cyan
/ˈsaɪˌæn/
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Canada/ˈsaɪ.ən/
cyan noun: an additive secondary colour midway between green and blue, evoked by wavelengths between ~490 and ~520 nm.
Noun
cyan (countable and uncountable, plural cyans)
- An additive secondary colour midway between green and blue, evoked by wavelengths between ~490 and ~520 nm.
- CMYK stands for cyan, magenta, yellow, and black. This four component color system is standard for most types of color printing, since black is an ink color in printing but is simply the absence of color in video.2009, Harry Henderson, Computer Science and Technology, Revised edition, →ISBN, page 93
Adjective
cyan (comparative more cyan, superlative most cyan)
- Of the colour cyan.
cyan meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and Malayalam
cyan in Hindi
- a colour between blue and green
- फ़िरोज़ा firozā
cyan in Tamil
- பச்சை கலந்த நீல நிறம், மயில் நிறம்
cyan in Bengali
- a colour between blue and green
- সায়ান śaẏan
cyan in Malayalam
- cyan
- വാരുണി vāruṇi
More languagesFewer languages
- cyan in Sinhala
- සයන් sayan
- cyan in Nepali
- सियान siyān
- cyan in Arabic
- سَمَاوِيّ samāwiyy
- cyan in Malay
- langit biru
- cyan in Indonesian
- nilangsuka, sian
- cyan in Persian
- آبی دریایی âbi-daryâyi, سیان siyân, زنگاری zangâri, سبزآبی
- cyan in Vietnamese
- xanh lơ
- cyan in Myanmar
- စိမ်းပြာရောင် cim:praraung
Forms of cyan
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | cyans |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more cyan |
| superlative | most cyan |
Origin of cyan
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”) - likely from Kuwanniya, all going back to kuwanna (woman), related to "queen" and γυνή. Compare modern Greek κυανός (kyanós), also used for cyan.
Words formed from cyan
Words that rhyme with cyan
Questions about cyan
- What does cyan mean?
- Cyan means an additive secondary colour midway between green and blue, evoked by wavelengths between ~490 and ~520 nm.
- What is cyan in Hindi?
- Cyan in Hindi is फ़िरोज़ा (firozā). See Cyan meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is cyan?
- Cyan can be a noun or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce cyan?
- Cyan is pronounced /ˈsaɪˌæn/.
- What is the plural of cyan?
- The plural of cyan is cyans.
Words near cyan in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: cyan (page history and authors); cyan (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); വാരുണി (Malayalam) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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