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Dictionary: blue (blū) pronunciation

The hue of that portion of the visible spectrum lying between green and indigo, evoked in the human observer by radiant energy with wavelengths of approximately 420 to 490 nanometers; any of a group of colors that may vary in lightness and saturation, whose hue is that of a clear daytime sky; one of the additive or light primaries; one of the psychological primary hues.
1. A pigment or dye imparting this hue.
2. Bluing.
1. An object having this hue.
2. Dress or clothing of this hue: The ushers wore blue.
1. A person who wears a blue uniform.
2. blues A dress blue uniform, especially that of the U.S. Army.
often Blue
1. A member of the Union Army in the Civil War.
2. The Union Army.
A bluefish.
A small blue butterfly of the family Lycaenidae.
1. The sky.
2. The sea.

adj., blu·er, blu·est.

Of the color blue.
Bluish or having parts that are blue or bluish, as the blue spruce and the blue whale.
Having a gray or purplish color, as from cold or contusion.
Wearing blue.
1. Gloomy; depressed. See synonyms at depressed.
2. Dismal; dreary: a blue day.
Puritanical; strict.
Aristocratic; patrician.
Indecent; risqué: a blue joke; a blue movie.

tr. & intr.v., blued, blu·ing, blues.

To make or become blue.

idioms:

blue in the face

At the point of extreme exasperation: I argued with them until I was blue in the face.

into the blue

At a far distance; into the unknown: spontaneously take a trip into the blue.

out of the blue

From an unexpected or unforeseen source: criticism that came out of the blue.
At a completely unexpected time: a long-unseen friend who appeared out of the blue.

[Middle English blue, bleu, from Old French bleu, of Germanic origin.]

bluely blue'ly adv.
blueness blue'ness n.

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adjective

In low spirits: dejected, depressed, desolate, dispirited, down, downcast, downhearted, dull, dysphoric, gloomy, heavy-hearted, low, melancholic, melancholy, sad, spiritless, tristful, unhappy, wistful. Idioms: downatinthe mouth. See happy/unhappy.
Dark and depressing: black, bleak, cheerless, dark, desolate, dismal, dreary, gloomy, glum, joyless, somber, tenebrific. See happy/unhappy, light/darkness.
Tending to cause sadness or low spirits: cheerless, depressing, dismal, dispiriting, gloomy, joyless, melancholy, sad. See happy/unhappy.
Bordering on indelicacy or impropriety: earthy, off-color, provocative, racy, risqué, salty, scabrous, spicy, suggestive. See decent/indecent.

Idioms: blue

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Idioms beginning with blue:
blue in the face

See also between a rock and a hard place (devil and deep blue sea); black and blue; bolt from the blue; have the blues; into thin air (the blue); like greased lightning (a blue streak); once in a blue moon; out of a clear blue sky; talk one's arm off (a blue streak; until blue in the face).

Antonyms: blue

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adj

Definition: sad
Antonyms: gay, happy, joyful, joyous, lighthearted, upbeat

adj

Definition: vulgar
Antonyms: clean, decent, unvulgar

English Folklore: blue

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In current folklore, blue is either a gender marker for the clothing of baby boys, or a colour associated with loyalty and true love, and hence lucky for brides, who must wear:

Something old, something new,
Something borrowed, something blue.

In the days when bridal dresses were not necessarily white, blue was a good colour to choose:

Marry in blue,
Your love will be true.

This meaning is derived from the rhyme ‘blue/true’, which has been noticed from the Middle Ages onwards; Chaucer refers to blue drapery as a ‘signe of trouthe that is in wommen sene’ (‘The Squire's Tale’, l. 645).

Celtic Mythology: blue

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The colour of the sky on a cloudless day, or azure, is often associated with sovereignty or kingship in Celtic tradition, especially in Ireland where the heraldic flag of Irish kings, surviving as the modern presidential flag, has a blue background. See also the many significant women named Gormlaith [Old Irish gorm flaith, blue sovereignty]. The Celtic words for blue do not always denote the same shades as are implied in English. Old Irish and ModIr., Scottish Gaelic gorm; Manx gorrym; Welsh glas; Cornish glas; Breton glas.

