saphir

saphir (countable and uncountable, plural saphirs)

1. Obsolete form of sapphire.

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin sapphirus.

• IPA^(key): /sa.fiʁ/

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• Homophone: saphirs
• Hyphenation: sa‧phir

saphir (invariable)

1. sapphire (color)

saphir m (plural saphirs)

1. sapphire (gemstone)

• “saphir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• safeer, safere, saffer, saffir, saffre, saffyre, safier, safir, safre, sapher, saphier, saphijr, saphire, saphyre

Borrowed from Old French saphir, saffre, from Latin sapphir, sappir, sapphīrus, from Ancient Greek σάπφειρος (sáppheiros).

• IPA^(key): /saˈfiːr/, /ˈsafir/, /ˈsafər/

saphir (plural saphirs)

1. sapphire (blue gemstone)
2. (figurative) A worthy individual

• English: sapphire

• “saphīr(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

saphir

1. sapphire (colour)

• English: sapphire

• “saphīr(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.