whitish

English

Alternative forms

• whiteish

Etymology

From Middle English whitisch, whytyssh, equivalent to white +‎ -ish.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwaɪtɪʃ/
• (without the wine–whine merger) enPR: ˈhwītĭsh, IPA^(key): /ˈʍaɪtɪʃ/

Adjective

whitish (comparative more whitish, superlative most whitish)

1. Somewhat white, pale or almost white.
   • 1910, The Year Book of Dermatology, page 124:

     The skin was somewhat pigmented, especially in certain regions, while over the whole there appeared whitish, rounded or oval mottlings or dapplings, most obvious where the surrounding cuticle was most deeply colored.

Translations

somewhat white

• Arabic:

  Egyptian Arabic: ابيضاني (abyaḍāni)

• Armenian: սպիտակավուն (hy) (spitakavun)
• Bulgarian: белезникав (beleznikav), възбя́л (vǎzbjál)
• Catalan: blanquinós
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 髮白的／发白的 (fàbó de)

• Czech: bělavý (cs)
• Danish: hvidlig
• Esperanto: blanketa
• Estonian: valkjas
• Finnish: valkeahko (fi)
• French: blanchâtre (fr)
• Galician: albelo, pálido (gl), albeiro (gl)
• Georgian: მოთეთრო (motetro)
• German: weißlich (de), (Swiss) weisslich (de)
• Hebrew: לְבַנְבַּן (he)
• Hungarian: fehéres (hu)
• Ido: blankatra (io)
• Irish: scothbhán (ga), fobhán
• Italian: biancastro (it), bianchiccio
• Japanese: 白っぽい (しろっぽい, shiroppoi)
• Javanese: nom (jv), nèm, timur
• Kalmyk: цаһавтр (tsağavtr)
• Kazakh: ақтау (aqtau)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: gewr (ku)

• Latin: subalbus, alburnus (Mediaeval)
• Latvian: iebalts
• Malagasy: fotsifotsy (mg)
• Manx: fo-vane
• Maori: kōmā
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hvitaktig

• Polish: białawy (pl)
• Portuguese: esbranquiçado (pt)
• Russian: белова́тый (ru) (belovátyj), белесова́тый (ru) (belesovátyj), белёсый (ru) (beljósyj), беля́вый (ru) (beljávyj)
• Shor: ағылдырым
• Spanish: blancuzco, blanquecino (es), blanquinoso, blanquizo (archaic), blanquizco
• Swedish: vitaktig (sv)
• Tajik: сафедча (safedča)
• Turkish: akça (tr)
• Vietnamese: hơi trắng
• Volapük: vietilik (vo), vietlik (older term)