beryl

See also: béryl and Beryl

English

Beryl (1)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛɹəl/
• Rhymes: -ɛrəl

Noun

beryl (countable and uncountable, plural beryls)

1. (uncountable, mineralogy) A mineral of pegmatite deposits, often used as a gemstone.
   • 2012 March, Lee A. Groat, “Gemstones”, in American Scientist‎^[1], 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 (a stone) of the mineral beryl.

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

3. (uncountable) A dull blueish green colour.

   beryl:  

Translations

gem

• Armenian: բյուրեղ (hy) (byureġ)
• Bengali: বেরিলো (berilō)
• Bulgarian: берил m (beril)
• Catalan: beril m
• Cherokee: ᏇᎵ (queli)
• Czech: beryl (cs) m
• Danish: beryl c
• Esperanto: berilo, berilŝtono
• Estonian: berüll
• Finnish: berylli (fi)
• French: béryl (fr) m
• Galician: berilo m
• German: Beryll n
• Greek: βήρυλλος (el) f (víryllos)

  Ancient: βήρυλλος f (bḗrullos)

• Hungarian: berill (hu)
• Interlingue:
• Italian: berillo m
• Japanese: 緑柱石 (ja) (りょくちゅうせき, ryokuchūseki)
• Kabuverdianu:

  ALUPEC: beril' m, berilu m

  Bádiu: berilu m

  São Vicente: beril' m

• Latin: beryllus m
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• Latvian: berils
• Lithuanian: berilas
• Low German: Beryll n
• Maori: perira
• Mongolian: биндэръяа (binderʺjaa)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: beryll m

  Nynorsk: beryll m

• Polish: beryl (pl) m
• Portuguese: berilo (pt) m
• Romanian: beril (ro) m
• Russian: бери́лл (ru) m (beríll)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: берил m

  Roman: beril (sh) m

• Slovak: beryl m
• Spanish: berilo (es) m
• Swahili: zabarajadi
• Swedish: beryll (sv) c
• Tagalog: berilyo
• Turkish: beril (tr)
• Ukrainian: берил (uk) m (beryl)
• Wolof: beril

colour

• Cherokee: ᏇᎵ-ᏌᎪᏂᎨᎢ (queli-sagonigei)
• Latvian: berila krāsa f
• Spanish: berilio (es) m
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• Swahili: rangi ya zabarajadi
• Swedish: beryllfärg c

Adjective

beryl (not comparable)

1. Of a dull bluish green colour.

Translations

of a dull bluish green colour

• Latvian: berils, berila krāsas
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Swedish: beryllfärgad

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, dark blue, Dodger blue, duck-egg blue, eggshell blue, electric blue, gentian blue, ice blue, lapis lazuli, light blue, 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

Anagrams

• Byler

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Cornish

Noun

beryl

1. Soft mutation of peryl.

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɛrɪl]
• Rhymes: -ɛrɪl

Noun

1. beryl

Derived terms

• berylový

Further reading

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Danish

Noun

beryl c (singular definite beryllen, plural indefinite beryller)

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

Inflection

Declension of beryl

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

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /beːril/
• Hyphenation: be‧ryl
• Rhymes: -il

Noun

beryl n (uncountable)

1. Superseded spelling of beril.

Noun

beryl m (plural beryllen)

1. Superseded spelling of beril.

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Polish

beryl

Chemical element
Be
Previous: lit (Li)
Next: bor (B)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛ.rɨl/

• beryl

  (file)

Noun

beryl m inan

1. beryllium (chemical element)

Declension

Declension of beryl

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

Further reading

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