Showing posts with label colors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label colors. Show all posts

Saturday, June 13, 2009

brown

karichür : brown

The Tarijan word for the color brown is karichür.

How I came up with this word:
Karichür is a mixture of the transliterated word for brown in Russian which is karichnivih or korichnevayy (коричневый), and the transliterated word for brown in Mongolian which is khüren (хүрэн) or kürebtür.

Friday, May 22, 2009

light blue

goluner : light blue

The Tarijan word for the color light blue is goluner.

Goluner is possibly a last name.

How I came up with this word:
Goluner is a mixture of the transliterated word for light blue in Russian which is goluboi or galuboy (голубой), and the transliterated word for light blue in Mongolian which is tsenkher or cengker or tsenher (цэнхэр).

Thursday, May 7, 2009

dark blue

khini : dark blue

The Tarijan word for the color dark blue is khini.

Khini is an unusual last name.

In other languages:
In Quechua khini translates to floury, mealy.

International locations:
Khini is the name of a city in Russia, in the Republic of Dagestan.

How I came up with this word:
Khini is a mixture of the transliterated word for blue in Mongolian which is khökh (хөх), and the transliterated word for dark blue in Russian which is sinii or sini (синий).

Monday, November 26, 2007

gray

seryal : gray

The Tarijan word for the color gray is seryal.

Seryal is a first name.

International locations:
Seryal is the name of a town in Iran.

How I came up with this word:
Seryal is a mixture of the transliterated word for gray in Russian which is seryi or syerih (серый), and the transliterated word for gray in Mongolian which is saaral (саарал).

Saturday, October 27, 2007

green

zegoon : green

The Tarijan word for the color green is zegoon.

In other languages:
Zegoon possibly means something in Basque.

How I came up with this word:
Zegoon is a mixture of the transliterated word for green in Russian which is zelenyi or zilyonih (зеленый), and the transliterated word for green in Mongolian which is nogoon (ногоон).

Saturday, October 13, 2007

yellow

shali : yellow

The Tarijan word for the color yellow is shali.

International locations:
Shali is a town in the Chechen Republic, Russia. The Egyptian ruins of Shali date back to the 13th century.

How I came up with this word:
Shali is a mixture of the transliterated word for yellow in Mongolian which is shar (шар), and the transliterated word for yellow in Russian which is zheltyi or zholtih (желтый).

Saturday, October 6, 2007

white

tsebal : white

The Tarijan word for the color white is tsebal.

Tsabel is a rare term which I could not find in another language or as an international location. May be a user name on Russian webpages.

How I came up with this word:
Tsebal is a mixture of the transliterated word for white in Mongolian which is tsagaan (цагаан), and the transliterated word for white in Russian which is belyi or byelih (белый).

Friday, October 5, 2007

red

uskaan : red

The Tarijan word for the color red is uskaan.

Uskaan Tekstil Ltd. is a Turkish textile company.

How I came up with this word:
Uskaan is a mixture of the transliterated word for red in Mongolian which is ulaan (улаан), and the transliterated word for red in Russian which is krasnyi or krasnih (красный).

Thursday, September 27, 2007

black

charn : black

The Tarijan word for the color black is charn.

Charn is a ruined fictional realm in C. S. Lewis's book The Magician's Nephew, one of the Chronicles of Narnia.

In other languages:
Charn means means "flesh, meat" in Romansch, a uncommon language of Switzerland.

How I came up with this word:
Charn is a mixture of the transliterated word for black in Russian which is chernyi or chornih (черный), and the transliterated word for black in Mongolian which is khar (хар).