aquamarine

See also: Aquamarine

English

Etymology

From Latin aqua marīna (“sea water”), adjective form from mare (“sea”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌæk.wə.məˈɹiːn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌæk.wə.məˈɹiːn/, /ˌɑ.kwə.məˈɹiːn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -iːn

Noun

aquamarine (countable and uncountable, plural aquamarines)

1. The bluish-green colour of the sea.

   aquamarine:  

2. A transparent bluish-green, sometimes yellow-green, variety of beryl.
   • 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 4, in Crime out of Mind‎^[1]:

     Before we could embark on the details of his mother's health we were joined by a fair, plump woman of indefinite age, who had once been—and at moments still was—very pretty. She wore a simple black silk dress, perhaps in deference to Tilly's death, though the note of mourning was jarred by flamboyant aquamarine ear-rings and too much rouge.

Translations

aquamarine colour

• Arabic: زبرجد (ar) m (zabarjid)
• Azerbaijani: akuamarin
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蓝晶 (zh) (lánjīng), 碧绿色 (bì lǜsè)

• Classical Nahuatl: quilpālli
• Czech: akvamarín (cs) m inan
• Dutch: aquamarijn (nl) n
• Esperanto: akvamarina koloro, akvamarino, akvobluo
• Finnish: akvamariini (fi)
• French: aigue-marine (fr) f
• Georgian: მოცისფრო-მწვანე (mocispro-mc̣vane), ზღვისფერი (zɣvisperi)
• Hungarian: akvamarin (hu)
• Irish: muirghorm m
• Italian: acquamarina (it) f
• Japanese: アクアマリン (ja) (akuamarin)
• Korean: 남록색 (namnoksaek)
• Latvian: akvamarīns m
• Lithuanian: akvamarinas m
• Maltese: akwamarin
• Polish: akwamaryn (pl) m, akwamaryna (pl) f
• Portuguese: água-marinha (pt) f
• Romanian: acvamarin (ro)
• Russian: аквамари́н (ru) m (akvamarín), аквамари́новый (ru) m (akvamarínovyj) (цвет)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: аквамарин m

  Roman: akvamarin (sh) m

• Spanish: aguamarina (es)
• Tagalog: akwamarin m
• Turkish: akvamarin
• Urdu: سمندری پانی m
• Uzbek: akuamarin
• Vietnamese: ngọc xanh biển
• Welsh: gwyrddlas (cy) m

type of beryl

• Bulgarian: аквамарин (bg) (akvamarin)
• Catalan: aiguamarina (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 海藍寶石／海蓝宝石 (hǎilán bǎoshí)

• Czech: akvamarín (cs) m inan
• Danish: akvamarin c
• Dutch: aquamarijn (nl) n
• Esperanto: akvamarino
• Finnish: akvamariini (fi)
• French: aigue-marine (fr) f
• German: Aquamarin (de) m
• Hebrew: תַּרְשִׁישׁ (he) m (tarshísh)
• Hungarian: akvamarin (hu)
• Irish: cloch mhuirghorm f
• Italian: acquamarina (it) f
• Japanese: 藍玉 (らんぎょく, rangyoku)
• Kazakh: зәберзат (zäberzat)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: akvamarin (no) m

  Nynorsk: akvamarin m

• Polish: akwamaryn (pl) m, akwamaryna (pl) f
• Portuguese: água-marinha (pt) f
• Romanian: acvamarin (ro) n
• Russian: аквамари́н (ru) m (akvamarín)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: аквамарин m

  Roman: akvamarin (sh) m

• Spanish: aguamarina (es) f
• Swedish: akvamarin (sv) c
• Thai: อะความารีน (à-kwaa-maa-riin)
• Turkish: akvamarin
• Ukrainian: аквамари́н (uk) m (akvamarýn)
• Welsh: morlasfaen m

Adjective

aquamarine (not comparable)

1. Of a bluish-green colour.

Translations

Of a bluish-green color

• Dutch: aquamarijn (nl)
• Esperanto: akvamarina, akvoblua
• German: aquamarin (de), aquamarinblau (de)
• Hungarian: akvamarin (hu)
• Russian: аквамари́новый (ru) (akvamarínovyj), аквамари́нный (ru) (akvamarínnyj)
• Swedish: akvamarin (sv)
• Ukrainian: аквамари́новий (uk) (akvamarýnovyj), аквамари́нний (uk) (akvamarýnnyj)

Derived terms

• Madagascar aquamarine

See also

• maxixe
• (blues) blue; Alice blue, aqua, aquamarine, azure, baby blue, beryl, bice, bice blue, blue green, blue violet, blueberry, cadet blue, Cambridge blue, cerulean, cobalt blue, Copenhagen blue, cornflower, cornflower blue, cyan, dark blue, Dodger blue, duck-egg blue, eggshell blue, electric blue, gentian blue, ice blue, lapis lazuli, light blue, lovat, mazarine, midnight blue, navy, Nile blue, Oxford blue, peacock blue, petrol blue, powder blue, Prussian blue, robin's-egg blue, royal blue, sapphire, saxe blue, slate blue, sky blue, teal, turquoise, ultramarine, Wedgwood blue, zaffre ^{(Category: en:Blues)}

Further reading

• David Barthelmy (1997–2024) “Aquamarine”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
• “aquamarine”, in Mindat.org‎^[2], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2024.

German

Pronunciation

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Adjective

aquamarine

1. inflection of aquamarin:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular