# turquoise
## English
### Alternative forms

* Turkies (archaic)

### Etymology

From Middle French turquoise, from Old French (pierre) turquoise (“Turkish (stone)”), from turc +‎ -ois. The stone, mined near Nishapur in the Khorasan region of Persia, was originally brought to Europe through Turkey. Doublet of Turkish.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈtɜː(ɹ).k(w)ɔɪz/, /ˈtɜː(ɹ).k(w)ɔɪs/
* (US) IPA: /ˈtɝ.k(w)ɔɪz/, /ˈtɝ.k(w)ɔɪs/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Audio (General Australian):(file)

### Noun

turquoise (countable and uncountable, plural turquoises)
* (countable) A sky-blue, greenish-blue, or greenish-gray semi-precious gemstone.
** 2012 March, Lee A. Groat, “Gemstones”, in American Scientist‎, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 14 June 2012, page 128:Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are […] . (Common gem materials not addressed in this article include amber, amethyst, chalcedony, garnet, lazurite, malachite, opals, peridot, rhodonite, spinel, tourmaline, turquoise and zircon.)
* (countable and uncountable) A pale greenish-blue colour, like that of the gemstone.
** 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.
    turquoise:

#### Synonyms

* (colour): blue-green, green-blue, greenish blue, turquoise blue

#### Derived terms

* bone turquoise
* Bisbee turquoise
* turquoise-browed motmot
* turquoise parrot
* Turquoise Lake

#### Related terms

* turquoisish
* turquoisey/turquoisy
* turquoiselike
* turquoised

#### Translations

Arabic: فَيْرُوز (fayrūz)
Egyptian Arabic: فيروز m (fayrūz), تركواز m (terkwæːr)
Armenian: փիրուզ (hy) (pʻiruz)
Avar: пируза (piruza)
Azerbaijani: firuzə (az)
Bashkir: фирүзә (firüzə)
Belarusian: біруза́ f (biruzá)
Bengali: ফিরোজা (bn) (phirōja)
Bulgarian: тюркоа́з m (tjurkoáz)
Buryat: оюу (ojuu)
Catalan: turquesa (ca) f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 綠松石 / 绿松石 (luk$^6$ cung$^4$ sek$^6$)
Mandarin: 綠松石 / 绿松石 (zh) (lǜsōngshí)
Coptic: ⲟⲭⲓⲱⲛ (okhiōn), ⲁⲃⲉⲣⲏϫ m (aberēč) (Sahidic)
Crimean Tatar: feruze
Czech: tyrkys (cs) m
Danish: turkis c
Dutch: turkoois (nl) m or n
Dzongkha: གཡུ (g.yu)
Egyptian: (mfkꜣt)
Esperanto: turkiso
Estonian: türkiis
Finnish: turkoosi (fi)
French: turquoise (fr) f
Galician: turquesa (gl) f
Georgian: ფირუზი (ka) (piruzi)
German: Türkis (de) m
Greek: τυρκουάζ n (tyrkouáz), περουζές (el) m (perouzés) (obsolete)
Ancient Greek: κάλλαϊς f (kállaïs)
Gujarati: પીરોજ (pīroj)
Hebrew: טוּרְקִיז (he) m (turkíz)
Hindi: फ़ीरोज़ा m (fīrozā),पीरोज़ा m (pīrozā), पेरोज (hi) (peroj), पेरज (hi) (peraj)
Hungarian: türkiz (hu)
Indonesian: pirus (id)
Italian: turchese (it) m
Japanese: トルコ石 (ja) (トルコいし, toruko ishi), ターコイズ (tākoizu)
Kalmyk: ойюн (oyyun)
Karachay-Balkar: файруз (fayruz)
Karakalpak: piruza
Kazakh: көктас (köktas), бирюза (birüza)
Korean: 터키옥 (teokiok), 터키석 (ko) (teokiseok)
Kumyk: перезе (pereze)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: feyroz (ku)
Kyrgyz: бирюза (biryuza)
Lak: пирузи (piruzi)
Latin: callais f
Latvian: tirkīzs m
Lezgi: фируз (firuz)
Lithuanian: turkis
Macedonian: тиркиз m (tirkiz)
Malay: firus (ms)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: оюу (mn) (ojuu)
Nahuatl: xihuitl (nah)
Navajo: dootłʼizhii
Norwegian:
Bokmål: turkis (no) m
Nynorsk: turkis m
Old Uyghur: 𐽽𐽰𐽽 (čač)
Persian: فیروزه (fa) (firuze), پیروزه (fa) (piruze)
Polish: turkus (pl) m
Portuguese: turquesa (pt) f
Punjabi: فِیروزَہ m (fīrozah)
Romanian: turcoază (ro) f, peruzea (ro) f
Russian: бирюза́ (ru) f (birjuzá)
Sanskrit: पेरोज (sa) m (peroja)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: тѝркӣз m, мо̀дрӯљ m
Roman: tìrkīz (sh) m, mòdrūlj (sh) m
Slovak: tyrkys (sk) m
Slovene: turkiz (sl) m
Spanish: turquesa (es) f
Swahili: feruzi
Swedish: turkos (sv) c
Tagalog: turkesa
Tajik: фирӯза (firüza)
Tatar: фирәзә (tt) (firäzä)
Tibetan: གཡུ (g.yu)
Turkish: turkuaz (tr), firuze (tr)
Turkmen: firuza
Udi: пуьруьз (pürüz)
Ukrainian: ту́ркус m (túrkus), бірюза́ (uk) f (birjuzá), піруза f (piruza), фіруза f (firuza)
Urdu: فِیروزَہ m (fīrozā)
Uyghur: بىريۇزا (biryuza)
Cyrillic: бирйуза (biryuza)
Uzbek: feruza (uz)
Vietnamese: ngọc lam (vi) :
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#### Further reading

