beryl

See also béryl, and Beryl

English

Wikipedia

Beryl (1)

Etymology

From Old French beril, from Latin bērillus, bēryllus, from Ancient Greek βήρυλλος (bērullos, “beryl”), from Prakrit विरलायते, from Sanskrit वैडूर्य (vaidurya), from Dravidian, probably named after Velur (modern day Belur) in southern India.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈbɛrəl/, X-SAMPA: /"bEr@l/
• Rhymes: -ɛrəl

Noun

beryl (countable and uncountable; plural beryls)

1. (uncountable, mineralogy) A mineral of pegmatite deposits, often used as a gemstone.
   • 2012 March 1, Lee A. Groat, “Gemstones”, American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 128: 

     Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are diamond, ruby and sapphire, emerald and other gem forms of the mineral beryl, chrysoberyl, tanzanite, tsavorite, topaz and jade.

2. (countable) An example of the mineral beryl.

   The crown was set with six beryls of excellent size and color.

3. (uncountable) A dull blue colour.

   beryl colour:

Translations

gem

• Armenian: բյուրեղ (hy) (byureġ) 
• Bengali: বেরিলো (bn)
• Bulgarian: Берил (bg) (beril) m 
• Catalan: beril (ca) m
• Cherokee: ᏇᎵ (chr) (queli)
• Czech: beryl (cs) m
• Danish: beryl (da) c
• Esperanto: berilo (eo), berilŝtono (eo)
• Estonian: berüll (et)
• Finnish: berylli (fi)
• French: béryl (fr) m
• Galician: berilo (gl) m
• German: Beryll (de) n
• Greek: βήρυλλος (el) (vírillos) f 
• Hungarian: berill (hu)
• Italian: berillo (it) m
• Japanese: 緑柱石 (ja) (りょくちゅうせき, ryokuchūseki)
• Kabuverdianu:
  • ALUPEC: beril' or berilu m
  • Bádiu: berilu m
  • São Vicente: beril' m

• Latin: beryllus (la) m
• Latvian: berils (lv)
• Lithuanian: berilas (lt)
• Low German: Beryll (nds) n
• Polish: beryl (pl) m
• Portuguese: berilo (pt) m
• Romanian: beril (ro) m
• Russian: берилл (ru) (beríll) m 
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: берил (sh) m

  Roman: beril (sh) m

• Slovak: beryl (sk) m
• Spanish: berilio (es) m
• Swahili: zabarajadi (sw)
• Swedish: beryll (sv) c
• Turkish: beril (tr)
• Ukrainian: берил (uk) (beril) m 
• Wolof: beril (wo)

colour

• Cherokee: ᏇᎵ-ᏌᎪᏂᎨᎢ (chr) (queli-sagonigei)
• Spanish: berilio (es) m

• Swahili: rangi ya zabarajadi (sw)
• Swedish: beryllfärg (sv) c

Adjective

beryl (not comparable)

1. Of a dull blue colour.

Translations

of a dull blue colour

• Swedish: beryllfärgad (sv)

Derived terms

• beryllium
• beryllium oxide
• chrysoberyl

Related terms

• chrysoprase
• brilliant

See also

• (blues) blue; Alice blue, aqua, aquamarine, azure, baby blue, beryl, bice, bice blue, blue green, blue violet, blueberry, cadet blue, Cambridge blue, cerulean, cobalt blue, Copenhagen blue, cornflower, cornflower blue, cyan, duck-egg blue, eggshell blue, electric-blue, gentian blue, ice blue, lapis lazuli, lovat, mazarine, midnight blue, navy, Nile blue, Oxford blue, peacock blue, petrol blue, powder blue, Prussian blue, robin's-egg blue, royal blue, sapphire, saxe blue, slate blue, sky blue, teal, turquoise, ultramarine, Wedgwood blue, zaffre ^{(Category: en:Blues)}
• aquamarine
• emerald
• heliodor
• Madagascar aquamarine
• morganite

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Danish

Noun

beryl c (singular definite beryllen, plural indefinite beryller)

1. beryl (the mineral and examples of the mineral)

Inflection

    Inflection of beryl

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative, dative and accusative	beryl	beryllen	beryller	beryllerne
genitive	beryls	beryllens	beryllers	beryllernes

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Polish

beryl

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈbɛrɨl/

• beryl

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Noun

beryl m

1. beryllium (chemical element)

Declension

    declension of beryl

	singular only
nominative	beryl
genitive	berylu
dative	berylowi
accusative	beryl
instrumental	berylem
locative	berylu
vocative	berylu