Arabic edit

 
بلَّور

Etymology edit

From Early New Persian بلور (billōr, crystal).

Pronunciation edit

  • (classic) IPA(key): /bil.lawr/
  • (colloquial also) IPA(key): /bil.luːr/

Noun edit

بِلَّوْر (billawrm (collective, singulative بِلَّوْرَة f (billawra))

  1. crystal
  2. rock crystal, quartz (originally)

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Ottoman Turkish edit

Etymology edit

From Arabic بِلُّور (billūr).

Pronunciation edit

  • (15th–17th century) IPA(key): [bɯˈɫːuɾ], [bɯˈɫuɾ]
  • (18th–20th century) IPA(key): [biˈɫːuɾ]

Noun edit

بلور (bıllur, billur)

  1. crystal

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References edit

  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بلور”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[1], Vienna, column 884

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Etymology edit

From Middle Persian [script needed] (bylwl /⁠*bēlūr⁠/, crystal), from Pali veḷuriya. Compare Parthian [Term?] (byrwl /⁠*bērūl⁠/, crystal) and Ancient Greek βήρυλλος (bḗrullos, beryl).

Pronunciation edit

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Readings
Classical reading? bilōr
Iranian reading? bolur
Tajik reading? bulür

Noun edit

بلور (bolur)

Dari بلور
Iranian Persian
Tajik булӯр
  1. crystal

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References edit

  • MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “bēlūr”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 19
  • Franke, Otto (1893) “Beziehungen der Inder zum Westen”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft[2], volume 47, page 600