On universal and national in semantics of blue / azul in French and Spanish

In this article a comparative analysis of the blue color designation in French and Spanish is carried out. National culture peculiarities of the mentioned color are viewed in the closely related languages. Special focus in the article is given to word combinations with the color components «blue» and «azul», irrespective of the degree of their semantic component fusion and idiomatic transformation, time periods, speech and linguistic employment.