crayon

English

Wikipedia

Wax crayons.

Etymology

From French crayon (“pencil”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: krāʹän
• IPA: /ˈkɹeɪ.ən/, /ˈkɹeɪ.ɒn/, /ˈkræn/, /ˈkraʊn/
• Rhymes: -eɪən

Noun

crayon (plural crayons)

1. A stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing.
   • Dryden

     Let no day pass over you […] without giving some strokes of the pencil or the crayon.

2. (dated) A crayon drawing.
3. (dated) A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light.

Translations

colored chalk or wax

• Bulgarian: пастел (bg) (pastel) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蠟筆 (cmn), 蜡笔 (cmn) (làbǐ)

• Dutch: kleurpotlood (nl) n
• Finnish: väriliitu (fi), värit (fi)
• French: pastelle (fr) f
• German: Zeichenstift (de) m
• Greek: κηρομπογιά (el) (kirompogiá) f
• Italian: pastello (it) m
• Japanese: クレヨン (ja) (kureyon)

• Korean: 크레용 (ko) (keureyon)
• Portuguese: pastel (pt) m, giz de cera (pt) m
• Russian: цветной карандаш (ru) (tsvetnój karandáš) m, пастель (ru) (pastél’) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: крејон (sh) m

  Roman: krejon (sh) m, krajon (sh) m

• Spanish: creyón (es) m, crayón (es) m
• Turkish: pastel boya (tr)
• Vietnamese: viết chì màu (vi)

Verb

crayon (third-person singular simple present crayons, present participle crayoning, simple past and past participle crayoned)

1. To draw with a crayon.

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French

Etymology

craie (“chalk”) +‎ -on

Pronunciation

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• IPA: /kʁɛ.jɔ̃/

Noun

crayon m (plural crayons)

1. pencil