blue-gray

English

Etymology

From blue +‎ gray.

Adjective

blue-gray (comparative more blue-gray, superlative most blue-gray)

1. Of a bluish grey color.

   blue-gray:  

Alternative forms

• blue-grey

Synonyms

• gray-blue, grey-blue, blae (chiefly Scots)

Hyponyms

• clair de lune (“pale bluish-gray”)
• Copenhagen blue (“grayish blue”)
• slate / slate blue / slate gray (“[dark] bluish-gray color of slate”)
• Wedgwood blue (“pale gray-blue”)

Translations

color — see also the hyponyms listed above

• Bashkir: аҡбуҙ (aqbuź) (of horses), күк (kük) (can mean 'blue', 'gray', 'blue-gray', or 'green')
• Dutch: blauwgrijs (nl)
• Faroese: blágráur
• Finnish: siniharmaa (fi)
• German: blaugrau (de), graublau (de), taubenblau (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: γλαυκός m (glaukós)

• Irish: glas (ga)
• Japanese: ブルーグレー (burū gurē), 鳩羽色 (はとばいろ, hatobairo) (literally "pigeon-wing color")
• Latin: caesius (la), glaucus (la)
• Latvian: pelēkzilā
• Lithuanian: šėmas (of animals)
• Manchu: ᡴᡠᡴᡠ (kuku)
• Middle Persian: kpwt' (kabōd)
• Ossetian: ӕхси́н (æxsín) (dark grey; blue-gray)
• Persian: کبود (fa) (kabôd) (blue-gray or blue), خشین (fa) (xašin) (ashen, gray; gray-blue, dark blue)
• Polish: siny (pl) (pejorative)
• Russian: си́зый (ru) (sízyj) (dove-coloured, warm grey, bluish), се́ро-голубо́й (ru) (séro-golubój)
• Scots: blae
• Serbo-Croatian: си̑њӣ, sȋnjī (sh) (gray, gray-blue, sea-colored)
• Swedish: åskblå (dark gray-blue, literally "thunder[storm sky] color")
• Turkish: çakır (tr) (of eyes)
• Uzbek: shahlo (uz) (blue-gray or dark blue)
• Welsh: glaslwyd, glas (cy) (blue or blue-gray)

See also

• perse (“dark greyish blue (or purple)”)
• blunket (“a color, generally a light bluish gray or blue or gray”), gainsboro (“light bluish grey colour”), gunmetal (“dark grey or bluish-grey colour”), petrol blue (“greyish blue colour, tinted with green”)
• caesious (“blue very low in chroma”), glaucous (“pale green with a bluish-grey tinge”)

Anagrams

• gray-blue