tawny
To cause to have a light brown to brownish orange colourTo cause (someone or something) to have a light brown to brownish orange colour; to tan, to tawn.
» The tawny owl is a type of owl.
Der Waldkauz ist eine Eulenart. — Melang
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2 senses(transitive)To cause (someone or something) to have a light brown to brownish orange colour; to tan, to tawn.
(intransitive)To become a light brown to brownish orange colour; to tan, to tawn.
Examples
16 sentencesThe tawny owl is a type of owl.
deDer Waldkauz ist eine Eulenart. — Melang
Can you tell tawny owls apart from other owls?
deKannst du einen Waldkauz von anderen Eulen unterscheiden? — Melang
Can you distinguish between tawny owls and other owls?
deKannst du einen Waldkauz von anderen Eulen unterscheiden? — Melang
The elephant is grey and the lion is tawny colored.
What color is your urine: bright, tawny, reddish or golden brown?
deWelche Farbe hat dein Urin: hell, dunkelgelb, rötlich oder goldbraun? — Esperantostern
Origin
The adjective is derived from Middle English tauni, tawne (“having a brownish-orange colouThe adjective is derived from Middle English tauni, tawne (“having a brownish-orange colour”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman taune, tawné, and Old French tané, tanné, tanney (“of a tan colour”), an adjective use of the past participle of taner (“to turn hide into leather, tan”), from tan (“pulped oak bark used to tan leather, tanbark”), ultimately from Proto-Celtic *tannos (“green oak”); further etymology uncertain, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)dʰnwos, *(s)dʰonu (“fir”).
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Forms
tawnies, tawnying, tawnied, tawniedLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.