Veterinary Dictionary: blue

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1. a color between green and violet in the visible spectrum; the color of the clear sky.
2. a silver-gray coat color. A description often used in dogs and cats, and some breeds of cattle.

Word Tutor: blue

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IN BRIEF: Low in spirits; sad. Also: The color of the sky on a sunny day.

He was extremely blue when his hamster died.

Wikipedia: Blue

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This article is about the colour. For other uses, see Blue (disambiguation).

Blue

— Spectral coordinates —
Wavelength		440–490 nm
— Common connotations —
ice, water, sky, sadness, winter, royalty, boys, cold, calm, magic, Trueness {taken from the fact that the sky is blue in its constancy, i.e.: 'true blue', the sky is unwaveringly blue on a clear day}, conservatism (universally), liberalism (US), and capitalism
— Colour coordinates —
Hex triplet		#`0000FF`
sRGB^B	(r, g, b)	(0, 0, 255)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(240°, 100%, 100%)
Source		HTML/CSS^[1]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Blue is a colour, the perception of which is evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 440–490 nm. It is considered one of the additive primary colours. On the HSV Colour Wheel, the complement of blue is yellow; that is, a colour corresponding to an equal mixture of red and green light. On a colour wheel based on traditional colour theory (RYB), the complementary colour to blue is considered to be orange (based on the Munsell colour wheel).^[2] The English language commonly uses "blue" to refer to any colour from navy blue to cyan. The word itself is derived from the Old French word bleu.

Etymology and definitions

Blueberries

Lactarius indigo is one of only a few blue-coloured mushrooms

The modern English word blue comes from the Middle English, bleu or blwe, which came from an Old French word bleu of Germanic origin (Frankish or possibly Old High German blao, "shining"). Bleu replaced Old English blaw. The root of these variations was the Proto-Germanic blæwaz, which was also the root of the Old Norse word bla and the modern Icelandic blár, and the Scandinavian word blå, but it can refer to other non blue colours. A Scots and Scottish English word for "blue-grey" is blae, from the Middle English bla ("dark blue", from the Old English blæd). Ancient Greek lacked a word for blue and Homer called the colour of the sea "wine dark", except that the word kyanos (cyan) was used for dark blue enamel.

Blue Tiles

As a curiosity, blue is thought to be cognate with blond, blank and black through the Germanic word. Through a Proto-Indo-European root, it is also linked with Latin flavus ("yellow"; see flavescent and flavine), with Greek phalos (white), French blanc (white, blank) (borrowed from Old Frankish), and with Russian белый, belyi ("white," see beluga), and Welsh blawr (grey) all of which derive (according to the American Heritage Dictionary) from the Proto-Indo-European root *bhel- meaning "to shine, flash or burn", (more specifically the word bhle-was, which meant light coloured, blue, blond, or yellow), whence came the names of various bright colours, and that of colour black from a derivation meaning "burnt" (other words derived from the root *bhel- include bleach, bleak, blind, blink, blank, blush, blaze, flame, fulminate, flagrant and phlegm).

In the English language, blue may refer to the feeling of sadness. "He was feeling blue". This is because blue was related to rain, or storms, and in Greek mythology, the god Zeus would make rain when he was sad (crying), and a storm when he was angry. Kyanos was a name used in Ancient Greek to refer to dark blue tile (in English it means blue-green or cyan).^[3] The phrase "feeling blue" is linked also to a custom among many old deepwater sailing ships. If the ship lost the captain or any of the officers during its voyage, she would fly blue flags and have a blue band painted along her entire hull when returning to home port.^[4]

Many languages do not have separate terms for blue and or green, instead using a cover term for both (when the issue is discussed in linguistics, this cover term is sometimes called grue in English).

In science

Image of a pier extending out in to a lake, with a clear sky above and mountains in the distance.

