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  2. Blue - Wikipedia

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    Hues of blue include indigo and ultramarine, closer to violet; pure blue, without any mixture of other colours; Azure, which is a lighter shade of blue, similar to the colour of the sky; Cyan, which is midway in the spectrum between blue and green, and the other blue-greens such as turquoise, teal, and aquamarine.

  3. Utpala - Wikipedia

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    The first meaning is Nymphaea nouchali, the "blue lotus", also known as kuvalaya in Sanskrit. [1] [2] The second meaning of utpala is a variety of medicinal plant known as ' kooṭh ' in Hindi and ' kusṭham, vyādhi, paribhavyam or pāribhavyam, vāpyam, pākalam' according to Amarkośa. [3] [4] [5] [6]

  4. Blue in culture - Wikipedia

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    Blue was a latecomer among colors used in art and decoration, as well as language and literature. [7] [verification needed] Reds, blacks, browns, and ochres are found in cave paintings from the Upper Paleolithic period, but not blue. Blue was also not used for dyeing fabric until long after red, ochre, pink and purple.

  5. Hindi literature - Wikipedia

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    Hindi literature (Hindi: हिंदी साहित्य, romanized: hindī sāhitya) includes literature in the various Central Indo-Aryan languages, also known as Hindi, some of which have different writing systems. Earliest forms of Hindi literature are attested in poetry of Apabhraṃśa such as Awadhi and Marwari.

  6. Blue–green distinction in language - en.wikipedia.org

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    In many languages, the colors described in English as "blue" and "green" are colexified, i.e., expressed using a single umbrella term.To render this ambiguous notion in English, linguists use the blend word grue, from green and blue, [1] a term coined by the philosopher Nelson Goodman — with an unrelated meaning — in his 1955 Fact, Fiction, and Forecast to illustrate his "new riddle of ...

  7. Word - Wikipedia

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    A word is a basic element of language that carries meaning, can be used on its own, and is uninterruptible. [1] Despite the fact that language speakers often have an intuitive grasp of what a word is, there is no consensus among linguists on its definition and numerous attempts to find specific criteria of the concept remain controversial. [2]

  8. Indian English literature - Wikipedia

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    Many of his stories like Blue Are the Far Off Mountains, The First Rain and The Magic Marble glorify purity of love. His novel Oraon and the Divine Tree is the story of a tribal and his love for an age old tree. In Hemingway style language the author takes the reader into the dreamland of nature and people who are inexorably associated with nature.

  9. Blue–green distinction in language - Wikipedia

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    Hence today, in the standardized Tuvan language, blue and green are named differently, but it led to the following controversies: The problem with nogoon is that it is purely symbolic, and not a natural thing. The color was named after a foreign non-Turkic word. Not choosing the obvious Turkic chazhyl, which was already used in Western parts of ...