azur

azur (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of azure (“blue tincture in heraldry”).

azur inan

1. Biscayan form of hezur (“bone”)

• R. L. Trask (2008) “azur”, in Max W. Wheeler, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Basque, University of Sussex, page 191

Inherited from Old French azur, borrowed from Medieval Latin azurium, from Arabic لَازُوَرْد (lāzuward, “lapis lazuli”), from Persian لاجورد (lâjvard, “lapis lazuli”).

• IPA^(key): /a.zyʁ/

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azur m (plural azurs)

1. (heraldry) azure (blue color)

   Synonym: bleu

• Côte d'Azur

• “azur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

azur

1. alternative form of asure

From an earlier *lazul or *lazur, which was then rebracketed so as to interpret initial l- as the article l' contracted from le; from Medieval Latin lazulum, from Arabic لَازَوَرْد (lāzaward), from Classical Persian لَاجَوَرْد (lājaward).

azur oblique singular, m (oblique plural azurs, nominative singular azurs, nominative plural azur)

1. (heraldry) azure (blue color)
   • c. 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:

     Qui est li chevaliers armez
     D'unes armes d'azur et d'or[?]

     Who is the knight armed
     With armaments of azure and of gold?

• French: azur
• → Middle English: asure, asur, asour, azur, azour, azure
  • English: azure
  • Scots: asure
  • → Welsh: asur
• → Portuguese: azur
• → Spanish: azur

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

• IPA^(key): /aˈd͡zuɾ/

azur m or f

1. azure, blue

azur m (plural azurs)

1. azure, blue
   • a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 384 (facsimile):

     ⁊ a outra dazur era / coor mui marauilloſa / que ao çeo ſemella […]

     And the other was blue / a marvelous colour / which resembles the sky […]

• Galician: azul
• Portuguese: azul

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

• IPA^(key): /aˈd͡zuɾ/

azur (plural azures)

1. blue

azur m (plural azures)

1. blue

• Spanish: azul

• azure

Borrowed from French azur, from Old French azur, from Arabic لَازُوَرْد (lāzuward, “lapis lazuli”), from Persian لاجورد (lâjvard, “lapis lazuli”). Doublet of azul.

• Hyphenation: a‧zur

azur m (plural azures)

1. (heraldry) azure (the blue colour)
   • (Can we date this quote?), Grande enciclopédia portuguesa e brasileira, volume 3, Editorial Enciclopédia, page 962:

     Actualmente, as fábricas de corantes produzem azur muito puro.

     Currently, dye factories produce a very pure azure.

   • 1984, Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro, Anais do Congresso de História do Segundo Reinado: Comissão de Genealogia e Heráldica, Comissão de História Jurídica, Comissão de História Cultural, Comissão de História Religiosa, page 74:

     No escudo do prelado maranhense os atributos das armas originais foram transformados e dispostos em um escudo cortado em faixa, figurando no 1º quartel quatro faixas ondadas de azul em campo de prata, e no 2º quarto flores de lis também de prata, posta 2 em 2, em campo de azur, com bordadura de vermelho pleno.

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   • 2001, Antonio Miranda, Manucho e o labirinto, Global, page 37:

     Em seu brasão de família havia dragões de ouro e ostentava a branda e escudetes de sinople e azur, […]

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   • 1992, Eugenio Vergara Caffarelli, As moedas do Brasil desde o Reino Unido, 1818-1992: ilustrado com 690 fotografias, page 18:

     O vermelho ou goles se representa por linhas perpendiculares (fig. 1). O azul ou azur, por linhas horizontais (fig. 2).

     Red or gules is represented by perpendicular lines (fig. 1). Blue or azure, by horizontal lines (fig. 2).

   • (Can we date this quote?), Valton Sergio von Tempski-Silka, Histórico dos Brasões e Bandeiras do Estado do Paraná, page 18:

     Esmalte: as cores do brasão que não são metais: azul = azur, blau; verde = sinople, sinopla; preto = sable; vermelho = goles etc.

     Color: the tinctures of the blazon which are not metals: blue = azure; green = vert; black = sable; red = gules etc.

   Synonyms: blau, azul

• azul

Borrowed from French azur.

• IPA^(key): /aˈzur/

azur n (uncountable)

1. azure, light-blue, sky-blue

Borrowed from French azur, from Old French azur, from Arabic لَازُوَرْد (lāzuward, “lapis lazuli”), from Persian لاجورد (lâjvard, “lapis lazuli”). Doublet of azul.

• IPA^(key): /aˈθuɾ/ [aˈθuɾ] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /aˈsuɾ/ [aˈsuɾ] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -uɾ
• Syllabification: a‧zur

azur m or f (masculine and feminine plural azures)

1. azure (sky-blue coloured)
2. (heraldry) azure

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

azur c

1. azure (color)
2. (poetic) azure (clear blue sky or space above (or the sea or the like))

• himmelsblå (“sky blue”)

• azur in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• azur in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• azur in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)