زُرْقَةٌ

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زُرْقَةٌ A certain colour, well known; as also زَرَقٌ : it is [in various things; but is generally expl. as being] in the eye: [a blue colour, whether light or dark or of a middling tint, but generally the first;] sky-colour, or azure; [blueness of the eye;] or grayness of the eye; [or a greenish hue in the eye: ] accord. to ISd, whiteness, wherever it be: and a خُضْرَة [by which may be meant greenness, or dust-colour intermixed with blackness or deep ask-colour,] in the سَوَاد [here meaning iris] of the eye: or, as some say, a whiteness overspreading the سَوَاد of the eye [app. when a person becomes blind: see 1, third sentence; and see also أَزْرَقُ]. [In the present day it is often improperly used as meaning A black colour.]

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