different between turquoise vs pigeon

English

Alternative forms

• Turkies (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle French Turquoise, from Old French (pierre) turquoise (“Turkish (stone)”), from turc +? -ois. The stone, mined near Nishapur in the Khorasan region of Persia, was originally brought to Europe through Turkey.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t??(?).k(w)??z/, /?t??(?).k(w)??s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?t?.k(w)??z/, /?t?.k(w)??s/

Noun

turquoise (countable and uncountable, plural turquoises)

1. (countable) A sky-blue, greenish-blue, or greenish-gray semi-precious gemstone.
2. (countable and uncountable) A pale greenish-blue colour, like that of the gemstone.

Synonyms

• (colour): blue-green, green-blue, greenish blue, turquoise blue

Derived terms

• bone turquoise

Translations

Further reading

• turquoise on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Adjective

turquoise (comparative more turquoise, superlative most turquoise)

1. Made of turquoise (the gemstone).
2. Having a pale greenish-blue colour.

Translations

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)}
• augite

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ty?.kwaz/

Noun

turquoise f (plural turquoises)

1. turquoise (gemstone)

Noun

turquoise m (plural turquoises)

1. turquoise (colour)

Adjective

turquoise (invariable)

1. turquoise-colored

Further reading

• “turquoise” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Alternative forms

• turcquoise

Noun

turquoise f (plural turquoises)

1. turquoise (precious stone)

English

Alternative forms

• pidgeon (chiefly archaic)

Etymology 1

From Middle English pygeoun, pygyne, pegyon, from Old French pijon, pyjon, from Late Latin p?pi?nem (“chirping bird”), accusative singular of Latin p?pi? (“chirping bird”), from p?pi? (“to chirp”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p?.d??n/
• (US) enPR: p?j??n, IPA^(key): /?p?.d??n/
• Rhymes: -?d??n, -?d??n
• Homophone: pidgin

Noun

pigeon (countable and uncountable, plural pigeons)

1. One of several birds of the family Columbidae, which consists of more than 300 species.

   Synonyms: columbid, culver, dove

2. (uncountable) The meat from this bird.
3. (Canada, US, informal) A person who is a target or victim of a confidence game.

   Synonyms: dupe, fish, sucker; see also Thesaurus:dupe

4. (countable, politics) A pacifist, appeaser, an isolationist, a dove.

Etymology 2

From pidgin English, from a Chinese Pidgin English pronunciation of English business during trade in the Far East. (See pidgin)

Noun

pigeon (countable and uncountable, plural pigeons)

1. (archaic, idiomatic)(Britain, informal) Concern or responsibility.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• dove
• piper
• squab
• squeaker

Verb

pigeon (third-person singular simple present pigeons, present participle pigeoning, simple past and past participle pigeoned)

1. (transitive) To deceive with a confidence game.

Further reading

• pigeon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “pigeon”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

French

Etymology

From Old French pyjon, from Late Latin p?pi?nem (“chirping bird”), accusative singular of p?pi? (“chirping bird”), from p?pi? (“to chirp”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pi.???/

Noun

pigeon m (plural pigeons, feminine pigeonne)

1. pigeon

   Synonyms: colombe, columbidé

2. (colloquial) patsy (an easily trickable, naive person)

Derived terms

See also

Further reading

• “pigeon” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• poigne

Norman

Etymology

From Old French pyjon, from Late Latin p?pi?nem (“chirping bird”), accusative singular of Latin p?pi? (“chirping bird”), from p?pi? (“to chirp”).

Noun

pigeon m (plural pigeons)

1. (Jersey) pigeon

Derived terms