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Definitions and meaning of dye

dye

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /daɪ/
• Rhymes: -aɪ
• Homophones: die, Di, Dai, dy

Etymology 1

From Middle English deie, from Old English dēah, dēag (“color, hue, dye”), from Proto-West Germanic *daugu (“colour, shade”), from *daugan (“to conceal, be dark”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“to smoke, raise dust, camouflage”).

Alternative forms

• (obsolete) die

Noun

dye (countable and uncountable, plural dyes)

1. A colourant, especially one that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is applied.
2. Any hue or color.

Synonyms

• colourant
• tincture

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• ink

Etymology 2

Fom Middle English deien, from Old English dēagian, from the noun.

Verb

dye (third-person singular simple present dyes, present participle dyeing or (now nonstandard) dying, simple past and past participle dyed)

1. (transitive) To colour with dye, or as if with dye.

Synonyms

• (to color): tint, stain, shade, streak

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Etymology 3

Noun

dye (plural dyce)

1. Archaic spelling of die (“a cube used in games of chance”).

Translations

Anagrams

• Dey, dey, ye'd, yed

Achang

Etymology

Forms a transitive/intransitive pair with tyeh (“to finish”).

Pronunciation

• (Myanmar) /dʲɛ˧/

Verb

dye

1. to finish, complete

Further reading

• Inglis, Douglas, Sampu, Nasaw, Jaseng, Wilai, Jana, Thocha (2005) A preliminary Ngochang–Kachin–English Lexicon‎^[1], Payap University, page 29

Afrikaans

Noun

dye

1. plural of dy

Bassa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [dʲe]

Verb

dye

1. dance

References

• Bassa-English Dictionary

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French dieu (“god”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dje/

Noun

dye

1. god