English Explanatory Dictionary

mahogany

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The valuable wood of any of various tropical American evergreen trees, of the genus Swietenia, mostly used to make furniture.
  2. Any of the trees from which such wood comes.
  3. (by extension) Any of various kinds of trees, the timber of which resembles that of trees the genus Swietenia.
  4. A Cornish drink made from gin and treacle.
  5. A reddish-brown color, like that of mahogany wood.
  6. A table made from mahogany wood; a dining table.
adj
  1. Made of mahogany.
  2. Having the colour of mahogany; dark reddish-brown.
name
  1. A barangay of Butuan, Agusan del Norte, Philippines.

Pronunciation

/məˈhɒɡəni/ /məˈhɑɡəni/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-mahogany.wav

Word forms

mahogany mahoganies mahoganey mahoganee mahogeney mahogeny mohogeny mohogeney mahagony mahagoney more mahogany most mahogany

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.

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

Translations

Armenian: մահագոնի Armenian: կարմրածառ Bulgarian: махаго́н Catalan: caoba Chinese Mandarin: 桃花心木 Danish: mahogni Dutch: mahonie Esperanto: mahagono Estonian: mahagonipuu Finnish: mahonki French: acajou French: mahagoni German: Mahagonibaum Greek: μαόνι Gujarati: મહોગની Haitian Creole: akajou Hawaiian: mahakonia Hindi: महोगनी Hungarian: mahagóni Indonesian: mahoni Ingrian: punapuu Italian: mogano Japanese: マホガニー Malay: mahogani Māori: mahokane Norman: méaguinné Norman: acajou Polish: mahoniowiec Portuguese: mogno Romanian: mahon Romanian: acaju Russian: кра́сное де́рево Russian: махаго́ниевое де́рево Russian: акажу́ Spanish: caoba Tagalog: kaoba Thai: มะฮอกกานี Turkish: maun Turkish: akaju Vietnamese: dái ngựa Volapük: mahun Volapük: mahunep Volapük: mahunabim
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