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User:-sche/blue-gray

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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:

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)
Polish siny ((pejorative) grayish blue)
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)