White

Table of contents

1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Translations 1.3.1.1 Translations to be checked 1.4 Adjective 1.4.1 Antonyms 1.4.2 Translations 1.5 Derived terms 1.6 See also

English

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old English hƿit

Pronunciation

• wīt, /waɪt/, /waIt/

  Homophones: wight

  Rhymes: -aɪt

• hwīt, /ʍaɪt/, /WaIt/

  Rhymes: -aɪt

Noun

white (plural whites)

1. The color/colour of snow or milk; the colour of light containing equal amounts of all visible wavelengths.
2. A Caucasian person.

Translations

color/colour

Basque: zuri Breton: gwenn Bulgarian: бял m, бяла f, бяло n, бели plural Catalan: blanc m, blanca f (ca) Cebuano: puti Chinese: 白色 (báisè) Corsican: biancu Czech: bílá Danish: hvid Dutch: wit n Esperanto: blanko  : valge Finnish: valkoinen, valkea French: blanc m, blanche f Frisian: wyt German: weiss , weiß (de) Greek: άσπρος , λευκός Guaraní: morotĩ Hebrew: לבן Hindi: safed Hungarian: fehér Indonesian: putih Interlingua: blanco Irish: bán Italian: bianco m, bianca f

Japanese: 白 (しろ, shiro) Javanese: putih , pethak Kurdish: spî Latin: albus m, alba f, album n candidus m Lojban: blabi Manchu: šanyan , šanggiyan Marathi: (pandhara) Persian: سِفيد (sefid) Polish: biały Portuguese: branco Romanian: alb Russian: белый (beliy) Sasxsek: saf Slovene: bela f Spanish: blanco m Swedish: vit Tagalog: puti Tibetan: དཀར་པོ་ (dkar po) Tupinambá: ting Turkish: beyaz Vietnamese: bạch

Caucasian person

Czech: běloch m, běloška f Finnish: valkoinen, valkoihoinen French: blanc m, blanche f Kurdish: spî , çermspî

Italian: bianco m, bianca f

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 incorrect.

• Bosnian: bijela f (1, 3), bijelac m (4), bjeljkinja f (4)

Adjective

white (whiter , whitest )

1. Bright and colourless ; Reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies of visible light.
2. Caucasian .

Antonyms

• (bright and colourless): black

Translations

bright and colourless

Catalan: [blanc] m blanca f (ca) Cebuano: puti Chinese: 白 (bái) Czech: bílý Dutch: wit, witte Esperanto, : blanka Finnish: valkoinen, valkea French: blanc m, blanche f German: weiß (de) Interlingua: blanc Irish: bán Italian: bianco

Japanese: 白い (しろい , shiroi) Kurdish: spî , vebiye Persian: سِفيد (sefid) Sasxsek: safi Slovene: bel m, bela f, belo n Spanish: blanco m, blanca f Tagalog: puti

Caucasian

Finnish: valkoinen, valkoihoinen French: blanc m, blanche f

Italian: bianco m, bianca f

Derived terms

• whiten
• whiteboard
• whitecurrant
• white metal
• white noise
• white out
• white pointer
• white pudding
• egg white
• great white shark
• non-white
• off-white , offwhite
• snow-white
• Snow White
• white as a sheet
• whiter than white

See also

• Wiktionary list of colours
• Wikipedia article on Race