English [ edit ]
Etymology [ edit ]
blue + gray
Adjective [ edit ]
blue -gray (comparative more blue-gray , superlative most blue-gray )
Of a bluish grey color .
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Translations [ edit ]
color — see also the hyponyms listed above
Bashkir: аҡбуҙ ( aqbuź ) ( of horses ) , күк ( kük ) ( can mean 'blue', 'gray', 'blue-gray', or 'green' )
Dutch: blauwgrijs (nl)
Faroese: blágráur
Finnish: siniharmaa (fi)
German: blaugrau (de) , graublau (de) , taubenblau (de)
Greek:
Ancient: γλαυκός m ( glaukós )
Irish: glas (ga)
Japanese: ブルーグレー ( burū gurē ) , 鳩羽色 ( はとばいろ, hatobairo ) ( literally "pigeon-wing color" )
Latin: caesius (la) , glaucus (la)
Latvian: pelēkzilā
Lithuanian: šėmas ( of animals )
Manchu: ᡴᡠᡴᡠ ( kuku )
Middle Persian: kpwt' ( kabōd )
Ossetian: ӕхси́н ( æxsín ) ( dark grey; blue-gray )
Persian: کبود (fa) ( kabôd ) ( blue-gray or blue ) , خشین (fa) ( xašin ) ( ashen, gray; gray-blue, dark blue )
Polish: siny (pl) ( pejorative )
Russian: си́зый (ru) ( sízyj ) ( dove-coloured, warm grey, bluish ) , се́ро-голубо́й ( séro-golubój )
Scots: blae
Serbo-Croatian: си̑њӣ , sȋnjī (sh) ( gray, gray-blue, sea-colored )
Swedish: åskblå ( dark gray-blue, literally "thunder[storm sky] color" )
Turkish: çakır (tr) ( of eyes )
Uzbek: shahlo (uz) ( blue-gray or dark blue )
Welsh: glaslwyd , glas (cy) ( blue or blue-gray )
See also [ edit ]
perse ( “ dark greyish blue (or purple) ” )
blunket ( “ a color, generally a light bluish gray or blue or gray ” ) , gainsboro ( “ light bluish grey colour ” ) , gunmetal ( “ dark grey or bluish-grey colour ” ) , petrol blue ( “ greyish blue colour, tinted with green ” )
caesious ( “ blue very low in chroma ” ) , glaucous ( “ pale green with a bluish-grey tinge ” )
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