azure的词源
英文词源
- 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.
中文词源
azure（蔚蓝）：盛产青金石的阿富汗地名
英语单词azure（蔚蓝）来自盛产青金石的阿富汗某地名。青金石是一种较为罕有的宝石，因其亮丽的蓝色而尤为珍贵，是一种古老的饰品原料，常被用来祭天。在埃及前王朝就曾发现古老的青金石饰品。
历史上，阿富汗的巴达赫尚地区是最有名的青金石出产地，其出产青金石的历史已经超过六千年。拉丁文中，青金石被称为Lapis lazuli，意思就是stone of lazuli。而lazuli来自阿拉伯语lazaward，后者来自波斯语lajward，是古代波斯人对阿富汗巴达赫尚地区某盛产青金石的地方的称呼。这个地方曾在马可波罗游记中提到。英语中的azure、法语中的azur、西班牙语及葡萄牙语中的azul以及意大利语中的azzurro都来自这个地名。由于青金石以湛蓝色的颜色闻名，所以azure一词逐渐用来表示这种独特的颜色。
azure： ['æʒə; -ʒj(ʊ)ə; 'eɪ-] adj.蔚蓝色的n.天蓝色，碧空
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：azure 词源，azure 含义。
来自阿拉伯语lazaward, 对应英文lapis lazuli, 指一种在Lajward（地名）发现的天蓝色石头。词根lap, 石头，见lapidary, 宝石的，优雅的。
