Tawny

Adjective

 * 1) Of a light brown to brownish orange colour
 * 2) * 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
 * They fell a-twittering among themselves once more, and this time their intoxicating babble was of violet seas, tawny sands, and lizard-haunted walls.

Noun
tawny


 * 1) A light brown to brownish orange colour

Thesaurus
beige, brown, brownish, brownish-yellow, brunet, chocolate, cinnamon, cocoa, cocoa-brown, coffee, coffee-brown, drab, dun, dun-brown, dun-drab, ecru, fawn, fawn-colored, fuscous, grege, hazel, khaki, lurid, nut-brown, olive-brown, olive-drab, seal, seal-brown, sepia, snuff-colored, sorrel, tan, taupe, toast, toast-brown, umber, umber-colored, walnut, walnut-brown, yellowish-brown

Etymology
From Middle English, from Anglo-Norman tauné, from Old French tané, past participle of taner:, from tan 'tanbark, tawny color', from Gaulish tanno 'holm oak' (compare Breton tann, Old Irish caerthann 'rowan'), from Indo-European *dhenh-; akin to German Tann 'woods', Tanne 'fir', Hittite tanau 'fir', Avestan thanwarə (g. thanwanō) 'bow', Sanskrit dhánus (g. dhánvanus) 'bow', Latin femur (g. feminis) 'thigh', possibly Greek thámnos 'thicket'.

Adjective

 * Danish: gulbrun, gyldenbrun


 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian: világosbarna

Noun

 * Finnish:


 * Hungarian: világosbarna

Derived terms

 * tawny owl
 * tawny port