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Words meaning blue-gray/grey (the most common name), or gray/grey-blue, bluish-gray/grey, or grayish/greyish-blue:
In English:
- clair de lune, "pale bluish-gray"
- Copenhagen blue, "[mild] greyish blue"
- slate, slate blue, and slate gray, "having the [dark] bluish-grey/gray colour of slate"
- but "blue-gray" is more common than "slate blue" or "slate grey", and "slate" is too polysemous to compare
- Wedgwood blue, defined (apparently correctly) as "a pale grey blue colour" but with a dark colour swatch
See also perse, "dark greyish blue (or purple)", and more distantly bloncket, gainsboro, gunmetal, and petrol blue. Compare also caesious and glaucous.
In other languages:
- Bashkir аҡбуҙ (aqbuź, “blue-gray (of horses)”), күк (kük, “blue; gray, ash gray, bluish gray; green; gray”)
- Faroese blágráur (“bluish-grey, slate blue”)
- German blaugrau (“blue-grey, slate blue”), graublau (“grey-blue, powder blue”), taubenblau (“blue-grey”, literally “pigeon blue”)
- Japanese 鳩羽色 (はとばいろ, hatobairo, “dark blue-gray”, literally “pigeon-wing color”), 藍鼠 (あいねずみ, “bluish gray”)
- Latin caesius (“bluish-gray, gray-eyed, blue-eyed, cat-eyed”)
- Latvian pelēkzilā (“gray-blue”)
- Lithuanian šėmas (“blue-grey”)
- Persian کبود (kabôd, “blue-gray or blue”), from Middle Persian kpwt' (kabōd, “blue-gray; pigeon”); خشین (xašin, “ashen, gray; gray-blue, dark blue”)
- Ossetian ӕхси́н (æxsín, “dark grey; blue-gray”)
- Romanian vânăt (“livid; dark blue, bluish-grey, violet-blue”), vâlced (“livid, bluish, greyish-blue, pallid”)
- Russian си́зый (sízyj, “dove-coloured, warm grey, bluish”)
- Scots blae (“bluish-gray”)
- Serbo-Croatian си̑њӣ (sȋnjī, “gray, of the color of ash; gray-blue, the color of the sea”)
- Swedish åskblå (“dark grey-blue like the skies in a thunderstorm”, literally “thunder-blue”)
See also:
- Ancient Greek γλαυκός (glaukós, “blue-green or gray; light blue or gray (of eyes)”)
- Aromanian vinit (“dark blue, bluish-grey in color, violet-blue in color”)
- Lahu: nɔ-po(n) "blue-gray; purplish gray", nɔ-phɨ "blue-gray; light blue; sapphire-colored" (per James A. Matisoff's Dictionary of Lahu)
- Old Irish glas (“green, greenish (especially of growing things); blue, green-blue, grey-blue”)