, hobbies, lifestyle, snooker, sports

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

15

noun

Meaning 15

One of two groups of object balls, or a ball from that group, as used in the principally British version of pool that makes use of unnumbered balls (the yellow(s) and red(s)); contrast stripes and solids in the originally American version with numbered balls).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: games, pocket-billiards

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

16

noun

Meaning 16

A yellow card.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

17

noun

Meaning 17

Any of various pierid butterflies of the subfamily Coliadinae, especially the yellow colored species. Compare sulphur.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

18

verb

Meaning 18

To become yellow or yellower.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: intransitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

19

verb

Meaning 19

To make (something) yellow or yellower.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

20

verb

Meaning 20

To promote (a captain) to flag rank without command of a squadron, ending his career; to make him a yellow admiral.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: historical, transitive

Qualifier: Royal Navy

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

21

adjective satellite

Meaning 21

easily frightened

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: chicken, chickenhearted, lily-livered, white-livered, yellow-bellied

Antonyms: none provided

22

adjective satellite

Meaning 22

of the color intermediate between green and orange in the color spectrum; of something resembling the color of an egg yolk

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: yellowish, xanthous

Antonyms: none provided

23

adjective satellite

Meaning 23

affected by jaundice which causes yellowing of skin etc

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: jaundiced, icteric

Antonyms: none provided

24

adjective satellite

Meaning 24

cowardly or treacherous-M.W.Straight

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • the little yellow stain of treason
  • too yellow to stand and fight

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

25

adjective satellite

Meaning 25

changed to a yellowish color by age

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • yellowed parchment

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: yellowed

Antonyms: none provided

26

noun

Meaning 26

yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: yellowness

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour

Narrower terms: canary yellow, canary, amber, gold, brownish yellow, gamboge, lemon, lemon yellow, maize, old gold, orange yellow, saffron, pale yellow, straw, wheat, greenish yellow

27

verb

Meaning 27

turn yellow

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • The pages of the book began to yellow

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: discolor, discolour, colour, color

History

Etymology

From Middle English yelwe, yelou, from Old English ġeolwe, oblique form of Old English ġeolu, from Proto-West Germanic *gelu, from Proto-Germanic *gelwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵhelh3wós, from *ǵhelh3- (“green, yellow”). Cognate with Scots yella (“yellow”), North Frisian gööl, güül (“yellow”), Saterland Frisian jeel (“yellow”), West Frisian giel (“yellow”), Cimbrian gel, ghéel (“yellow”), Dutch geel (“yellow”), Dutch Low Saxon gael, gel (“yellow”), German gelb, gehl (“yellow”), German Low German gel, geel, gęl, gäl (“yellow”), Luxembourgish giel (“yellow”), Vilamovian gaoł (“yellow”), Yiddish געל (gel), געלב (gelb, “yellow”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish gul (“yellow”), Faroese and Icelandic gulur (“yellow”). Compare also Welsh gell (“bay, tawny”), Latin helvus (“dull yellow”), Irish geal (“white, bright”), Lithuanian žalias (“green”), Ancient Greek χλωρός (khlōrós, “light green”), Persian زرد (zard, “yellow”), Sanskrit हरि (hari, “greenish-yellow”), Russian жёлтый (žóltyj, “yellow”), Russian зелёный (zeljónyj, “green”). The verb is from Middle English yelwen, ȝalowen, ȝolewen, from Old English ġeolwian, from the adjective.

From the colors used on traffic lights; yellow being the one for warning vehicles to stop soon.

