English
Mother-of-pearl.
Noun
mother-of-pearl (countable and uncountable, plural mother-of-pearls)
- The hard pearly inner layer of certain mollusk shells; nacre.
- A butterfly of the genus Salamis.
Synonyms
Translations
pearly layer
- Albanian: sedef (sq) m
- Arabic: عِرْق اللُّؤْلُؤ m (ʕirq al-luʔluʔ), صَدَف m (ṣadaf), أُمّ اللَّآلِئ f (ʔumm al-laