cyan

See also: Cyan and cyan-

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κύανος (kúanos), possibly a loanword, but more likely from Proto-Indo-European *ḱʷei- (“to shine, white, light”) and cognate with Hittite [script needed] (kuwannan-, “precious stone, copper, blue”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaɪˌæn/, /ˈsaɪ.ən/, /saɪˈæn/

• Audio (RP)

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Noun

cyan (countable and uncountable, plural cyans)

1. A vibrant pale greenish-blue colour between blue and green in the visible spectrum; the complementary colour of red; the colour obtained by subtracting red from white light.

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Translations

a colour between blue and green

• Afrikaans: siaan
• Arabic: سَمَاوِيّ‎ m (samāwiyy)

  Moroccan Arabic: سماوي‎ (smāwi)

• Azerbaijani: mavi (az)
• Bashkir: зәңгәр (zäñgär)
• Bengali: সায়ান (śaẏan)
• Bulgarian: циан m (cian), синьо-зелен цвят (sinjo-zelen cvjat)
• Burmese: စိမ်းပြာရောင် (cim:praraung)
• Catalan: cian (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 青色 (zh) (qīngsè)

• Czech: cyan (cs) m
• Dutch: cyaan (nl) n, appelblauwzeegroen (nl) n
• Esperanto: ciankoloro, cejanbluo
• Faroese: blágrønur
• Finnish: sinivihreä (fi), syaani (fi)
• French: cyan (fr) m
• Galician: ciano (gl)
• German: Aquamarin (de) n, Zyan (de) n, blaugrün (de)
• Greek: κυανός (el) m (kyanós)
• Hindi: आसमानी (hi) (āsmānī)
• Ido: ciana (io)
• Indonesian: langit biru
• Interlingua: cyano, cyano blau
• Irish: cian m, cianghorm m
• Italian: ciano (it) m
• Japanese: 水色 (ja) (みずいろ, mizu-iro), シアン (shian), 青緑色 (あおみどりいろ, aomidori-iro)
• Kazakh: циан (cïan)
• Khmer: និលហរិត (nil hak rit)
• Korean: 청록색 (cheongnoksaek)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: sayan (ku)

• Kyrgyz: көгүлтүр (ky) (qögültür)
• Lao: ສີຟ້າເຄົ້າ (sī fā khao)
• Luganda: bululu
• Malagasy: ohatra tsy ampy
• Malay: langit biru
• Maori: kārikiōrangi
• Mongolian: шар хөх өнгө (shar khökh öngö)
• Nepali: सियान (siyān)
• Persian: آبی دریایی‎ (âbi-daryâyi), سیان‎ (fa) (siyân), زنگاری‎ (fa) (zangâri)
• Polish: turkus (pl) m inan, cyjan m
• Portuguese: turquesa (pt) f, ciano (pt) m
• Romanian: azur (ro) m, cyan (ro) n
• Russian: бирюзо́вый (ru) m (birjuzóvyj)
• Rwanda-Rundi: uburubu
• Scottish Gaelic: saidhean m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тиркизна f

  Roman: tirkizna f

• Sinhalese: සයන් (sayan)
• Somali: baxri
• Spanish: cian (es) m
• Swahili: cyan
• Swedish: cyan (sv), cyanfärg, turkos (sv), turkosfärg
• Tagalog: siyano
• Tsonga: wasi-lwandle
• Tswana: saeyene
• Turkish: camgöbeği (tr)
• Vietnamese: xanh lơ (vi)
• Volapük: please add this translation if you can
• Wolof: baxa (wo)

Adjective

cyan (comparative more cyan, superlative most cyan)

1. Of the colour cyan.

Translations

of the colour cyan

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 青色的 (zh) (qīngsè de)

• Czech: azurový (cs) m
• Dutch: cyaankleurig
• Esperanto: ciankolora, cejana
• Faroese: blágrønur
• Finnish: sinivihreä (fi), syaanin värinen
• French: turquois (fr)
• German: türkis (de) (common); zyan (specialist use only)
• Greek: κυανός (el) (kyanós)
• Icelandic: blágrænn (is)
• Ido: ciana (io)

• Japanese: シアン色の (shian’iro no)
• Khmer: និលហរិត (nil hak rit)
• Maori: kārikiōrangi
• Persian: سبزآبی‎
• Polish: turkusowy (pl), cyjanowy
• Portuguese: ciano (pt) m
• Russian: голубо́й (ru) (golubój), бирюзовый (ru) m (birjuzovyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: saidhean
• Spanish: cian (es)
• Swedish: cyan (sv), cyanfärgad, turkos (sv), turkosfärgad
• Welsh: gwyrddlas (cy)

Derived terms

• haemocyanin, hemocyanin

Related terms

• cyan-
• cyano-

See also

• (blues) blue; Alice blue, aqua, aquamarine, azure, baby blue, beryl, bice, bice blue, blue green, blue violet, blueberry, 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, slate blue, sky blue, teal, turquoise, ultramarine, Wedgwood blue, zaffre ^{(Category: en:Blues)}

Further reading

• cyan on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• -ancy, cany

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡sɪjan]

Noun

cyan m

1. (printing) cyan

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French

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κύανος (kúanos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sjɑ̃/

• Audio

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Noun

cyan m (plural cyans)

1. cyan (color)

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Swedish

Adjective

cyan

1. cyan (colour)

Synonyms

• cyanfärgad

Noun

cyan

1. cyan (colour)
2. (colloquial) Almost any chemical compound containing a cyanide group; especially if this compound is in gaseous state.

Synonyms

• (colour): cyanfärg

Derived terms

• cyanblå

See also

• blågrön
• cyankalium
• cyanid
• cyanväte
• turkos