What color is your urine: bright, tawny, reddish or golden brown?
Source: tatoeba (702528)
Tawny
//ˈtɔːni//
Synonyms for "tawny" (61 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (13)
Strong matches (18)
Related words (30)
hazelkhakiluridnut-brownolive-brownolive-drabpigmentsealseal-brownsepiasnuff-coloredsorreltantannedtaupetawny browntoasttoast-brownumberumber-colored
Show 3 more words
Adjective(5 words)
Adjective(1 words)
Noun(1 words)
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
More specific
1 entriesSynonyms
2 entriesRelated terms
4 entriesderived
13 entriesrelated to
4 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
117 translations across 49 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- oranjebruin noun (light brown to brownish orange colour)
Ancient Greek
4 entries- δᾰφοινός adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
- κνηκός adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
- κῐρρός adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
- ξᾰνθός adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
Arabic
4 entries- آدَم adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
- أَشْعَل adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
- أَشْقَر adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
- أَشْهَل adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
Bulgarian
1 entries- светлокафяв adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
Catalan
2 entries- falb adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
- lleonat adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 茶褐色 noun (light brown to brownish orange colour)
- 黃褐色 /黄褐色 noun (light brown to brownish orange colour)
Czech
2 entries- žlutohnědý adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
- žlutohnědá noun (light brown to brownish orange colour)
Danish
2 entries- gulbrun adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
- gyldenbrun adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
Dutch
1 entries- tanig adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
Estonian
1 entries- kõrb adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
Finnish
4 entries- kellanruskea adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
- kellanruskea noun (light brown to brownish orange colour)
- kellanruskea noun (something of a light brown or brownish orange colour)
- tawny port noun (sweet, fortified port wine which is blended and matured in wooden casks)
French
2 entries- fauve adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
- fauve noun (light brown to brownish orange colour)
Galician
2 entries- cerviño adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
- rubio adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
German
2 entries- gelbbraun adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
- lohfarben adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
Hindi
1 entries- पिंग adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
Hungarian
2 entries- világosbarna adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
- világosbarna noun (light brown to brownish orange colour)
Ido
1 entries- falva adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
Indonesian
1 entries- soga noun (light brown to brownish orange colour)
Irish
2 entries- crón adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
- crón noun (light brown to brownish orange colour)
Italian
4 entries- focato adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
- fulvo adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
- leonado adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
- lionato adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
Japanese
1 entries- 茶褐色 noun (light brown to brownish orange colour)
Kaitag
1 entries- ккамс adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
Korean
1 entries- 다갈색 noun (light brown to brownish orange colour)
Latin
4 entries- aurantius adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
- cervīnus adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
- fulvus adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
- fulvēscēns adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
Lule Sami
1 entries- russjkat adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
Macedonian
1 entries- светлока́феав adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
Maltese
1 entries- għasli adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
Manx
1 entries- ouyr adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
Middle English
4 entries- tauni adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
- tawne adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
- tauni noun (light brown to brownish orange colour)
- tawne noun (light brown to brownish orange colour)
Mongolian
1 entries- шарга adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
Māori
1 entries- peapeau adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
Old Armenian
2 entries- թուխ adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
- շէկ adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
Old Irish
1 entries- donn adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
Persian
1 entries- گندمگون adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
Polish
3 entries- płowy adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
- rusy adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
- śniady adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
Portuguese
4 entries- bege adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
- burro quando foge adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
- cor de burro quando foge adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
- ocre adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
Romanian
1 entries- lignicolor noun (light brown to brownish orange colour)
Russian
1 entries- рыжева́то-кори́чневый adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
Sanskrit
4 entries- पिङ्ग adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
- पिङ्गल adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
- पिञ्जर adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
- पिशङ्ग adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
Spanish
4 entries- beige adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
- leonado adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
- musco (disused) adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
- musgo adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
Swedish
2 entries- gulbrun adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
- gyllenbrun adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
Tachawit
1 entries- awres adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
Tamil
4 entries- கபிலம் noun (light brown to brownish orange colour)
- பிங்கம் noun (light brown to brownish orange colour)
- பிங்கலம் noun (light brown to brownish orange colour)
- பிசங்கம் noun (light brown to brownish orange colour)
Telugu
4 entries- కపిలము adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
- పింగళము adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
- హరి adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
- కడారము noun (light brown to brownish orange colour)
Vietnamese
1 entries- ngăm adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
Welsh
2 entries- llwydfelyn adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
- melynllwyd adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
West-Frisian
1 entries- taan noun (light brown to brownish orange colour)
Xhosa
1 entries- mpôfu adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
Zulu
2 entries- mpôfu adj (of a light brown to brownish orange colour)
- úbumpôfu noun (light brown to brownish orange colour)
Sample sentences
49 total sentences available.
Tawny owls are highly territorial.
Source: tatoeba (5836803)
Daphnis is short and puny, with no more beard than a woman, whilst his body is as tawny as a wolf's skin. By living, too, among his goats, he has contracted a goatish smell. And, besides, he is a mere goat-herd, so poor that he has not even enough means to keep a dog of his own.
Source: tatoeba (6212436)
"Then Romulus the nation's charge shall claim, / wolf-nursed and proud her tawny hide to wear, / and build a city of Mavortian fame, / and make the Roman race remembered by his name. / To these no period nor appointed date, / nor bounds to their dominion I assign; / an endless empire shall the race await."
Source: tatoeba (6785810)
Showing 4 of 49 available sentences.
Keep exploring
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.