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مُلَوَّن

colored /muˈlaw.wan/

adjectiveB2#4387 most common

Also: colorful, multicolored, tinted

Example sentences

هذا القلمُ مُلَوَّنٌ.
This pen is colored.
أحبُّ الأقلامَ المُلَوَّنةَ.
I love colored pencils.
اشترتْ سارة فستاناً مُلَوَّناً جميلاً.
Sarah bought a beautiful colorful dress.
كانت الحديقةُ مليئةً بالزهورِ المُلَوَّنةِ التي تجذبُ الفراشات.
The garden was full of colorful flowers that attract butterflies.
يُفضّلُ الأطفالُ الرسومَ المُلَوَّنةَ لأنّها تُحفّزُ خيالَهم أكثرَ من الرسومِ الأحاديةِ اللونِ.
Children prefer colored drawings because they stimulate their imagination more than monochrome ones.
استخدمَ الفنانُ تدرّجاتٍ مُلَوَّنةً متداخلةً ليعكسَ تعقيدَ المشاعرِ الإنسانيةِ في لوحتِه.
The artist used overlapping colored gradients to reflect the complexity of human emotion in his painting.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativeمُلَوَّنٌمُلَوَّنُونَ
Genitiveمُلَوَّنٍمُلَوَّنِينَ
Accusativeمُلَوَّناًمُلَوَّنِينَ
Vocativeيا مُلَوَّنُيا مُلَوَّنُونَ

Word family

لَوْنcolor
لوّنto color, to paint
تلوينcoloring, tinting
ألوانcolors (plural)
تلوّنto change color, to become variegated

Etymology

The word comes from the triliteral Semitic root ل-و-ن (l-w-n), which carries the core sense of color or hue. The base noun لَوْن (lawn) means color, and the Form II verb لوّن (lawwana) means to color or to paint something. مُلَوَّن is the passive participle of that verb, so it literally means made colored, that is, colored or colorful.

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