azurite

See also: Azurite

English

Etymology

From Persian لاژورد (lâžvard, “blue color”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈæʒ.əˌɹaɪt/, /ˈæʒ.(j)ʊəɹˌaɪt/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈæʒ(j)ʊˌɹaɪt/

Noun

azurite (plural azurites)

1. (mineralogy) A blue vitreous mineral; a basic hydrated copper carbonate, with the chemical formula Cu²⁺₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂, used since antiquity as a blue pigment or ores to extract metallic copper.

Related terms

• azure
• azurite-malachite

Translations

blue, vitreous mineral

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 藍銅礦／蓝铜矿 (zh) (lántóngkuàng), 石青 (zh) (shíqīng)

• Esperanto: azurito
• Finnish: atsuriitti
• French: azurite (fr) f
• German: Azurit (de) m
• Greek: αζουρίτης (el) m (azourítis)
• Hungarian: azurit (hu)
• Italian: azzurrite (it) f
• Polish: azuryt (pl) m
• Portuguese: azurita (pt)
• Russian: азури́т (ru) m (azurít)
• Spanish: azurita (es) f

Further reading

• azurite on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.zy.ʁit/

• Audio

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Noun

azurite f (plural azurites)

1. (mineralogy) azurite

Further reading

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