Beyond moral reproach; squeaky clean; clean as a whistle; pure as the driven snow
köken: Literally, “white as snow”.
snowy · white as snow
çekim: çoğul nevados
köken: Inherited from Old Spanish nevado.
aile: chorlo nevado
İtalyanca 🔊 bianco-neve , niveo /ˈni.ve.o/ snow-white, snowy, niveous · snowy, covered in snow
köken: From Latin niveus (“snowy”).
Rusça 🔊 белосне́жный , молочно-бе́лый
Arapça 🔊 شِيرْبَام , لَبَنِيّ
intensive form of ağ (“white”), snow-white
zıt: qapqara
intensive form of λευκός (lefkós): · snow-white, lily-white
eş: ολόλευκος, κάτασπρος, ολόασπρος, πάλλευκος
zıt: κατάμαυρος, πάμμαυρος, ολόμαυρος
köken: Learned borrowing from Byzantine Greek κατάλευκος (katáleukos). By surface analysis, κατά- (katá-, “intense”) + λευκός (lefkós, “white”).
🔊 Και ζήλεψα τη βάρκα τη μικρή τη χιονάτη, Που της φιλούσε ο γλάρος το κατάλευκο πανί.
pure white, snow white · pure, unsoiled, clean
köken: From 純白 (dzywin bæk, literally “pure + white”). Compare modern Mandarin reading chúnbái, or Cantonese seon⁴ baak⁶.
🔊 小生は貴嬢を妻にして貴嬢の純白を汚すを欲するやうな爾んな小な鄙しい低い汚ない惚れ方はしませぬ。
Çince 🔊 雪白 /ɕy̯ɛ²¹⁴⁻²¹ paɪ̯³⁵/ snow-white; very white
🔊 雪白明月照在大地
snow · white snow (colour)
köken: Sino-Korean word from 白雪, from 白 (“white”) + 雪 (“snow”).
Snow White
çekim: karşılaştırma snövitare · üstünlük snövitast
köken: From the adjective snövit.
snow-white
çekim: çoğul lumivalkoiset · tamlayan lumivalkoisen
köken: lumi (“snow”) + valkoinen (“white”)
Rumence 🔊 alb ca neaua , alb ca zăpada
snow-white (as white as snow)
köken: hó (“snow”) + fehér (“white”)
aile: Hófehérke
milky (of or pertaining to milk) · full of milk · milk-drinking; suckling
köken: Etymology tree Latin lac Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Indo-European *-éyos Proto-Italic *-ejos Proto-Italic *-eos Latin -eus Latin lacteus From lac (“milk”) + -eus.
aile: Circulus Lacteus, Via Lactea
🔊 Near-synonyms: albus, candidus
Norveççe 🔊 melkehvit , melkekvit , mjølkehvit , mjølkekvit , snøhvit
Vietnamca 🔊 trắng như tuyết
Bulgarca 🔊 белосне́жен , млечнобя́л , сне́жнобя́л