azulejo

Borrowed from Spanish azulejo.

azulejo (plural azulejos)

1. A painted tin-glazed ceramic tile of a kind found in Spain and Portugal, often arranged to form geometric patterns.

From Spanish azulejo.

azulejo m (plural azulejos)

1. a blue tile (used on walls)

• “azulejo” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Borrowed from Spanish azulejo, from Arabic اَلزُّلَيْج‎ (az-zulayj, “polished stone”), formed as a diminutive of زُلُج‎ (zuluj, “smooth rocks”)

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.zu.ˈlɐ(j).ʒu/, /ɐ.zu.ˈlɛ.ʒu/, /ɐ.zu.ˈle.ʒu/
• Hyphenation: a‧zu‧le‧jo

azulejo m (plural azulejos)

1. tile

• “azulejo” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

• (Castilian) IPA^(key): /aθuˈlexo/
• (Latin America) IPA^(key): /asuˈlexo/

From azul.

azulejo (feminine singular azuleja, masculine plural azulejos, feminine plural azulejas)

1. blue colored

• azulado

From Andalusian Arabic [script needed] (azzuláyj(a)), from Arabic اَلزُّلَيْج‎ (az-zulayj, “polished stone”), formed as a diminutive of زُلُج‎ (zuluj, “smooth rocks”)

azulejo m (plural azulejos)

1. tile (of a wall or floor)

   Synonym: baldosa

2. indigo bunting, Passerina cyanea
3. cornflower, Centaurea cyanus

   Synonym: aciano

• azulejar

• → English: azulejo
• → French: azulejo
• → Portuguese: azulejo

See the etymology of the main entry.

azulejo

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of azulejar.

• “azulejo” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.