Emerald

English

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cut emeralds (beryl)

Adjective

Emerald (comparative more Emerald, superlative most Emerald)

1. Of a rich green colour.

Noun

Emerald (plural Emeralds)

1. Any of various green gemstones, especially a green transparent form of beryl, highly valued as a precious stone.
2. emerald green

Adjectives for Emerald

living; veined; encrusted; sparkling; strik ; great; square; exquisite.

Verbs for Emerald

adorn with—; cover with—s; delight in—; favor—; guard—; lure with—; purchase—; secrete—; value—; —crowns; —dazzles; —gleams; —glimmers; —glitters; —scintillates ; —shines.

Thesaurus

adamant, aestival, agate, alexandrite, amethyst, aquamarine, beryl, beryl-green, berylline, bloodstone, blue-green, bluish-green, brilliant, carbuncle, carnelian, chalcedony, chartreuse, chloranemic, chlorine, chlorotic, chrysoberyl, chrysolite, citrine, citrinous, coral, demantoid, diamond, foliaged, garnet, girasol, glaucescent, glaucous, glaucous-green, grassy, green, green as grass, green-blue, greenish, greenish-blue, greenish-yellow, greensick, harlequin opal, heliotrope, holly, hyacinth, ivy, ivy-green, jade, jadestone, jargoon, jasper, lapis lazuli, leafy, leaved, moonstone, morganite, olivaceous, olive, olive-green, onyx, opal, peridot, plasma, porraceous, rose quartz, ruby, sapphire, sard, sardonyx, smaragdine, spinel, spinel ruby, springlike, summerlike, summery, topaz, turquoise, verdant, verdurous, vernal, vernant, vert, virescent, yellowish-green

Etymology

From Middle English emeraude < Old French esmeraude < Vulgar Latin *esmaralda, *esmaraldus, variant of Latin smaragdus, < Ancient Greek σμάραγδος, μάραγδος (maragdos) < Semitic root b-r-q “to shoot lightning, to flash in darkness”, compare Hebrew {{ Template:Heb/script |בָּרֶקֶת| face=term | lang=heb }} (bareket) “emerald, flashing gem”, Akkadian barruktu.

Sanskrit मरकत (marakata) from a Semitic language.

Persian zumrud (whence Turkish zümrüd, whence Russian izmurud) from Ancient Greek.

Translations

Adjective

rich green colour

Dutch: smaragdgroen, smaragdgroene Finnish: smaragdinvihreä French: émeraude (fr) German: smaragdgrün, smaragdfarben Greek: σμαράγδένιος (el) (smaragdénios) Interlingua: esmeraldin

Lithuanian: smarãgdinis (lt) Macedonian: смарагден (mk) (smáragden) m. Polish: szmaragdowy m. Romanian: smaraldiu Russian: изумрудный (ru) (izumrúdnyj)

Noun

gemstone

Arabic: زمرّد (zumúrrud) m. Armenian: զմրուխտ (hy) (zmruxt) Azeri: zümrüd (az) Bengali: পান্না (bn) (panna) Chinese: Mandarin: 綠寶石 (cmn), 绿宝石 (cmn) (lǜ bǎoshí) Czech: smaragd (cs) m. Danish: smaragd (da) Dutch: smaragd (nl) m. Esperanto: smeraldo (eo) Estonian: smaragd (et) Finnish: smaragdi (fi) French: émeraude (fr) f. Georgian: ზურმუხტი (ka) (zurmuxti) German: Smaragd (de) m. Greek: σμαράγδι (el) (smarágdi) n. Hebrew: אזמרגד (izmargad), ברקת (bareket)

Hungarian: smaragd (hu) Icelandic: smaragður (is) m. Interlingua: esmeraldo Italian: smeraldo (it) Japanese: エメラルド (ja) (emerarudo) Korean: 에메랄드 (ko) Lithuanian: smarãgdas (lt) m. Macedonian: смарагд (mk) (smarágd) m. Persian: زمرّد (fa) (zomorrod) Polish: szmaragd m. Portuguese: esmeralda (pt) f. Romanian: smarald n., alternate: smarand n., smaragd n. Russian: изумруд (ru) (izumrúd) m. Spanish: esmeralda (es) f. Swahili: zumaridi (sw) Thai: มรกต (morrágòt) Turkish: zümrüt (tr)

colour

Finnish: smaragdinvihreä French: émeraude (fr) f. German: Smaragdgrün n. Greek: σμαραγδένιο (smaragdénio) n., βαθυπράσινο (vathyprásino) n. Hungarian: smaragdzöld (hu) Japanese: エメラルド色 (ja) (emerarudo-iro)

Lithuanian: smarãgdas (lt) m. Macedonian: смарагдна (mk) (smáragdna) Polish: kolor szmaragdowy m. Romanian: smaraldiu m. Russian: изумрудный (ru) (izumrúdnyj) m. Swahili: rangi ya zumaridi (sw)

Derived terms

• Emerald
• emerald cut
• emerald green
• Emerald Isle

Related terms

• smaragd
• smaragdine

See also

• beryl
• Appendix:Colours