English
Etymology
From water + colour.
Pronunciation
Noun
watercolour (countable and uncountable, plural watercolours)
- (countable) A water-soluble pigment or paint.
- Coordinate term: oil paint
Jim's aunt only uses watercolours to paint her pictures.
- (countable) A painting made by using such pigment.
- Synonym: aquarelle
Jim's aunt paints beautiful watercolours.
- (uncountable) This kind of painting as a genre.
I'm not a big fan of watercolour; I much prefer oil painting.
Derived terms
Translations
pigment
- Afrikaans: waterverf
- Armenian: ջրաներկ (hy) (ǰranerk)
- Bengali: জলরঙ (joloroṅ)
- Breton: please add this translation if you can
- Bulgarian: акварел m (akvarel)
- Burmese: ရေဆေး (my) (rehce:)
- Catalan: aquarel·la (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 水彩 (zh) (shuǐcǎi)
- Czech: please add this translation if you can
- Danish: akvarel c, akvarelfarve c, vandfarve c
- Dutch: waterverf (nl) f, aquarel (nl)
- Emilian: please add this translation if you can
- Esperanto: akvarelo, akvofarbo
- Estonian: vesivärv, akvarell
- Finnish: vesiväri (fi), akvarelliväri
- French: aquarelle (fr) f
- Friulian: acuarel m
- Georgian: აკვარელი (aḳvareli)
- German: Wasserfarbe (de) f
- Greek: νερομπογιά (el) f (nerompogiá)
- Gujarati: જલરંગ (jalraṅg)
- Hindi: जलवर्ण m (jalvarṇ), जलरंग m (jalraṅg), आबरंग m (ābraṅg)
- Hungarian: vízfesték (hu), akvarell (hu)
- Ido: aquarelo (io), aquafarbo
- Irish: dobharlí f, uiscedhath m
- Italian: acquerello (it) m
- Japanese: 水彩 (ja) (すいさい, suisai), ウォーターカラー (wōtā karā)
- Khmer: ពណ៌ទឹក (pɔətɨk)
- Korean: 수채 (ko) (suchae)
- Lao: ສີນໍ້າ (sī nam)
- Latvian: akvarelis
- Ligurian: acquarèllo m
- Lithuanian: akvarelė f
- Lombard: acquarèll (lmo) m
- Macedonian: акварел m (akvarel)
- Malay: cat air
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: vannfarge m
- Nynorsk: vassfarge m or f
- Occitan: aqüarèla f
- Piedmontese: please add this translation if you can
- Plautdietsch: Tusch f
- Polish: akwarela (pl) f, farba wodna f
- Portuguese: aquarela (pt) f
- Romagnol: please add this translation if you can
- Romanian: acuarelă (ro) f
- Russian: акваре́ль (ru) f (akvarélʹ)
- Scottish Gaelic: peanta dath-uisge m
- Slovak: please add this translation if you can
- Spanish: acuarela (es) f
- Tagalog: akwarela
- Thai: สีน้ำ (th) (sǐi-náam)
- Turkish: sulu boya (tr)
- Vietnamese: màu nước (vi)
- Welsh: dyfrlliw m
- West Frisian: akwarel
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See also
Adjective
watercolour (not comparable)
- Pertaining to the methods or products of watercolor.
Translations
pertaining to the methods or products of watercolor
Verb
watercolour (third-person singular simple present watercolours, present participle watercolouring, simple past and past participle watercoloured)
- To paint using watercolour
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