Translation
paint
Word origin
From German Farbe ('colour, paint'), one of the Germanic roots Zamenhof took where the Romance languages offered nothing shorter.
- Origin
- German
- Root
- Farbe
Examples
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The blue paint on the wall is old now.
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He bought white paint for the door.
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Red paint covered the old wood.
is the substance in the tin. The colour itself is , and the two are not interchangeable: is fine, is not. To paint a wall is farbi; to paint a picture is .
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