blue blood

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Calque of Spanish sangre azul (compare also French sang bleu), probably in reference to the blue-hued veins more easily seen on the skin of White people—particularly the highclass ones, whereas the skin of lowclass/peasantry Caucasians (who would often be toiling away under the sun) would naturally tan in order to protect itself from UV rays, thus losing its visible veins.

40 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: синя кръв (sinja krǎv) — noble or aristocratic ancestry
• Catalan: sang blava — noble or aristocratic ancestry
• Czech: modrá krev — noble or aristocratic ancestry
• Dutch: blauw bloed — noble or aristocratic ancestry
• Estonian: siniveri — noble or aristocratic ancestry
• French: sang bleu — noble or aristocratic ancestry
• Galician: sangue azul — noble or aristocratic ancestry
• German: blaues Blut — noble or aristocratic ancestry
• Greek: γαλαζοαίματος (galazoaímatos) — noble or aristocratic ancestry
• Hungarian: kékvér — noble or aristocratic ancestry
• Icelandic: blátt blóð — noble or aristocratic ancestry
• Indonesian: darah biru — noble or aristocratic ancestry
• Italian: sangue blu — noble or aristocratic ancestry
• Japanese: 青い血 (aoi chi) — noble or aristocratic ancestry
• Korean: 귀족 계급 (gwijok gyegeup) — noble or aristocratic ancestry
• Kyrgyz: аристократ (aristokrat) — noble or aristocratic ancestry
• Kyrgyz: ак сөөк (ak söök) — noble or aristocratic ancestry
• Macedonian: сина крв (sina krv) — noble or aristocratic ancestry
• Malay: darah putih — noble or aristocratic ancestry
• Norwegian Bokmål: blått blod — noble or aristocratic ancestry
• Norwegian Nynorsk: blått blod — noble or aristocratic ancestry
• Polish: błękitna krew — noble or aristocratic ancestry
• Portuguese: sangue azul — noble or aristocratic ancestry
• Romanian: sânge albastru — noble or aristocratic ancestry
• Russian: голуба́я кровь (golubája krovʹ) — noble or aristocratic ancestry
• Serbo-Croatian: плава крв — noble or aristocratic ancestry
• Serbo-Croatian: plava krv — noble or aristocratic ancestry
• Slovak: modrá krv — noble or aristocratic ancestry
• Spanish: sangre azul — noble or aristocratic ancestry
• Swedish: blått blod — noble or aristocratic ancestry
• Tagalog: dugong bughaw — noble or aristocratic ancestry
• Tagalog: dugong mahal — noble or aristocratic ancestry
• Turkish: mavi kan — noble or aristocratic ancestry
• Vietnamese: quý tộc — noble or aristocratic ancestry
• German: Blaublüter — aristocrat
• German: Blaublüterin — aristocrat
• Indonesian: darah biru — aristocrat
• Turkish: mavi kanlı — aristocrat
• Turkish: asilzade — aristocrat
• Turkish: aristokrat — aristocrat