Sallow

Definition: Sallow

Sallow

Adjective

1. Unhealthy looking.

Noun

1. Any of several Old World shrubby broad-leaved willows having large catkins; some are important sources for tanbark and charcoal.

Verb

1. Cause to become sallow, as of complexion; "The illness has sallowed her face".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "sallow" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1120. (references)

Synonym: Sallow

Crosswords: Sallow

Expressions using "sallow": sallow thorn ♦ sallow willow. Additional references.

Beginning with "sallow": sallow-faced, sallow-looking, sallow-skinned.

Albanian

shelg (osier, willow), verdhacuk (pallid, wan), verdhacak (pale, pallid, wan), i zbetë (bloodless, faint, lurid, mealy, wan, watery, white). (various references)

Arabic 

‏صفصاف نبات (willow), ‏شاحب (bloodless, colorless, colourless, greyish, haggard, insular, leaden, livid, mealy, pale, palish, pallid, paly, pasty faced, peaky, sick, sickly, wan). (various references)

Bulgarian 

върбова фиданка, нездрав (feverish, insalubrious, morbid, noisome, unhealthy, unsound), жълтеникав (xanthic, yellowish, yellowy), бледен (ashen, ashy, ashy-gray, doughy, faint, lambent, lymphatic, mealy, pale, pallid, pasty, sickly), ива (edge, fillet, list, selvage). (various references)

Chinese 

黧 (dark, sallow color). (various references)

Czech

vrba (osier, willow), nažloutlý (yellowish), bledý (bloodless, ghastly, pale, pallid, pasty faced, peaky, sickly, wan). (various references)

Danish

bleg (pale). (various references)

Dutch

verbleekt (pale). (various references)

Esperanto

pala (pale), kolorpendinta (pale). (various references)

Faeroese

bleikur (pale). (various references)

Farsi 

زردرنگ(مثل مریض), زردرنگ کردن , رنگ خاکستری مایل به زردوسبز, درخت بید (Willow). (various references)

Finnish

kalpea (pale, pallid). (various references)

French

saule, pâlot, pâle, jaunâtre, incolore, cireux, blafard. (various references)

German

fahl (faded, livid, pale, pallid, wan), bleich (bloodless, complexionless, pale, pale-faced, pallid, sheer, wan, wanly), Salweide (goat willow, sallow willow), farblos (achromatic, characterless, colorless, colourless, colourlessly, drab, flabby, Gray, lackluster, lacklustre, mousey, mousy, pallid, uncolored, uncoloured, wishy washy). (various references)

Greek 

κίτρινος (yellow), ιτιά (weeping willow, willow), ιτία, ωχρόσ (ghastly, haggard, pale, pallid, wan, yellowish), ωχρός (ashen), χλωμόσ (pale, palish, sallowish, wan). (various references)

Hungarian

sárgásfakó, sárga (amber, xanthous, yellow, yellow as a guinea), fakó (colorless, colourless, dim, doughy, flat, lack-lustre, livid, lustreless, mat, Matt, muddy, pale, pallid, paly, rusty, washed-out, whitey), fűzfa (sally, willow, willow pussy), fűz (sally, to stitch). (various references)

Italian

pallido (dim, faint, mealy, pale, pallid, wan). (various references)

Malay

pucat (pale). (various references)

Manx

treih (abject, deplorable, doughy, drawn, feeble, forlorn, fragile, haggard, miserable, pale, pale-faced, pallid, pasty, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, regrettable, rueful, seedy, sickly, wan, wretched, wretched of thing), shellagh (proliferous, salivary, willow, withy), lheeah-vuigh, cur buigh er, buigh (fair headed, jaundiced, tan, yellow). (various references)

Norwegian

blek (pale). (various references)

Papiamen

blek (pale). (various references)

Pig Latin

allowsay.(various references)

Polish

blady (pale). (various references)

Portuguese

pálido (ashen, ashy, blank, chalky, colorless, colourless, linen, livid, lurid, mealy, off-color, off-colour, pallid, pasty, peaked, perse, sickly, tallowy, wan, washed-out, white-headed), descorado (pale, pallid, paly, wan). (various references)

Romanian

salcie (osier, willow), pãmântiu, lemn de salcie, culoare pãmântie. (various references)

Russian 

желтоватый (yellowish, yellowy). (various references)

Scottish

odhar (dun, dun-coloured). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

bledilo (greensickness, paleness, pallidness, pallor, whiteness), bled (mealy, pale, paled, pallid, wan, white livered). (various references)

Spanish

pálido (ashen, dull, faint, ghastly, green, green about the gills, light, mealy, pale, pallid, pasty, sickly, wan, white). (various references)

Sranan

breyki (pale). (various references)

Swedish

vide (osier, willow), sälg (pussy willow, willow), gulblek. (various references)

Turkish

soluk (ashy, breath, breathing, cadaverous, colorless, colourless, dull, exhalation, faded, faint, pale, pallid, pasty, sick, sickly, wan, washy, watery), solgun (anaemic, anemic, ashen, ashy, bloodless, colorless, colourless, doughy, drooping, faded, mealy, pale, pallid, pasty, wan), renksiz (colorless, colourless, dull, opaque, pale, uncolored, uncoloured, unstained, wishywashy), keçisöğüdü, bodur söğüt (withy), benzi sararmış. (various references)

Turkmen 

saryяagyz (yellowish). (various references)

Ukrainian

верболіз (osier, osier bed, wicker, willow), надавати блідо-жовтого кольору, жовтіти, жовтуватий (xanthous, yellowish, yellowy), блідий (ashy, chalky, characterless, etiolated, lunar, lunary, pale, pasty, wan, watery, whey-faced, white, white-faced). (various references)

Vietnamese 

m� u tái xám, cây liễu bụi gỗ liễu bụi c� nh liễu bụi m� u tái. (various references)

Yucatec

poos (pale). (various references)

Hippophae rhamnoides, Salix caprea. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "sallow": sallowed, sallower, sallowest, sallowing, sallowish, sallowly, sallowness, sallownesses, sallows, sallowy. (additional references)

Words ending with "sallow": disallow. (additional references)

Words containing "sallow": disallowance, disallowances, disallowed, disallowing, disallows. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Sallow" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dallow, Saliou, salko, Sallah, Salleh, sallows, sallus, salo, salols, Salor, salow, saluo, Saslow, sawllow, Seglow, Selloi, sellow, Sidlow, sollow. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: allows.

-1 letter: allow, awols, ollas, salol, walls.

-2 letters: alls, alow, also, awls, awol, laws, lows, olla, owls, sall, slaw, slow, sola, wall.

-3 letters: all, als, awl, las, law, low, owl, sal, saw, sol, sow, was, wos.

-4 letters: al, as, aw, la, lo, os, ow, so, wo.

+1 letter: fallows, gallows, hallows, mallows, sallows, sallowy, shallow, swallow, tallows, wallops, wallows.

+2 letters: coleslaw, disallow, lowballs, lowlands, rollways, sallowed, sallower, sallowly, shallows, snowball, snowfall, swallows, tollways, wadmolls.

+3 letters: blowballs, callowest, coleslaws, disallows, downfalls, footwalls, gallowses, hallowers, plowlands, sallowest, sallowing, sallowish, shallowed, shallower, shallowly, snowballs, snowfalls, stonewall, swallowed, swallower, ultraslow, unhallows, wallaroos, wallopers, wallowers, wholesale.