Blue–green distinction in language "azul-" means turquoise-blue. One can also make the distinction between "verde-claro" and "verde-escuro", meaning light and dark-green respectively, and more distinctions between several qualities of green: for instance, "verde-" means olive-green and "verde-" means emerald-green. Cyan is usually called "azul-celeste" (sky blue) or "azul-", meaning pool blue, but also less commonly "", and "verde-", meaning water green. Romanian clearly distinguishes between the colors green (') and blue ('). It also uses separate words for different hues of the same color, e.g. light blue ('), blue ("albastru"), dark-blue ("bleu-" or '), along with a word for turquoise (') and azure ('
Blue–green distinction in language in Amazigh language is "Azerwal". In some dialects of Amazigh, like Shilha, the word "Azegzaw" is used for both green and blue. The color of the sky is sometimes referred to as "the green" in Classical Arabic poetry, in which it is al-khaḍrā' (). In Arabic the word for blue is generally "azraq" (). The Arabic word for green is "akhḍar" (). In Moroccan Arabic, the word for light blue is "šíbi", whereas "zraq" () stands for blue and "khḍar" () for green. The word "zrag" () is used to describe the color of a suffocated person, and is also