* turquoise on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Adjective

turquoise (comparative more turquoise, superlative most turquoise)
* Made of turquoise (the gemstone).
* Having a pale greenish-blue colour.

#### Translations
### See also

* Alice blue
* aqua
* aquamarine
* azure
* baby blue
* beryl
* bice
* bice blue
* blueberry
* blue green
* blue violet
* cadet blue
* Cambridge blue
* cerulean
* cobalt blue
* Copenhagen blue
* cornflower
* cornflower blue
* cyan
* dark blue
* Dodger blue
* duck-egg blue
* eggshell blue
* electric blue
* gentian blue
* ice blue
* lapis lazuli
* light blue
* lovat
* mazarine
* midnight blue
* navy
* Nile blue
* Oxford blue
* peacock blue
* petrol blue
* powder blue
* Prussian blue
* robin's-egg blue
* royal blue
* sapphire
* saxe blue
* sky blue
* slate blue
* teal
* turquoise
* ultramarine
* Wedgwood blue
* zaffre
* augite

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Old French turquois, from turc +‎ -ois.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tyʁ.kwaz/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

turquoise f (plural turquoises)
* turquoise (gemstone)

#### Descendants

* Greek: τυρκουάζ (tyrkouáz)
* Turkish: turkuaz
* Romanian: turcoază (stone)

### Noun

turquoise m (plural turquoises)
* turquoise (colour)

### Adjective

turquoise (invariable)
* turquoise-colored

#### Descendants

* Greek: τυρκουάζ (tyrkouáz)
* Turkish: turkuaz
* Romanian: turcoază (colour)

### Further reading

* “turquoise”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Indonesian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French turquoise, from Old French turquois, turc +‎ -ois.

### Noun

turquoise
* turquoise
** a sky-blue, greenish-blue, or greenish-gray semi-precious gemstone
** a pale greenish-blue colour, like that of the gemstone
    turquoise:

### Further reading

* “turquoise” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Luxembourgish
### Etymology

From French turquoise.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtyrˌkvaːs/, [ˈtyχˌkwaːs]

### Adjective

turquoise (masculine turquoisen, neuter turquoiset, comparative méi turquoise, superlative am turquoisesten)
* turquoise, cyan, teal (of a greenish blue, often light, colour)

### See also

Colors in Luxembourgish · Faarwen (layout · text) :
| wäiss | gro | schwaarz |
| rout | orange; brong | giel |
| | gréng | |
| turquoise | blo (hellblo, himmelblo) | blo (donkelblo) |
| violett; indigo | magenta; mof | rosa; pink |

## Middle French
### Alternative forms

* turcquoise

### Etymology

Inherited from Old French turquois.

### Noun

turquoise f (plural turquoises)
* turquoise (precious stone)

#### Descendants

* French: turquoise (“gemstone”)
** Greek: τυρκουάζ (tyrkouáz)
** Turkish: turkuaz
** Romanian: turcoază (stone)
** French: turquoise (“colour”)
*** Greek: τυρκουάζ (tyrkouáz)
*** Turkish: turkuaz
*** Romanian: turcoază (colour)
* → English: turquoise
* → Luxembourgish: turquoise