David has a keen interest in aesthetics — the qualities that make a painting, sculpture, musical composition, or poem pleasing to the eye, ear, or mind.
Source: tatoeba (1907)
Painting
//ˈpeɪn.tɪŋ//
Synonyms for "painting" (58 found)
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Closest matches (12)
Strong matches (17)
Related words (29)
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Translations
176 translations across 67 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- skildery verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
Albanian
1 entries- piktura verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
Ancient Greek
4 entries- ζωγράφημα verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
- ζωγραφία verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
- ζωγραφία verb (the action of applying paint)
- ζωγραφία verb (artistic application of paint)
Arabic
4 entries- دِهَان verb (the action of applying paint)
- رسمة verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
- رَسْم فَنِّيّ verb (artistic application of paint)
- صُورَة verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
Armenian
1 entries- գեղանկարչություն verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
Breton
1 entries- livadur verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
Bulgarian
2 entries- живопис verb (the action of applying paint)
- картина verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
Catalan
2 entries- pintura verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
- quadre verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- وێنە verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
Chechen
1 entries- басар verb (the action of applying paint)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 圖畫 /图画 verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
- 油漆 verb (the action of applying paint)
- 油漆 verb (artistic application of paint)
- 畫兒 /画儿 verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
Czech
2 entries- malba verb (artistic application of paint)
- obraz verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
Danish
3 entries- maleri verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
- malerkunst verb (the action of applying paint)
- malerkunst verb (artistic application of paint)
Dutch
4 entries- geschilder verb (the action of applying paint)
- schilderen verb (the action of applying paint)
- schilderen verb (artistic application of paint)
- schilderij verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
Esperanto
2 entries- pentrado verb (artistic application of paint)
- pentraĵo verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
Estonian
3 entries- maal verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
- maalimine verb (the action of applying paint)
- maalimine verb (artistic application of paint)
Finnish
3 entries- maalaus verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
- maalaustaide verb (the action of applying paint)
- maalaustaide verb (artistic application of paint)
French
3 entries- peinture verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
- peinture verb (the action of applying paint)
- toile verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
Galician
3 entries- cadro verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
- pintado verb (the action of applying paint)
- pintura verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
Georgian
4 entries- მხატვრობა verb (artistic application of paint)
- ნახატი verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
- სურათი verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
- ფერწერა verb (artistic application of paint)
German
3 entries- Gemälde verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
- Malerei verb (the action of applying paint)
- Malerei verb (artistic application of paint)
Greek
2 entries- ζωγραφιά verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
- ζωγραφική verb (the action of applying paint)
Hindi
3 entries- चित्र verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
- चित्रकारी verb (artistic application of paint)
- पोतना verb (the action of applying paint)
Hungarian
2 entries- festmény verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
- festőművészet verb (artistic application of paint)
Icelandic
1 entries- málverk verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
Ido
1 entries- pikturo verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
Indonesian
1 entries- lukisan verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
Irish
4 entries- pictiúr verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
- péinteáil verb (the action of applying paint)
- péinteáil verb (artistic application of paint)
- péintéireacht verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
Italian
4 entries- dipinto verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
- dipinto verb (artistic application of paint)
- pittura verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
- pittura verb (the action of applying paint)
Japanese
4 entries- 絵 verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
- 絵画 verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
- 絵画 verb (the action of applying paint)
- 絵画 verb (artistic application of paint)
Kannada
1 entries- ಚಿತ್ರಕಲೆ verb (artistic application of paint)
Khmer
1 entries- គំនូរ verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
Latin
2 entries- pictūra verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
- pictūra verb (artistic application of paint)
Latvian
1 entries- glezna verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
Lithuanian
2 entries- tapyba verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
- tapybos kūrinys verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
Lower Sorbian
1 entries- wobraz verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
Macedonian
4 entries- боење verb (the action of applying paint)
- бојадисување verb (the action of applying paint)
- живопис verb (artistic application of paint)
- слика verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
Maltese
1 entries- kwadru verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
Māori
3 entries- peitatanga verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
- peitatanga verb (the action of applying paint)
- waituhi verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
Navajo
1 entries- naʼashchʼąąʼ verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
Ngarrindjeri
1 entries- blewalawun verb (the action of applying paint)
Norwegian
1 entries- maleri verb (the action of applying paint)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- bilde verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
- maleri verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
- malerkunst verb (artistic application of paint)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- målarkunst verb (artistic application of paint)
- måleri verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
Occitan
1 entries- pintura verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
Old English
3 entries- tīefring verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
- tīefring verb (the action of applying paint)
- tīefring verb (artistic application of paint)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- نقش verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
Pannonian Rusyn
4 entries- мальованє verb (the action of applying paint)
- мальованє verb (artistic application of paint)
- малюнок verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
- сликарство verb (artistic application of paint)
Pashto
1 entries- انځور verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
Persian
2 entries- نقاشی verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
- نگار verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
Polish
4 entries- malarstwo verb (artistic application of paint)
- malowanie verb (the action of applying paint)
- malowidło verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
- obraz verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
Portuguese
3 entries- pintura verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
- pintura verb (the action of applying paint)
- pintura verb (artistic application of paint)
Romanian
3 entries- pictare verb (the action of applying paint)
- pictură verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
- pictură verb (artistic application of paint)
Russian
3 entries- жи́вопись verb (the action of applying paint)
- жи́вопись verb (artistic application of paint)
- карти́на verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- lì-dhealbh verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- slika verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
- slikarstvo verb (artistic application of paint)
- živopis verb (artistic application of paint)
- живопис verb (artistic application of paint)
Slovak
1 entries- obraz verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
Spanish
4 entries- cuadro verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
- pintado verb (the action of applying paint)
- pintura verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
- pintura verb (the action of applying paint)
Swedish
4 entries- måleri verb (the action of applying paint)
- måleri verb (artistic application of paint)
- målning verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
- målning verb (the action of applying paint)
Tamil
4 entries- அடி verb (the action of applying paint)
- ஓவியம் verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
- தீட்டு verb (the action of applying paint)
- தீட்டு verb (artistic application of paint)
Thai
1 entries- จิตรกรรม verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
Turkish
2 entries- boyama verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
- resim verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
Ukrainian
3 entries- живо́пис verb (artistic application of paint)
- карти́на verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
- маля́рство verb (artistic application of paint)
Uyghur
1 entries- رەسىم verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
Vietnamese
2 entries- bức tranh verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
- bức vẽ verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
Volapük
3 entries- kölam verb (the action of applying paint)
- pänam verb (artistic application of paint)
- pänot verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
Welsh
4 entries- arluniaeth verb (artistic application of paint)
- peintiad verb (an illustration or artwork using paint)
- peintiad verb (the action of applying paint)
- peintiad verb (artistic application of paint)
Sample sentences
18 total sentences available.
Who painted this painting?
Source: tatoeba (2226)
I obtained the painting at an auction.
Source: tatoeba (19263)
The lack of harmony between colors makes this painting stand out.
Source: tatoeba (21749)
Showing 4 of 18 available sentences.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.