Across languages

Translations

554 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Abkhaz: аҩежь (ajwež) — having yellow as its color
  • Acehnese: kuneng — having yellow as its color
  • Afrikaans: geel — having yellow as its color
  • Ahom: 𑜎𑜢𑜤𑜂𑜫 (lüṅ) — having yellow as its color
  • Akan: akokɔ sradeɛ — having yellow as its color
  • Akkadian: 𒅊 (warqu, SIG7) — having yellow as its color
  • Albanian: verdhë — having yellow as its color
  • Southern Altai: сары (sarï) — having yellow as its color
  • American Sign Language: Y@Side Twist — having yellow as its color
  • Amharic: ቢጫ (bič̣a) — having yellow as its color
  • Western Apache: łitsog — having yellow as its color
  • Arabic: أَصْفَر (ʔaṣfar) — having yellow as its color
  • Arabic: صَفْرَاء (ṣafrāʔ) — having yellow as its color
  • Arabic: صُفْر (ṣufr) — having yellow as its color
  • Arabic: أصفر (aṣfar) — having yellow as its color
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܙܵܪܓܵܐ (zarga) — having yellow as its color
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܫܵܥܘܿܬ݂ܵܐ (šaʾuṯa) — having yellow as its color
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܙܲܪܕܹܐ (zārde) — having yellow as its color
  • Armenian: դեղին (deġin) — having yellow as its color
  • Aromanian: galbin — having yellow as its color
  • Assamese: হালধীয়া (halodhia) — having yellow as its color
  • Asturian: mariellu — having yellow as its color
  • Asturian: amariellu — having yellow as its color
  • Azerbaijani: sarı — having yellow as its color
  • Azerbaijani: сары — having yellow as its color
  • Baluchi: زرد (zard) — having yellow as its color
  • Bashkir: һары (harı) — having yellow as its color
  • Basque: hori — having yellow as its color
  • Belarusian: жо́ўты (žówty) — having yellow as its color
  • Bengali: হলদে (holde) — having yellow as its color
  • Bhojpuri: पीयर (pīyar) — having yellow as its color
  • Big Nambas: iuas — having yellow as its color
  • Central Bikol: giyaw — having yellow as its color
  • Bislama: yelo — having yellow as its color
  • Breton: melen — having yellow as its color
  • Buginese: ma-ridi — having yellow as its color
  • Bukitan: kuning — having yellow as its color
  • Bulgarian: жълт (žǎlt) — having yellow as its color
  • Burmese: ဝါ (wa) — having yellow as its color
  • Buryat: шара (šara) — having yellow as its color
  • Catalan: groc — having yellow as its color
  • Cebuano: dalag — having yellow as its color
  • Cebuano: amarilyo — having yellow as its color
  • Chamicuro: ka'chakamawa — having yellow as its color
  • Chechen: можа (moža) — having yellow as its color
  • Chechen: муожа (mwoža) — having yellow as its color
  • Cherokee: ᏓᎶᏁᎦ (dalonega) — having yellow as its color
  • Chickasaw: lakna — having yellow as its color
  • Chinese Cantonese: 黃 /黄 (wong4) — having yellow as its color
  • Chinese Mandarin: 黃 /黄 (huáng) — having yellow as its color
  • Chuvash: сарӑ (sară) — having yellow as its color
  • West Circassian: гъожьы (ğwoźə) — having yellow as its color
  • Coptic: ⲁⲟⲩⲓⲛ (aouin) — having yellow as its color
  • Cornish: melyn — having yellow as its color
  • Atikamekw: osawaw — having yellow as its color
  • Montagnais: kauishauat — having yellow as its color
  • Czech: žlutý — having yellow as its color
  • Danish: gul — having yellow as its color
  • Central Dusun: osilou — having yellow as its color
  • Dutch: geel — having yellow as its color
  • Emilian: śal — having yellow as its color
  • Erzya: ожо (ožo) — having yellow as its color
  • Esperanto: flava — having yellow as its color
  • Estonian: kollane — having yellow as its color
  • Even: хиҥаня (hiŋaņa) — having yellow as its color
  • Evenki: сиңама — having yellow as its color
  • Farefare: dõbʋkɔ — having yellow as its color
