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blue

 
 
/bluː/ noun [C, U]

Translation

the colour of the sky when there are no clouds
gök mavi
1503
out of the blue If something happens out of the blue, you did not expect it.
beklenmedik, damdan düşer gibi, durup dururken
One day, completely out of the blue, I had a letter from her.1116
(Definition of blue noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

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