Colors of purple? Can yyou give me some name for other purple color? I have...
Can yyou give me some name for other purple color? I have lilac, european lilac, what else?
lavender
Here are pretty much all the purple's you'll encounter... :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple
And since a picture is worth a thousand words, here are descriptions:
http://images.google.ca/images?um=1&hl=f...
Answers: The word purple comes from the Old English word purpul which originate from the Latin purpura
more names of it are
Orchid
heliotrope
Mulberry
firoji (hindi)
Bosnian: ljubicasta f., lila f.
Breton: limestra
Cornish: purpur
Danish: lilla, purple
Dutch: purper, paars
Esperanto: purpuro, violkolora
Finnish: sinipunainen, purppura
French: violet
Frisian: pears
German: purpur,lila,violett
Greek: ¦Ì¦Ø¦Â (mov), ¦É¦Ä¦Å (i¨®dhes), ¦É¦Ö¦Ñ¦Ï¦Ô¦Í (i¨®khrun), ¦Â¦É¦Ï¦Ë¦Å¦Ó (vyolet¨ª), ¦Ì¦Á¦Â (mav¨ª), ¦Ì¦Å¦Í¦Å¦Î¦Å¦Ä (menexedh¨ª), ¦Ð¦Ï¦Ñ¦Õ¦Ô¦Ñ (porfir¨®)
Ancient Greek: ¦Ð¦Ï¦Ñ¦Õ¦Ñ¦Å¦Ï, ¦Ð¦Ï¦Ñ¦Õ¦Ô¦Ñ¦Ï (porphureos, porphurous)
Hebrew: (Sagol)
Ido: violea
Indonesian: ungu
Irish: corcairghorm
Italian: porpora m.
Japanese: ×Ï (¤à¤é¤µ¤, murasaki)
Kurdish:
Latin: purpura, ostrum
Latvian: purpurs m., lill¨¡ (indeclinable), violets m.
Norwegian: lilla, fiolett
Portuguese: roxo, p¨²rpura
Romanian: purpuriu, mov, lilac
Spanish: morado m., p¨²rpura m.
Swedish: lila, violett, gredelin (obsolete)
Turkish: mor, erguvani (purple-coloured)
Welsh: porffor, piws