  • Faroese: gulur — having yellow as its color
  • Fijian: dromodromo — having yellow as its color
  • Finnish: keltainen — having yellow as its color
  • French: jaune — having yellow as its color
  • North Frisian: güül — having yellow as its color
  • North Frisian: gul — having yellow as its color
  • North Frisian: gööl — having yellow as its color
  • West-Frisian: giel — having yellow as its color
  • Friulian: zâl — having yellow as its color
  • Friulian: ğâl — having yellow as its color
  • Galician: marelo — having yellow as its color
  • Galician: amarelo — having yellow as its color
  • Georgian: ყვითელი (q̇viteli) — having yellow as its color
  • German: gelb — having yellow as its color
  • Central Franconian: gäl — having yellow as its color
  • Central Franconian: jell — having yellow as its color
  • Central Franconian: jäl — having yellow as its color
  • Old High German: gelo — having yellow as its color
  • Greek: κίτρινος (kítrinos) — having yellow as its color
  • Ancient Greek: ξανθός (xanthós) — having yellow as its color
  • Greenlandic: sungaaqeq — having yellow as its color
  • Paraguayan Guarani: sa'yju — having yellow as its color
  • Gujarati: પીળું (pīḷũ) — having yellow as its color
  • Haitian Creole: jòn — having yellow as its color
  • Halkomelem: luluts' — having yellow as its color
  • Hawaiian: lena — having yellow as its color
  • Hawaiian: lenalena — having yellow as its color
  • Hawaiian: melemele — having yellow as its color
  • Hebrew: צָהֹב (tsahóv) — having yellow as its color
  • Higaonon: dalag — having yellow as its color
  • Hiligaynon: dalag — having yellow as its color
  • Hiligaynon: kanaryo — having yellow as its color
  • Hindi: पीला (pīlā) — having yellow as its color
  • Hindi: ज़र्द (zard) — having yellow as its color
  • White Hmong: daj — having yellow as its color
  • Hopi: sikyangpu — having yellow as its color
  • Hungarian: sárga — having yellow as its color
  • Hunsrik: gelleb — having yellow as its color
  • Icelandic: gulur — having yellow as its color
  • Ido: flava — having yellow as its color
  • Igbo: èdo — having yellow as its color
  • Igbo: odo — having yellow as its color
  • Ilocano: duyaw — having yellow as its color
  • Indonesian: kuning — having yellow as its color
  • Interlingua: jalne — having yellow as its color
  • Irish: buí — having yellow as its color
  • Istriot: zalo — having yellow as its color
  • Italian: giallo — having yellow as its color
  • Ivatan: nihama — having yellow as its color
  • Japanese: 黄色い (kiiroi) — having yellow as its color
  • Javanese: kuning — having yellow as its color
  • Javanese: jené — having yellow as its color
  • Kaitag: бухъу (buqu) — having yellow as its color
  • Kalmyk: шар (şar) — having yellow as its color
  • Kannada: ಹಳದಿ (haḷadi) — having yellow as its color
  • Kapampangan: mapapas — having yellow as its color
  • Kapampangan: marilo — having yellow as its color
  • Karelian: keldaine — having yellow as its color
  • S'gaw Karen: ဘီ (baw) — having yellow as its color
  • Kashubian: żôłti — having yellow as its color
  • Kazakh: сары (sary) — having yellow as its color
  • Khmer: លឿង (lɨəng) — having yellow as its color
  • Khoekhoe: ǃhūni — having yellow as its color
  • Kongo: ya mwamba — having yellow as its color
  • Korean: 노란 (noran) — having yellow as its color
  • Korean: 노랗다 (norata) — having yellow as its color
  • Krio: yala — having yellow as its color
  • Kuna: koroguad — having yellow as its color
  • Central Kurdish: زەرد (zerd) — having yellow as its color
  • Northern Kurdish: zer — having yellow as its color
  • Kwak'wala: lema̱n'stu — having yellow as its color
  • Kyrgyz: сары (sarı) — having yellow as its color
  • Lakota: zí — having yellow as its color
  • Lao: ເຫຼືອງ (lư̄ang) — having yellow as its color
