azul

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azul

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From Arabic لَازُوَرْد (lāzuward, “lapis lazuli”), from Persian لاجورد (lâjvard, “lapis lazuli”).

• IPA^(key): /aˈθul/
• Rhymes: -ul
• Syllabification: a‧zul

azul (plural azuls)

1. blue

• “azul”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)

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azul

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From Arabic لَازُوَرْد (lāzuward, “lapis lazuli”), from Persian لاجورد (lâjvard, “lapis lazuli”).

azul (epicene, plural azules)

1. blue

azul

1. blue

From Old Galician-Portuguese azur (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Arabic لَازُوَرْد (lāzuward, “lapis lazuli”), from Persian لاجورد (lâjvard, “lapis lazuli”).

• Rhymes: -ul

azul m or f (plural azuis)

1. blue (colour)

   Unha de cor azul, as outras son de vermella.

   One is blue, the others are red.

• The plural may also be azules.

azul m (plural azuis)

1. (countable and uncountable) azure, blue (colour)
2. (heraldry) azure

   Synonym: blao (obsolete)

   • 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 308:

     rreluzíã cõtra o ssol os escudos, que erã pintados de ouro et de azur

     the shields, painted in gold and azure, glittered against the sun

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “azur”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “azur”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “azul”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “azul”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “azul”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Portuguese azul. Cognate with Kabuverdianu azul.

azul

1. blue

From Portuguese azul.

azul

1. blue

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azul

1. hello

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azul (plural azules)

1. blue

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azul

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From Old Galician-Portuguese azur (“blue”), from Arabic لَازُوَرْد (lāzuward, “lapis lazuli”), from Persian لاجورد (lâjvard, “lapis lazuli”). Doublet of azur, from French.

Compare with Galician azul (“blue”), Spanish azul (“blue”), French azur (“azure”), Italian azzurro (“blue”) and English azure.

• (Brazil)
  • (Fluminense, brasiliense, florianopolitano, capixaba) IPA^(key): /ɐ.ˈzuw/
  • (Riverense Portuñol, gaúcho da pampa) IPA^(key): /a.ˈzul/
• Rhymes: (Portugal) -ul, (Brazil) -uw
• Hyphenation: a‧zul

azul m or f (plural azuis)

1. blue

azul m (plural azuis)

1. blue

• (blues) azul; azul céu, azul gelo, safira ^{(Categories: pt:Colors, pt:Blues)}

• “azul”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “azul”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025

• açul (archaic)

Inherited from Old Spanish azur, from Arabic لَازُوَرْد (lāzuward, “lapis lazuli”), from Persian لاجورد (lâjvard, “lapis lazuli”). Doublet of azur, from French. Cognate with English azure.

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /aˈθul/
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /aˈsul/
• Rhymes: -ul
• Syllabification: a‧zul

azul m or f (masculine and feminine plural azules)

1. blue

   Synonym: (obsolete) blao

azul m (plural azules)

1. blue

   Synonym: (obsolete) blao

2. (Mexico, US, Philippines) a police officer

• “azul”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Possibly from Tuareg ăhul (“to send a greeting”), coined by Mammeri Mouloud.

azul

1. (neologism) hello

Borrowed from Moroccan Amazigh azul (“hello”), from Zenaga azul (“peace”)

azul

1. hello

Le Zenega des Tribus Senegalaises: Contribution a l'etude de la langue Berbere by Faidherbe Leon. page 80.

Borrowed from Spanish azul.

azul

1. blue

• Long C., Rebecca, Cruz M., Sofronio (2000) Diccionario zapoteco de San Bartolomé Zoogocho, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 38)‎ (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Coyoacán, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 3