köken: Inherited from Old French azur, borrowed from Medieval Latin azurium, from Arabic لَازُوَرْد (lāzuward, “lapis lazuli”), from Persian لاجورد (lâjvard, “lapis lazuli”).
blueness · a blue expanse, a blue surface (for the sea, sky, air)
çekim: çoğul синевини
cmn室外的, 戶外的 /户外的, 露天
grcὑπαίθριος, ὕπαιθρος
Etimoloji
First cited to the early 1700s. Compound of 青 (ao, “blue”) + 空 (sora, “sky”). The sora reading for 空 changes to zora as an instance of rendaku (連濁). The reading was aosora until roughly the mid-Meiji Period. The shift to voiced pronunciation has been relatively recent.