  • Latgalian: dzaltons — having yellow as its color
  • Latgalian: voskons — having yellow as its color
  • Latin: flāvus — having yellow as its color
  • Latin: gilvus — having yellow as its color
  • Latvian: dzeltens — having yellow as its color
  • Lezgi: хъипи (qipi) — having yellow as its color
  • Lingala: bondɔbɔ́ — having yellow as its color
  • Lithuanian: geltonas — having yellow as its color
  • Livonian: vīri — having yellow as its color
  • Lombard: giald — having yellow as its color
  • Louisiana Creole: jonn — having yellow as its color
  • Louisiana Creole: jònn — having yellow as its color
  • Low German: geel — having yellow as its color
  • Low German: gel — having yellow as its color
  • Low German: gęl — having yellow as its color
  • : ᦵᦜᦲᧂ (l̇oeng) — having yellow as its color
  • Luxembourgish: giel — having yellow as its color
  • Macedonian: жолт (žolt) — having yellow as its color
  • Madurese: koneŋ — having yellow as its color
  • Makasar: kuŋ̃iʔ — having yellow as its color
  • Malagasy: mavo — having yellow as its color
  • Malay: kuning — having yellow as its color
  • Malayalam: മഞ്ഞ (mañña) — having yellow as its color
  • Maltese: isfar — having yellow as its color
  • Manchu: ᠰᡠᠸᠠᠶᠠᠨ (suwayan) — having yellow as its color
  • Māori: kōwhai — having yellow as its color
  • Māori: mangaeka — having yellow as its color
  • Māori: renga — having yellow as its color
  • Maranao: mabinaning — having yellow as its color
  • Marathi: पिवळा (pivḷā) — having yellow as its color
  • Eastern Mari: нарынче (narynče) — having yellow as its color
  • Eastern Mari: оралге (oralge) — having yellow as its color
  • Western Mari: сары (sary) — having yellow as its color
  • Maricopa: kʼwesam — having yellow as its color
  • Minangkabau: kuniang — having yellow as its color
  • Mizo: eng — having yellow as its color
  • Moksha: тюжя (ťužä) — having yellow as its color
  • Mongolian: шар (šar) — having yellow as its color
  • Mongolian: ᠰᠢᠷ᠎ᠠ (sir-a) — having yellow as its color
  • Nahuatl: cōztic — having yellow as its color
  • Nanai: согдён (sogʒon) — having yellow as its color
  • Nauruan: bababo — having yellow as its color
  • Nauruan: ebabobo — having yellow as its color
  • Navajo: łitso — having yellow as its color
  • Nepali: पहेंलो (pahẽlo) — having yellow as its color
  • Nias: undre — having yellow as its color
  • Nias: ruzõ — having yellow as its color
  • Nootka: hicp̕iqak — having yellow as its color
  • Norman: jaune — having yellow as its color
  • Norwegian Bokmål: gul — having yellow as its color
  • Nottoway-Meherrin: kateanteharia — having yellow as its color
  • Nyunga: birat — having yellow as its color
  • Occitan: jaune — having yellow as its color
  • Occitan: cròc — having yellow as its color
  • Ojibwe: ozaawi- — having yellow as its color
  • Ojibwe: ozaawaa — having yellow as its color
  • Ojibwe: ozaawizi — having yellow as its color
  • Church Slavic: жлътъ (žlŭtŭ) — having yellow as its color
  • Old English: ġeolu — having yellow as its color
  • Old Saxon: gelo — having yellow as its color
  • Old Saxon: gelu — having yellow as its color
  • Old Tupi: îub — having yellow as its color
  • O'odham: oam — having yellow as its color
  • Oromo: kelloo — having yellow as its color
  • Ossetian: бор (bor) — having yellow as its color
  • Ossetian: бур (bur) — having yellow as its color
  • Pannonian Rusyn: жовти (žovti) — having yellow as its color
  • Pannonian Rusyn: жолти (žolti) — having yellow as its color
  • Papiamentu: hel — having yellow as its color
  • Pashto: ژېړ (žeṛ) — having yellow as its color
  • Pela: xui55 — having yellow as its color
  • Pennsylvania German: gehl — having yellow as its color
  • Iranian Persian: زَرْد (zard) — having yellow as its color
