Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“Azur” is a form of

azure

UK /ˈæʒə/ · US /ˈæʒɚ/ noun, adjective, verb, proper noun

Forms azures azuring azured az. b. bl.

  1. noun (countable and uncountable) The clear blue colour of the sky; also, a pigment or dye of this colour.
  2. noun (heraldry) A blue colour on a coat of arms, represented in engraving by horizontal parallel lines.
  3. noun (poetic) The unclouded sky; the blue vault above.
  4. noun Any of various widely distributed lycaenid butterflies of the genus Celastrina.
  5. noun Any of various Australasian lycaenid butterflies of the genus Ogyris.
  6. noun Lapis lazuli.
  7. adjective Sky blue; resembling the clear blue colour of the unclouded sky.
  8. adjective Cloudless.
  9. adjective (heraldry) In blazon, of the colour blue.
  10. verb (transitive) To colour blue.
  11. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

cerulean sapphire lazuline sky-blue bright blue

Etymology

From Middle English asure, from Old French azur, derived from Arabic لَازَوَرْد (lāzaward, “lapis lazuli”), dropping the l as if it were equivalent to the French article l'. The Arabic is from Classical Persian لاجورد (lājward, “lapis lazuli”), from the region of Lajward in Badakhshan.
Compare with Italian azzurro and Spanish azul.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Sky-blue; resembling the clear blue color of the unclouded sky; cerulean; also, cloudless. Azure stone (Min.), the lapis lazuli; also, the lazulite.
  2. noun The lapis lazuli. [Obs.]
  3. noun The clear blue color of the sky; also, a pigment or dye of this color. "In robes of azure." Wordsworth.
  4. verb To color blue.

Etymology [F. & OSp. azur, Sp. azul, through Ar. from Per. lajaward, or lajuward, lapis lazuli, a blue color, lajawardi, lajuwardi, azure, cerulean, the initial l having been dropped, perhaps by the influence of the Ar. azr-aq azure, blue. Cf. G. lasur, lasurstein, azure color, azure stone, and NL. lapis lazuli.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “azure”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “azure” (best matches first).