Translate This: Turquoise, Pink and other strange colours

Translating colours should be easy. Red is merah, blue is biru, green is hijau. Eezy peezy. That is until you're deluged with a plethora of colours that even English native speakers find them hard to remember. The following examples, legally, are colours. But as you can see, they are actually named so as a result of their natural occurrence. 

Turquoise is called turquoise because that's the natural colour of turquoise (pic) - it's chemical composition can be checked here. In Malay, turquoise (the colour) is called biru firus because turquoise (the gemstone) is called batu firus. Thank god such gemstone was already available here in those times. Otherwise and most likely it will be called terkois and can be easily confused or typoed as terkuis.

Vermillion is another chemical substance that gives vermillion (the colour) it's name. It is actually mercuric sulphide. Guess, what's it called in Malay? Merah menyala? No. It's merah merona. To be honest, that was the first time I heard it. I do not know what merona is. It's not explained anywhere in the dictionary. But googling it takes me to a host of Indonesian webpages, so I deduced that we just borrowed it whole from them. It then makes me wonder, could it be that that makes them Nengs prefer vermillion lips? Like this....

Vermillion lips are so sexy!

Pink guava.

Pink is another simple colour that seems easy to translate. Similar to that with English, because it occurs naturally in pink guava (a variant of guava (jambu batu) that has pink flesh), so it's called merah jambu. Wait. Wait. So, red is merah, guava is jambu batu and pink is merah jambu. Wouldn't pink guava end up being called 'jambu batu merah jambu' then? I am so confused. Aren't you too?

Oh! Wait again. Here's a solution by ingenious lexicographers paid by some ingenious company.

It's sooo valid...!