Saturday, February 26, 2011

My Purple

The second color in the list of my favorite ---

Purple,Violet, Lavender or Lila in other countries,
Morado (as my grand mother called it because she's half Spanish)
紫 (Murasaki) in Japanese,
보라색(po-ra-saek, po-ra-pit, ja-ju-saek, ja-jut-pit) in Korean,
紫色 (zǐsè) in Chinese Mandarin and
紫色 (jísīk) in Chinese Cantonese
Paars in Dutch,
Poni in Hawaii,
Corcra in Irish,
Ungu in Indonesia,
สีม่วง(see-muang) in Thai, and
in our very own language it's Ube.

Purple- the 7th color in the rainbow. a mysterious warm and cool color.
Queen Cleopatra of Egypt's favorite color.
The color is traditionally associated with both nobility and royalty in many cultures.
Purple robes were worn by royalty and people of authority or high rank.
Can boost a child's imagination or an artist's creativity.
The mourning color for widows in Thailand.
Purple Heart is a U.S. Military decoration given to soldiers wounded in battle.
In Feng Shui : Yin, spiritual awareness, physical and mental healing






2 comments:

Ida said...

Dear Leny,
Interesting to read about what purple means in different countries.

Here purple is considered a color for elder women; and sometimes with the condescending remark "the last color". I might adopt that sentence about "royalty and nobility" in stead, don't you think?

Ida

LENY said...

Dearest Ida,

You're right, it's better to adopt it as for "Royalty and Nobility". Me, I feel so "Classy" every time I wear color purple rather than to think that it's for the aged :( and for mourning.

Love, Leny