alizarina
Portuguese, noun/a.li.zaˈɾĩ.nɐ/
alizarina is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “alizarin; madder (red dye extracted from madder root)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “cor semelhante ao vermelho”.
What does alizarina mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininealizarin; madder (red dye extracted from madder root)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. cor semelhante ao vermelho 2. corante e pigmento vermelho derivado originalmente da raiz da garança, da espécie Rubia Tinctorum
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of alizarina
- alizarinas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce alizarina?
- Brazil /a.li.zaˈɾĩ.nɐ/
- Portugal /ɐ.li.zɐˈɾi.nɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to alizarina
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.