How is the word алый translated from Russian to English
English translation
Scarlet
adjective 
Ярко-красного цвета.
Of a bright red colour.
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Examples with “алый”
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На ней было алое пальто. — She wore a scarlet coat.
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Листья клёна за ночь стали алыми. — The maple leaves turned scarlet overnight.
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Не слишком ли яркая эта алая лента? — Isn't that scarlet ribbon too bright?
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Алый is bright red leaning to orange — the poppy, the dawn, the flag. It is a warm, poetic word, and Russians know it from «Алые паруса», Scarlet Sails, a story so loved that the phrase is now the name of a St Petersburg festival.
Unlike English scarlet it does not appear in the disease: scarlet fever is скарлатина, borrowed whole from Latin, with no алый in it. The word declines as an ordinary adjective.
Forms of “алый”
- алый masculine
- алая feminine
- алое neuter
- алые plural
Common phrases with “алый”
- алые паруса scarlet sails — the story and the festival
- алый флаг a scarlet flag
- алая лента a scarlet ribbon
- залиться краской to turn scarlet, of a face
How “алый” differs from similar words
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красный red
The everyday colour, and historically the word for beautiful — Красная площадь was the beautiful square before it was the red one.
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багровый crimson, dark red
Darker and heavier, the colour of a bruise or an angry face.
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скарлатина scarlet fever
Borrowed from Latin, and unconnected to алый — the English pairing of colour and disease does not survive the crossing.
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