khaki

• carkee, carky, karkey, khakee, kharkee, kharki (all obsolete)

Borrowed from Hindustani خاکی / ख़ाकी (xākī), from Classical Persian خاکی (xākī, “dusty, earthy, earth-colored”).

Sense 5 was coined in reference to the colour of the uniform of British troops during the Second Boer War; compare rooinek.

• (General Australian, New Zealand, UK) enPR: kä-k'ē, IPA^(key): /ˈkɑː.ki/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• (General American) enPR: kă-k'ē, IPA^(key): /ˈkæ.ki/
• (Canada) enPR: kär-k'ē, kä-k'ē, kă-k'ē, IPA^(key): /ˈkɑɹ.ki/, /ˈkɑː.ki/, /ˈkæki/
• Homophone: cocky (some accents with the father-bother merger)
• Rhymes: -ɑːki, -æki, -ɑː(ɹ)ki

khaki (countable and uncountable, plural khakis or (especially sense 5) khakies)

1. A dull, yellowish-brown colour, the colour of dust.
   • 1899, Rudyard Kipling, The Absent-Minded Beggar:

     When you've shouted "Rule Britannia", when you've sung "God Save The Queen",
     When you've finished killing Kruger with your mouth;
     Will you kindly drop a shilling in my little tambourine
     For a gentleman in khaki ordered South?

   • 1980, Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book, page 60:

     But being the right shade of khaki or shit-brown is not enough.

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2. Khaki green, a dull green colour.
   • 1921, War work of the Bureau of Standards, no. 46, page 54.

     The English Government for a long time has used a type of pigmented dope cover, khaki colored by iron pigments and lampblack, which is called P. C. 10.

   • 2007, Yuji Matsuki, American Fighters Over Europe: Colors & Markings of USAAF Fighters in WWII, page 4, →ISBN.

     At the end of World War I, the U.S. Army Air Service painted everything khaki. This khaki was practically the same as British PC10 and can be considered the basis of the later olive drab color.

   • 2010, Martin Windrow, French Foreign Legion: Infantry and Cavalry since 1945, →ISBN, page 52:

     In these notes we have used the British rather than the US terms for colours: i.e. 'khaki' here means the drab brown - US 'olive drab' - used for woolen uniforms and 'khaki drill' for the pale yellowish tan - US 'khaki' - used for lightweight summer/tropical dress.

   • Op. cit., page 56

     The very loose seroual trousers were made in both sand-khaki drill, and in winter-weight khaki wool for wear with the M1946 battledress blouse.

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3. A strong cloth of wool or cotton, often used for military or other uniforms.
4. (rare) A soldier wearing a khaki uniform.
6. (South Africa, derogatory, slang) A British person.
   • 1902, Philip Pienaar, With Steyn And De Wet‎^[2], Methuen:

     "Frank, it's a khaki," I whisper, "keep straight on."

   • 1997, Richard N. Kelly, John Cantrell, Modern British Statesmen, 1867-1945, page 90:

     War and then victory raised patriotic sentiment inside Britain and brought the Colonial Secretary national popularity. Unionists were quick to milk this with a 'khaki' election in 1900 at which they won a massive landslide.

7. (chiefly in the plural) Khaki clothing or uniform.
   • 1915 Out West magazine^[1]

     The porter in going through the rear coach, which was almost empty, noticed one of the occupants, a muscular, soldierly man in khakies to be apparently asleep in his seat.

khaki (comparative more khaki, superlative most khaki)

1. Dust-coloured; of the colour of dust.

• khaki green

• Appendix:Colors

From English khaki.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkhɑki/, [ˈkhɑ̝k̟i]
• Rhymes: -ɑki
• Syllabification^(key): kha‧ki
• Hyphenation^(key): kha‧ki

khaki

1. khaki (cloth)

   Synonym: khakikangas

2. khaki (beige colour)

khaki (comparative khakimpi, superlative khakein)

1. khaki (beige colour)

• “khaki”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

From English khaki.

• IPA^(key): /ka.ki/

khaki (plural khakis)

1. (archaic) alternative spelling of kaki

• kaki

Borrowed from English khaki.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaːki/

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• Hyphenation: kha‧ki

khaki (indeclinable)

1. khaki (color)

• “khaki” in Duden online
• “khaki” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

• kaki

From English khaki, from Hindi ख़ाकी (xākī) / Urdu خاکی (xākī), from Persian خاکی (xâki, “dusty, earthy, earth-colored”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈxaki/ [ˈxa.ki]
• Rhymes: -aki
• Syllabification: kha‧ki

khaki (plural khaki-khaki)

1. khaki (a dull, yellowish-brown color, the colour of dust)

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• “khaki” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Unadapted borrowing from English khaki.

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.ki/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -aki
• Syllabification: kha‧ki
• Homophone: kaki

khaki (not comparable, no derived adverb)

1. khaki

   Synonym: szarozielony

khaki n (indeclinable)

1. khaki (color)

• khaki in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• khaki in Polish dictionaries at PWN