أزرق

Color or defect adjective from the root ز ر ق‎ (z-r-q). Compare Ancient Greek γλαυκός (glaukós) for the semantic development.

• IPA^(key): /ʔaz.raq/
  • (Hejazi) IPA^(key): /ʔaz.raɡ/

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أَزْرَق • (ʾazraq) (feminine زَرْقَاء‎ (zarqāʾ), feminine dual زَرْقَاوَانِ‎ (zarqāwāni), common plural زُرْق‎ (zurq))

1. (obsolete) flickering, glinting
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 20:102:

     ‏وَنَحْشُرُ الْمُجْرِمِينَ يَوْمَئِذٍ زُرْقًا‎

     wanaḥšuru l-mujrimīna yawmaʾiḏin zurqan

     We will gather the delinquents that day [with their eyes] glinting [from fear].

2. blue, blue-coloured

See the etymology of the main entry.

أَزْرَقُّ • (ʾazraqqu) (form IX)

1. first-person singular non-past active indicative of اِزْرَقَّ‎ (izraqqa)

أَزْرَقَّ • (ʾazraqqa) (form IX)

1. first-person singular non-past active subjunctive of اِزْرَقَّ‎ (izraqqa)
2. first-person singular non-past active jussive of اِزْرَقَّ‎ (izraqqa)

أَزْرَقِّ • (ʾazraqqi) (form IX)

1. first-person singular non-past active jussive of اِزْرَقَّ‎ (izraqqa)

• Freytag, Georg (1833), “أزرق”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 235
• Müller, Juliane (2013), “Die Farben des Koran. Semantik und Funktion der koranischen Farbbezeichnungen”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎ (in German), volume 163, pages 131–132

From Arabic أَزْرَق‎ (ʾazraq).

• IPA^(key): /ʔazraɡ/

أَزْرَق • (ʼazrag) m

(feminine singular زَرْقا‎ ‎(zarga), plural زُرُق‎ ‎(zurug))

1. blue

أَزْرَق • (ʼazrag) m

(feminine singular زَرْقا‎ ‎(zarga), plural زُرُق‎ ‎(zurug))

1. blue colored