یاقوت

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Persian

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یاقوت

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /jaː.ˈquːt/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key):
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key):
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key):

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key):

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key):

Readings
Classical reading^?	yāqūt
Dari reading^?	yāqūt
Iranian reading^?	yâġut
Tajik reading^?	yoqut

Noun


Iranian Persian	یاقوت
Dari	یاقوت
Tajik	ёқут

یاقوت • (yâqut) (plural یاقوت‌ها)

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

Derived terms

یاقوتِ سُرخ (yâqut-e sorx)
یاقوتِ کَبود (yâqut-e kabud)
یاقوتِستان (yâqutestân)

Descendants

→ Hindustani:
Hindi: याक़ूत (yāqūt)

Urdu: یَاقُوت (yāqūt)
→ Ottoman Turkish: یاقوت (yakut)
- Turkish: yakut
- → Albanian: jakut
- → Romanian: iacut
- → Serbo-Croatian: jàkut / ја̀кут
- → Ubykh: еқуҭ (ekut)
→ Punjabi:
Gurmukhi script: ਯਾਕੂਤ (yākūt)

Shahmukhi script: یَاقُوت (yāqūt)
→ Uyghur: ياقۇت (yaqut)
→ Uzbek: yoqut

Proper noun

یاقوت • (yâqut)

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

Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “یاقوت”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

Urdu

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /jɑː.quːt̪/

Noun

یاقوت • (yāqūt) m (Hindi spelling याक़ूत)

ruby
garnet

Related terms

یاقوتی (yāqūtī)

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