His locks were as black as ebony and fell upon his neck which the sun had tanned; but one might have imagined that it was the shadow of his hair that thus darkened the colour of his skin.
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Ebony
Synonyms for "ebony" (209 found)
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Noun(5 words)
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156 translations across 51 languages.
Ancient Greek
2 entries- ἔβενος noun (wood)
- ἔβενος noun (tree)
Arabic
1 entries- آبَنُوس noun (wood)
Armenian
4 entries- եբենոս adj (made of ebony wood)
- եբենոսե adj (made of ebony wood)
- եբենոսյա adj (made of ebony wood)
- աբանոս noun (wood)
Bengali
1 entries- আবলুস noun (wood)
Bulgarian
3 entries- абаносов adj (made of ebony wood)
- абано́с noun (wood)
- абано́с noun (tree)
Catalan
4 entries- banús noun (wood)
- banús noun (tree)
- banús noun (colour)
- eben noun (wood)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 烏木 /乌木 noun (wood)
- 烏木 /乌木 noun (tree)
- 烏黑 /乌黑 noun (colour)
- 黑檀 noun (wood)
Czech
1 entries- ebenové dřevo noun (wood)
Danish
1 entries- ibenholt noun (wood)
Dutch
3 entries- ebbenhouten adj (made of ebony wood)
- ebben noun (wood)
- ebbenhout noun (wood)
Egyptian
2 entries- hb:n-y:M3 noun (wood)
- hb:n-y:M3 noun (tree)
Esperanto
1 entries- ebona adj (deep, dark black colour)
Faroese
2 entries- svartviður noun (wood)
- íbinviður noun (wood)
Finnish
4 entries- eebenpuinen adj (made of ebony wood)
- eebenpuu noun (wood)
- eebenpuu noun (tree)
- pikimusta noun (colour)
French
4 entries- d'ébène adj (made of ebony wood)
- bois d'ébène noun (wood)
- ébène noun (wood)
- ébène noun (colour)
Galician
3 entries- ébano noun (wood)
- ébano noun (tree)
- ébano noun (colour)
Georgian
1 entries- კუპრისფერი noun (colour)
German
4 entries- Ebenholz adj (made of ebony wood)
- aus Ebenholz adj (made of ebony wood)
- ebenholzfarben adj (deep, dark black colour)
- Ebenholz noun (wood)
Greek
4 entries- εβένινος adj (made of ebony wood)
- κατάμαυρος adj (deep, dark black colour)
- έβενος noun (wood)
- έβενος noun (tree)
Gujarati
1 entries- અબનૂસ noun (wood)
Hebrew
1 entries- הָבְנֶה noun (wood)
Hindi
2 entries- आबनूस noun (wood)
- आबनूस noun (colour)
Hungarian
4 entries- ében noun (wood)
- ében noun (tree)
- ében noun (colour)
- ébenfa noun (wood)
Ido
4 entries- ebena adj (made of ebony wood)
- ebenea adj (deep, dark black colour)
- ebenea noun (colour)
- ebeniero noun (tree)
Indonesian
1 entries- cewek hitam adj (deep, dark black colour)
Irish
1 entries- éabann noun (wood)
Italian
3 entries- ebano noun (wood)
- ebano noun (tree)
- ebano noun (colour)
Japanese
2 entries- コクタン noun (tree)
- コクタン材 noun (wood)
Latin
4 entries- ebeneus adj (made of ebony wood)
- hebeneus adj (made of ebony wood)
- hebeneus noun (wood)
- hebenus noun (tree)
Macedonian
3 entries- абоносов adj (made of ebony wood)
- абонос noun (wood)
- абонос noun (tree)
Malagasy
2 entries- hazoarina noun (wood)
- hazoary noun (wood)
Malay
1 entries- abnus noun (wood)
Malayalam
2 entries- കരിന്താളി noun (wood)
- കരിമരം noun (wood)
Manx
1 entries- eabban noun (wood)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- ibenholt noun (wood)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- ibenholt noun (wood)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- آبانوز noun (wood)
- آبانوز noun (tree)
Persian
2 entries- آبنوس noun (wood)
- آبنوس noun (tree)
Polish
4 entries- hebanowy adj (made of ebony wood)
- hebanowy adj (deep, dark black colour)
- heban noun (wood)
- heban noun (tree)
Portuguese
4 entries- de ébano adj (made of ebony wood)
- ebâneo adj (deep, dark black colour)
- ébano adj (deep, dark black colour)
- ébano noun (wood)
Romanian
4 entries- negru-abanos adj (deep, dark black colour)
- abanos noun (wood)
- abanos noun (tree)
- negru de abanos noun (colour)
Russian
4 entries- чёрный adj (deep, dark black colour)
- эбе́новый adj (made of ebony wood)
- чёрное де́рево noun (wood)
- чёрное де́рево noun (tree)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- abonos noun (wood)
- ebanovina noun (wood)
- ebanovina noun (tree)
- абонос noun (wood)
Shan
1 entries- ဝႅတ်ႈ noun (tree)
Spanish
4 entries- de ébano adj (made of ebony wood)
- ébano noun (wood)
- ébano noun (tree)
- ébano noun (colour)
Swahili
4 entries- a abunusi adj (made of ebony wood)
- a rangi ya abunusi adj (deep, dark black colour)
- abunusi noun (wood)
- mpingo noun (tree)
Swedish
4 entries- ebenholtssvart adj (deep, dark black colour)
- ebenholts noun (wood)
- ebenholts noun (tree)
- ebenholts noun (colour)
Tagalog
4 entries- bantulihaw noun (wood)
- bantulihaw noun (tree)
- bantulihaw noun (colour)
- ebano noun (wood)
Thai
3 entries- ตะโก noun (wood)
- ตะโก noun (tree)
- มะเกลือ noun (tree)
Turkish
4 entries- abanoz adj (made of ebony wood)
- abanoz adj (deep, dark black colour)
- abanoz noun (wood)
- abanoz noun (tree)
Ukrainian
1 entries- ебе́новий adj (made of ebony wood)
Sample sentences
18 total sentences available.
The moon was low upon the right, and the jagged pinnacle of a granite tor stood up against the lower curve of its silver disc. There, outlined as black as an ebony statue on that shining background, I saw the figure of a man upon the tor.
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Her eyes were as black as ebony and as deep as the sea.
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The organ of this cathedral is made of ebony, except the pipes of course.
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