garnet

See also: Garnet and garnett

English

Garnet (1)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑː(ɹ).nət/

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Etymology 1

From Middle English gernet, granate, from Old French grenate, from grenat (“pomegranate red”). Doublet of grenade.

Noun

garnet (countable and uncountable, plural garnets)

1. (mineralogy) A hard transparent mineral that is often used as gemstones and abrasives.
   • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, page 127:

     How many needles Betty Flanders had lost there! and her garnet brooch.

   • 2012 March 1, Lee A. Groat, “Gemstones”, in American Scientist‎^[1], volume 100, number 2, page 128:

     Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are […] . (Common gem materials not addressed in this article include amber, amethyst, chalcedony, garnet, lazurite, malachite, opals, peridot, rhodonite, spinel, tourmaline, turquoise and zircon.)

2. A dark red color, like that of the gemstone.

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Derived terms

• cross-garnet
• demantoid garnet
• garnet berry (red currant)
• garnet brown
• garnet yam
• garnetiferous
• garnierite
• gooseberry garnet
• mandarin garnet
• rose garnet
• tsavorite garnet
• YAG
• yttrium iron garnet

 

Related terms

• grenade
• pomegranate

Translations

mineral

• Afrikaans: granaat (af)
• Armenian: նռնաքար (hy) (nṙnakʿar)
• Azerbaijani: qranat (az)
• Bulgarian: гранат m (granat)
• Burmese: ဂေါ်မိတ် (my) (gaumit)
• Catalan: granat (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 石榴石 (zh) (shíliushí)

• Czech: granát (cs) m
• Dutch: granaat (nl)
• Esperanto: grenato
• Estonian: granaadid
• Finnish: granaatti (fi)
• French: grenat (fr)
• Georgian: გრანატი (granaṭi)
• German: Granat (de) m
• Greek: λυχνίτης (el) m (lychnítis)

  Ancient: λυχνίτης m (lukhnítēs)

• Hindi: याक़ूत m (yāqūt), याकूत (hi) m (yākūt), गोमेद (hi) m (gomed), गोमेधक (hi) m (gomedhak), गोमेदक (hi) m (gomedak)
• Irish: gairnéad m
• Italian: granato m, granata (it) f
• Japanese: 柘榴石 (ざくろいし zakuroishi), ガーネット (gānetto)
• Kazakh: анартас (anartas)
• Maori: kāreti
• Persian: بیجاده‎ (fa) (bijâde)
• Polish: granat (pl) m
• Portuguese: granada (pt) f
• Romanian: granat (ro) n
• Russian: грана́т (ru) m (granát)
• Serbo-Croatian: granat (sh) m
• Spanish: granate (es) m
• Swedish: granat (sv) c
• Tagalog: granate
• Tamil: கோமேதகம் (ta) (kōmētakam)
• Thai: โกเมน (th) (kōmēn)
• Turkish: grena (tr), lal taşı
• Urdu: یاقوت‎ (ur) m (yāqūt)
• Welsh: garned m

colour

• Bulgarian: тъмно червен m (tǎmno červen)
• Catalan: granat (ca) m
• Finnish: granaatinpunainen, tummanpunainen (fi)
• French: grenat (fr) m
• Georgian: გრანატისფერი (granaṭisperi)
• German: Granat (de), Granatrot n
• Greek: γκρενά (el) n (gkrená)
• Japanese: ガーネット色 (gānettoshoku)
• Persian: بیجاده‌گون‎ (bijâde-gun)
• Portuguese: grená (pt)
• Spanish: granate (es) m
• Tagalog: granate

See also

mineral

• allochroite
• almandine
• andradite
• carbuncle
• cinnamon stone
• Colorado ruby
• demantoid
• essonite
• grossularite
• hessonite
• melanite
• ouvarovite
• pyrope
• rhodolite
• spessartine
• topazolite
• tsavorite
• uvarovite

Adjective

garnet

1. Of a dark red colour.

See also

• (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermillion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine ^{(Category: en:Reds)}

Etymology 2

Noun

garnet (plural garnets)

1. (nautical) A tackle for hoisting cargo in or out.

Derived terms

• clew-garnet

Etymology 3

Verb

garnet (third-person singular simple present garnets, present participle garneting, simple past and past participle garneted)

1. (transitive) To shred (twisted wool fiber, rags, etc.) so that it can be reused.

Derived terms

• garneter

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for garnet in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams

• Gretna, Tanger, argent, gerant

Cebuano

Etymology

From English garnet, from Middle English granate, from Old French grenate, from grenat (“pomegranate red”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: gar‧net

Noun

garnet

1. (mineralogy) a hard transparent mineral that is often used as gemstones and abrasives
2. a dark red color, like that of the gemstone

Adjective

garnet

1. of a dark red colour

Danish

Noun

garnet n

1. definite singular of garn

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

garnet n

1. definite singular of garn

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

garnet n

1. definite singular of garn

Swedish

Noun

garnet

1. definite singular of garn.

Anagrams

• regnat