لاجورد

Borrowed from Persian لاجورد.

لاجورد (transliteration needed)

1. lapis lazuli
2. azure

• Uyghur: لاجىۋەرد (lajiwerd)
• Uzbek: lojuvard

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Borrowed from Persian لاجورد (lâjvard, “lapis lazuli”).

لاجورد • (lâcverd, laciverd)

1. lapis lazuli, a deep-blue stone, used in making jewelry
2. azure, the blue colour of the sky on a clear day

   azure:  

• لاجوردی (lâcverdi, laciverdi, “of the color of lapis lazuli”)

• Turkish: lacivert
• → Armenian: լաճիվէրտ (lačivērt) — Constantinople

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “lacivert”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2922
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “لاجورد”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[2], Vienna: F. Beck, page 409a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “لاجورد”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[3] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1071
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Cyanus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[4], Vienna, column 318
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “لاجورد”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[5], Vienna, column 4127
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “lacivert”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “لاجورد”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[6], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1619

لاجورد • (transliteration needed) ?

1. (mineralogy) lapis lazuli

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

Usually considered to be from the place name لاژورد (Lāžvard) in Badakhshan where the stone was mined.

The first component, لاژ, is from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“green”) and cognate to Old Irish glas.

But according to Bailey, the second component goes back to Proto-Iranian *varta- (“stone”) and is cognate with Wakhi wurt (“stone”), Northern Kurdish ber (“stone”), Central Kurdish بەرد (berd, “stone”), Northern Luri بٱرد (bard, “stone”), Khotanese [script needed] (ūḍāra-, “crystal”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“to press together”), for which Pokorny cites Ancient Greek εἴλω (eílō, “to roll up, pack close”), Latin vulgus (“the public; a crowd”), and Proto-Slavic *vȃlъ (“roll; wave; barrage, heap”) as cognates.

لاجورد • (lâjvard, lâjavard)

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

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

     va andar badaxšân ma'dan-i sêm ast u zar u bîjâda u lâjavard.

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

2. azure, lapis lazuli (color)

   Synonym: لاجوردی (lâjvardi)

• لاجوردی (lâjvardi)

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973) “լազուարթ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume II, Yerevan: University Press, pages 256–257
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) “³u̯el-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, 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]‎^[8] (in German), volume III, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 51
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (2001) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎^[9] (in German), volume III, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 427

Borrowed from Persian لاجورد.

لاجْوَرْد • (lājvard) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਲਾਜਵਰਦ)

1. (mineralogy) lapis lazuli
2. azure (color)

• لاجْوَرْدِی (lājvardī)

Borrowed from Persian لاجورد.

لاجَوَرْدُ • (lājavardu) m

1. (mineralogy) lapis lazuli
2. azure (color)

• Parmanand, Mewaram (1910) “لاجَوَرْدُ”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, Hyderabad, Sindh: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society
• “لاجورد”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, University of Chicago: Center for Language Engineering, Pakistan, 1866–1938

Borrowed from Persian لاجورد.

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /lɑːd͡ʒ.ʋəɾd̪/

لاجْوَرْد • (lājvard) m (Hindi spelling लाजवर्द)

1. (mineralogy) lapis lazuli
2. azure (color)

• لاجوردی (lājvardī)

• “لاجورد”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.