turquoise

See also: Turquoise

English

WOTD – 5 September 2007

Alternative forms

• Turkies (archaic)

Etymology

Turquoise with quartz (1)

From Middle French Turquoise, from Old French (pierre) turquoise (“Turkish (stone)”), from turc +‎ -ois. The stone, mined near Nishapur in the Khorasan region of Persia, was originally brought to Europe through Turkey.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɜː(ɹ).k(w)ɔɪz/, /ˈtɜː(ɹ).k(w)ɔɪs/
• IPA^(key): /ˈtɚ.k(w)ɔɪz/, /ˈtɚ.k(w)ɔɪs/

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Noun

turquoise (countable and uncountable, plural turquoises)

1. (countable) A sky-blue, greenish-blue, or greenish-gray semi-precious gemstone.
   • 2012 March, Lee A. Groat, “Gemstones”, in American Scientist‎^[1], volume 100, number 2, page 128:

     Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are […] . (Common gem materials not addressed in this article include amber, amethyst, chalcedony, garnet, lazurite, malachite, opals, peridot, rhodonite, spinel, tourmaline, turquoise and zircon.)

2. (countable and uncountable) A pale greenish-blue colour, like that of the gemstone.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess‎^[2]:

     The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.

   turquoise:  

Synonyms

• (colour): blue-green, green-blue, greenish blue, turquoise blue

Derived terms

• bone turquoise

Translations

gemstone

• Arabic: فَيرُوز
• Armenian: փիրուզ (hy) (pʻiruz)
• Avar: пируза (piruza)
• Azerbaijani: firuzə (az)
• Bashkir: фирүзә (firüzə)
• Buryat: оюу (ojuu)
• Catalan: turquesa (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 綠松石／绿松石 (zh) (lǜsōngshí), 绿松石 (zh) (lǜsōngshí)

• Crimean Tatar: feruze
• Czech: tyrkys (cs) m
• Danish: turkis c
• Dutch: turkoois (nl)
• Esperanto: turkiso
• Estonian: türkiis
• Finnish: turkoosi (fi)
• French: turquoise (fr) f
• Galician: turquesa (gl) f
• Georgian: ფირუზი (ka) (piruzi)
• German: Türkis (de) m
• Greek: τυρκουάζ n (tyrkouáz)
• Gujarati: પીરોજ (pīroj)
• Hebrew: טורקיז (he)
• Hindi: फ़िरोज़ा (firozā)
• Hungarian: türkiz (hu)
• Indonesian: pirus (id)
• Italian: turchese (it) m
• Japanese: トルコ石 (toruko ishi), ターコイズ (tākoizu)
• Kalmyk: ойюн (oyyun)
• Karachay-Balkar: файруз (fayruz)
• Karakalpak: piruza
• Kazakh: көктас (köktas)
• Kumyk: перезе (pereze)
• Kurdish:
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• Kyrgyz: бирюза (biryuza)
• Lak: пирузи (piruzi)
• Lezgi: фируз (firuz)
• Lithuanian: turkis
• Malay: firus
• Mongolian: оюу (mn) (ojuu)
• Navajo: dootłʼizhii
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: turkis (no) m

  Nynorsk: turkis m

• Persian: فیروزه (fa) (firuze), پیروزه (fa) (piruze)
• Polish: turkus (pl)
• Portuguese: turquesa (pt) f
• Romanian: turcoază (ro) f, peruzea (ro) f
• Russian: бирюза́ (ru) f (birjuzá)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тиркиз m, модруљ m

  Roman: tirkiz (sh) m, modrulj (sh) m

• Spanish: turquesa (es) f
• Swahili: feruzi
• Swedish: turkos (sv) c
• Tagalog: turkesa
• Tajik: фирӯза (firüza)
• Tatar: фирәзә (tt) (firäzä)
• Turkish: turkuaz (tr), firuze (tr)
• Turkmen: firuza
• Udi: пуьруьз (pürüz)
• Ukrainian: туркус m (turkus), піруза f (piruza), фіруза f (firuza), бірюза (uk) f (birjuza)
• Uyghur:

  Cyrillic: бирйуза (biryuza)

  Persic: بىريۇزا

  Roman: biryuza

• Uzbek: feruza (uz)
• Vietnamese: ngọc lam

colour

• Arabic: فَيْرُوزِيّ m (fayrūziyy)

  Egyptian Arabic: تركواز m (terkwāz)

