ivory
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English yvory, ivorie, from Anglo-Norman ivurie, from Latin eboreus (“in or of ivory”) adjective of ebur (“ivory”) (genitive eboris), from Demotic Egyptian yb (“ivory, Elephantine”) (compare Coptic ⲓⲏⲃ (iēb, “Elephantine”)), from Egyptian ꜣbw (“elephant, ivory, Elephantine”), from Proto-Afroasiatic *leb-. Displaced native Old English elpendbān (literally “elephant bone”).
Inflected forms:
form: ivories
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The hard white form of dentin which forms the tusks of elephants, walruses and other animals.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: “Leave the ivory!” he cried. “Leave the ivory! Dead men have no use for ivory!” Some of the Manyuema started to lay down their loads, but this was altogether too much for the avaricious Arabs.
gloss: A creamy white color, the color of ivory.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Something made from or resembling ivory.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The teeth.
pos: noun
tags: collective
countable
plural
singular
uncountable
examples: Ye forgot some o' yer ivories, didn't ye, on th' grass?
gloss: The keys of a piano; or, the white keys, as opposed to the black keys (ebonies).
pos: noun
tags: collective
countable
plural
singular
uncountable
examples: to tickle the ivories
Tony had gone into the storage room and gotten two more standing lamps, one placed near the ebonies and ivories.
gloss: A white person.
pos: noun
tags: countable
ethnic
slang
slur
uncountable
gloss: A die (object bearing numbers, thrown in games of chance).
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
examples: c. 1846, Alexandre Dumas (translated by William Barrow), The Three Musketeers
The triumphant Englishman did not give himself the trouble even to shake the dice; and, so sure was he of winning, that he threw the ivory on the table without looking.
gloss: Made of ivory.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Men that I knew around Wapatomac didn't wear high, shiny plug hats, nor yeller spring overcoats, nor carry canes with ivory heads as big as a catboat's anchor, as you might say.
gloss: Resembling or having the colour of ivory.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The walls and ceiling of this drawing-room in Montague Square are painted ivory.
Related words: Galalith
chryselephantine
eburnation
odontolite
scrimshaw
whalebone
Derived words: black ivory
gate of ivory
ivoride
ivoried
ivorine
ivoriness
ivorist
ivoroid
ivory-bill
ivorybill
ivory bush coral
ivorylike
ivory porcelain
ivory-pounder
ivorysmith
ivory-thumper
ivory tickler
ivory tree
ivorytype
ivoryware
pink ivory
purple ivory
red ivory
sea ivory
tickle the ivories
tickle the ivory
vegetable ivory tree
ivory-billed woodpecker
ivory black
Ivory Coast
ivory gull
ivory nut
ivory-nut palm
ivory palm
ivory shell
ivory tower
ivory-white
vegetable ivory
Translations:
lang: Afar
word: qaag
lang: Afrikaans
word: ivoor
lang: Afrikaans
word: elpebeen
lang: Akkadian
word: 𒅗
lang: Amharic
word: የዝሆን ጥርስ
roman: yäzhon ṭərs
lang: Arabic
word: عَاج
roman: ʕāj
lang: Arabic
word: عاج
roman: ʕāg
lang: Armenian
word: փղոսկր
roman: pʻġoskr
lang: Azerbaijani
word: fil sümüyü
lang: Azerbaijani
word: fil dişi
lang: Basque
word: boli
lang: Belarusian
word: слано́вая косць
roman: slanóvaja koscʹ
lang: Central Bikol
word: gading
lang: Bulgarian
word: сло́нова кост
roman: slónova kost
lang: Burmese
word: ဆင်စွယ်
roman: hcangcwai
lang: Catalan
word: ivori
lang: Catalan
word: vori
lang: Catalan
word: marfil
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 象牙
roman: xiàngyá
lang: Crimean Tatar
word: fil tişi
lang: Czech
word: slonovina
lang: Danish
word: elfenben
lang: Dutch
word: ivoor
lang: Egyptian
word: Ab-b-w-qs
roman: ꜣbw
lang: Esperanto
word: eburo
lang: Estonian
word: elevandiluu
lang: Faroese
word: fílabein
lang: Finnish
word: norsunluu
lang: French
word: ivoire
lang: Old French
word: olifan
lang: Galician
word: marfil
lang: Georgian
word: სპილოს ძვალი
roman: sṗilos ʒvali
lang: German
word: Elfenbein
lang: Greek
word: φίλντισι
roman: fílntisi
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἐλέφας
roman: eléphas
