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1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.1.1 Homophones 1.2 Adjective 1.2.1 Translations 1.2.1.1 Translations to be checked 1.3 Noun 1.4 See also 1.4.1 Translations 1.5 Derived terms 2 Multilingual associations

English

Pronunciation

• bloo͞, /bluː/, /blu:/

Homophones

• blew

Adjective

blue (comparative bluer, superlative bluest)

1. Of the colour blue.
2. (colloquial) Depressed, melancholic.
3. (British colloquial) (of a film, etc) Pornographic.

Translations

of the colour blue

Albanian: kaltërt Bosnian: plava f Breton: glas Bulgarian: син m Catalan: blau m, blava f Chinese: 蓝 (lán) Czech: modrý Danish: blå Dutch: blauw, blauwe Esperanto: blua Estonian: sinine Finnish: sininen French: bleu m, bleue f, bleus m plural, bleues f plural Frisian: blau German: blau Greek: μπλε (ble) Hebrew: כחול Hungarian: kék Icelandic: blár Indonesian: biru Irish: gorm Italian: (dark blue) blu m, f and plural; (sky blue) azzurro m, azzurra f

Japanese: 青い (あおい, aoi) Latin: caeruleus m, caerulea f, caeruleum n Latvian: zils Macedonian: сина Norwegian: blåfarge Persian: آبی (ābi) Polish: niebieski, (sky blue) błękit Portuguese: azul Russian: синий, (light blue) голубой Serbian: plava Slovak: belasý, modrý Slovene: moder m, modra f, modro n Spanish: azul, (light blue) celeste Swedish: blå Tok Pisin: blu Turkish: mavi Vietnamese: xanh (blue or green), xanh lam Welsh: glas

colloquial: depressed

Dutch: teneergeslagen, depressief, depressieve Finnish: alakuloinen

colloquial: pornographic

Finnish: pornografinen

Translations to be checked

The translations below need to be checked by native speakers and inserted into the appropriate table(s) above. The numbering is not necessarily reliable.

• Bulgarian: потиснат m (2), депресиран m (2)
• German: traurig (2)

Noun

blue (plural blues)

1. The colour/color of the clear sky or the deep sea, between green and violet in the visible spectrum, and one of the primary additive colours/colors for transmitted light; the colour obtained by subtracting red and green from white light using magenta and cyan filters.

blue colour:

See also

• Appendix:Colours

Translations

colour/color

Albanian: kaltërt Breton: glas Catalan: blau m Chinese: 蓝色 (lánsè) Czech: modř Danish: blå Dutch: blauw n Esperanto: blu Estonian: sinine Finnish: sininen, sini (oldfashioned, in compounds) French: bleu m Frisian: blau German: Blau n Greek: μπλε (ble) Hebrew: כחול /kahol'/ Hungarian: kék Icelandic: blár Indonesian: biru Irish: gorm Italian: (dark blue) blu m; (sky blue) azzurro m

Japanese: 青 (あお, ao) Latin: caerulus Latvian: zils Macedonian: сина Norwegian: blåfarge Persian: آبی (ābi) Polish: niebieski, (sky blue) błękit Portuguese: azul Russian: синий /siniy/, (light blue) голубой /goluboy/ Serbian: plava Slovak: modrá e.g. berlínska modrá Slovene: modra f Spanish: azul, (light blue) celeste Swedish: blå Turkish: mavi Vietnamese: xanh (blue or green), xanh lam Welsh: glas

Derived terms

• the blues
• bluish
• blue-blooded
• blue-chip
• blue movie
• blue pencil
• blue note
• blueprint
• bluestocking
• blue whale
• blue wren
• baby blue
• between the devil and the deep blue sea
• black and blue
• bolt from the blue
• dark blue
• in a blue funk
• light blue
• once in a blue moon
• out of the blue
• scream blue murder
• sky blue
• steel blue
• true-blue
• until one is blue in the face

Multilingual associations

• Russian: blue colour колыбели /kol'beli/ (of cradle)