rostbraun
German, adjective
rostbraun is spelled R-O-S-T-B-R-A-U-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written German, the 144,446th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rostbraun is a German adjective meaning “russet” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Rostbraun is a different word: “russet”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Eine Mischung der Farben, die Rost hat, und braun; verursacht durch Eisenoxid”.
What does rostbraun mean in English?
adjective
- 1
russet
noun
- 1
neuterrusset
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Eine Mischung der Farben, die Rost hat, und braun; verursacht durch Eisenoxid
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of rostbraun
- rostbrauner masculine nominative singular
- rostbraune feminine nominative singular
- rostbraunes neuter nominative singular
- rostbraunen genitive masculine singular
- rostbraunem dative masculine singular
- der rostbraune definite includes-article masculine
- die rostbraune definite feminine includes-article
- das rostbraune definite includes-article neuter
- die rostbraunen definite includes-article nominative
- des rostbraunen definite genitive includes-article
- der rostbraunen definite feminine genitive
- dem rostbraunen dative definite includes-article
- den rostbraunen dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to rostbraun
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is rostbraun in German?
rostbraun appears about once in every 8 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).