köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH-? Proto-Germanic *brūnaz Frankish *brūnbor. Old French brun French brun From Middle French, from Old French brun (“polished, shiny, brown”).
köken: A Mongolic borrowing: compare Mongolian хүрэн (xüren, “brown”) and see Persian کرند (korand) for more. Cognate with Kyrgyz күрөң (küröŋ), Kazakh күрең (küreñ) Uyghur كۈرەڭ (küreng, “brown, gray brown”).
brown (having brown color) · brown (hair or eye color) · chestnut (having a dark brown colour)
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese castanho (“brown”), probably from Latin castaneus (“pertaining to chestnuts”). Cognate with Galician castaño, Mirandese castanho, Asturian castañu, Spanish castaño and Catalan castany. Doublet of castâneo.
brown (color/colour) · of fascism or right-wing nationalism
çekim: karşılaştırma brunare · üstünlük brunast
köken: From Old Swedish brūn, from Old Norse brúnn. The political sense is originally a reference to the brown uniforms worn by members of the Sturmabteilung, a paramilitary organization in Nazi Germany.
köken: Uncertain. Traditionally derived by the Romans from aqua (“water”), which is supported by Pokorny, who also adduces Aquilō (“the North wind”) as related. Though the above theory is rejected by Ernout and Meillet, De Vaan finds it preferable to an alternative derivation from aquila (“eagle”) suggested by Cohen 2004: 32.