brown
Sounds roughly like: brohwn?Sounds like "bro" with an "n" added to the end.
IPA: /brəʊn/ ?
CEFR band: A1
Welsh for Adults level: Mynediad/Entry
adjective
brown in colour
Papur wal brown ag oren.
Brown and orange wallpaper.
noun
1. the colour brown
Y dail yn gwneud blanced o goch, aur, a brown.
The leaves making a carpet of red, gold, and brown.
2.
colloquial
brown bread
Wŷ a bacwn ar frown, plîs.
Egg and bacon on brown, please.
More about brown (click a category to expand...)
Roots?
from English brown
Topics and themes?
Colours
coch (red)
du (black)
glas (blue)
gwyn (white)
gwyrdd (green)
llwyd (grey)
melyn (yellow)
oren (orange)
pinc (pink)
piws (purple)
porffor (purple)
Mutations
frown?
Yn y cefn roedd amlen frown.
In the back there was a brown envelope.
mrown?
Roedd smotiau o wyrdd ym mrown y cae.
There were specks of green in the brown of the field.
What's greige in Welsh?
Traditionally, Welsh used the word llwyd to refer to at least some shades of brown. You can read more about this in the entry for llwyd (see the section "llwyd in use").
Compounds?
bara brown
brown bread
saws brown
also:sos brown
brown sauce
siocled brown
milk chocolate
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