Made in Arabic
azure
اللازَوَرْد
A tile from an inscribed frieze, made in Kashan, Iran, in the early 14th century. Its raised thuluth letters read «ʿalā al-nabī» ("upon the Prophet") on a ground the deep blue of lapis lazuli, and the letters were once covered in gold leaf. Persian lāzhward passed through Arabic al-lāzaward into Medieval Latin azura, French azur and English azure.
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- a tile from an inscribed frieze, Kashan, early 14th century
The path between languageslāzhward → al-lāzaward → azura → azur → azure
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, ملكٌ عامّ
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