شيربام

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Arabic

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Etymology

Borrowed from Early New Persian شِیر بَام (šīr bām), شِیر فَام (šīr fām, literally milk-tinge).

Pronunciation

Noun

شِيرْبَام (šīrbām) (obsolete, 8th–9th c. CE)

  1. milk-white
    Synonym: لَبَنِيّ (labaniyy)
    • a. 869, الْجَاحِظ [al-jāḥiẓ], “باب ما يُعتبر من الجواهر النفيسة ومعرفتها وقيمتها [About how one esteems precious gems, their morphology and value]”, in التَبَصُّر بِٱلتِّجَارَة [at-tabaṣṣur bi-t-tijāra]‎:
      وخيرُ الفيروزجِ الشيربامُ الأخضر الأسمانجوني الصافي العتيق، والفيروزج حجر لا يعمل المبردُ فيه، ولا يتغير في النار والماء الحار، وغايةُ ثَمَنِ فص فيروزج إذا بلغ وزنه نصف مثقال عشرون دينارًا.
      The best turquoise is milk-white, green with blue gleam, pure and old. It is a stone upon which the file cannot work and which cannot be altered by heat or water. The highest price for a turquoise gem when it reaches a weight of half a miṯqāl is twenty dinars.

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