  • Plautdietsch: jäl — having yellow as its color
  • Polish: żółty — having yellow as its color
  • Portuguese: amarelo — having yellow as its color
  • Powhatan: oussawauk — having yellow as its color
  • Punjabi: ਪੀਲਾ (pīlā) — having yellow as its color
  • Quechua: q'illu — having yellow as its color
  • Quechua: gillu — having yellow as its color
  • Quechua: garwaş — having yellow as its color
  • Rapa Nui: toua mamari — having yellow as its color
  • Réunion Creole French: zone — having yellow as its color
  • Vlax-Romani: gàlbeno — having yellow as its color
  • Romanian: galben — having yellow as its color
  • Romansh: mellen — having yellow as its color
  • Romansh: melen — having yellow as its color
  • Romansh: mellan — having yellow as its color
  • Romansh: gelg — having yellow as its color
  • Russian: жёлтый (žóltyj) — having yellow as its color
  • Saanich: LELEJ — having yellow as its color
  • Saek: ว๊าง — having yellow as its color
  • Skolt-Sami: viskkâd — having yellow as its color
  • Samoan: sāmasama — having yellow as its color
  • Samoan: lega — having yellow as its color
  • Sanskrit: पीत (pīta) — having yellow as its color
  • Sanskrit: हारिद्र (hāridra) — having yellow as its color
  • Sardinian: grogu — having yellow as its color
  • Sasak: koniŋ — having yellow as its color
  • Scots: yella — having yellow as its color
  • Scottish Gaelic: buidhe — having yellow as its color
  • Serbo-Croatian: жу̑т — having yellow as its color
  • Serbo-Croatian: žȗt — having yellow as its color
  • Shan: လိူင် (lǒeng) — having yellow as its color
  • Sicilian: giallu — having yellow as its color
  • Silesian: žůuty — having yellow as its color
  • Sindhi: زرد (zardu) — having yellow as its color
  • Sinhalese: කහ (kaha) — having yellow as its color
  • Slovak: žltý — having yellow as its color
  • Slovene: rumen — having yellow as its color
  • Slovene: žolt — having yellow as its color
  • Somali: huruud — having yellow as its color
  • Lower Sorbian: žołty — having yellow as its color
  • Upper Sorbian: žołty — having yellow as its color
  • Spanish: amarillo — having yellow as its color
  • Sranan Tongo: geri — having yellow as its color
  • Sundanese: koneng — having yellow as its color
  • Swahili: -a manjano — having yellow as its color
  • Swedish: gul — having yellow as its color
  • Sylheti: ꠀꠟꠗꠤꠀ (alodía) — having yellow as its color
  • Tagalog: dilaw — having yellow as its color
  • Tagalog: amarilyo — having yellow as its color
  • Tahitian: reʻareʻa — having yellow as its color
  • Tajik: зард (zard) — having yellow as its color
  • Tamil: மஞ்சள் (mañcaḷ) — having yellow as its color
  • Tamil: மஞ்சன் (mañcaṉ) — having yellow as its color
  • Tarantino: gialle — having yellow as its color
  • Tarifit: awraɣ — having yellow as its color
  • Tatar: сары (sarı) — having yellow as its color
  • Telugu: పసుపు (pasupu) — having yellow as its color
  • Tetum: kinur — having yellow as its color
  • Thai: เหลือง (lʉ̌ʉang) — having yellow as its color
  • Tibetan: སེར་པོ (ser po) — having yellow as its color
  • Tigrinya: ብጫ (bəč̣a) — having yellow as its color
  • Tocharian B: tute — having yellow as its color
  • Tok Pisin: yelopela — having yellow as its color
  • Tupinambá: îub — having yellow as its color
  • Turkish: sarı — having yellow as its color
  • Ottoman Turkish: صاری (sarı) — having yellow as its color
  • Ottoman Turkish: زر (zer) — having yellow as its color
  • Turkmen: sary — having yellow as its color
  • Tuvaluan: felo — having yellow as its color
  • Tuvaluan: hega — having yellow as its color
  • Tuvan: сарыг (sarıg) — having yellow as its color
  • Udmurt: ӵуж (čuž) — having yellow as its color
  • Ugaritic: 𐎊𐎗𐎖 (yrq) — having yellow as its color
