mahogany
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: A word of unknown origin, concocted in either English or Middle Dutch from one or more exotic phytonyms and common European words.
alternative etymologies
Alternatively from Portuguese mogano, mógono, obsolete forms of mogno, itself of unknown origin (often suggested to be from the English word instead of the reverse), perhaps from an extinct indigenous language, such as a Mayan language originally spoken in Honduras or a South American language, but no known cognates survive. Another theory attempts to link Yoruba moganwo (“trees”, literally “tall ones”), but this has been criticized.
Inflected forms:
form: mahoganies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mahoganey
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: mahoganee
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: mahogeney
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: mahogeny
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: mohogeny
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: mohogeney
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: mahagony
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: mahagoney
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: more mahogany
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most mahogany
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: mahoganey
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: mahoganee
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: mahogeney
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: mahogeny
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: mohogeny
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: mohogeney
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: mahagony
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: mahagoney
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The valuable wood of any of various tropical American evergreen trees, of the genus Swietenia, mostly used to make furniture.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away[…].
In 2003, at Neal Auction Company in New Orleans, an 1810s mahogany armoire inlaid with ribbons and vines brought $140,000 (the presale estimate was $30,000 to $50,000).
gloss: Any of the trees from which such wood comes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: (by extension) Any of various kinds of trees, the timber of which resembles that of trees the genus Swietenia.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A Cornish drink made from gin and treacle.
pos: noun
tags: countable
regional
uncountable
examples: William Murdoch […] produced a bottle of port; but I chose mahogany (two parts gin and one part treacle, which Lord Eliot made us at Sir Joshua Reynolds's as a Cornish liquor, but it seems they make it also with brandy, and often add porter to it).
Next day, the fish was 'scrowled' on a gridiron over the fire and eaten with 'mahogany', a powerful mixture of black treacle and gin, a favourite tipple of Cornish fishermen for keeping out the cold!
gloss: A reddish-brown color, like that of mahogany wood.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Better she, my dear, than a black Mrs. Sedley, and a dozen of mahogany grandchildren.
gloss: A table made from mahogany wood; a dining table.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: Poets eat and drink without stint — and seldom at their own cost — for what man of mark or likelihood in the moneyed world is there, who is not eager to get their legs under his mahogany?
Yet habit—strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?—Gayer sallies, more merry mirth, better jokes, and brighter repartees, you never heard over your mahogany […]
gloss: Made of mahogany.
pos: adj
gloss: Having the colour of mahogany; dark reddish-brown.
pos: adj
Derived words: African mahogany
African scented mahogany
American mahogany
Australian mahogany
bastard mahogany
below the mahogany
birch-leaf mahogany
birch leaf mahogany
birchleaf mahogany
black mahogany
blue mahogany
Brazilian mahogany
brown mahogany
Burma mahogany
cedar mahogany
cherry mahogany
Colombian mahogany
Cuban mahogany
desert mahogany
Dominican mahogany
dry zone mahogany
Florida mahogany
forest mahogany
gaboon mahogany
Gambia mahogany
ground mahogany
Hawaiian mahogany
Honduras mahogany
Honduran mahogany
horseflesh mahogany
Indian mahogany
Kilimanjaro mahogany
Madeira mahogany
mahoganize
mahogany acid
mahogany bean
mahogany beebalm
mahogany birch
mahogany browning
mahogany clam
mahogany flat
mahogany gaspipe
mahogany glider
mahogany gum
mahogany Japanese iris
mahogany lily
mahogany lung
mahogany peony
mahogany pine
mahogany quahog
mahogany rot
mahogany row
mahogany snapper
mahogany soap
mahogany Spitfire
mahogany tree frog
mahoganyware
monarda mahogany
mountain mahogany
Natal mahogany
Pacific Coast mahogany
Philipine red mahogany
Philippine mahogany
pink mahogany
pod mahogany
put one's legs under someone's mahogany
red mahogany
Rhodesian mahogany
rose mahogany
rusty mahogany
Santos mahogany
sapele mahogany
scented mahogany
Senegal mahogany
sipo mahogany
small-leaved mahogany
southern mahogany
Spanish mahogany
swamp mahogany
Tabasco mahogany
true mahogany
under the mahogany
West Indian mahogany
white mahogany
yellow mahogany
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: մահագոնի
roman: mahagoni
lang: Armenian
word: կարմրածառ
roman: karmracaṙ
lang: Bulgarian
word: махаго́н
roman: mahagón
lang: Catalan
word: caoba
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 桃花心木
roman: táohuāxīnmù
lang: Danish
word: mahogni
lang: Dutch
word: mahonie
lang: Esperanto
word: mahagono
lang: Estonian
word: mahagonipuu
lang: Finnish
word: mahonki
lang: French
word: acajou
lang: French
word: mahagoni
lang: German
word: Mahagonibaum
lang: Greek
word: μαόνι
roman: maóni
lang: Gujarati
word: મહોગની
roman: mahognī
lang: Haitian Creole
word: akajou
lang: Hawaiian
word: mahakonia
lang: Hindi
word: महोगनी
roman: mahognī
lang: Hungarian
word: mahagóni
lang: Indonesian
word: mahoni
lang: Ingrian
word: punapuu
lang: Italian
word: mogano
lang: Japanese
word: マホガニー
roman: mahoganī
lang: Malay
word: mahogani
lang: Māori
word: mahokane
lang: Norman
word: méaguinné
lang: Norman
word: acajou
lang: Polish
word: mahoniowiec
lang: Portuguese
word: mogno
lang: Romanian
word: mahon
lang: Romanian
word: acaju
lang: Russian
word: кра́сное де́рево
roman: krásnoje dérevo
lang: Russian
word: махаго́ниевое де́рево
roman: maxagónijevoje dérevo
lang: Russian
word: акажу́
roman: akažú
lang: Spanish
word: caoba
lang: Tagalog
word: kaoba
lang: Thai
word: มะฮอกกานี
roman: mahokkani
lang: Turkish
word: maun
lang: Turkish
word: akaju
lang: Vietnamese
word: dái ngựa
lang: Volapük
word: mahun
lang: Volapük
word: mahunep
lang: Volapük
word: mahunabim