ישפה

• ܝܫܦܐ

From Akkadian 𒉌𒌓𒅀𒀸𒁍 (/⁠yašpû⁠/, “name of a stone”), ultimately a foreign loan from an unknown source; cognate with Persian یشپ (yašp) and English jasper.

• IPA^(key): /jaʃpeh/

ישפה • (transliteration needed) m (uncountable)

1. a type of gemstone

• “yšph”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• Jastrow, Marcus (1903) A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature‎^[1], London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons
• Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press

• יָשְׁפֵה (some manuscripts)

Unknown. Probably from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éḱmō. Cognates include Latin iaspis (“a gemstone”), Ancient Greek ἴασπις (íaspis), Hittite yašpu-, Akkadian ašpu, Amarna Akkadian 𒉌𒌓𒅀𒀸𒁍 (/⁠yašpû⁠/, “name of a stone”), Elamite ia-áš-pu, and New Persian یشم (yašm), یشپ (yašp, “jade”) (whence Arabic يَشْم (yašm), يَشْب (yašb)).

‮יָשְׁפֶה‬ • (yošp̄e) m

1. (modern Hebrew) jasper

• Ayil, Ephraim S. (2024) “Chapter 14 ‮יָשְׁפֶה‬ Yošp̄e—Blue Chalcedony”, in Identifying the Stones of Classical Hebrew, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill