Azure is the name of a color, used to describe the color of the sky on a clear blue day and is another name for the lapis lazuli. It comes from Old French azur via Arabic lāzuward لَازَوَرْد (lapis lazuli; azure) ultimately deriving from Persian lāzaward (لاجورد) which seems to have gotten its name from a place. Azure is also a surname.
Origin: Persian
Variants:
- Azura (English)
- Azurra (English)
- Azurre (English)
- Azzurra (Italian)
- Azur (Portuguese, Spanish, Romanian)
- Azul (Spanish, Portuguese)
