köken: Inherited from Middle French bleu, from Old French blöe, bleve, blef, bleu (“blue”), from Late Latin blāvus, from Frankish *blāu (“blue”), from Proto-Germanic *blēwaz (“blue”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰléh₁-, *bʰlh₁-, *bʰleh₁- (“yellow, grey, blue”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to shine”). Cognate with Old High German blāo (“blue”) (German blau), Dutch blauw (“blue”), Old English blāw…
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃-der.? Classical Persian لاژورد (Lāžvard) Classical Persian لَاجَوَرْد (lājaward)bor. Arabic لَازُوَرْد (lāzuward) Andalusian Arabic [Term?]bor. Old Spanish azur Spanish azul Inherited from Old Spanish azur, from an Andalusian Arabic *لَازُورْد (*lāzūrd), contracted form of Arabic لَازُوَرْد (lāzuward, “lapis lazuli”), from Persian لاجورد (lâjvard, “lapis…
aile: al azul, arándano azul, azul celeste, azul cielo, azul de cobalto, azul de mar, azul de Prusia, azul de Sajonia, azul de ultramar, azul marino
köken: From Medieval Latin lazulum (through a variant lazurum and with rebracketing of the initial l- as the article l'), from Arabic لَازَوَرْد (lāzaward, “lapis lazuli”), from Persian لاجورد (lâjvard, “lapis lazuli”). Cognate with English azure, French azur, and Portuguese and Spanish azul.
çekim: karşılaştırma appelblauwzeegroener · üstünlük appelblauwzeegroenst
köken: From a mix of the components of the compounds appelgroen (“apple-green”) (a compound of appel (“apple”) + groen (“green”)) and zeeblauw (“sea-blue”) (a compound of zee (“sea”) + blauw (“blue”)).
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese azul /azur (“blue”), from Medieval Latin lazulum, from Arabic لَازُوَرْد (lāzuward, “lapis lazuli”), from Persian لاجورد (lâjvard, “lapis lazuli”). Doublet of azur, from French. Compare with Galician azul (“blue”), Spanish azul (“blue”), French azur (“azure”), Italian azzurro (“blue”) and English azure.
cyan or sky blue · see: κυανό (kyanó, “the colour cyan”)
çekim: karşılaştırma κυανότερος · üstünlük κυανότερος
eş: γαλάζιος
köken: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κύανος (kúanos), also see the Mediaeval κυανός m (kuanós), from Ancient Greek κῠᾰνοῦς (kŭănoûs)/κῠᾰ́νεος (kŭắneos, adjective) from κύανος (kúanos, noun). Cognate with Mycenaean Greek 𐀓𐀷𐀜 (ku-wa-no) and Tsakonian κουβάνε (kouváne).
köken: From a Vulgar Latin root *albaster, albastrum, derived from Latin albus (“white”). Probably originally referred to the whiteness in a lightly clouded sky. See also the formations in Italian biancastro (“whitish”), nerastro (“blackish”), French blanchâtre (“whitish”), noirâtre (“blackish”) (with the suffixes -astro and -âtre deriving from Latin -astrum, accusative singular of -aster). Compare also…
Deep water blue: the deep (blue) color associated with water and with the rainy sky · Dyed or colored blue · Used as an epithet of sea and river deities or things connected with them
köken: Dissimilation of *caeluleus, derived from caelum (“sky, heaven”) + -uleus (diminutive suffix). However, in Classical Latin the word is attested as denoting the color of the rainy sky and that of deep water, and was on the whole associated with water.