smaragd

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English

Etymology

From Latin smaragdus, from Ancient Greek σμάραγδος (smáragdos), μάραγδος (máragdos), from a Semitic language.

Pronunciation

Noun

smaragd (plural smaragds)

  1. (obsolete) An emerald.
    • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis , “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. , London: William Rawley ; rinted by J H for William Lee , →OCLC:
      These following bodies do not draw: smaragd, achates, corneolus, pearl, jaspis, chalcedonius, alabaster, porphyry, coral, marble, touchstone, haematites, or bloodstone []
    • 1880, Richard Francis Burton, Os Lusíadas, volume II, page 389:
      Nor far they steppèd when on culm'inant height / where stretcht a gem-enamel'd mead they stood; / Smaragd and Ruby-strewn, so rich the sight / presumed 'twas Paradisial floor they trod.

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Czech

Pronunciation

Noun

smaragd m inan

  1. emerald

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Danish

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Etymology

From late Old Norse smaragdr, from Latin smaragdus, from Ancient Greek σμάραγδος (smáragdos), μάραγδος (máragdos), from a Semitic language.

Pronunciation

Noun

smaragd c (singular definite smaragden, plural indefinite smaragder)

  1. emerald

Declension

Declension of smaragd
common
gender
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative smaragd smaragden smaragder smaragderne
genitive smaragds smaragdens smaragders smaragdernes

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Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch smaragd, from Latin smaragdus, from Ancient Greek σμάραγδος (smáragdos), μάραγδος (máragdos), from a Semitic language.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /smaːˈrɑxt/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: sma‧ragd
  • Rhymes: -ɑxt

Noun

smaragd m (plural smaragden, diminutive smaragdje n)

  1. emerald

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Descendants

  • Afrikaans: smarag

References

  • smaragd” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie.

Estonian

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Noun

smaragd (genitive smaragdi, partitive smaragdi)

  1. (mineralogy) emerald

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

  • smaragd”, in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

Faroese

Noun

smaragd

  1. accusative singular of smaragdur

Hungarian

Etymology

From Latin smaragdus, from Ancient Greek σμάραγδος (smáragdos), μάραγδος (máragdos), from a Semitic language.

Pronunciation

Noun

smaragd (plural smaragdok)

  1. emerald

Declension

Possessive forms of smaragd
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. smaragdom smaragdjaim
2nd person sing. smaragdod smaragdjaid
3rd person sing. smaragdja smaragdjai
1st person plural smaragdunk smaragdjaink
2nd person plural smaragdotok smaragdjaitok
3rd person plural smaragdjuk smaragdjaik

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Further reading

  • smaragd in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Norwegian Bokmål

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smaragd

Etymology

From Latin smaragdus, from Ancient Greek σμάραγδος (smáragdos), μάραγδος (máragdos), from a Semitic language.

Pronunciation

Noun

smaragd m (definite singular smaragden, indefinite plural smaragder, definite plural smaragdene)

  1. (an) emerald (gemstone)

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

From Latin smaragdus, from Ancient Greek σμάραγδος (smáragdos), μάραγδος (máragdos), from a Semitic language.

Noun

smaragd m (definite singular smaragden, indefinite plural smaragdar, definite plural smaragdane)

  1. (an) emerald (gemstone)

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Romanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Greek σμαράγδι (smarágdi). Compare the variant smarald.

Noun

smaragd n (plural smaragde)

  1. Alternative form of smarald (emerald)

Declension

Declension of smaragd
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative smaragd smaragdul smaragde smaragdele
genitive-dative smaragd smaragdului smaragde smaragdelor
vocative smaragdule smaragdelor

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German Smaragd, from Ancient Greek σμάραγδος (smáragdos), from a Semitic language.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /smǎraɡd/
  • Hyphenation: sma‧ragd

Noun

smàragd m (Cyrillic spelling сма̀рагд)

  1. emerald

Declension

Declension of smaragd
singular plural
nominative smaragd smaragdi
genitive smaragda smaragda
dative smaragdu smaragdima
accusative smaragd smaragde
vocative smaragde smaragdi
locative smaragdu smaragdima
instrumental smaragdom smaragdima

References

  • smaragd”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Swedish

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Etymology

Inherited from Old Swedish smaragd, from Latin smaragdus, from Ancient Greek σμάραγδος (smáragdos).

Noun

smaragd c

  1. emerald (gemstone)

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