Azure

Noun

 * 1)  A blue colour on a coat of arms, represented in engraving by horizontal parallel lines.
 * 2) The clear blue colour of the sky; also, a pigment or dye of this colour.
 * 3)  The unclouded sky; the blue vault above.
 * 4) Lapis lazuli.
 * 1) Lapis lazuli.

Adjective

 * 1) Sky-blue; resembling the clear blue colour of the unclouded sky; cerulean; also, cloudless.
 * 2)  In blazon, of the colour blue.

Verb

 * 1)  To colour blue.

Adjectives for Azure
kindling; greenish; vivid; intense; clear; glowing; cold; cloudless; ambient; smiling; dazzling; beauteous; palpitating.

Thesaurus
achievement; air; alerion; animal charge; annulet; argent; armorial bearings; armory; arms; azure-blue; azure-colored; azurean; azured; azureness; azureous; bandeau; bar; bar sinister; baton; bearings; bend; bend sinister; beryl-blue; berylline; billet; blazon; blazonry; blue; blue sky; blueness; bluish; bluishness; bordure; broad arrow; cadency mark; caelum; canopy; canopy of heaven; canton; cerulean; ceruleous; cerulescent; chaplet; charge; chevron; chief; coat of arms; cockatrice; cope; coronet; crescent; crest; cross; cross moline; crown; cyanean; cyanosis; dark-blue; deep-blue; device; difference; differencing; eagle; empyrean; ermine; ermines; erminites; erminois; escutcheon; ether; falcon; fess; fess point; field; file; firmament; flanch; fleur-de-lis; fret; fur; fusil; garland; griffin; gules; gyron; hatchment; heaven; heavens; helmet; heraldic device; honor point; hyaline; impalement; impaling; inescutcheon; label; lift; lifts; light-blue; lightish-blue; lion; livid; lividity; lividness; lozenge; mantling; marshaling; martlet; mascle; metal; motto; mullet; nombril point; octofoil; or; ordinary; orle; pale; paly; pavonian; pavonine; peacock-blue; pean; pheon; purpure; quarter; quartering; rose; sable; saltire; sapphire; sapphirine; scutcheon; shield; sky; sky-blue; sky-colored; sky-dyed; spread eagle; starry heaven; subordinary; tenne; the blue; the blue serene; tincture; torse; tressure; turquoise; unicorn; vair; vault; vault of heaven; vert; welkin; wreath; yale

Etymology
azur:, derived from لازورد:, dropping the l as if it were equivalent to the French article l':. The is from  لاجورد:, from the region of Lajward in Turkestan.

Compare with Italian azzurro: and Spanish azul:.

Pronunciation

 * , {{SAMPA|/"{Z@/}}

Alternative forms

 * az., b., bl.

Derived terms

 * azurely
 * azureness
 * azurite
 * azurity