beige

See also Beige

English

Etymology

Borrowing from French dialectal beige, from Old French bege 'color of undyed wool or coton', from an Alpine language (compare Franco-Provençal bézho, Romansch besch) 'dull grey', from Vulgar Latin *bysseus 'cottony grey' (compare French bis, Catalan bis, Italian bìgio), from Late Latin byssus 'cotton', from Ancient Greek  (býssos) 'cotton homespun', from Semitic (compare Hebrew/Aramaic būṣ)

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -eɪʒ

Noun

Wikipedia beige (plural beiges)

1. A slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.

   beige colour:

2. debeige; a kind of woollen or mixed dress goods

Translations

colour

• Albanian: bezh (sq)
• Arabic: بيج (ar) (biij)
• Azeri: bej (az)
• Bulgarian: бежов цвят (bg) (bežov cvjat) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 米黃 (cmn), 米黄 (cmn) (mǐhuáng), 米色 (cmn) (mǐsè)

• Czech: béžový (cs) m
• Danish: beige (da)
• Dutch: beige (nl)
• Esperanto: flavgriza
• Estonian: beež (et)
• Finnish: beesi (fi), beige (fi)
• French: beige (fr)
• Galician: beis (gl)
• German: Beige (de) n
• Greek: μπεζ (el) (bez) n
• Hungarian: bézs (hu)
• Ido: beja

• Indonesian: krem (id)
• Italian: beige (it)
• Japanese: ベージュ (ja) (bēju)
• Korean: 베이지색의 (ko) (beijisaegui)
• Malagasy: beg (mg)
• Malay: krim (ms), kuning air (ms)
• Maltese: bexx
• Persian: بژ (fa) (bezh)
• Polish: beżowy (pl)
• Portuguese: bege (pt)
• Romanian: bej (ro) n
• Russian: бежевый (ru) (béževyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: bež (sh) m
• Spanish: beige (es), beis (es), beige (es) m
• Swedish: beige (sv)
• Tagalog: murang kayumanggi (tl)
• Turkish: bej (tr)
• Vietnamese: be (vi), màu be (vi)

Adjective

Wikipedia

beige (comparative more beige, superlative most beige)

1. Having a slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.
   • 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 24, Crime out of Mind^[1]:

     Dagobert had only one customer, an American who wore square, rimless glasses and a beige suit and looked like a Wall Street tycoon.

Translations

having a slightly yellowish gray colour

• Arabic: بيج (ar) (biij)
• Bulgarian: бежов (bg) (béžov)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 米黃 (cmn), 米黄 (cmn) (mǐhuáng), 米色 (cmn) (mǐsè)

• Czech: béžový (cs)
• Finnish: beesi (fi)
• French: beige (fr)

• German: beige (de)
• Italian: bigio (it) m
• Japanese: ベージュ (ja) (bēju)
• Malay: kuning air (ms)
• Russian: бежевый (ru) (béževyj)
• Spanish: beige (es), beis (es)

Derived terms

• Beige Book

See also

• Appendix:Colors

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowing from French beige

Pronunciation

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Adjective

beige (comparative beiger, superlative meest beige or beigest)

1. beige

Declension

Declension of beige

		positive	comparative	superlative
				attributive	predicative/adverbial
predicative/adverbial		beige	beiger
neuter singular	indefinite	beige	beiger
	definite	beige	beigere	beigeste	beigest, beigeste
common singular		beige	beigere	beigeste	beigeste
plural		beige	beigere	beigeste	beigeste
partitive		beiges	beigers

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Finnish

Etymology

Borrowing from French beige

Adjective

beige (comparative beigempi, superlative beigein)

1. beige

Declension

Declension of beige (type nalle) singular plural nominative beige beiget genitive beigen beigejen beigein1 partitive beigeä beigejä accusative beige beigen beiget inessive beigessä beigeissä elative beigestä beigeistä illative beigeen beigeihin adessive beigellä beigeillä ablative beigeltä beigeiltä allative beigelle beigeille essive beigenä beigeinä translative beigeksi beigeiksi instructive – beigein abessive beigettä beigeittä comitative – beigeine 1) Rare.

Noun

beige

1. beige (color)

Declension

Declension of beige (type nalle) singular plural nominative beige beiget genitive beigen beigejen beigein1 partitive beigeä beigejä accusative beige beigen beiget inessive beigessä beigeissä elative beigestä beigeistä illative beigeen beigeihin adessive beigellä beigeillä ablative beigeltä beigeiltä allative beigelle beigeille essive beigenä beigeinä translative beigeksi beigeiksi instructive – beigein abessive beigettä beigeittä comitative – beigeineen 1) Rare.

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French

Etymology

Old French bege.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

beige (masculine and feminine, plural beiges)

1. beige

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German

Etymology

Borrowing from French beige

Adjective

beige

1. beige

Related terms

• Beige

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Luxembourgish

Etymology

Borrowing from French beige

Adjective

beige

1. beige

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowing from French beige

Adjective

beige m and f singular & plural

1. beige

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Swedish

Pronunciation

• (Swedish) /beːɧ/ or /bɛːɧ/

Etymology

Attested from 1895. Borrowing from French beige. The slang definition is likely associated to the perceived blandness of the color.

Adjective

beige

Declension of beige

Inflections of beige		Absolute	Comparative	Superlative
				Attributive	Predicative
Indefinite singular	Common	beige	beigare		beigast
	Neuter	beigt
Definite singular	Masc.	beige		beigaste
	All	beiga		beigaste
Plural		beiga		beigaste

1. Beige.

   Hon hade en lång, beige kappa på sig.

   "She wore a long, beige coat."

2. (slang) Boring, uninteresting, negative.

   Din morsa är så jävla beige!

   "Your mother is so damn dull."