Meaning

6 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The clear blue colour of the sky; also, a pigment or dye of this colour.

    Himmelblau, Azurblau

    лазу́рьlazúrʹ, лазу́рныйlazúrnyj

    лазу́рlazúr, блаки́тьblakýtʹ, голубі́ньholubínʹ

  2. (countable, uncountable)A blue colour on a coat of arms, represented in engraving by horizontal parallel lines.

    Blau

    лазу́рьlazúrʹ

  3. (countable, poetic, uncountable)The unclouded sky; the blue vault above.

  4. (countable, uncountable)Any of various widely distributed lycaenid butterflies of the genus Celastrina.

  5. (countable, uncountable)Any of various Australasian lycaenid butterflies of the genus Ogyris.

  6. (countable, uncountable)Lapis lazuli.

More definitions
  • a light shade of blue

Examples

5 sentences
  1. There are green rocks in the azure box.

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  2. I was mesmerized by the sheer beauty of her azure eyes.

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  3. The wheat fields are a golden yellow, and the sky an azure blue.

    deDie Weizenfelder sind goldgelb, und der Himmel ist azurblau.

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  4. She had azure hair and a face white as wax. Her eyes were closed and her hands crossed on her breast.

    deSie hatte himmelblaue Haare und ein wachsbleiches Gesicht. Ihre Augen waren geschlossen und ihre Hände vor der Brust verschränkt.

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  5. Azure blue, green, yellow, let's add the red aza, here is the Amazigh flag!

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
colour of the sky:
Русский
By meaning 2
the blue sky:
colour of the sky:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
colour of the sky:
blue colour on a coat of arms:

Origin

From Middle English asure, from Old French azur, derived from Arabic لَازَوَرْد (lāzaward,

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.

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