  • Ukrainian: жо́втий (žóvtyj) — having yellow as its color
  • Umbundu: ungolo — having yellow as its color
  • Unami: wisae — having yellow as its color
  • Unami: wisawsi — having yellow as its color
  • Urdu: پِیلا (pīlā) — having yellow as its color
  • Urdu: زَرْد (zard) — having yellow as its color
  • Urdu: اَصْفَر (asfar) — having yellow as its color
  • Uyghur: سېرىق (sëriq) — having yellow as its color
  • Uzbek: sariq — having yellow as its color
  • Venetan: xało — having yellow as its color
  • Venetan: xaƚo — having yellow as its color
  • Venetan: zało — having yellow as its color
  • Venetan: đal — having yellow as its color
  • Veps: pakuine — having yellow as its color
  • Vietnamese: vàng — having yellow as its color
  • Vietnamese: màu vàng — having yellow as its color
  • Vilamovian: gaoł — having yellow as its color
  • Volapük: yelovik — having yellow as its color
  • Volapük: yelibik — having yellow as its color
  • Võro: kõllanõ — having yellow as its color
  • Walloon: djaene — having yellow as its color
  • Welsh: melyn — having yellow as its color
  • Welsh: melen — having yellow as its color
  • Winnebago: zii — having yellow as its color
  • Woiwurrung: babedirreen — having yellow as its color
  • Wolof: mboq — having yellow as its color
  • Yakut: араҕас (arağas) — having yellow as its color
  • Yiddish: געל (gel) — having yellow as its color
  • Yoruba: àwo òdodo — having yellow as its color
  • Yoruba: iyèyè — having yellow as its color
  • Yoruba: púpà — having yellow as its color
  • Yoruba: rúsúrúsú — having yellow as its color
  • Yoruba: òféfèé — having yellow as its color
  • Zazaki: zerd (diq) — having yellow as its color
  • Zazaki: zard — having yellow as its color
  • Zealandic: geel — having yellow as its color
  • Zhuang: lieng — having yellow as its color
  • Afrikaans: laf — lacking courage
  • Arabic: جَبَان (jabān) — lacking courage
  • Bulgarian: страхли́в (strahlív) — lacking courage
  • Catalan: covard — lacking courage
  • Dutch: laf — lacking courage
  • Finnish: pelkuri — lacking courage
  • French: froussard — lacking courage
  • French: lâche — lacking courage
  • Georgian: მშიშარა (mšišara) — lacking courage
  • German: feige — lacking courage
  • Greek: δειλός (deilós) — lacking courage
  • Greek: φοβιτσιάρης (fovitsiáris) — lacking courage
  • Greek: φοβητσιάρης (fovitsiáris) — lacking courage
  • Hebrew: פַּחְדָן (pahdan) — lacking courage
  • Hungarian: gyáva — lacking courage
  • Icelandic: huglaus — lacking courage
  • Interlingua: coarde — lacking courage
  • Italian: codardo — lacking courage
  • Japanese: 臆病な (okubyō na) — lacking courage
  • Korean: 겁많은 (geommaneun) — lacking courage
  • Korean: 겁많다 (geommanta) — lacking courage
  • Latgalian: būglys — lacking courage
  • Luxembourgish: feig — lacking courage
  • Mizo: dâwizep — lacking courage
  • Papiamentu: cobarde (stinki) — lacking courage
  • Polish: tchórzliwy — lacking courage
  • Portuguese: covarde — lacking courage
  • Portuguese: amarelão — lacking courage
  • Portuguese: amarelona — lacking courage
  • Romanian: laș — lacking courage
  • Russian: трусли́вый (truslívyj) — lacking courage
  • Spanish: cobarde — lacking courage
  • Swedish: feg — lacking courage
  • Turkish: korkak — lacking courage
  • Afrikaans: geel — color
  • American Sign Language: Y@Side Twist — color
  • Arabic: أَصْفَر (ʔaṣfar) — color
  • Aragonese: amariello — color
  • Armenian: դեղին (deġin) — color
  • Asturian: amariellu — color
  • Asturian: mariellu — color
  • Azerbaijani: sarı — color
  • Basque: hori — color
  • Breton: melen — color
  • Bulgarian: жълт (žǎlt) — color
  • Bulgarian: жълта (žǎlta) — color
  • Burmese: အဝါ (a.wa) — color
  • Catalan: groc — color
  • Cherokee: ᏓᎶᏁᎦ (dalonega) — color
  • Chickasaw: lakna — color
