pale (light in color) · livid, pallid, bleak · fictional, mendacious
çekim: karşılaştırma blekare · üstünlük blekast
köken: From Old Norse bleikr, from Proto-Germanic *blaikaz. Cognate with English bleak, Dutch bleek, Low German blek, German bleich, Danish bleg, Norwegian Bokmål bleik, blek, Norwegian Nynorsk bleik, Faroese bleikur, Icelandic bleikur.
white (bright and colourless; reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies of visible light) · white (grey, as from old age, having silvery hair, hoary) · pale, white (having a color lighter than others)
çekim: karşılaştırma bielszy · üstünlük najbielszy
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- Proto-Slavic *bě̃lъ Old Polish biały Polish biały Inherited from Old Polish biały.
pale, wan (having a light color of low saturation) · faded, discolored (that has lost some of its former color)
çekim: karşılaştırma fakóbb · üstünlük legfakóbb
köken: From fa (“wood”) + -kó (diminutive suffix). Originally meant “made of wood”, later it developed the sense of “resembling the colour of wood”, and eventually “plain, featureless”.
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…