The sky and water often appear blue

Pigments

Traditionally, blue has been considered a primary colour in painting, with the secondary colour orange as its complement.

Blue pigments include azurite (Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂), ultramarine (Na_8-10Al₆Si₆O₂₄S_2-4), cerulean blue (primarily cobalt (II) stanate: Co₂SnO₄), cobalt blue (cobalt(II) aluminate: CoAl₂O₄), and Prussian blue (milori blue: primarily Fe₇(CN)₁₈).

Scientific natural standards for blue

Emission spectrum of Cu²⁺
Electronic spectrum of aqua-ions Cu(H₂O)2+5

Animals

Dendrobates azureus

Blue Jay

When an animal's coat is described as "blue", it usually refers to a shade of grey that takes on a bluish tint, a diluted variant of a pure black coat.^{[citation needed]} This designation is used for a variety of animals, including dog coats, some rat coats, cat coats, some chicken breeds, some horse coat colours and rabbit coat colours. Some animals, such as Giraffes and Lizards, also have blue tongues.

In human culture

Symbolic language

In the English language, blue often represents the human emotion of sadness, e.g. "He was feeling blue". In German, on the other hand, to be "blue" (blau sein) is to be drunk. This derives from the ancient use of urine (which is produced copiously by the human body after drinking alcohol) in dyeing cloth blue with woad or indigo.^[5]

National colours

Flag of Greece

Coat of Arms symbol of Israel

Flag of Somalia

Azzurro, a light blue, is the national colour of Italy (from the livery colour of the former reigning family, the House of Savoy).
Blue is the national sports colour for India, as it denotes secularism.^{[citation needed]}
Blue is the national colour used on flags of several countries surrounded by seas or oceans such as Australia and Europe, though not necessarily with this interpretation in mind.
Blue and white are the national colours of Argentina, El Salvador, Finland, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Israel, Micronesia, Nicaragua, and Somalia as well as of the United Nations Organization using a light shade of blue symbolizing peace.
Blue and yellow are the national colours of Barbados, Kazakhstan, Palau, Sweden, and Ukraine, and along with green, of Brazil, and along with red, of Chad, Colombia, Ecuador, Moldova, Romania, and Venezuela.
Blue, white and yellow are the national colours of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo and Uruguay.
Blue and red are the national colours of Haiti and Liechtenstein, and along with white (where it composed the French tricolour whose simple design or colours were taken by other countries), of Australia, Cambodia, Costa Rica, Chile, Croatia, Cuba, the Czech Republic, the Dominican Republic, France, Iceland, North Korea, Laos, Liberia, Luxembourg, Myanmar, Nepal, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Russia, Samoa, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Thailand, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Blue, white and black are the national colours of Estonia.^[6]

Mysticism

In the metaphysics of the "New Age Prophetess", Alice Bailey, in her system called the Seven Rays which classifies humans into seven different metaphysical psychological types, the "first ray" of "will-power" is represented by the colour blue. People who have this metaphysical psychological type are said to be "on the Blue Ray".^[7]
In Hinduism, Blue is used to symbolically represent the fifth, throat chakra (Vishuddha).^[8]
Psychics who claim to be able to observe the aura with their third eye report that someone with a blue aura is a person who is oriented toward spirituality.^[9] People with blue auras are said to be interested in social service work and to be in occupations such as social worker, counsellor, teacher, writer, and psychologist.^[10]

Politics

Main article: Political colour

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The Blue House is the residence of the President of South Korea.
Blue has been associated with a variety of political positions, often differentiated from communist red or anarchist black. During the revolt in the Vendée against the French revolution, blues stood for the revolutionary forces, and white for the counter-revolutionaries. Later movements like the Breton blues used the colour to signify allegiance to the ideals of the revolution.
The blueshirts was a quasi-fascist political organization active in Ireland during the 1930s (the name comes from the fact that St. Patrick's Blue is one of the traditional colours of Ireland).
Blue is the colour of the respective British and Canadian Conservative parties. In the United States, however, it has become fashionable since the 2000 Presidential Election to refer to the Democratic Party as "blue" and the Republican Party as "red", particularly as in reference to "red states and blue states". In Brazil, blue states are the ones in which the Social Democratic Party has the majority, in opposition to the Workers' Party, usually represented by red.

