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mauve
(moʊv)
Word forms: plural mauves
colour
Something that is mauve is of a pale purple colour.
It bears clusters of mauve flowers in early summer.
mauve in British English
(məʊv)
noun
1.
a.
any of various pale to moderate pinkish-purple or bluish-purple colours
b.
(as adjective)
a mauve flower
2. Also called: Perkin's mauve, mauveine (ˈməʊviːn, -vɪn)
a reddish-purple aniline dye
Word origin
C19: from French, from Latin malva mallowmauve in American English
(moʊv; mɔv)
noun
1.
a purple dye and pigment that is produced by oxidizing aniline, used for wool, silk, etc.
2.
any of several shades of delicate purple
adjective
3.
of such a color
Word origin
Fr, mallow < L malva, mallow: from the color of the mallowImage ofmauve
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purpleIn other languagesmauve
British English: mauve /məʊv/ ADJECTIVE
Something that is mauve is of a pale purple colour.
It bears clusters of mauve flowers in early summer.
- American English: mauve
- Arabic: بَنَفْسَجِيّ
- Brazilian Portuguese: violeta cor
- Chinese: 紫红色的
- Croatian: svijetloljubičast
- Czech: lila
- Danish: lysviolet
- Dutch: mauve
- European Spanish: malva
- Finnish: vaalea, harmahtava violetti
- French: mauve
- German: mauve
- Greek: μοβ
- Italian: malva
- Japanese: 藤紫色の
- Korean: 담자색의
- Norwegian: lillafarget
- Polish: koloru malwy
- European Portuguese: violeta cor
- Romanian: mov
- Russian: розовато-лиловый
- Latin American Spanish: malva
- Swedish: ljuslila
- Thai: สีม่วงอ่อน
- Turkish: pembemsi leylak rengi
- Ukrainian: бузковий
- Vietnamese: có màu hoa cà
Chinese translation of 'mauve'
mauve
(məuv)
adj
-
淡紫色的
(dàn zǐsè de)