azure

英 ['???; -?j(?)?; 'e?-] 美['???]

GRE擴展詞匯

azure 天藍色的

來自阿拉伯語lazaward, 對應英文lapis lazuli, 指一種在Lajward（地名）發現的天藍色石頭。詞根lap, 石頭，見lapidary, 寶石的，優雅的。

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.

3. From eight to ten tonight he'll be at the Luna Azure up in the Bronx.: 他預定今晚從八點到十點將在布郎克斯區的‘晴空月’飯店.

4. The topmost round of his azure ladder had been reached by this time.: 這個時候,他的藍色梯子的最高一級已經達到.

5. The breathtaking beauty of the rugged California wilderness has been captured under a clear, azure sky.: 明朗蔚藍的天空下面, 加利福尼亞崎嶇的原野美得令人驚嘆不已.