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Red
English
Pronunciation
Homophones
- read (past tense and past participle)
Noun
red
- Any of a range of colours having the longest wavelengths, 670 nm, of the visible spectrum; a primary additive colour for transmitted light: the colour obtained by subtracting green and blue from white light using magenta and yellow filters.
- A revolutionary socialist or (most commonly) a Communist; (usually capitalized) a Bolshevik, a supporter of the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War.
Translations
colour
- Afrikaans: Rooi
- Albanian: kuq
- Breton: ruz
- Bulgarian: червен m
- Catalan: vermell m, roig m
- Chickasaw: homa
- Chinese: 紅色 /红色 (hóng sè)
- Czech: červený
- Danish: rød
- Dutch: rood
- ruĝa
- Estonian: punane
- Finnish: punainen
- French: rouge m
- Frisian: read
- German: Rot n
- Greek, Ancient: [[]] (erythros)
- Greek, Modern: κόκκινος (kokkinos)
- Guaraní: pytã
- Hebrew: אדום
- Hungarian: piros
- Icelandic: rauður
- reda
- Indonesian: merah
- Interlingua: rubio , rubro , rubido (dark)
- Irish: dearg, rua (dark)
- Italian: rosso m
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- Japanese: 赤 (あか, aka)
- Javanese: abang, abrit
- Khmer: ក្រហម
- Kurdish: sor , al
- Latin: ruber m, rubra f, rubrum n
- Norwegian: rød
- Polish: czerwony
- Portuguese: vermelho m, vermelha f
- Romanian: roşu
- Russian: красный
- Serbian: crvena
- Slovak: červená
- Romanica: rubio , m rubro , m rubido m
- Slovene: rdeča f
- Spanish: rojo
- Sundanese: beureum
- Swedish: röd
- Tagalog: pula
- Tupinambá: pirang , pitang
- Turkish: kırmızı
- Vietnamese: mầu đỏ ; hồng
- Welsh: rhudd
- Wunese Soochownese (Rúnüt Suodsy-réro): rón ,róngneser
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socialist, communist
Translations to be checked
The translations below need to be checked by native speakers and inserted into the appropriate table(s) above. The numbering is unreliable.
- Bosnian: crvena f (1), Crveni m pl (2)
Adjective
red (comparative redder, superlative reddest)
- Having red as its colour.
- Leftwing, socialist or Communist (Red China, the People's Republic of China; red scare, an instance of paranoia about Communism; 'red menace', (formerly) the real or supposed threat from the Soviet Union; reds under the bed, the supposed presence of Communist or Soviet-sympathizing spies or fellow-travellers; red-baiting, persecution of suspected Communists; red Clydeside, (formerly) a popular name for the Clydeside region of Scotland, whose population had strong socialist sympathies; red Ken, pet-name for Ken Livingstone, socialist mayor of London; red Vienna, popular name for 1920s Vienna, which had a socialist city government; red-green coalition, term used in Europe to refer to a coalition between a socialist or social democratic party and a Green party).
- (In the modern United States) Supportive of the Republican Party (red states, states which voted for the Republican presidential candidate).
Translations
- Bosnian: crven m, crvena f, crveno n
- Catalan: vermell m, vermella f, (ca) ; roig m, roja f (ca)
- Chickasaw: homa
- Chinese, traditional 紅
- Chinese, simplified 红 (hóng)
- French: rouge m and f
- German: rot (de)
- Hebrew: אָדֹם m, אָדֹמהָ f
- Interlingua: rubie , rubre , rubide (dark)
- Irish: dearg, rua (of hair)
- Italian: rosso m, rossa f
- Japanese: 赤い (あかい, akai)
- Romanica: rosso m, rossa f; rubio m, rubia f; rubro m, rubra f; rubido m, rubida f
- Slovene: rdeč m, rdeča f, rdeče n
- Spanish: rojo m, roja f
- Swedish: röd
- Wunese Soochownese (Rúnüt Suodsy-réro): róng
Derived terms
See also
Dutch
red
First-person singular present tense of redden.
- save
- Ik red het kind -I save the child
- be all right , be OK
- Ik red het wel - I'll be OK
Spanish
red f
- net, network
- Web, Internet, Net
Swedish
Verb
red
- Imperative of reda
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