aquamarine

See also: Aquamarine

English

Etymology

From Latin aqua marīna (“sea water”), adjective form from mare (“sea”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌæk.wə.məˈɹiːn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌæk.wə.məˈɹiːn/, /ˌɑ.kwə.məˈɹiːn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -iːn

Noun

aquamarine (countable and uncountable, plural aquamarines)

1. The bluish-green colour of the sea.

   aquamarine:  

2. A transparent bluish-green, sometimes yellow-green, variety of beryl.
   • 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 4, in Crime out of Mind‎^[1]:

     Before we could embark on the details of his mother's health we were joined by a fair, plump woman of indefinite age, who had once been—and at moments still was—very pretty. She wore a simple black silk dress, perhaps in deference to Tilly's death, though the note of mourning was jarred by flamboyant aquamarine ear-rings and too much rouge.

Translations

aquamarine colour

• Arabic: زبرجد (ar) m (zabarjid)
• Azerbaijani: akuamarin
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蓝晶 (zh) (lánjīng), 碧绿色 (bì lǜsè)

• Classical Nahuatl: quilpālli
• Czech: akvamarín (cs) m inan
• Dutch: aquamarijn (nl) n
• Esperanto: akvamarina koloro, akvamarino, akvobluo
• Finnish: akvamariini (fi)
• French: aigue-marine (fr) f
• Georgian: მოცისფრო-მწვანე (mocispro-mc̣vane), ზღვისფერი (zɣvisperi)
• Hungarian: akvamarin (hu)
• Irish: muirghorm m
• Italian: acquamarina (it) f
• Japanese: アクアマリン (ja) (akuamarin)
• Korean: 남록색 (namnoksaek)
• Latvian: akvamarīns m
• Lithuanian: akvamarinas m
• Maltese: akwamarin
• Polish: akwamaryn (pl) m, akwamaryna (pl) f
• Portuguese: água-marinha (pt) f
• Romanian: acvamarin (ro)
• Russian: аквамари́н (ru) m (akvamarín), аквамари́новый (ru) m (akvamarínovyj) (цвет)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: аквамарин m

  Roman: akvamarin (sh) m

• Spanish: aguamarina (es)
• Tagalog: akwamarin m
• Turkish: akvamarin
• Urdu: سمندری پانی m
• Uzbek: akuamarin
• Vietnamese: ngọc xanh biển
• Welsh: gwyrddlas (cy) m

type of beryl

• Bulgarian: аквамарин (bg) (akvamarin)
• Catalan: aiguamarina (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 海藍寶石 / 海蓝宝石 (hǎilán bǎoshí)

• Czech: akvamarín (cs) m inan
• Danish: akvamarin c
• Dutch: aquamarijn (nl) n
• Esperanto: akvamarino
• Finnish: akvamariini (fi)
• French: aigue-marine (fr) f
• German: Aquamarin (de) m
• Hebrew: תַּרְשִׁישׁ (he) m (tarshísh)
• Hungarian: akvamarin (hu)
• Irish: cloch mhuirghorm f
• Italian: acquamarina (it) f
• Japanese: 藍玉 (らんぎょく, rangyoku)
• Kazakh: зәберзат (zäberzat)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: akvamarin (no) m

  Nynorsk: akvamarin m

• Polish: akwamaryn (pl) m, akwamaryna (pl) f
• Portuguese: água-marinha (pt) f
• Romanian: acvamarin (ro) n
• Russian: аквамари́н (ru) m (akvamarín)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: аквамарин m

  Roman: akvamarin (sh) m

• Spanish: aguamarina (es) f
• Swedish: akvamarin (sv) c
• Thai: อะความารีน (à-kwaa-maa-riin)
• Turkish: akvamarin
• Ukrainian: аквамари́н (uk) m (akvamarýn)
• Welsh: morlasfaen m

Adjective

aquamarine (not comparable)

1. Of a bluish-green colour.

Translations

Of a bluish-green color

• Dutch: aquamarijn (nl)
• Esperanto: akvamarina, akvoblua
• German: aquamarin (de), aquamarinblau (de)
• Hungarian: akvamarin (hu)
• Russian: аквамари́новый (ru) (akvamarínovyj), аквамари́нный (ru) (akvamarínnyj)
• Swedish: akvamarin (sv)
• Ukrainian: аквамари́новий (uk) (akvamarýnovyj), аквамари́нний (uk) (akvamarýnnyj)

Derived terms

• Madagascar aquamarine

See also

• maxixe

bluesedit

• Alice blue
• aqua
• aquamarine
• azure
• baby blue
• beryl
• bice
• bice blue
• blueberry
• blue green
• blue violet
• cadet blue
• Cambridge blue
• cerulean
• cobalt blue
• Copenhagen blue
• cornflower
• cornflower blue
• cyan
• dark blue
• Dodger blue
• duck-egg blue
• eggshell blue
• electric blue
• gentian blue
• ice blue
• lapis lazuli
• light blue
• lovat
• mazarine
• midnight blue
• navy
• Nile blue
• Oxford blue
• peacock blue
• petrol blue
• powder blue
• Prussian blue
• robin's-egg blue
• royal blue
• sapphire
• saxe blue
• sky blue
• slate blue
• teal
• turquoise
• ultramarine
• Wedgwood blue
• zaffre

Further reading

• David Barthelmy (1997–2025) “Aquamarine”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
• “aquamarine”, in Mindat.org‎^[2], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2025.

German

Pronunciation

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Adjective

aquamarine

1. inflection of aquamarin:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular