beige

Etymology
, from, from an Alpine language (compare Franco-Provençal , Romansch ), from (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), from , from , from Semitic (compare / ). .

Noun

 * 1) A slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.
 * 2) Debeige; a kind of woollen or mixed dress goods.
 * 1) Debeige; a kind of woollen or mixed dress goods.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: beige
 * Albanian: bezh
 * Arabic: بِيج
 * Hijazi Arabic: بِيج
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: bej
 * Bambara: bɔ́gɔji
 * Bengali: বেইজ
 * Bulgarian: бежов цвят
 * Burmese: အဝါနုရောင်ရှိသော
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: beige
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: flavgriza, beĵa
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: ljósbrúngulur
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician: beis, beixe
 * Georgian: ბეჟი, ჩალისფერი, კრემისფერი, ქარვისფერი, მოთეთრო-მოყვითალო, ქარცი, ბაცი, ბაცი ყავისფერი, ხორცისფერი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hindi: बेज, बेझ़
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ljósbrúnn, grábrúnn, drappaður
 * Ido:
 * Igbo: edo edo
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: béas
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer: បន៍ត្នោតខ្ចី
 * Korean: 베이지
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Louisiana Creole French: bèj
 * Macedonian: беж
 * Malagasy:
 * Malay:, kuning air
 * Maltese: bexx
 * Maori: kirīmi
 * Nepali: बेज
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Rwanda-Rundi: bije
 * Samoan: ena
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Slovak: béžový
 * Somali: midab beej
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: murang kayumanggi
 * Tajik: каҳваранг
 * Tetum: krem
 * Turkish:
 * Uzbek:, bej
 * Vietnamese:, màu be
 * Welsh: lliw gwlanen, llwydfelyn
 * West Frisian: bêzje
 * Yoruba: alagara

Adjective

 * 1) Having a slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.
 * 2)  Comfortably dull and unadventurous, in a way that suggests middle-class suburbia.
 * 1)  Comfortably dull and unadventurous, in a way that suggests middle-class suburbia.
 * 1)  Comfortably dull and unadventurous, in a way that suggests middle-class suburbia.
 * 1)  Comfortably dull and unadventurous, in a way that suggests middle-class suburbia.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: beige
 * Arabic: بِيج
 * Hijazi Arabic: بيج
 * Bulgarian: бе́жов
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: béasa
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: сарғыш
 * Louisiana Creole French: bèj
 * Macedonian: бе́жов
 * Malay: kuning air
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Welsh: lliw gwlanen, llwydfelyn

Etymology
From, from.

Etymology
, from, from.

Etymology
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Adjective

 * 1) beige

Noun

 * 1) beige color

Etymology
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Etymology 1
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Pronunciation

 * Predicative form:
 * Inflected forms:

Adjective

 * 1) beige

Usage notes
Beige is inflected like a regular adjective in pronunciation. However, since its basic form is written with a mute -e, the inflectional ending -e is not visible in writing: das beige [beːʒə] Haus – the beige house.

The other inflectional endings are visible: in dem beigen Haus – in the beige house.

Etymology
Borrowed from.

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

Adjective

 * 1)  boring, uninteresting, negative.
 * 1)  boring, uninteresting, negative.
 * 1)  boring, uninteresting, negative.