lang: Gujarati
word: હાથીદાંત
roman: hāthīdā̃t
lang: Hausa
word: hauren giwa
lang: Hawaiian
word: niho ʻelepani
lang: Hebrew
word: שֶׁנְהָב
roman: shenhav
lang: Hindi
word: हाथीदांत
roman: hāthīdānt
lang: Hindi
word: हाथी दांत
roman: hāthī dānt
lang: Hindi
word: गजदन्त
roman: gajdant
lang: Hungarian
word: elefántcsont
lang: Icelandic
word: fílabein
lang: Icelandic
word: fílsbein
lang: Ido
word: ivoro
lang: Indonesian
word: gading
lang: Irish
word: eabhar
lang: Italian
word: avorio
lang: Japanese
word: 象牙
roman: zōge
lang: Kalmyk
word: занын ясн
roman: zanyn yasn
lang: Khmer
word: ទន្ត
roman: tŏən
lang: Khmer
word: ភ្លុក
roman: phluk
lang: Kikuyu
word: mũguongo
lang: Korean
word: 상아
roman: sang'a
lang: Latin
word: ebur
lang: Latvian
word: ziloņkauls
lang: Lithuanian
word: dramblio kaulo
lang: Luxembourgish
word: Elfebeen
lang: Macedonian
word: слонова коска
roman: slonova koska
lang: Malay
word: gading
lang: Maltese
word: avorju
lang: Māori
word: rei
lang: Middle English
word: elpes bon
lang: Middle English
word: ivorie
lang: Middle English
word: yvory
lang: Mongolian
word: зааны яс
roman: zaany jas
lang: Classical Nahuatl
word: tlanomitl
lang: Classical Nahuatl
word: mazātl elefante īcōātlan
lang: Norman
word: iviéthe
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: elfenbein
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: elfenben
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: elfenbein
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: filsbein
lang: Old English
word: elpendbān
lang: Pannonian Rusyn
word: єлефантова косц
roman: jelefantova kosc
lang: Pannonian Rusyn
word: слонова косц
roman: slonova kosc
lang: Persian
word: عاج
roman: 'âj
lang: Persian
word: پیلسته
roman: piloste
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Aulfenbeen
lang: Pohnpeian
word: aipori
lang: Polish
word: kość słoniowa
lang: Portuguese
word: marfim
lang: Romanian
word: fildeș
lang: Romanian
word: ivoriu
lang: Romansh
word: ivur
lang: Russian
word: слоно́вая кость
roman: slonóvaja kostʹ
lang: Samoan
word: nifo elefane
lang: Campidanese Sardinian
word: marfilu
lang: Sassarese
word: aboriu
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: сло̀новача
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: бје̏локо̄ст
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: slònovača
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: bjȅlokōst
lang: Slovak
word: slonovina
lang: Slovene
word: slonovina
lang: Somali
word: caag
lang: Spanish
word: marfil
lang: Swahili
word: pembe za ndovu
lang: Swedish
word: elfenben
lang: Tagalog
word: garing
lang: Tajik
word: устухони фил
roman: ustuxon-i fil
lang: Thai
word: งาช้าง
roman: ngaa cháang
lang: Tibetan
word: བལ་སོ
roman: bal so
lang: Turkish
word: fildişi
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: فیل دیشی
roman: fil dişi
lang: Ukrainian
word: слоно́ва кі́стка
roman: slonóva kístka
lang: Urdu
word: ہاتھی دانت
roman: hāthī dānt
lang: Uzbek
word: fil suyagi
lang: Vietnamese
word: ngà voi
lang: Vietnamese
word: ngà
lang: Volapük
word: vior
lang: Walloon
word: ivwere
lang: Waray-Waray
word: gading
lang: Welsh
word: ifori
lang: Yiddish
word: העלפֿאַנדביין
roman: helfandbeyn
lang: Arabic
word: عَاجِيّ
roman: ʕājiyy
lang: Arabic
word: عَاجِيَّة
roman: ʕājiyya
lang: Bulgarian
word: сло́нова кост
roman: slónova kost
lang: Catalan
word: ivori
lang: Catalan
word: vori
lang: Catalan
word: marfil
lang: Dutch
word: ivoorkleur
lang: Estonian
word: elevandiluuvärv
lang: Finnish
word: norsunluunvalkoinen
lang: French
word: ivoire
lang: Galician
word: marfil
lang: German
word: Elfenbein
lang: German
word: Elfenbeinfarbe
lang: Hungarian
word: elefántcsontszín
lang: Ido
word: ivoreo
lang: Ido
word: ivorkoloro
lang: Irish
word: dath an eabhair
lang: Korean
word: 상아색
roman: sang'asaek
lang: Korean
word: 아이보리
roman: aibori
lang: Malay
word: gading
lang: Portuguese
word: ebúrneo
lang: Portuguese
word: ebóreo
lang: Portuguese
word: marfim
lang: Romanian
word: alb-ivoriu
lang: Russian
word: слоно́вая кость
roman: slonóvaja kostʹ
lang: Russian
word: цвет слоно́вой ко́сти
roman: cvet slonóvoj kósti
lang: Spanish
word: ebúrneo
lang: Swedish
word: elfenbensfärg
lang: Swedish
word: elfenbensvitt
lang: Thai
word: สีงาช้าง