лазурен

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Bulgarian

Etymology

From лазур (lazur, clear sky) +‎ -ен (-en), from Latin lazurium (bright sky), itself borrowed from Arabic لَازَوَرْد (lāzaward, lapis lazuli), via Russian лазу́рь (lazúrʹ). Akin to English azure, Italian azzurro, Spanish azur where the initial #l- is reinterpreted as the definite article l'- and consequently dropped.

Pronunciation

Adjective

лазу́рен (lazúren)

  1. clear, sunny, cloudless (for sky)
  2. azure (color)
    Synonym: небесносин (nebesnosin)
    лазурен:  

Declension

See also

Colors in Bulgarian · цветове (cvetove) (layout · text)
     бял (bjal)      сив (siv), сяр (sjar), сур (sur), грив (griv)      черен (čeren), вран (vran), вакъл (vakǎl), смугъл (smugǎl)
             ален (alen); червен (červen), румен (rumen), риж (riž); багър (bagǎr)              оранжев (oranžev), гранив (graniv), руд (rud); кафяв (kafjav), смядов (smjadov)              жълт (žǎlt); бежов (bežov), кремав (kremav)
             резедав (rezedav)              зелен (zelen)             
             плав (plav)              небесносин (nebesnosin), лазурен (lazuren)              син (sin); модър (modǎr)
             виолетов (violetov), вишняв (višnjav); индиго (indigo)              цикламен (ciklamen); лилав (lilav), пурпурен (purpuren)              розов (rozov)

Further reading

  • Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1986), “лазур”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 3 (крес¹ – мѝнго¹), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 282

References

  • лазурен”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014