plain

Etymology 1
From, borrowed from , , , , and , from.

Adjective



 * 1)  Flat, level.
 * 2) Simple, unaltered.
 * 3) Ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation; unembellished.
 * 4) Of just one colour; lacking a pattern.
 * 5) Simple in habits or qualities; unsophisticated, not exceptional, ordinary.
 * 6)  Having only few ingredients, or no additional ingredients or seasonings; not elaborate, without toppings or extras.
 * 7)  Containing no extended or nonprinting characters (especially in ).
 * 8) Obvious.
 * 9) Evident to one's senses or reason; manifest, clear, unmistakable.
 * 10) Downright; total, unmistakable (as intensifier).
 * 11) Open.
 * 12) Honest and without deception; candid, open; blunt.
 * 13) Clear; unencumbered; equal; fair.
 * 14) Not unusually beautiful; unattractive.
 * 15)  Not a trump.
 * 1)  Containing no extended or nonprinting characters (especially in ).
 * 2) Obvious.
 * 3) Evident to one's senses or reason; manifest, clear, unmistakable.
 * 4) Downright; total, unmistakable (as intensifier).
 * 5) Open.
 * 6) Honest and without deception; candid, open; blunt.
 * 7) Clear; unencumbered; equal; fair.
 * 8) Not unusually beautiful; unattractive.
 * 9)  Not a trump.
 * 1) Clear; unencumbered; equal; fair.
 * 2) Not unusually beautiful; unattractive.
 * 3)  Not a trump.
 * 1) Clear; unencumbered; equal; fair.
 * 2) Not unusually beautiful; unattractive.
 * 3)  Not a trump.
 * 1)  Not a trump.
 * 1)  Not a trump.
 * 1)  Not a trump.

Synonyms

 * ,, , ; see also Thesaurus:bare-bones
 * , ; see also Thesaurus:obvious or Thesaurus:explicit
 * ,, ; see also Thesaurus:damned
 * , ; see also Thesaurus:honest
 * ,, ; see also Thesaurus:damned
 * , ; see also Thesaurus:honest

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Moroccan Arabic: بسيط
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Basque: apal, xume,
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ψιλός, λιτός
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: pléineáilte, simplí
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, , ,
 * Kabuverdianu: kran
 * Korean: 소박한
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Ladino: plano, sémplise
 * Malagasy:
 * Manchu: ᠪᡳᡤᠠᠨ
 * Maori: tōtōkau, tōkau, māmore, taramore, kōkau
 * Plautdietsch: schlicht
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: sìmplidh
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: о̀бичан, је̏дноста̄ван
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene: preprost, navaden
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: payak, pangkaraniwan,
 * Thai: ,
 * Turkish:


 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bulgarian: едноцветен
 * Danish: ensfarvet
 * French:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: ensfarget, ensfarga
 * Nynorsk: einsfarga
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: liso, linso


 * Albanian:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient:
 * Hungarian:
 * Igbo:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: pléineáilte
 * Italian: al naturale ,
 * Japanese:
 * Kabuverdianu: kran
 * Korean:
 * Ladin:
 * Ladino:
 * Latin: non condītus
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Maltese:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk:
 * Polish: nieprzyprawny, nieprzyprawiony
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: bez príchute
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Turkish:
 * Veps:
 * Volapük:
 * Võro:
 * Votic:


 * Catalan:
 * Dutch:
 * French: simple texte
 * Japanese:
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish: con caracteres normales, libre de caracteres especiales, sin caracteres especiales

Adverb

 * 1)  Simply.
 * It was just plain stupid.
 * I plain forgot.
 * 1)  Plainly; distinctly.
 * Tell me plain: do you love me or no?

Etymology 2
From, from , neuter substantive from. .

Noun



 * 1) An expanse of land with relatively low relief and few trees, especially a grassy expanse.
 * 2) * 1961, J. A. Philip. Mimesis in the Sophistês of Plato. In: Proceedings and Transactions of the American Philological Association 92. p. 467.
 * For Plato the life of the philosopher is a life of struggle towards the goal of knowledge, towards “searching the heavens and measuring the plains, in all places seeking the nature of everything as a whole”
 * 1) A broad, flat expanse in general, as of water.
 * 2)   in reference to a battlefield.
 * : a flat geometric field.
 * 1) A broad, flat expanse in general, as of water.
 * 2)   in reference to a battlefield.
 * : a flat geometric field.
 * 1)   in reference to a battlefield.
 * : a flat geometric field.
 * : a flat geometric field.
 * : a flat geometric field.

Usage notes

 * As with (s), (s), etc., can function as the plural of plain (There are ten principal low plains on Mars) or as its synonym (She lives on the plains), with a vague sense of greater expansiveness.

Translations

 * Albanian:, ,
 * Arabic:
 * Moroccan Arabic: سهل
 * Armenian: ,
 * Aymara: pampa
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Belarusian: раўні́на
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:, , planícia
 * Chechen: аре
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: planina, ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Eastern Bontoc: tanap, chator
 * Esperanto:, ebenaĵo
 * Estonian: tasandik
 * Finnish:, tasamaa
 * French:
 * Galician:, chaúra, chanzada, zua
 * Georgian: ვაკე,
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: πεδιάς, πεδίον
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Ilocano: patag
 * Ingrian: lakkia, tasanko, neemi
 * Irish: machaire, má
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kabuverdianu: txada
 * Kazakh: жазаң, жазық, тегістік
 * Khmer:, វាលរាប, វាលទំនាប
 * Korean: ,
 * Kyrgyz: ,
 * Lao: ທີ່ຮາບ
 * Latin: plānum,
 * Latvian: līdzenums
 * Lithuanian: lyguma
 * Lubuagan Kalinga: talap
 * Macedonian: рамнина
 * Malay:
 * Maori: mānia, pākihi
 * Mongolian: тал газар
 * Moroccan Amazigh: ⴰⵣⴰⵖⴰⵔ, ⴰⵣⵖⴰⵔ
 * Navajo: halgai
 * Neapolitan: chiana
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: slette, slett
 * Nyunga: banitj
 * Occitan:
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: pampa
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: равнѝца
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: rovina, planina
 * Slovene: rovina
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: rownina, płonina, płoń
 * Southern Kalinga: tanap
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili: tambarare
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: patag
 * Tajik: дашт, ҳомун
 * Tashelhit: ⴰⵣⴰⵖⴰⵔ, azaɣar
 * Telugu:
 * Tetum: rai tetuk
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: ཐང
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen: düzlük
 * Tày: búng tô̱ng nà
 * Ukrainian: рівни́на
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Walloon: ,
 * Welsh: gwastatir, ,
 * Zazaki:
 * Zhuang:

Verb

 * 1)  To level; to raze; to make plain or even on the surface.
 * 2) * 1612,, Prince Henrie’s Obsequies, Elegy 24, in (editor), Restituta, Volume I, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1814, p. 399,
 * Though kept by Rome’s and Mahomet’s chiefe powers; They should not long detain him there in thrall: We would rake Europe rather, plain the East; Dispeople the whole Earth before the doome:
 * 1)  To make plain or manifest; to explain.
 * 1)  To make plain or manifest; to explain.

Etymology 3
From, , variant of 🇨🇬 and , , from , present active infinitive of.

Noun

 * 1)  A lamentation.

Verb

 * 1)  To complain.
 * 2)  To lament, bewail.
 * 3) * 1936,, More Poems, "XXV", lines 5–9
 * Then came I crying, and to-day, / With heavier cause to plain, / Depart I into death away, / Not to be born again.
 * 1) * 1936,, More Poems, "XXV", lines 5–9
 * Then came I crying, and to-day, / With heavier cause to plain, / Depart I into death away, / Not to be born again.
 * 1) * 1936,, More Poems, "XXV", lines 5–9
 * Then came I crying, and to-day, / With heavier cause to plain, / Depart I into death away, / Not to be born again.
 * Then came I crying, and to-day, / With heavier cause to plain, / Depart I into death away, / Not to be born again.

Etymology 4
From, borrowed from , from. Ultimately from, from. .

Adjective

 * 1)  Full, complete in number or extent.

Etymology
From. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) full

Etymology
, from. .

Adjective

 * 1)  plane

Etymology
From, from.

Adjective

 * 1) full (not empty)

Etymology 1
From.

Adjective

 * 1) full (not empty)

Etymology 2
From, neuter substantive from.

Noun

 * 1)  (flat area)

Etymology 3
From.

Adjective

 * 1) flat (not even or mountainous)

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1)  full