brūns

Borrowed from Middle Low German brūn and (perhaps) Middle Dutch bruun.

This term was probably introduced in the 15th century, together with brown-colored clothes, very appreciated at the time. It is, however, not mentioned in dictionaries until the end of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th century (some sources claim that brown-colored clothes were not frequent in Latvia until the 18th century). Previously, the notion of brown color was expressed only with ruds (for hair, eyes) and bērs (for horses).^[1]

• IPA^(key): [bɾūns]

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brūns (definite brūnais, comparative brūnāks, superlative visbrūnākais, adverb brūni)

1. brown (having the color of, e.g., chocolate, or of the ground coffee)

   tumši, gaiši brūns ― dark, light brown

   brūns galds ― brown table

   brūni mati ― brown hair

   brūnas acis ― brown eyes

   brūna krāsa ― brown color

   brūnais lācis ― brown bear

   saulē iedegusi, brūna seja ― sun-tanned, brown face

• bērs
• ruds

• brūnums
• iebrūns, brūngans, brūnīgs
• sarkanbrūns

• brūnis

• bēris