  • Chinese Cantonese: 黃色 /黄色 (wong4 sik1) — color
  • Chinese Mandarin: 黃色 /黄色 (huángsè) — color
  • Chinook Jargon: kʼawkʼawiq — color
  • Chinook Jargon: likhrem — color
  • Cornish: melyn — color
  • Czech: žlutá — color
  • Danish: gul — color
  • Dutch: geel — color
  • Emilian: śal — color
  • Esperanto: flavo — color
  • Estonian: kollane — color
  • Finnish: keltainen — color
  • Finnish: kelta — color
  • French: jaune — color
  • West-Frisian: giel — color
  • Galician: amarelo — color
  • Georgian: ყვითელი (q̇viteli) — color
  • German: Gelb — color
  • Greek: κίτρινο (kítrino) — color
  • Greek: ώχρα (óchra) — color
  • Ancient Greek: ξανθός (xanthós) — color
  • Hawaiian: melemele — color
  • Hawaiian: lenalena — color
  • Hebrew: צהוב (tsahóv) — color
  • Hebrew: צהובה (tshubá) — color
  • Hindi: पीला (pīlā) — color
  • Hindi: ज़र्द (zard) — color
  • Hungarian: sárga — color
  • Icelandic: gulur — color
  • Ido: flava — color
  • Indonesian: kuning — color
  • Interlingua: jalne — color
  • Irish: buí — color
  • Italian: giallo — color
  • Japanese: 黄色 (kiiro) — color
  • Javanese: kuning — color
  • Javanese: jené — color
  • Khmer: ពណ៌លឿង (poa lɨəng) — color
  • Korean: 황색 (hwangsaek) — color
  • Korean: 노랑 (norang) — color
  • Central Kurdish: زەرد (zerd) — color
  • Northern Kurdish: zer — color
  • Latgalian: dzaltons — color
  • Latin: flāvus — color
  • Latvian: dzeltens — color
  • Lithuanian: geltonas — color
  • Louisiana Creole: jonn — color
  • Louisiana Creole: jònn — color
  • Low German: geel — color
  • Luxembourgish: Giel — color
  • Malagasy: fondrana — color
  • Malay: kuning — color
  • Malayalam: മഞ്ഞ (mañña) — color
  • Maltese: isfar — color
  • Māori: kōwhai — color
  • Māori: mangaeka — color
  • Mirandese: amarielho — color
  • Central Sierra Miwok: ṭaṭaṭ·-i- — color
  • Mongolian: шар (šar) — color
  • Nahuatl: coztic — color
  • Niuean: ago — color
  • Niuean: lanu ago — color
  • Norwegian: gul — color
  • Occitan: jaune — color
  • Odia: ପିଉଳି (Piuḻi) — color
  • Odia: ହଳଦିଆ (Haḻadiā) — color
  • Okinawan: 黄色 (chīrū) — color
  • Old English: ġeolo — color
  • Old Tupi: îuba — color
  • Papiamentu: hel — color
  • Pashto: ژېړ (žeṛ) — color
  • Persian: زرد (zard) — color
  • Polish: żółć — color
  • Polish: żółty — color
  • Portuguese: amarelo — color
  • Rapa Nui: toumāmari — color
  • Réunion Creole French: zone — color
  • Romanian: galben — color
  • Romanian: galbenă — color
  • Romansh: mellen — color
  • Russian: жёлтый (žóltyj) — color
  • Northern Sami: fiskat — color
  • Sanskrit: हरिद्राभ (haridrābha) — color
  • Sanskrit: पीतवर्ण (pītavarṇa) — color
  • Sardinian: grogu — color
  • Scots: yellae — color
  • Scottish Gaelic: buidhe — color
  • Serbo-Croatian: жута — color
  • Serbo-Croatian: žuta — color
  • Slovak: žltý — color
  • Slovene: rumena — color
  • Spanish: amarillo — color
  • Old Spanish: amariello — color
  • Sundanese: konéng — color
  • Swahili: manjano — color
  • Swedish: gul — color
  • Tamil: மஞ்சள் (mañcaḷ) — color
  • Telugu: పసుపు (pasupu) — color
  • Telugu: పసుపురంగు (pasupuraṅgu) — color
  • Thai: สีเหลือง (sǐi-lʉ̌ʉang) — color
  • Tigrinya: ብጫ (bəč̣a) — color
  • Turkish: sarı — color
  • Ottoman Turkish: صاری (sarı) — color
  • Tuvan: сарыг (sarıg) — color
  • Ukrainian: жовтий (žovtyj) — color
  • Urdu: پیلا (pīlā) — color
  • Urdu: زرد (zard) — color
  • Urdu: اصفر (asfar) — color
  • Uyghur: سېرىق (sëriq) — color
  • Vietnamese: hoàng — color
  • Vietnamese: vàng — color
  • Vilamovian: gāł — color
  • Vilamovian: gał — color
  • Vilamovian: gaoł — color
  • Volapük: yelov — color
  • Volapük: yelib — color
  • Walloon: djaene — color
  • Welsh: melyn — color
  • Winnebago: zii — color
  • Zazaki: zerd (diq) — color
  • Arabic: اِصْفَرَّ (iṣfarra) — to become yellow or more yellow
