azure
pronunciation
How to pronounce azure in British English:
UK [ˈæʒə(r)]
How to pronounce azure in American English:
US [ˈæʒɚ]
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- Noun:
- a light shade of blue
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- Verb:
- color azure
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- Adjective:
- of a deep somewhat purplish blue color similar to that of a clear October sky
Word Origin
- azure
- azure: [14] Azure is of Persian origin. It comes ultimately from Persian lāzhuward, source also of the lazuli in lapis lazuli, a blue semiprecious stone (and azure originally meant ‘lapis lazuli’ in English). The Arabs borrowed the Persian term as (with the definite article al) allazward, which passed into Old Spanish as azur or azul. Old French borrowed azur and handed it on to English.=> lapis lazuli
- azure (n.)
- "sky-blue color," early 14c., from Old French azur, asur, a color name, from a false separation of Arabic (al)-lazaward "lapis lazuli," as though the -l- were the French article l'. The Arabic name is from Persian lajward, from Lajward, a place in Turkestan, mentioned by Marco Polo, where the stone was collected.
Example
- 1. Azure water , golden sand beaches , granite peaks and tumbling waterfalls make this region a photographer 's heaven .
- 2. Note the cloudless , azure blue sky , which contrasts nicely with the winter snow pack and the evergreen boughs .
- 3. The azure waters at the foot of the red sea lapping southwards round the horn of africa are now the most dangerous in the world .
- 4. It 's beautiful , you should see it - infinity pools , white walls and azure skies .
- 5. When you consider that the boydton site iswithin spitting distance of the nation 's capitol , office 365 and azure are likely tenants .