cyan

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

• /ˈsaɪˌæn/
  Play
• /ˈsaɪ.ən/
  Play
• /saɪˈæn/
  Play
• Canada: /ˈsaɪ.ən/
  Play
• Canada: /sʌɪˈæn/
  Play
• dialectal: [ˈsəjan]
  Play
• dialectal: [səjˈan]
  Play
• Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  Play
• rhymes with -aɪən
  Play
• rhymes with -æn
  Play
• CMU ARPABET: S AY0 AE1 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
  Play

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κύανος (kúanos), a shade of blue variously described as similar to cornflower, copper carbonate, and lapis lazuli, Mycenaean Greek 𐀓𐀷𐀜 (ku-wa-no), possibly from Hittite [script needed] (kuwannan-, “a precious stone; copper; shade of blue”). Compare modern Greek κυανός (kyanós), also used for cyan.

115 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Chinese Mandarin: 青色的 (qīngsè de) — of the colour cyan
• Czech: azurový — of the colour cyan
• Dutch: cyaankleurig — of the colour cyan
• Esperanto: ciankolora — of the colour cyan
• Esperanto: cejana — of the colour cyan
• Faroese: blágrønur — of the colour cyan
• Finnish: sinivihreä — of the colour cyan
• Finnish: syaanin värinen — of the colour cyan
• French: turquois — of the colour cyan
• German: türkis — of the colour cyan
• German: zyan — of the colour cyan
• Greek: κυανός (kyanós) — of the colour cyan
• Icelandic: blágrænn — of the colour cyan
• Ido: ciana — of the colour cyan
• Interlingua: cyan — of the colour cyan
• Japanese: シアン色の (shian’iro no) — of the colour cyan
• Khmer: និលហរិត (nil hak rit) — of the colour cyan
• Latin: vitreus — of the colour cyan
• Latin: venetus — of the colour cyan
• Māori: kārikiōrangi — of the colour cyan
• Persian: سبزآبی — of the colour cyan
• Polish: turkusowy — of the colour cyan
• Polish: cyjanowy — of the colour cyan
• Portuguese: ciano — of the colour cyan
• Russian: голубо́й (golubój) — of the colour cyan
• Russian: бирюзовый (birjuzovyj) — of the colour cyan
• Scottish Gaelic: saidhean — of the colour cyan
• Spanish: cian — of the colour cyan
• Swedish: cyan — of the colour cyan
• Swedish: cyanfärgad — of the colour cyan
• Swedish: turkos — of the colour cyan
• Swedish: turkosfärgad — of the colour cyan
• Welsh: gwyrddlas — of the colour cyan
• Afrikaans: siaan — a colour between blue and green
• Arabic: سَمَاوِيّ (samāwiyy) — a colour between blue and green
• Arabic: سماوي (smāwi) — a colour between blue and green
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܟܝܵܢܵܐ (kyana) — a colour between blue and green
• Azerbaijani: mavi — a colour between blue and green
• Bashkir: зәңгәр (zəñgər) — a colour between blue and green
• Bengali: সায়ান (śaẏan) — a colour between blue and green
• Bulgarian: циàн (ciàn) — a colour between blue and green
• Bulgarian: синьо-зелен цвят (sinjo-zelen cvjat) — a colour between blue and green
• Burmese: စိမ်းပြာရောင် (cim:praraung) — a colour between blue and green
• Catalan: cian — a colour between blue and green
• Chinese Mandarin: 青色 (qīngsè) — a colour between blue and green
• Czech: cyan — a colour between blue and green
• Dutch: cyaan — a colour between blue and green
• Dutch: appelblauwzeegroen — a colour between blue and green
• Esperanto: ciankoloro — a colour between blue and green
• Esperanto: cejanbluo — a colour between blue and green
• Faroese: blágrønur — a colour between blue and green
• Finnish: sinivihreä — a colour between blue and green
• Finnish: syaani — a colour between blue and green
• French: cyan — a colour between blue and green
• Galician: ciano — a colour between blue and green
• German: Zyan — a colour between blue and green
• German: Cyan — a colour between blue and green
• Greek: κυανός (kyanós) — a colour between blue and green
• Hebrew: צִיאָן (tsi'án) — a colour between blue and green
• Hindi: फ़िरोज़ा (firozā) — a colour between blue and green
• Ido: ciana — a colour between blue and green
• Indonesian: nilangsuka — a colour between blue and green
• Indonesian: sian — a colour between blue and green
• Interlingua: cyano — a colour between blue and green
• Interlingua: cyano blau — a colour between blue and green
• Irish: cian — a colour between blue and green
• Irish: cianghorm — a colour between blue and green
• Italian: ciano — a colour between blue and green
• Japanese: 水色 (mizu-iro) — a colour between blue and green
• Japanese: シアン (shian) — a colour between blue and green
• Japanese: 青緑色 (aomidori-iro) — a colour between blue and green
• Kazakh: циан (sian) — a colour between blue and green
• Khmer: និលហរិត (nil hak rit) — a colour between blue and green
• Korean: 청록색 (cheongnoksaek) — a colour between blue and green
• Northern Kurdish: sayan — a colour between blue and green
• Kyrgyz: көгүлтүр (kögültür) — a colour between blue and green
• Lao: ສີຟ້າເຄົ້າ (sī fā khao) — a colour between blue and green
• Latin: vitreus — a colour between blue and green
• Latin: venetus — a colour between blue and green
• Lithuanian: žydra — a colour between blue and green
• Luganda: bululu — a colour between blue and green
• Malagasy: ohatra tsy ampy — a colour between blue and green
• Malay: langit biru — a colour between blue and green
• Māori: kārikiōrangi — a colour between blue and green
• Mongolian: шар хөх өнгө (šar xöx öngö) — a colour between blue and green
• Nepali: सियान (siyān) — a colour between blue and green
• Persian: آبی دریایی (âbi-daryâyi) — a colour between blue and green
• Persian: سیان (siyân) — a colour between blue and green
• Persian: زنگاری (zangâri) — a colour between blue and green
• Polish: turkus — a colour between blue and green
• Polish: cyjan — a colour between blue and green
• Portuguese: turquesa — a colour between blue and green
• Portuguese: ciano — a colour between blue and green
• Romanian: azur — a colour between blue and green
• Romanian: cyan — a colour between blue and green
• Russian: бирюзо́вый (birjuzóvyj) — a colour between blue and green
• Rwanda-Rundi: uburubu — a colour between blue and green
• Scottish Gaelic: saidhean — a colour between blue and green
• Serbo-Croatian: тиркизна — a colour between blue and green
• Serbo-Croatian: цијан — a colour between blue and green
• Serbo-Croatian: tirkizna — a colour between blue and green
• Serbo-Croatian: cijan — a colour between blue and green
• Sinhalese: සයන් (sayan) — a colour between blue and green
• Somali: baxri — a colour between blue and green
• Spanish: cian — a colour between blue and green
• Swahili: cyan — a colour between blue and green
• Swedish: cyan — a colour between blue and green
• Swedish: cyanfärg — a colour between blue and green
• Swedish: turkos — a colour between blue and green
• Swedish: turkosfärg — a colour between blue and green
• Tsonga: wasi-lwandle — a colour between blue and green
• Tswana: saeyene — a colour between blue and green
• Turkish: camgöbeği — a colour between blue and green
• Vietnamese: xanh lơ — a colour between blue and green
• Wolof: baxa — a colour between blue and green