in Chinese. The Russian language also distinguishes between red (красный, krasniy) and pink (розовый, rozoviy). Similarly, English language descriptions of rainbows have often distinguished between blue or turquoise and indigo, the latter of which is often described as dark blue or ultramarine. The Serbo-Croatian color system makes a distinction between blue, green and black: Blue: plav (indicates any blue) and modar; in the eastern speaking areas modar indicates dark blue, in some of the western areas it may indicate any blue Navy blue: teget (mainly in the eastern speaking areas) Ash blue: sinj(i) (espetially in Dalmatia to describe sea in stormy weather: sinje more) Green: zelen Black: crn Modar may also mean dark blue and dark purple that are used to describe colours of a bruise, modrica. Native speakers cannot pinpoint a color on the spectrum which would correspond to modra. Sinj, cognate to Bulgarian синьо, sinyo/Russian синий, siniy, is archaic, and denotes blue-gray, usually used to describe dark seas. Turquoise is usually described as tirkizan, and similarly, azure will use a loan word azuran. There is no specific word for cyan. Blond hair is called plava ('blue'), reflecting likely the archaic use of "plav" for any bright white/blue colors (like the sky). Mrk "dusky" can refer either dark brown, less often dark gray, or even black. It is etymologically derived from the word for "darkness" (mrak), but is distinct from "dark" (taman). For instance, it is used to describe the brown bear (mrki medved/medvjed). Smeđ and kestenjast refer brown, crven means red, ružičast is for pink and narandžast designates orange. Shades are defined with a prefix (e.g. "tamno-" for dark, or "svetlo-/svijetlo-" for light), for example, dark blue = "tamnoplav". The Slovene language distinguishes among blue, green and black Blue: moder (officially) or plav (vernacular) is used for any blue. Sometimes a word sinj (adj. sinje) is also used to describe azure. The word akvamarin is sometimes used for navy-blue. Green: zelen is related to the word zel, which is derived from Proto-Slavic word "зель" for "herb" - which in turn is believed to be derived from Proto-Indo-European word for "to shine", which also described light shades of colors (gold, yellow and green). Black: Črn Although the blue and green color are not strictly defined, so Slovene speakers cannot point to a certain shade of blue or green, but rather the whole spectrum of blue and green shades, there