azure
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
Etymology: From Middle English asure, from Old French azur, derived from Arabic لَازَوَرْد (lāzaward, “lapis lazuli”), dropping the l as if it were equivalent to the French article l'. The Arabic is from Classical Persian لاجورد (lājward, “lapis lazuli”), from the region of Lajward in Badakhshan.
Compare with Italian azzurro and Spanish azul.
Inflected forms:
form: azures
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: az.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: b.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bl.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: azures
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: azuring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: azured
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: azured
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The clear blue colour of the sky; also, a pigment or dye of this colour.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In robes of azure.
For our blues we have the azures and ceruleans, lapis lazulis, the light and dusty, the powder blues, the deeps: royal, sapphire, navy, and marine […]
gloss: A blue colour on a coat of arms, represented in engraving by horizontal parallel lines.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Berington of Chester (on the authority of Harleian manuscript No. 1535) is said to bear a plain shield of azure. Personally I doubt this coat of arms […]
In Bb [Glover's Roll], the conventional letter B is used to indicate azure in most items.
Sir Henry "Hotspur" Percy: before 1399: or, a lion rampant azure, differentiated with a label gules (a blue lion rampant on a field of gold, differentiated with a red label signifying the first-born son) […]
gloss: The unclouded sky; the blue vault above.
pos: noun
tags: countable
poetic
uncountable
examples: Not like those steps / On heaven's azure.
Not a single cloud mars the flawless azure; / Not a shadow moves o'er the moveless crops; [...]
gloss: Any of various widely distributed lycaenid butterflies of the genus Celastrina.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any of various Australasian lycaenid butterflies of the genus Ogyris.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Lapis lazuli.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Sky blue; resembling the clear blue colour of the unclouded sky.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: When Britain first, at Heaven's command / Arose from out the azure main.
gloss: Cloudless.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: In blazon, of the colour blue.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: ‘I forget your coat of arms.’
‘A human foot d’or, in a field azure; the foot crushes a serpent rampant whose fangs are imbedded in the heel.’
On the fesse are two bars wavy azure for waterways.
gloss: To colour blue.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Our readers are aware that much of the sugar sold in many countries goes through an azuring treatment; blue is added to granulated sugar with the view of making it appear whiter than it actually is.
Derived words: azurean
Azure Dragon
azure jay
azure lunula
azurely
azureness
azure noise
azureous
azuresin
azure tit
azurin
azurish
azurite
azurity
azurous
azury
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: лазу́р
roman: lazúr
lang: Chichewa
word: khogolo
lang: Catalan
word: atzur
lang: Czech
word: blankyt
lang: Finnish
word: sinitaivas
lang: French
word: azur
lang: Hebrew
word: תְּכֵלֶת
roman: tchélet
lang: Japanese
word: 青天
roman: seiten
lang: Japanese
word: 青空
roman: aozora
lang: Macedonian
word: синевина
roman: sinevina
lang: Malay
word: langit biru
lang: Polish
word: lazur
lang: Polish
word: błękit
lang: Portuguese
word: azul
lang: Russian
word: лазу́рь
roman: lazúrʹ
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: плавѐтнило
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: plavètnilo
lang: Turkish
word: gök