Blue stripes on a traditional Jewish tallit.

Religion

Blue in Hinduism: Many of the gods are depicted as having blue-coloured skin, particularly those associated with Vishnu, who is said to be the Preserver of the world and thus intimately connected to water. Krishna and Ram, Vishnu's avatars, are usually blue. Shiva, the Destroyer, is also depicted in light blue tones and is called neela kantha, or blue-throated, for having swallowed poison in an attempt to turn the tide of a battle between the gods and demons in the gods' favour.
Blue in Judaism: In the Torah,^[11] the Israelites were commanded to put fringes, tzitzit, on the corners of their garments, and to weave within these fringes a "twisted thread of blue (tekhelet)".^[12] In ancient days, this blue thread was made from a dye extracted from a Mediterranean snail called the hilazon. Maimonides claimed that this blue was the colour of "the clear noonday sky"; Rashi, the colour of the evening sky.^[13] According to several rabbinic sages, blue is the colour of God's Glory.^[14] Staring at this colour aids in mediation, bringing us a glimpse of the "pavement of sapphire, like the very sky for purity", which is a likeness of the Throne of God.^[15] (The Hebrew word for glory.) Many items in the Mishkan, the portable sanctuary in the wilderness, such as the menorah, many of the vessels, and the Ark of the Covenant, were covered with blue cloth when transported from place to place.^[16]
Blue in Islam: In verse 20:102 of the Qur’an, the word زرق zurq (plural of azraq 'blue') is used metaphorically for evildoers whose eyes are glazed with fear, as if the sclera is filmed over with a bluish tint.

Symbolism

In Thailand, blue is associated with Friday on the Thai solar calendar. Anyone may wear blue on Fridays and anyone born on a Friday may adopt blue as their colour. The Thai language, however, is one that has had trouble distinguishing blue from green. The default word for Blue was recently สีน้ำเงิน literally, the colour of silver, a poetical reference to the silvery sheen of the deep blue sea. It now means Navy Blue, and the default word is now สีฟ้า literally, the colour of the sky.^[17]
In the early 1960s, the United States Air Force ran a television commercial with this jingle:[2]

They took the blue from the skies

And the pretty girls' eyes

And a touch of Old Glory too;

And gave it to the men who proudly wear the U. S. Air Force Blue!

Variations

Dark blue

Dark blue
— Colour coordinates —
Hex triplet		#`00008B`
RGB^B	(r, g, b)	(0, 0, 139)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(240°, 100%, 25%)
Source		X11
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Dark blue is a shade of blue. The name comes from the word "Dark" (which originated from Old English dark, derk, deork; Anglo-Saxon dearc, and Gaelic and Irish dorch, dorcha) and "Blue" (taken from French and originated from the Indo-European root bhlewos).

Medium blue

Medium blue
— Colour coordinates —
Hex triplet		#`0000CD`
RGB^B	(r, g, b)	(0, 0, 205)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(240°, 100%, 40%)
Source		X11
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Displayed at right is the colour medium blue.

Light blue

Light Blue
— Colour coordinates —
Hex triplet		#`ADD8E6`
RGB^B	(r, g, b)	(173, 216, 230)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(240°, 90%, 80%)
Source		X11
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

The web colour light blue is displayed in the colour box at right. Also could be known as sky blue, baby blue, or angel blue. The first recorded use of "light blue" as a colour term in English is in the year 1915.^[18]

Pigment blue

Pigment Blue
— Colour coordinates —
Hex triplet		#`333399`
RGB^B	(r, g, b)	(51, 51, 153)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(240°, 50%, 35%)
Source		CMYK
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

At right is the colour pigment blue. This is the colour that is achieved by mixing an equal amount of process cyan (printer's cyan) and process magenta (printer's magenta).

