azul

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)

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”).

• IPA^(key): /aˈθul/, (western) /aˈsul/

azul m or f (plural azuis)

1. blue (colour)

The plural may also be azules.

• azul mariño
• azulado
• azular
• azulexo

azul m (plural azuis)

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

• “azur” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “azur” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “azul” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “azul” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “azul” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Portuguese azul. Cognate with Kabuverdianu azul.

azul

1. blue

From Portuguese azul.

azul

1. blue

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

azul

1. hello

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

azul (plural azules)

1. blue

• AEDLL

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)}

• 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/ [aˈθul]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /aˈsul/ [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) a police officer

• → Cebuano: asul
• → Mecayapan Nahuatl: aso̱ltiꞌ
• → Tagalog: asul
• → Tlamacazapa Nahuatl: asol
• → Zoogocho Zapotec: azul

• “azul”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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

azul

1. (neologism) hello

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