Meaning
1 sensesTo colour blue.
- color azure
Examples
5 sentencesThere are green rocks in the azure box.
I was mesmerized by the sheer beauty of her azure eyes.
The wheat fields are a golden yellow, and the sky an azure blue.
deDie Weizenfelder sind goldgelb, und der Himmel ist azurblau. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
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. — Yorwba
Azure blue, green, yellow, let's add the red aza, here is the Amazigh flag!
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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Forms
azures, azuring, azured, azuredLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle