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Definitions and meaning of beige

beige

English

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French (dialectal) beige, from Old French bege (“color of undyed wool or cotton”), from an Alpine language (compare Franco-Provençal bézho, Romansch besch (“dull grey”)), from Vulgar Latin *bysseus (“cottony grey”) (compare French bis, Catalan bis, Italian bigio), from Late Latin byssus (“cotton”), from Ancient Greek βύσσος (bússos, “cotton homespun”), from Semitic (compare Hebrew/Aramaic בוץ (būṣ)). Doublet of bice.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbeɪʒ/, /ˈbeɪd͡ʒ/
• Rhymes: -eɪʒ, -eɪdʒ

Noun

beige (countable and uncountable, plural beiges)

1. A slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.

2. Debeige; a kind of woollen or mixed dress goods.

Translations

Adjective

beige (comparative beiger or more beige, superlative beigest or most beige)

1. Having a slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.

   Synonyms: bland, indistinct, colorless, drab
2. (informal, originally US) Comfortably dull and unadventurous, in a way that suggests middle-class suburbia.

   Synonyms: bland, tedious

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Colors

Further reading

• beige on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “beige adj.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch beige, from French beige.

Pronunciation

Adjective

beige (attributive beige, comparative beiger, superlative beigeste)

1. beige

Dutch

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French beige, from Middle French beige, from Old French bege.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛːʒə/
• Hyphenation: bei‧ge

Adjective

beige (comparative beiger, superlative meest beige or beigest)

1. beige

Declension

Derived terms

• beigeachtig

Finnish

Alternative forms

• beesi, bees

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French beige.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbei̯ɡe/, [ˈbe̞i̯ɡe̞]
• IPA^(key): /ˈbeːʒi/, [ˈbe̞ːʒi]
• Rhymes: -eiɡe
• Syllabification^(key): bei‧ge
• Hyphenation^(key): bei‧ge

Adjective

beige (comparative beigempi, superlative beigein)

1. beige

Declension

Noun

beige

1. beige (color)

Declension

Further reading

• “beige”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[4] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French bege.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɛʒ/

Adjective

beige (plural beiges)

1. beige

Descendants

Further reading

• “beige”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

German

Etymology 1

Unadapted borrowing from French beige.

Pronunciation

• Predicative form: IPA^(key): /beːʃ/, /bɛːʃ/
• Inflected forms: IPA^(key): /beːʒə/, /bɛːʒə/, /beːʃə/, /bɛːʃə/
• Rhymes: -eːʃə, -eːʃ, -ɛːʃ, -ɛːʒə, -eːʒə, -ɛːʃə

Adjective

beige (strong nominative masculine singular beiger, not comparable)

1. beige

Usage notes

Beige is inflected like a regular adjective in pronunciation. However, since its basic form is written with a mute -e, the inflectional ending -e is not visible in writing: das beige [beːʒə] Haus – the beige house.

The other inflectional endings are visible: in dem beigen Haus – in the beige house.

Declension

Related terms

• Beige

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaɪ̯ɡə/
• Hyphenation: bei‧ge

Verb

beige

1. inflection of beigen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Further reading

• “beige” in Duden online
• “beige” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Luxembourgish

Etymology

Borrowed from French beige.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbeːʃ/

Adjective

beige (masculine beigen, neuter beiget, comparative méi beige, superlative am beigesten)

1. beige

Declension

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• besj (alternative spelling)

Adjective

beige (singular and plural beige)

1. beige

References

• “beige” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• besj (alternative spelling)

Adjective

beige (singular and plural beige, comparative beigare, indefinite superlative beigast, definite superlative beigaste)

1. beige

References

• “beige” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French beige.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbeiʃ/ [ˈbei̯ʃ]
  • Rhymes: -eiʃ
• IPA^(key): /ˈbeis/ [ˈbei̯s]
  • Rhymes: -eis
• IPA^(key): /ˈbeʃ/ [ˈbeʃ]
  • Rhymes: -eʃ

Adjective

beige (invariable)

1. Alternative form of beis

Noun

beige m (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of beis

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Further reading

• “beige”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Swedish

Etymology

Attested from 1895. Unadapted borrowing from French beige. The slang definition is likely associated to the perceived blandness of the color.

Pronunciation

• (Sweden) IPA^(key): /beːɧ/, /bɛːɧ/
• Rhymes: -eːɧ, -ɛːɧ

Adjective

beige

1. beige.

2. (slang) boring, uninteresting, negative.

Declension

References

• beige in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• beige in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• beige in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Source: wiktionary.org