azure

• adj.紺碧
• n.スカイブルー; 青空

アラビア語のlazawardから。英語のlapis lazuliに相当し、Lajward（地名）で発見された空色の石。語源のlap（石）については、lapidary（宝石細工）、jewelled（宝石をちりばめた）、elegant（優雅な）を参照。

azure

azure: [14] Azure is of Persian origin. It comes ultimately from Persian lāzhuward, source also of the lazuli in lapis lazuli, a blue semiprecious stone (and azure originally meant ‘lapis lazuli’ in English). The Arabs borrowed the Persian term as (with the definite article al) allazward, which passed into Old Spanish as azur or azul. Old French borrowed azur and handed it on to English.
=> lapis lazuli

azure (n.)

"sky-blue color," early 14c., from Old French azur, asur, a color name, from a false separation of Arabic (al)-lazaward "lapis lazuli," as though the -l- were the French article l'. The Arabic name is from Persian lajward, from Lajward, a place in Turkestan, mentioned by Marco Polo, where the stone was collected.

1. His eyes are azure .

彼の目は空色だった.

2. Azure skies are indicative of good weather.

青空に雲がなく、良い天気を予告している。

3.From eight to ten tonight he 'll be at the Luna Azure up in the Bronx.

彼は今夜8時から10時までブロンクス区の「晴れた月」ホテルに滞在する予定だ。

4.The topmost round of his azure ladder had been reached by this time.

この時、彼の青い梯子の最高レベルはすでに達成されていた。

5.The breathtaking beauty of the rugged California wilderness has been captured under a clear， azure sky.

明るい真っ青な空の下、カリフォルニアの険しい野原は驚くほど美しい。