أزرق

Color or defect adjective from the root ز ر ق (z-r-q). Compare Ancient Greek γλαυκός (glaukós) for the semantic development.

• IPA^(key): /ʔaz.raq/

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أَزْرَق • (ʔazraq) (feminine زَرْقَاء (zarqāʔ), feminine dual زَرْقَاوَانِ (zarqāwāni), common plural زُرْق (zurq))

1. (obsolete) flickering, glinting
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 20:102:

     وَنَحْشُرُ الْمُجْرِمِينَ يَوْمَئِذٍ زُرْقًا

     wanaḥšuru l-mujrimīna yawmaʔiḏin zurqan

     We will gather the delinquents that day glinting .

2. blue, blue-coloured

• لَوْن (lawn)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

أزرق (form IX)

1. أَزْرَقُّ (ʔazraqqu) /ʔaz.raq.qu/: first-person singular non-past active indicative of اِزْرَقَّ (izraqqa)
2. أَزْرَقَّ (ʔazraqqa) /ʔaz.raq.qa/: first-person singular non-past active subjunctive/jussive of اِزْرَقَّ (izraqqa)
3. أَزْرَقِّ (ʔazraqqi) /ʔaz.raq.qi/: first-person singular non-past active jussive of اِزْرَقَّ (izraqqa)

• Freytag, Georg (1833) “أزرق”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 235
• Müller, Juliane (2013) “Die Farben des Koran. Semantik und Funktion der koranischen Farbbezeichnungen”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎ (in German), volume 163, pages 131–132

From Arabic أَزْرَق (ʔazraq).

• IPA^(key): /ʔazraɡ/

أزرق • (ʔazrag) m

1. blue

أزرق • (ʔazrag) (feminine زرقا (zarga), common plural زرق (zurug))

1. blue colored

• IPA^(key): /ʔazarriɡ/,

أَزَرِّق • (ʔazarrig)

1. first-person singular active present of زَرَّق (zarrag)

From Arabic أَزْرَق (ʔazraq).

• IPA^(key): (Urban) /ʔaz.raʔ/,
• IPA^(key): (Bedouin) /ʔaz.raɡ/,

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أزرق • (ʔazraʔ) (feminine زرقا (zarʔa), masculine plural زرق (zurʔ))

1. blue