Tan

//tæn//

Synonyms for "tan" (99 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (20)

arrange beat beige bronze brown brownish brownish-yellow brunet burn chocolate chromatic cinnamon clear for action clear the decks cocoa cocoa-brown coffee coffee-brown cure

Verb(1 words)

bronze

Strong matches (30)

Related words (49)

marshal mobilize nut-brown olive-brown olive-drab paddle plan prearrange prep prepare pretreat process provide put in shape ready ready up rust seal seal-brown sepia

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settle preliminaries snuff-colored sorrel sumptuous sunburn suntan tangent taupe tawny toast toast-brown treat trim try out umber umber-colored wallop walnut walnut-brown welt whale yellowish-brown

Noun(5 words)

particularly in cantonese contexts picul suntan tangent topaz

Adjective(2 words)

suntanned tanned

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

10 relation types

More general

9 entries

circular function color colour convert discolor discolour hyperpigmentation light brown trigonometric function

Synonyms

1 entries

tangent

Related terms

7 entries

TAN syndrome mistletoe on the ran tan sar tan se juda tannic acid tannin tawny

derived

28 entries

Black and Tan catch a tan farmer's tan flowers of tan gyle tan permatan spray tan spray-tan suntan tan balls tan bed tan heat tan line tan liquor tan out

Showing 16 of 28 words.

etymologically related_to

1 entries

yan

has context

2 entries

dialect dialectal

is a

4 entries

colored thing hyperpigmentation light brown person

manner of

2 entries

convert discolor

related to

23 entries

airan animal armenian bark beat cardinal number color doogh english hide leather mistletoe oak skin spank surname

Showing 16 of 23 words.

similar

2 entries

chromatic

Translations

241 translations across 50 languages.

Arabic

4 entries

حِنْطِيّ adj (colour)
قَمْحِيُّ اللَّوْن adj (colour)
اِسْمَرَّ verb (to become tan due to exposure to sun)
دَبَغَ verb (to turn animal hide into leather)

Armenian

2 entries

արեւայրուք noun (darkening of the skin)
թան noun (Armenian drink)

Basque

1 entries

larru jo verb (to turn animal hide into leather)

Bulgarian

4 entries

жълтокафяв adj (colour)
загорял adj (dark skin)
жълтокафяв noun (colour)
загар noun (darkening of the skin)

Cappadocian Greek

1 entries

τάνι noun (Armenian drink)

Catalan

4 entries

bronzat adj (dark skin)
bronze adj (colour)
bru adj (dark skin)
colrat adj (colour)

Chinese Mandarin

4 entries

曬成褐色 /晒成褐色 noun (darkening of the skin)
曬黑 /晒黑 noun (darkening of the skin)
棕褐色 noun (colour)
棕黄色 noun (colour)

Czech

4 entries

opálení noun (darkening of the skin)
opálit se verb (to become tan due to exposure to sun)
vydělat verb (to turn animal hide into leather)
vydělávat verb (to turn animal hide into leather)

Danish

3 entries

solbrændt noun (darkening of the skin)
blive brun verb (to become tan due to exposure to sun)
garve verb (to turn animal hide into leather)

Dutch

4 entries

gebruind adj (dark skin)
gebruinde adj (dark skin)
bronzen noun (darkening of the skin)
bruinen noun (darkening of the skin)

Esperanto

3 entries

bruniĝi verb (to become tan due to exposure to sun)
sunbruniĝi verb (to become tan due to exposure to sun)
tani verb (to turn animal hide into leather)

Finnish

4 entries

ruskettunut adj (dark skin)
kellanruskea noun (colour)
parkki noun (bark of tree)
rusketus noun (darkening of the skin)

French

4 entries

bronzé adj (dark skin)
hâlé adj (dark skin)
bronzage noun (darkening of the skin)
hâle noun (darkening of the skin)

Galician

4 entries

bronceada noun (darkening of the skin)
bronceado noun (darkening of the skin)
torrado noun (colour)
broncear verb (to become tan due to exposure to sun)

German

4 entries

braun adj (dark skin)
hellbraun adj (colour)
loh adj (colour)
lohfarben adj (colour)

Greek

2 entries

αργάζω verb (to turn animal hide into leather)
μαυρίζω verb (to become tan due to exposure to sun)

Hungarian

4 entries

barna adj (dark skin)
bronzszínű adj (dark skin)
lebarnult adj (dark skin)
sárgásbarna adj (colour)

Icelandic

2 entries

garfa verb (to turn animal hide into leather)
súta verb (to turn animal hide into leather)

Ido

4 entries

tano noun (bark of tree)
bronzizar verb (to become tan due to exposure to sun)
bruneskar verb (to become tan due to exposure to sun)
tanagar verb (to turn animal hide into leather)

Indonesian

4 entries

sawo matang adj (colour)
sawo matang adj (dark skin)
sawo matang noun (colour)
menyamak verb (to turn animal hide into leather)

Irish

4 entries

buí adj (colour)
crón adj (colour)
crón noun (colour)
cart verb (to turn animal hide into leather)

Italian

4 entries

abbronzato adj (dark skin)
abbronzatura noun (darkening of the skin)
corteccia noun (bark of tree)
abbronzarsi verb (to become tan due to exposure to sun)

Japanese

4 entries

日に焼ける noun (darkening of the skin)
なめす verb (to turn animal hide into leather)
日に焼ける verb (to become tan due to exposure to sun)
日焼けする verb (to become tan due to exposure to sun)

Korean

4 entries

탄 adj (dark skin)
갈색 noun (colour)
그을다 verb (to become tan due to exposure to sun)
무두질하다 verb (to turn animal hide into leather)

Latvian

4 entries

dzeltenbrūns adj (colour)
dzeltenbrūna krāsa noun (colour)
iedegums noun (darkening of the skin)
miecmizas noun (bark of tree)

Laz

1 entries

თანი noun (Armenian drink)

Lithuanian

2 entries

gelsvai ruda noun (colour)
įdegti noun (darkening of the skin)

Luxembourgish

1 entries

gierwen verb (to turn animal hide into leather)

Malay

1 entries

samak verb (to turn animal hide into leather)

Māori

1 entries

whakarongoā verb (to turn animal hide into leather)

Navajo

1 entries

dinilgai noun (colour)

Norwegian

2 entries

brune verb (to become tan due to exposure to sun)
sole verb (to become tan due to exposure to sun)

Persian

4 entries

برنزه adj (dark skin)
خرمائی روشن adj (colour)
مازویی adj (colour)
مازویی noun (colour)

Polish

4 entries

opalony adj (dark skin)
opalenizna noun (darkening of the skin)
garbować verb (to turn animal hide into leather)
opalać się verb (to become tan due to exposure to sun)

Portuguese

4 entries

bronzeado adj (dark skin)
bronzeado noun (darkening of the skin)
pardo noun (colour)
bronzear verb (to become tan due to exposure to sun)

Romagnol

1 entries

abrunẓadùra noun (darkening of the skin)

Romanian

4 entries

bronzat adj (dark skin)
cafeniu adj (colour)
bronz noun (darkening of the skin)
bronzare noun (darkening of the skin)

Russian

4 entries

загоре́лый adj (dark skin)
зага́р noun (darkening of the skin)
све́тло-кори́чневый noun (colour)
тан noun (Armenian drink)

Serbo-Croatian

1 entries

put noun (darkening of the skin)

Sicilian

3 entries

abbrunzatura noun (darkening of the skin)
bronzu noun (colour)
scorcia noun (bark of tree)

Slovak

4 entries

opálený adj (dark skin)
opálenie noun (darkening of the skin)
opaľovať sa verb (to become tan due to exposure to sun)
opáliť sa verb (to become tan due to exposure to sun)

Slovene

1 entries

strojiti verb (to turn animal hide into leather)

Spanish

4 entries

atezado adj (dark skin)
bronce adj (colour)
bronceado (por el sol) adj (dark skin)
moreno adj (dark skin)

Swedish

4 entries

solbränd adj (dark skin)
bränna noun (darkening of the skin)
solbränna noun (darkening of the skin)
garva verb (to turn animal hide into leather)

Turkish

4 entries

bronz adj (colour)
taba rengi adj (colour)
bronzlaşmak verb (to become tan due to exposure to sun)
sepilemek verb (to turn animal hide into leather)

Ukrainian

4 entries

зага́р noun (darkening of the skin)
засма́га noun (darkening of the skin)
сма́га noun (darkening of the skin)
смага́ noun (darkening of the skin)

Vietnamese

2 entries

nâu tanin noun (colour)
thuộc verb (to turn animal hide into leather)

Walloon

4 entries

bronzer verb (to become tan due to exposure to sun)
bruni verb (to become tan due to exposure to sun)
håler verb (to become tan due to exposure to sun)
rayi verb (to become tan due to exposure to sun)

Welsh

4 entries

brown adj (dark skin)
melynddu adj (colour)
barc noun (bark of tree)
lliw haul noun (darkening of the skin)

Yiddish

1 entries

גאַרבן verb (to turn animal hide into leather)

Sample sentences

23 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

I am going to try to get a good tan.

Source: tatoeba (60196)

I was browned to a nice tan.

Source: tatoeba (253821)

He doesn't tan.

Source: tatoeba (454617)

Judging by that great tan, it looks like you spent most of your vacation on the beach.

Source: tatoeba (638063)

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