ochre

Etymology 1


From and its source, from , from  (modern 🇨🇬).

Noun

 * 1) A clay earth pigment containing silica, aluminum and ferric oxide
 * 2) A somewhat dark yellowish orange colour
 * 3)  The stop codon sequence "UAA."
 * 4)  Money, especially gold.
 * 5) Any of various brown-coloured hesperiid butterflies of the genus.
 * 1) Any of various brown-coloured hesperiid butterflies of the genus.
 * 1) Any of various brown-coloured hesperiid butterflies of the genus.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: oker
 * Armenian:, , ,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Georgian: ჟანგმიწა, ოქრა
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: ócar
 * Japanese:
 * Kalmyk: шарц
 * Karakalpak: josa
 * Latvian: okers
 * Maori: kōkōwai
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: oker
 * Nynorsk: oker
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: во́хра, о́хра
 * Welsh: ocr


 * Afrikaans: okergeel
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:, okerkleur
 * Finnish:, okrankeltainen
 * French:
 * Georgian: ჟანგისფერი
 * German:
 * Greek:, υποκίτρινο
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: オーカー,
 * Korean: 황토
 * Malagasy:
 * Malay: oker
 * Maori: kōkōwai
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: жёлто-оранжевый ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: okre
 * Ukrainian: во́хра, о́хра
 * Vietnamese: thổ hoàng
 * Welsh: ocr

Adjective

 * 1) Having a yellow-orange colour.
 * 2)  Referring to cultures that covered their dead with ochre.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: oker, okergeel
 * Armenian:
 * Catalan: ocraci,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:, okerkleurig
 * Finnish:, okrankeltainen
 * French:
 * German: ockern, ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ὠχρός
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Irish: ócair
 * Japanese: ,
 * Malagasy:
 * Maori: kōkōwai, hōrua, pākākā
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: okergul
 * Nynorsk: okergul
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: жёлто-оранжевый
 * Spanish:
 * Ukrainian: во́христий, вохряни́й
 * Welsh: ocr, ocraidd, melynaidd


 * Finnish: okrahauta


 * Serbo-Croatian:

Verb

 * 1) To cover or tint with ochre.

Etymology 2
From an West African language, probably, but compare 🇨🇬 and.