brownish

English

brown +‎ -ish

brownish (comparative more brownish, superlative most brownish)

Of a colour which resembles brown; somewhat brown.
- 1902, Rudyard Kipling, "How the Leopard Got His Spots" in Just So Stories,
  The Giraffe and the Zebra and the Eland and the Koodoo and the Hartebeest lived there; and they were 'sclusively sandy-yellow-brownish all over […]
- 1942, Emily Carr, The Book of Small, "Waterworks,"
  Two pumps stood side by side in our kitchen. One was for well water and one was a cistern pump—water from the former was hard and clear, from the cistern it was brownish and soft.

of a colour which resembles brown; somewhat brown

Latvian: iebrūns, brūngans, brūnīgs
Norwegian:
Bokmål: brunlig

Nynorsk: brunleg
Polish: brązowawy (pl) m
Portuguese: amarronzado
Romanian: maroniu (ro)
Russian: коричнева́тый (ru) (koričnevátyj), бурова́тый (ru) (burovátyj)
Spanish: pardusco
Swedish: brunaktig (sv)
Turkish: kahverengimsi (tr), kahvemsi, kahvemtırak, bozumsu, bozumtırak, bozlak (tr), kumral (tr)
Volapük: braunilik (vo)

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