gefärbt

Gefärbt is the past participle of the German verb färben, meaning to dye or to color. As an adjective, gefärbt describes something that has been dyed or colored with a dye or pigment. It can function attributively (gefärbter Stoff) or predicatively (Die Haare sind gefärbt).

Common domains for the term include textiles, hair styling, and art. In the textile industry, fabrics may be described as gefärbt to indicate that their color comes from a dyeing process rather than being left in their natural state. In hairdressing, gefärbt is used to denote hair that has been chemically colored. In photography and film, older texts sometimes refer to colorized or hand-colored images as gefärbt, though the more modern term coloriert is also used.

Grammar and related forms are straightforward in standard German. Gefärbt is the regular past participle form of färben (a weak verb). With prefixes, related forms such as eingefärbt (colorized or dyed in), durchgefärbt (dyed through), or übergefärbt (overdyed) may occur, each altering the scope or manner of the dyeing process.

Etymology is linked to the noun Farbe (color) and to the verb färben. The word reflects the general German pattern of forming past participles with the ge- prefix for non-prefix verbs, and it is widely understood across contexts where coloring, dyeing, or coloring processes are discussed.