turquoise

• Turkies (archaic)

From Middle French turquoise, from Old French (pierre) turquoise (“Turkish (stone)”), from turc +‎ -ois. The stone, mined near Nishapur in the Khorasan region of Persia, was originally brought to Europe through Turkey. Doublet of Turkish.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtɜː(ɹ).k(w)ɔɪz/, /ˈtɜː(ɹ).k(w)ɔɪs/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtɝ.k(w)ɔɪz/, /ˈtɝ.k(w)ɔɪs/

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turquoise (countable and uncountable, plural turquoises)

2. (countable) A sky-blue, greenish-blue, or greenish-gray semi-precious gemstone.
   • 2012 March, Lee A. Groat, “Gemstones”, in American Scientist‎^[1], volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 14 June 2012, page 128:

     Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are […] . (Common gem materials not addressed in this article include amber, amethyst, chalcedony, garnet, lazurite, malachite, opals, peridot, rhodonite, spinel, tourmaline, turquoise and zircon.)

4. (countable and uncountable) A pale greenish-blue colour, like that of the gemstone.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

     The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.

   turquoise:  

• (colour): blue-green, green-blue, greenish blue, turquoise blue

• bone turquoise
• Bisbee turquoise
• turquoise-browed motmot
• turquoise parrot
• Turquoise Lake

• turquoisish
• turquoisey/turquoisy
• turquoiselike
• turquoised

• turquoise on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

turquoise (comparative more turquoise, superlative most turquoise)

1. Made of turquoise (the gemstone).
2. Having a pale greenish-blue colour.

• augite

Inherited from Old French turquois, from turc +‎ -ois.

• IPA^(key): /tyʁ.kwaz/

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turquoise f (plural turquoises)

2. turquoise (gemstone)

• Greek: τυρκουάζ (tyrkouáz)
• Turkish: turkuaz
• Romanian: turcoază (stone)

turquoise m (plural turquoises)

2. turquoise (colour)

turquoise (invariable)

1. turquoise-colored

• Greek: τυρκουάζ (tyrkouáz)
• Turkish: turkuaz
• Romanian: turcoază (colour)

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

Unadapted borrowing from French turquoise, from Old French turquois, turc +‎ -ois.

turquoise

1. turquoise (a sky-blue, greenish-blue, or greenish-gray semi-precious gemstone)
2. turquoise (a pale greenish-blue colour, like that of the gemstone)

   turquoise:  

• “turquoise” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From French turquoise.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtyrˌkvaːs/, [ˈtyχˌkwaːs]

turquoise (masculine turquoisen, neuter turquoiset, comparative méi turquoise, superlative am turquoisesten)

1. turquoise, cyan, teal (of a greenish blue, often light, colour)

• turcquoise

Inherited from Old French turquois.

turquoise f (plural turquoises)

1. turquoise (precious stone)

• French: turquoise (“gemstone”)
  • Greek: τυρκουάζ (tyrkouáz)
  • Turkish: turkuaz
  • Romanian: turcoază (stone)
  • French: turquoise (“colour”)
    • Greek: τυρκουάζ (tyrkouáz)
    • Turkish: turkuaz
    • Romanian: turcoază (colour)
• → English: turquoise
• → Luxembourgish: turquoise