زرق

زُرْقَةٌ ذ A certain colour, (Msb, K,) well known; as also ↓ زَرَقٌ: (K:) it is [in various things; but is generally expl. as being] in the eye: (JK, S:) [ a blue colour, (see 1, first sentence,) whether light or dark or of a middling tint, but generally the first;] sky-colour, or azure; (TK;) [ blueness of the eye; ] or grayness of the eye; (PS;) [or a greenish hue in the eye: (see again 1, first sentence:)] accord. to ISd, whiteness, wherever it be: and a خُضْرَة [by which may be meant greenness, or dust-colour intermixed with blackness or deep ask-colour, ] in the سَوَاد [here meaning iris ] of the eye: or, as some say, a whiteness overspreading the سَوَاد of the eye [app. when a person becomes blind: see 1, third sentence; and see also أَزْرَقُ]. (TA.) [In the present day it is often improperly used as meaning A black colour. ]