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Linguee is an online bilingual concordance that provides an online dictionary for a number of language pairs, including many bilingual sentence pairs. As a translation aid, Linguee differs from machine translation services like Babel Fish, and is more similar in function to a translation memory.
Portuguese roxo is 'purple'. 'Red' in Portuguese is vermelho (cognate with Spanish bermejo and bermellón, which mean 'vermilion' or 'cinnabar'). In European Portuguese the word encarnado (literally in the flesh) is also used as synonym of 'red' even though vermelho is more frequent. Spanish rubio means 'blond hair'.
The cognates in the table below share meanings in English and Spanish, but have different pronunciation. Some words entered Middle English and Early Modern Spanish indirectly and at different times. For example, a Latinate word might enter English by way of Old French, but enter Spanish directly from Latin. Such differences can introduce ...
The word siwy means blue-gray in Polish (literally: "color of gray hair"). The word siny refers to violet-blue and is used to describe the color of bruises (siniaki), hematoma, and the blue skin discoloration that can result from moderate hypothermia. Russian has several words referring to the range of colors denoted by the English term "blue".
This word ending—thought to be difficult for Spanish speakers to pronounce at the time—evolved in Spanish into a "-te" ending (e.g. axolotl = ajolote). As a rule of thumb, a Spanish word for an animal, plant, food or home appliance widely used in Mexico and ending in "-te" is highly likely to have a Nahuatl origin.
2-D, the fictional singer of the British virtual band, Gorillaz has natural blue hair caused by a head injury after he fell out of a tree as a child. Jok Church's character, Beakman, also has blue hair, which is a throwback reference, according to the creator, to an older version of Superman, who also had a blue tint to his hair. [38]
Blue English language: The feeling of melancholy is typically referred to as having "the blues" United States: A number of American banks such as Citi and Bank of America use blue for their logo to symbolize trust, security and authority. Middle East: Blue signifies safety and protection, and it is a symbol of heaven, spirituality and immortality.
Ojos Azules (Spanish: [ˈoxos aθˈules], 'Blue Eyes') was a breed of shorthaired [1] [2] domestic cat with unusual blue or odd eyes [1] caused by a dominant blue eye (DBE) genetic mutation. The breed came in all coat colors; however, only particolors ( bicolors and tricolors ), colorpoints , and intermediate colors with a characteristic white ...