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interestingly, apparently "azul" also comes from the arabic "lāzuward"

• vasco 2mo ago
  I always thought it came from lapis lazuli (portuguese). Azul as a subpar of Lazuli even sounds exactly the same in portuguese.
  • dgellow 2mo ago
    In french we have “azur”
  • wvbdmp 2mo ago
    Lapis Lazuli is cognate, both come from the same Arabic/Persian root. Apparently “azure”, “azul”, “azzurro” lost the L because it got confused with the common “l’” article,
    • decimalenough 2mo ago
      Rebracketing strikes again! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebracketing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebracketing
  • nudpiedo 2mo ago
    And the word from arabic comes, for both of them comes from persian for hte term lapis lazuli (lāžward) and suposedly this comes from sanskrit... but I ignore how it may sound in sanskrit.