dye

== English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /daɪ/ Rhymes: -aɪ Homophones: die, Di, Dai, dy === Etymology 1 === From Middle English deye, from Old English dēah, dēag (“color, hue, dye”), from Proto-West Germanic *daugu (“color, shade”), from *daugan (“to conceal, be dark”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“to smoke, raise dust, camouflage”). ==== Alternative forms ==== (obsolete) die ==== Noun ==== dye (countable and uncountable, plural dyes) A colorant, especially one that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is applied. Any hue or color. ===== Synonyms ===== colorant tincture ===== Hyponyms ===== ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Related terms ===== diolistic ===== Translations ===== ===== See also ===== ink === Etymology 2 === Fom Middle English deien, from Old English dēagian, from the noun. ==== Verb ==== dye (third-person singular simple present dyes, present participle dyeing or (now nonstandard) dying, simple past and past participle dyed) (ambitransitive) To colour with dye, or as if with dye. For more quotations using this term, see Citations:dye. ===== Synonyms ===== (to color): tint, stain, shade, streak ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 3 === ==== Noun ==== dye (plural dyce) Archaic spelling of die (“a cube used in games of chance”). ===== Translations ===== === Anagrams === Dey, dey, ye'd, yed == Achang == === Etymology === Forms a transitive/intransitive pair with tyeh (“to finish”). === Pronunciation === (Myanmar) /dʲɛ˧/ === Verb === dye to finish, complete === Further reading === Inglis, Douglas; Sampu, Nasaw; Jaseng, Wilai; Jana, Thocha (2005), A preliminary Ngochang–Kachin–English Lexicon‎[3], Payap University, page 29 == Afrikaans == === Noun === dye plural of dy == Bassa == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [dʲe] === Verb === dye dance === References === Bassa-English Dictionary == Haitian Creole == === Etymology === From French dieu (“god”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /dje/ === Noun === dye god == Middle English == === Etymology 1 === ==== Noun ==== dye alternative form of deye (“dye”) === Etymology 2 === ==== Verb ==== dye alternative form of deyen (“to die”) === Etymology 3 === ==== Verb ==== dye alternative form of deyen (“to dye”)