Variations of blue in culture

Cartography

In historical atlases published in Germany, light blue is traditionally used as a colour to represent Germany, as opposed to pink for England, purple for France, and light green for Russia.^[19]

Fashion

Dark clothing for males such as dark blue business suits have become much more popular since the mid-1990s,^{[citation needed]} as opposed to the pastel coloured business suits worn in the 1970s by major leaders in such institutions as the United States Congress (the vast difference in the clothing worn in the 1970s as opposed to the 2000s can be readily seen by looking at a videotape of the Watergate hearings).

German police officer

Law Enforcement

In some parts of the world, police wear dark blue or, sometimes, medium blue uniforms.

Human sexuality

In the bandana code of the gay leather subculture, wearing a medium blue bandana means one is into the fetish of having sex with someone who is wearing a police uniform.^[20]
In Russian, the word for light blue, голубой, can be used to mean 'homosexual'.^[21]

Sociology

Dark blue represents knowledge, power, integrity, and seriousness.^{[citation needed]} In Western civilization, those in the upper classes in high places of political or economic power often wear dark blue suits. Ordinary members of the working class (especially those who work in the computer industry) often refer derisively to these management functionaries as the suits.^[22] This terminology is also used in the television industry--the network executives are often referred to by the creative people (actors, directors, and screenwriters) as the suits.^[23]

References

^ "W3C TR CSS3 Color Module, HTML4 color keywords". W3.org. http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-color/#html4. Retrieved 2009-04-14.
^ "Glossary Term: Color wheel". Sanford-artedventures.com. http://www.sanford-artedventures.com/study/g_color_wheel.html. Retrieved 2009-04-14.
^ Merriam-Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary Springfield, Mass.:1984--Merriam-Webster Page 319
^ "US Navy - origins of Navy Terminology"
^ Heller, Eva. Wie Farben wirken: Farbpsychologie, Farbsymbolik, kreative Farbgestaltung. Berlin: Rowohlt, 2004.
^ "Estonia in brief: National Symbols" at Estonica website (www.estonica.org)[1]
^ Bailey, Alice A. (1995). The Seven Rays of Life. New York: Lucis Publishing Company. ISBN 0853301425.
^ Stevens, Samantha. The Seven Rays: a Universal Guide to the Archangels. City: Insomniac Press, 2004. ISBN 1894663497 pg. 24
^ Swami Panchadasi The Human Aura: Astral Colors and Thought Forms Des Plaines, Illinois, USA:1912--Yogi Publications Society Page 36
^ Oslie, Pamalie Life Colors: What the Colors in Your Aura Reveal Novato, California:2000--New World Library Blue Auras: Pages 117-130
^ Numbers 15:38.
^ http://www.tekhelet.com The Ptil Tekhelet Organization
^ Mishneh Torah, Tzitzit 2:1; Commentary on Numbers 15:38.
^ Numbers Rabbah 14:3; Hullin 89a.
^ Exodus 24:10; Ezekiel 1:26; Hullin 89a.
^ Numbers 4:6-12.
^ Glenn Slayden. "Bot generated title ->". thai-language.com<!. http://www.thai-language.com/dict/. Retrieved 2009-04-14.
^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 190
^ See the Grosshistoricher Weltatlas, 1965 edition (Other German historical atlases use these same colours.)
^ Card showing list of bandana colours and their meanings, available at Image Leather, 2199 Market St., San Francisco, CA 94114
^ "Gay.ru". English.gay.ru. http://english.gay.ru/life/history/queermoscow/. Retrieved 2009-04-14.
^ The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage, Clifford Stoll, 1989, ISBN 0-7434-1146-3
^ Shatner, William (with Chris Kreski) Star Trek Memories New York:1993 Harper Collins

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Visible (optical)	Violet · Blue · Green · Yellow · Orange · Red

Microwaves	W band · V band · Q band · K_a band · K band · K_u band · X band · S band · C band · L band

