یاقوت

See also: ياقوت

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic يَاقُوت (yāqūt), ultimately from Ancient Greek ὑάκινθος (huákinthos). Doublet of یاکند (yâkand).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [jɑː.quːt]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [jɑː.quːt̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [jɑː.quːt̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [jɑː.quːt̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [jɔː.qut̪]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [jɒː.ʁuːt̪]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [jɔ.qut̪]

Readings
Classical reading?	yāqūt
Dari reading?	yāqūt
Iranian reading?	yâğut
Tajik reading?	yoqut

Noun

Dari	یاقوت
Iranian Persian
Tajik	ёқут

یاقوت • (yâqut) (plural یاقوت‌ها (yâqut-hâ))

1. ruby

   Synonyms: لعل (la'l), یاکند (yâkand)

2. corundum

Derived terms

• یاقوتِ سُرخ (yâqut-e sorx)
• یاقوتِ کَبود (yâqut-e kabud)
• یاقوتِستان (yâqutestân)

 

Descendants

• → Ottoman Turkish: یاقوت (yakut)
  • Turkish: yakut
  • → Albanian: jakut
  • → Romanian: iacut
  • → Serbo-Croatian: jàkut／ја̀кут
  • → Ubykh: еқуҭ (ekut)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: याक़ूत (yāqūt)

  Urdu: یَاقُوت (yāqūt)

• → Uyghur: ياقۇت (yaqut)
• → Uzbek: yoqut

Proper noun

یاقوت • (yâqut)

1. Yāqūt al-Mustaʿṣimī, thirteenth-century master calligrapher; (poetic) metaphor for a master calligrapher.
   • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 112:

     چو خط که از لب لعلت دمد رقم نتوان کرد
     اگر شوند چو یاقوت قدسیان همه کاتب

     čū xatt ki az lab-i la'lat damad raqam natawān kard
     agar šawand čū yāqūt-i qudsiyān hama kātib

     When the line of hair blooms from your ruby lips, it cannot be written down
     Even were all the scribes to become like the Yāqūt of the angels.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

Further reading

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “یاقوت”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian یاقوت (yāqūt), from Arabic, ultimately from Ancient Greek ὑάκινθος (huákinthos).

Noun

یاقوت • (yāqūt) m (Hindi spelling याक़ूत)

1. ruby
2. garnet

Related terms

• یاقوتی (yāqūtī)