یاقوت

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Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic يَاقُوت (yāqūt), ultimately from Ancient Greek ὑάκινθος (huákinthos). Doublet of یاکند (yâkand).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? yāqūt
Dari reading? yāqūt
Iranian reading? yâğut
Tajik reading? yoqut

Noun

Dari یاقوت
Iranian Persian
Tajik ёқут

یاقوت • (yâqut) (plural یاقوت‌ها (yâqut-hâ))

  1. ruby
    Synonyms: لعل (la'l), یاکند (yâkand)
  2. corundum

Derived terms

Descendants

Proper noun

یاقوت • (yâqut)

  1. Yāqūt al-Mustaʿṣimī, thirteenth-century master calligrapher; (poetic) metaphor for a master calligrapher.
    • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 112:
      چو خط که از لب لعلت دمد رقم نتوان کرد
      اگر شوند چو یاقوت قدسیان همه کاتب
      čū xatt ki az lab-i la'lat damad raqam natawān kard
      agar šawand čū yāqūt-i qudsiyān hama kātib
      When the line of hair blooms from your ruby lips, it cannot be written down
      Even were all the scribes to become like the Yāqūt of the angels.
      (Classical Persian transliteration)

Further reading

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian یاقوت (yāqūt), from Arabic, ultimately from Ancient Greek ὑάκινθος (huákinthos).

Noun

یاقوت • (yāqūt) m (Hindi spelling याक़ूत)

  1. ruby
  2. garnet
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