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Dansk (Danish)
1.
adj. - blå
n. - blå, blå farve
v. tr. - gøre blå
v. intr. - blåne

idioms:

blue baby blåt barn
blue black gul og grøn (efter slag)
blue blood blåt blod, adelig
blue blooded med blåt blod i årerne, adelig
blue book blåbog, regeringens årlige publikation
blue chip sikkert papir
blue collar arbejder-, fabriks-
blue in the face ude af sig selv af raseri, være blårød i hovedet af raseri
blue jeans cowboybukser, jeans
blue moon meget lang periode
blue murder ramaskrig, rædselsskrig
blue pencil revision, censur
blue riband blåt bånd, adelsemblem
blue ribbon blåt bånd, adelsemblem
blue tit blåmejse
blue-eyed boy familiens kæledægge
out of the blue uventet, pludselig, som lyn fra en klar himmel
the blues nedtrykthed, depression

2.
v. tr. - rutte med, strø om sig med

Nederlands (Dutch)
blauw, gedeprimeerd, pornografisch, bleek, liberaal (politiek), puriteins, iemand die voor universiteit heeft gesport, lid aanhanger van Conservative partij, blauwsel

Français (French)
1.
adj. - bleu, mélancolique, déprimé, grivois, porno (film, livre)
n. - bleu, bleu azur, azur (le ciel), (lit) ciel, la mer, les flots, le cafard (npl), (Mus) blues, (GB, Univ) équipe (Oxford, Cambridge)
v. tr. - bleuir, teindre en bleu
v. intr. - bleuir, teindre en bleu

idioms:

blue baby (Méd) enfant bleu
blue black noir à reflets bleus
blue blood sang bleu, aristocratique
blue blooded (avoir) du sang noble
blue book (GB) livre bleu (publication officielle du gouvernement), (Pol) livre blanc, (US) bottin mondain, (US, École) cahier bleu (d'examen)
blue chip (Fin) valeur vedette, jeton de grande valeur (aux jeux), placement de tout repos
blue collar col bleu (un travailleur manuel)
blue in the face se tuer à
blue jeans blue jeans
blue moon tous les trente six du mois
blue murder (crier) comme un putois
blue pencil crayon de correction, corriger
blue riband de très haut niveau, prestigieux, éminent, (GB) le ruban bleu
blue ribbon (US, Naut) le ruban bleu, de très haut niveau, prestigieux, éminent, (US, Jur) panel d'experts, premier prix
blue tit mésange bleue
blue-eyed boy (être) le chouchou/le chéri
out of the blue (être) complètement inattendu, (tomber) du ciel, à brûle-pourpoint
the blues le cafard, le blues

2.
v. tr. - gaspiller, claquer (de l'argent)

Deutsch (German)
1.
adj. - blau, deprimiert, konservativ, pornographisch
n. - Blau, Sportler, der seine Universität auf Wettkämpfen vertreten hat, Konservativer, Bläuling
v. - blau machen, bläuen

idioms:

blue baby blausüchtiger Säugling
blue black blauschwarz, Reißkohle
blue blood blaues Blut
blue blooded blaublütig
blue book Blaubuch
blue chip blaue Spielmarke, erstklassiges Wertpapier
blue collar Industriearbeiter-
blue in the face blau im Gesicht
blue jeans Blue jeans (blaue Hose)
blue moon seltenes Ereignis
blue murder Zeter und Mordio, große Aufregung
blue pencil blauer Farbstift, Rotstift
blue riband höchste Auszeichnung, blaues Band des Hosenbandorden
blue ribbon höchste Auszeichnung, blaues Band des Hosenbandorden
blue tit (Ornith.) Blaumeise
blue-eyed boy Goldjunge
out of the blue aus heiterem Himmel
the blues Niedergeschlagenheit