• Armenian: փիրուզագույն (hy) (pʻiruzaguyn)
• Azerbaijani: firuzəyi (az)
• Bengali: ফিরোজা (phirōja)
• Catalan: turquesa (ca) f
• Czech: tyrkysový (cs) m, tyrkysová (cs) f
• Dutch: turkoois (nl), turkooise
• Finnish: turkoosi (fi)
• French: turquoise (fr) f
• Galician: turquesa (gl) m
• Georgian: ფირუზი (ka) (piruzi)
• German: Türkis (de) n
• Greek: τυρκουάζ n (tyrkouáz)
• Hindi: फ़िरोज़ा (firozā)
• Hungarian: türkiz (hu), türkizkék (hu)
• Icelandic: grænblár (is) m
• Indonesian: toska
• Italian: turchese (it) m
• Japanese: ターコイズブルー (tākoizu burū)
• Kurdish:
• Lithuanian: turkio spalva f
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• Maori: kārikiōrangi
• Mongolian: оюу ногоон өнгө (ojuu nogoon öngö)
• Nahuatl: xihuitl (nah)
• Navajo: dootłʼizhii, dootłʼizh
• Nepali: फेरीज (pherīj)
• Persian: فیروزه‌ای (fa) (firuze-i)
• Portuguese: turquesa (pt) m
• Quechua: anqas umiña
• Romanian: turcoaz (ro)
• Russian: бирюзо́вый (ru) (birjuzóvyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тиркизна f, модруљаста m

  Roman: tirkizna f, modruljasta m

• Spanish: turquesa (es) m
• Swahili: rangi ya feruzi
• Swedish: turkos (sv) c, turkosfärg c
• Tajik: фирӯза (firüza)
• Turkish: turkuaz (tr)
• Ukrainian: туркусова f (turkusova), туркусовий m (turkusovyj), пірузовий m (piruzovyj)
• Vietnamese: xanh thổ, màu ngọc lam, màu lam ngọc

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Bulgarian: ^{(please verify)} тюркоаз m (tjurkoaz)
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• Interlingua: (1, 2) ^{(please verify)} turchese

Further reading

• turquoise on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Adjective

turquoise (comparative more turquoise, superlative most turquoise)

1. Made of turquoise (the gemstone).
2. Having a pale greenish-blue colour.

Translations

made of turquoise

• Armenian: փիրուզե (hy) (pʻiruze)
• Georgian: ფირუზი (ka) (piruzi)
• German: aus Türkis
• Hungarian: türkiz (hu)
• Italian: di turchese m or f
• Japanese: トルコ石の (toruko ishi no)
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• Polish: turkusowy (pl)
• Romanian: de turcoază, de peruzea
• Russian: бирюзо́вый (ru) (birjuzóvyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тиркизан

  Roman: tirkizan

having a pale greenish-blue colour

• Armenian: փիրուզագույն (hy) (pʻiruzaguyn)
• Belarusian: бірузо́вы (biruzóvy)
• Catalan: turquesa (ca)
• Czech: tyrkysový (cs) m
• Danish: turkis
• Dutch: turkoois (nl) n
• Esperanto: turkisa
• Finnish: turkoosi (fi), turkoosinvärinen
• French: turquoise (fr)
• Galician: turquesa (gl)
• Georgian: ფირუზისფერი (piruzisperi)
• German: türkis (de)
• Hindi: फ़िरोज़ा (firozā)
• Hungarian: türkiz (hu), türkizkék (hu)
• Interlingua: turchese
• Italian: turchese (it)
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• Japanese: ターコイズブルーの (tākoizu burū no)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: turkis (no), turkisblå

  Nynorsk: turkis, turkisblå

• Persian: فیروزه‌ای (fa) (firuze-i)
• Polish: turkusowy (pl)
• Portuguese: turquesa (pt), turquesino, turquesado
• Romanian: turcoaz (ro)
• Russian: бирюзо́вый (ru) (birjuzóvyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тиркизан

  Roman: tirkizan

• Spanish: turquesa (es)
• Swedish: turkos (sv), turkosfärgad
• Ukrainian: бірюзо́вий (uk) (birjuzóvyj)

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)}
• augite

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tyʁ.kwaz/

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Noun

turquoise f (plural turquoises)

1. turquoise (gemstone)

Noun

turquoise m (plural turquoises)

1. turquoise (colour)

Adjective

turquoise (invariable)

1. turquoise-colored

Further reading

• “turquoise”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Middle French

Alternative forms

• turcquoise

Noun

turquoise f (plural turquoises)

1. turquoise (precious stone)