Tawny

/ˈtɔːni/

Synonyms for "tawny" (66 found)

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Collocations

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tawny colortawny complexiontawny furtawny hairtawny plumagetawny shade

Inflections

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Derivations

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Translations

30 translations across 20 languages.

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Afrikaans

1 entries
  • oranjebruin noun (light brown to brownish orange colour)

Arabic

1 entries
  • صُحْرَة noun (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

1 entries
  • žlutohnědá noun (light brown to brownish orange colour)

Finnish

2 entries
  • kellanruskea noun (light brown to brownish orange colour)
  • kellanruskea noun (something of a light brown or brownish orange colour)

French

1 entries
  • fauve noun (light brown to brownish orange colour)

Hungarian

1 entries
  • világosbarna noun (light brown to brownish orange colour)

Indonesian

1 entries
  • soga noun (light brown to brownish orange colour)

Irish

1 entries
  • crón noun (light brown to brownish orange colour)

Italian

1 entries
  • tenné noun (light brown to brownish orange colour)

Japanese

1 entries
  • 茶褐色 noun (light brown to brownish orange colour)

Korean

1 entries
  • 다갈색 noun (light brown to brownish orange colour)

Middle English

2 entries
  • tauni noun (light brown to brownish orange colour)
  • tawne noun (light brown to brownish orange colour)

Romanian

1 entries
  • lignicolor noun (light brown to brownish orange colour)

Sanskrit

2 entries
  • अरुण noun (light brown to brownish orange colour)
  • कद्रु noun (light brown to brownish orange colour)

Spanish

3 entries
  • color leonado noun (light brown to brownish orange colour)
  • león noun (light brown to brownish orange colour)
  • pardo león noun (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

2 entries
  • కడారము noun (light brown to brownish orange colour)
  • కాషాయము noun (light brown to brownish orange colour)

West-Frisian

1 entries
  • taan noun (light brown to brownish orange colour)

Zulu

1 entries
  • úbumpôfu noun (light brown to brownish orange colour)

Sample sentences

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What color is your urine: bright, tawny, reddish or golden brown?

Source: tatoeba (702528)

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)

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