  • Breton: melenaat — to become yellow or more yellow
  • Bulgarian: пожълтя́вам (požǎltjávam) — to become yellow or more yellow
  • Chickasaw: lakna — to become yellow or more yellow
  • Czech: žloutnout — to become yellow or more yellow
  • Danish: gulne — to become yellow or more yellow
  • Dutch: vergelen — to become yellow or more yellow
  • Esperanto: flaviĝi — to become yellow or more yellow
  • Finnish: kellertyä — to become yellow or more yellow
  • Finnish: kellastua — to become yellow or more yellow
  • French: jaunir — to become yellow or more yellow
  • Georgian: ყვითლდება (q̇vitldeba) — to become yellow or more yellow
  • German: gilben — to become yellow or more yellow
  • German: vergilben — to become yellow or more yellow
  • Hebrew: הצהיב (hets'hiv) — to become yellow or more yellow
  • Hungarian: sárgul — to become yellow or more yellow
  • Icelandic: gulna — to become yellow or more yellow
  • Indonesian: menguning — to become yellow or more yellow
  • Ingrian: kellastua — to become yellow or more yellow
  • Italian: ingiallirsi — to become yellow or more yellow
  • Latin: flāvescō — to become yellow or more yellow
  • Old English: ġeolwian — to become yellow or more yellow
  • Polish: żółknąć — to become yellow or more yellow
  • Polish: żółcić — to become yellow or more yellow
  • Portuguese: amarelar — to become yellow or more yellow
  • Romanian: se îngălbeni — to become yellow or more yellow
  • Russian: желте́ть (želtétʹ) — to become yellow or more yellow
  • Russian: пожелте́ть (poželtétʹ) — to become yellow or more yellow
  • Serbo-Croatian: жу́тети — to become yellow or more yellow
  • Serbo-Croatian: жу́тјети — to become yellow or more yellow
  • Serbo-Croatian: žúteti — to become yellow or more yellow
  • Serbo-Croatian: žútjeti — to become yellow or more yellow
  • Swedish: gulna — to become yellow or more yellow
  • Turkish: sararmak — to become yellow or more yellow
  • Ottoman Turkish: صاریلانمق (sarılanmak) — to become yellow or more yellow
  • Ukrainian: жовти́ти (žovtýty) — to become yellow or more yellow
  • Zazaki: zerd biyayen — to become yellow or more yellow
  • Zazaki: zerdiyayen — to become yellow or more yellow
  • Arabic: صَفَّرَ (ṣaffara) — to cause to become yellow or more yellow
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܡܲܫܥܸܬ (mašˁit) — to cause to become yellow or more yellow
  • Aromanian: ngãlbinescu — to cause to become yellow or more yellow
  • Breton: melenaat — to cause to become yellow or more yellow
  • Dutch: vergelen — to cause to become yellow or more yellow
  • Finnish: kellertää — to cause to become yellow or more yellow
  • Finnish: kellastuttaa — to cause to become yellow or more yellow
  • French: jaunir — to cause to become yellow or more yellow
  • Georgian: აყვითლებს (aq̇vitlebs) — to cause to become yellow or more yellow
  • Hebrew: הִצְהִיב (hitzív) — to cause to become yellow or more yellow
  • Hungarian: sárgít — to cause to become yellow or more yellow
  • Italian: ingiallire — to cause to become yellow or more yellow
  • Malagasy: vony — to cause to become yellow or more yellow
  • Polish: żółcić — to cause to become yellow or more yellow
  • Portuguese: amarelar — to cause to become yellow or more yellow
  • Romanian: îngălbeni — to cause to become yellow or more yellow
  • Serbo-Croatian: жу́тити — to cause to become yellow or more yellow
  • Serbo-Croatian: žútiti — to cause to become yellow or more yellow
  • Swedish: gulfärga — to cause to become yellow or more yellow
  • Swedish: gulmåla — to cause to become yellow or more yellow
  • Turkish: sarartmak — to cause to become yellow or more yellow
  • Zazaki: zerdnayen — to cause to become yellow or more yellow
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