light blue

English

Etymology

From Middle English light blewe, equivalent to light +‎ blue.

Noun

light blue (countable and uncountable, plural light blues)

1. A pale blue colour: sky blue or similar.
2. (UK, rowing) A member of the Cambridge rowing team.

   Coordinate term: dark blue

   • 2018, Will Wyatt, Oxford Boy: A Post-War Townie Childhood:

     The university did not touch my world directly but you couldn't be a boy in Oxford without supporting the dark blues against the Cambridge light blues, in the boat race […]

Translations

a pale blue colour: sky blue or similar

• Albanian: kaltër (sq)
• Arabic: سَمَاوِيّ (samāwiyy)

  Hijazi Arabic: سَمَاوي (samāwi)

• Armenian: երկնագույն (hy) (erknaguyn), բաց կապույտ (bacʻ kapuyt), մավի (hy) (mavi), մով (hy) (mov)
• Belarusian: блакітны (blakitny)
• Danish: lyseblå
• Finnish: vaaleansininen (fi)
• French: bleu clair
• German: hellblau (de)
• Guaraní: hovyngy
• Hungarian: világoskék (hu)
• Japanese: みずいろ (ja)
• Khalaj: âbi
• Lakota: tȟósaŋ
• Luxembourgish: hellblo
• Manchu: ᠯᠠᠮᡠᡴᠠᠨ (lamukan)
• Mongolian: цэнхэр (mn) (cenxer)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: lyseblå (no)

  Nynorsk: lyseblå

• Ottoman Turkish: گوك
• Persian: آبی روشن (âbi-ye rowšan)
• Polish: bławy (pl) (dated), bladoniebieski (pl), modrawy (pl), jasnoniebieski (pl)
• Portuguese: azul claro
• Romanian: bleu (ro)
• Russian: голубой (ru) (goluboj)
• Southern Altai: кӧк (kök)
• Spanish: azul claro, celeste (es)
• Swedish: ljusblå (sv)
• Ukrainian: блаки́тний (uk) (blakýtnyj), голуби́й (uk) (holubýj)
• Uyghur: كۆكۈچ (köküch)

See also

• (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)}

Anagrams

• blue light