2.
v. - (ugs) verpulvern, verschwenden

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - κυανός, μπλε, μελανιασμένος, (για ταινία) πορνογραφικός, ροζ, κακόκεφος, μελαγχολικός, (Βρετ.) συντηρητικός (του Συντηρητικού Κόμματος)
n. - μπλε, κυανό ή βαθυκύανο χρώμα, (μτφ.) ο ουρανός

idioms:

blue baby (ιατρ.) κυανωτικό βρέφος
blue black βαθυκύανος
blue blood γαλάζιο αίμα, βασιλική καταγωγή
blue blooded γαλαζοαίματος
blue book κυανή βίβλος (κοινοβουλίου)
blue chip (για μετοχές) εξαιρετικής φερεγγυότητας, με υψηλό μέρισμα και σταθερή τιμή
blue collar εργατοτεχνίτης, εργάτης παραγωγής, χειρωνακτικός
blue in the face αγανακτισμένος, έτοιμος να σκάσει
blue jeans μπλουτζίν
blue moon πολύς καιρός
blue murder (φωνάζω) σα να με σκοτώνουν
blue pencil λογοκρισία, γραφίδα του λογοκριτή
blue riband τιμητική διάκριση, αριστείο, (Βρετ.) το Παράσημο της Περικνημίδας
blue ribbon τιμητική διάκριση, αριστείο, (Βρετ.) το Παράσημο της Περικνημίδας
blue tit (ζωολ.) πάρος ο κυανούς (κν. καλόγερος)
blue-eyed boy ευνοούμενος
out of the blue στα καλά καθούμενα, εντελώς αναπάντεχα
the blues (μουσική) μπλουζ, ακεφιές

Italiano (Italian)
blu, malinconico, abbattuto

idioms:

blue baby bambino cianotico
blue black blu scuro
blue blood sangue blu
blue blooded nobile
blue book lista delle personalità, esame, rapporto governativo
blue chip titolo sicuro
blue collar operaio
blue in the face esasperato
blue jeans jeans
blue moon raramente
blue murder disastro
blue pencil censurare, correggere
blue riband onorificenza
blue ribbon nastro dell'ordine della Giarrettiera
blue tit cinciallegra
blue-eyed boy pupillo favorito
once in a blue moon molto raramente
out of the blue dal nulla, improvvisamente
the blues il blues

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - azul, triste
n. - cor (f) azul

idioms:

blue baby bebê (m) cianótico (Med.)
blue black azul (m) marinho
blue blood nobre
blue blooded de sangue azul
blue book relatório (m) do parlamento
blue chip ação (f) confiável no mercado
blue collar trabalhador (m) braçal
blue in the face fazer algo até cansar (gír.)
blue jeans jeans (m pl) (coloq.)
blue moon muito tempo
blue murder berrar
blue pencil censurar
blue riband primeiro prêmio
blue ribbon primeiro prêmio (EUA)
blue tit pequeno pássaro europeu
blue-eyed boy o favorito (Brit.) (pej.)
once in a blue moon uma vez na vida (gír.)
out of the blue inesperadamente
the blues blues (Mús.), tristeza (f) (fig.)

Русский (Russian)
голубой, печальный, тоскующий

idioms:

blue baby синюшный младенец
blue black иссиня-черный
blue blood голубая кровь, аристократ
blue blooded аристократ
blue book сборник официальных документов, список лиц играющих важную общественную роль
blue chip ценный, превосходный
blue collar рабочий на производстве
blue in the face до посинения
blue jeans джинсы
blue moon редкий случай
blue murder полный разгром, караул
blue pencil корректировать, подвергать цензуре
blue riband первая премия
blue ribbon первая премия
blue tit синица
blue-eyed boy любимчик
once in a blue moon очень редко
out of the blue ни с того ни с сего
the blues тоска, депрессия, хандра

Español (Spanish)
1.
adj. - melancólico, triste, deprimido, de color azul
n. - azul
v. tr. - azular, colorear de azul
v. intr. - azularse, tomar color azul

idioms:

blue baby bebé cianótico
blue black azul muy oscuro, casi negro
blue blood sangre azul, aristocracia
blue blooded aristócrata, de linaje noble
blue book libro azul, publicación oficial, guía de personas eminentes
blue chip ficha de póker, valor de primera clase
blue collar obrero
blue in the face repetir hasta la saciedad
blue jeans vaqueros, tejanos
blue moon un período de tiempo muy largo
blue murder ¡demonios!
blue pencil corregir, cortar o censurar
blue riband trofeo para el barco más rápido
blue ribbon galardón máximo, primer premio
blue tit alionín
blue-eyed boy de ojos azules, niño mimado
out of the blue inesperadamente, como llovido del cielo
the blues melancolía, nostalgia, tristeza

