Persian

Alternative forms

• لاژورد ‎(lâžvard, lâžavard)
• لازورد ‎(lâzvard, lâzavard)

Noun

لاجورد • ‎(lâjvard, lâjavard)

لاجورد بدخشی

Badakhshan lapis lazuli

1. (mineralogy) lapis lazuli
   • 982, Hudūd al-'Ālam

     و اندر بدخشان معدن سیم است و زر و بیجاده و لاجورد.

     wa andar Badaxšān ma'dan-i sēm ast u zar u bījāda u lājaward.

     and in Badakhshan there are mines of silver, gold, ruby, and lapis lazuli.

2. azure, lapis lazuli (color)

Derived terms

• لاجوردی ‎(lâjavardi)

Descendants

• Tajik: ложвард ‎(ložvard), лоҷвард ‎(lojvard), лоҷувард ‎(lojuvard)
• → Azeri: lacivərd
• → Arabic: لازورد ‎(lāzaward), لاجورد ‎(lājward)
  • → Byzantine Greek: λαζούριον ‎(lazoúrion), λαζούριν ‎(lazoúrin)
    • Greek: λαζούρι ‎(lazoúri), λαζούριον ‎(lazoúrion)
  • → Medieval Latin: lazulum, lapis lazuli, lazurius, lazurium, lazur, azzurum, azura, azolum
    • → English: lapis lazuli
    • → Italian: azzurro
    • → Middle High German: lāsūr, lāzūr
      • German: Lazur
      • → Czech: lazur
      • → Polish: lazur
        • → Russian: лазу́рь ‎(lazúrʹ)
    • → Old French: azur
      • French: azur
      • → English: azure
    • → Spanish: azur, azul, açul
• → Classical Syriac: ܠܐܙܘܪܕ ‎(lāʾzward)
• → Georgian: ლაჟვარდი ‎(lažvardi)
• → Hindustani:
  • Hindi: लाजवर्द ‎(lājvard)
  • Urdu: لاجورد ‎(lājavard, lājvard), لاژورد ‎(lāžuvard, lāžvard)
• → Kurdish:
  • Central Kurdish: لاجوەرد
  • Northern Kurdish: lazewerd, laciwerd
• → Middle Armenian: լազուարթ ‎(lazuartʿ), լազվարդ ‎(lazvard), լազուվարդ ‎(lazuvard), լազուարդ ‎(lazuard), լազուար ‎(lazuar), լաժուարդ ‎(lažuard), լաժուրդ ‎(lažurd), լաջուարդ ‎(laǰuard), լաջվարդ ‎(laǰvard), լաճվարդ ‎(lačvard), լաճվարտ ‎(lačvart), լաճիվարդ ‎(lačivard), լաճուարտ ‎(lačuart),
  • Armenian: լաջվարդ ‎(laǰvard)
• → Ottoman Turkish: لاجورد ‎(lâceverd), لاژورد ‎(lâjverd)
  • Turkish: lacivert
• → Punjabi: [script needed] ‎(lājward)
• → Sanskrit: राजावर्त ‎(rājāvarta), लाजवर्त ‎(lājavarta), राजपट्ट ‎(rājapaṭṭa)
  • → Sogdian: rʾcβrt ‎(rājβart), rʾzβrt ‎(rājwart, “Rajwart (name of the king of elephants)”)

References

• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1973), “լազուարթ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume II, 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, published 1926–1935, pages 256–257
• Pokorny, Julius (1959), “³u̯el-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume III, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1138
• Bailey, H. W. (1979), “ūḍāra-”, in Dictionary of Khotan Saka, Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University press, page 36b
• Lokotsch, Karl (1927) Etymologisches Wörterbuch der europäischen Wörter orientalischen Ursprungs (in German), Heidelberg: Carl Winter’s Universitätsbuchhandlung, § 1311, page 104b
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1976) Kurzgefasstes Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindischen [A Concise Etymological Sanskrit Dictionary] (in German), volume III, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 51
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (2001) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen (in German), volume III, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 427