white color · blank, unused · blank, without expression
çekim: çoğul blancs
eş: caucasien, caucasoïde, europoïde
köken: Inherited from Middle French blanc, from Old French blanc, branc, from Early Medieval Latin blancus, a borrowing of Frankish *blank, from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“bright, shining, blinding, white”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ- (“to shine”). Akin to Old High German blanch (“bright, white”) (German blank (“polished, naked”)), Old Norse blankr (“white”) (Danish blank (“bright, shiny”)), Dutch…
aile: à blanc, ambaville blanc, ambaville blanche, angoisse de la page blanche, ansérine blanche, argent blanc, arme blanche, asphodèle blanc, beurre blanc, blanc bonnet, bonnet blanc
çekim: karşılaştırma mais branco · üstünlük o mais branco
eş: alvo
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ-der. Proto-Germanic *blinkaną Proto-Germanic *blankaz Frankish *blankbor. Early Medieval Latin blancus Old Galician-Portuguese branco Portuguese branco Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese branco, from Early Medieval Latin blancus, borrowed from Frankish *blank. Cognate with Galician branco, Spanish blanco. Doublet of Blanco…
aile: azul e branco, branco do olho, branco-gelo, branco-marfim, brancor, brancura, branquear, branquismo, dar um branco, em branco
work in progress, unfinished work (any work that is not finished) · billet (semi-finished length of metal) · motif (short melodic passage that is repeated in several parts of a work)
faint (barely perceptible; not bright, or loud, or sharp) · pale (light in color) · faint (barely perceptibly small, languid, weak, gentle)
çekim: karşılaştırma halványabb · üstünlük leghalványabb
zıt: élénk, erőteljes, harsány
köken: First attested in 1485. From hal (“to die”) + -vány (noun-forming suffix). The original meaning was a noun, “backwater, swamp formed in a dead water”. The adjective senses developed via attributive usage.
pale (with lighter, whiter color on the face or skin than normal; without redness; also, implicitly, unhealthy) · pale, light (not having brightness, not having bright colors) · pale, dim, dull, faint (without brightness)
çekim: karşılaştırma bālāks · üstünlük visbālākais
köken: Originally a parallel form to an older adjective *bals (which disappeared probably because of homophony with balss “voice,” but left related terms like the verbs balot, balēt “to bleach, to fade,” balināt “to whiten, to blanch”), from the same source as the adjective balts (“white”) (q.v.). Note that the long/short parallel forms apparently reflect an older state of affairs: alongside…