Smaragd Definition

smaragd
noun
Webster's New World

(obsolete) An emerald.

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Singular:
smaragd
Plural:
smaragds

Origin of Smaragd

  • From Latin smaragdus, from Ancient Greek σμάραγδος (smaragdos), μάραγδος (maragdos), from Semitic root b-r-q “to shoot lightning, to flash in darkness", compare Hebrew בָּרֶקֶת (bareket, “emerald, flashing gem"), Akkadian [script?] (barruktu).

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  • Sanskrit मरकत (marakata) from Semitic. Persian zumrud (whence Turkish zümrüd, whence Russian izumrud) from Ancient Greek.

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