interestingly, apparently "azul" also comes from the arabic "lāzuward"

I always thought it came from lapis lazuli (portuguese). Azul as a subpar of Lazuli even sounds exactly the same in portuguese.

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wvbdmp 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Lapis Lazuli is cognate, both come from the same Arabic/Persian root. Apparently “azure”, “azul”, “azzurro” lost the L because it got confused with the common “l’” article,

	▲	decimalenough 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Rebracketing strikes again! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebracketing

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nudpiedo 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

And the word from arabic comes, for both of them comes from persian for hte term lapis lazuli (lāžward) and suposedly this comes from sanskrit... but I ignore how it may sound in sanskrit.

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dgellow 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

In french we have “azur”