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Aramaic
Etymology
From Akkadian 𒉌𒌓𒅀𒀸𒁍 (/yašpû/, “name of a stone”), ultimately a foreign loan from an unknown source; cognate with Persian یشپ (yašp) and English jasper.
Pronunciation
Noun
ישפה • (transliteration needed) m (uncountable)
- (a type of precious stone)
References
- “yšph”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
- Jastrow, Marcus (1903) A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature, London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons
- Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press
Hebrew
- יָשְׁפֵה (some manuscripts)
Etymology
From an Indo-Iranian reflex language, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Háćmā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éḱmō.
Cognates include Latin iaspis iaspis (“(a gemstone)”), Greek ἴασπις, Hittite yašpu-, Akkadian ašpu, Amarna Akkadian 𒉌𒌓𒅀𒀸𒁍 (/yašpû/, “name of a stone”), Elamite ia-áš-pu, and New Persian یشم yašm, یشپ yašp ‘jade’ (whence → Arabic يَشْم yašm, يَشْب yašb). The exact meanings of most of these gemstones is difficult to determine precisely.
Noun
יָשְׁפֶה • (yošp̄e) ?
- blue chalcedony
References
- Ayil, Ephraim S. (2024). "Chapter 14 יָשְׁפֶה Yošp̄e—Blue Chalcedony". In Identifying the Stones of Classical Hebrew. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004678002_005