2.
v. tr. - malgastar dinero

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - blå, deppig, låg, sträng, oanständig, porr-, konservativ
n. - blått, blå färg, blåa kläder

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
蓝色的, 沮丧的, 忧郁的, 蓝色

idioms:

blue baby 青紫婴儿
blue black 深蓝色的
blue blood 贵族血统, 贵族, 贵族阶级
blue blooded 贵族的
blue book 蓝皮书, 美国政府官员录
blue chip 高值筹码, 优值股票
blue collar 工人阶级的, 蓝领阶级的
blue in the face 因大怒弄得脸上突然变色, 气得脸色发青
blue jeans 蓝色牛仔裤
blue moon 不可能或稀有的时期或事情
blue murder 恐怖的喊声, 十分艰难的事情
blue pencil 蓝铅笔
blue riband 头奖, 蓝勋带
blue ribbon 最高的荣誉, 一流的, 头等的
blue tit 蓝山雀
blue-eyed boy 蓝眼人
out of the blue 突然地
the blues 布鲁斯舞, 沮丧

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 藍色的, 沮喪的, 憂鬱的
n. - 藍色

idioms:

blue baby 青紫嬰兒
blue black 深藍色的
blue blood 貴族血統, 貴族, 貴族階級
blue blooded 貴族的
blue book 藍皮書, 美國政府官員錄
blue chip 高值籌碼, 優值股票
blue collar 工人階級的, 藍領階級的
blue in the face 因大怒弄得臉上突然變色, 氣得臉色發青
blue jeans 藍色牛仔褲
blue moon 不可能或稀有的時期或事情
blue murder 恐怖的喊聲, 十分艱難的事情
blue pencil 藍鉛筆
blue riband 頭獎, 藍勛帶
blue ribbon 最高的榮譽, 一流的, 頭等的
blue tit 藍山雀
blue-eyed boy 藍眼人
out of the blue 突然地
the blues 布魯斯舞, 沮喪

한국어 (Korean)
1.
adj. - 푸른, 창백한, 우울한
n. - 파랑, 창공, 우울
v. tr. - ~을 푸르게 하다, ~을 낭비하다
v. intr. - 푸르게 하다

idioms:

the blues 창공

2.
v. tr. - 낭비하다

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 青い, 青ざめた, わいせつな, 陰気な
n. - 青色, 青い絵の具, 憂うつ, 空
v. - 青くする

idioms:

blue baby 青色児
blue black 濃い藍色の
blue blood 貴族の生まれ, 貴族
blue blooded 貴族の生まれの
blue book 青書, 紳士録, 答案帳
blue chip 優良株
blue collar ブルーカラーの
blue in the face 顔が青くなって
blue jeans ジーンズ, ジーパン
blue moon 非常な長期間
blue murder 怒りの声
blue pencil 鉛筆, 削除
blue riband 青リボン, 最高の名誉
blue ribbon 青リボン, 最高の名誉
blue tit アオガラ
out of the blue にわかに

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) أزرق, مكتئب (الاسم) السماء, اللون الأزرق‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮כחול, עצוב‬
n. - ‮תכלת, ריב‬
v. tr. - ‮עשה לכחול, הוסיף (לכביסה) צבע כחול‬
v. intr. - ‮נעשה כחול, הכחיל‬
v. tr. - ‮בזבז (כסף)‬

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Etymology and definitions

In science

Pigments

Scientific natural standards for blue

Animals

In human culture

Symbolic language

National colours

Mysticism

Politics

Religion

Symbolism

Variations

Dark blue

Medium blue

Light blue

Pigment blue

Variations of blue in culture

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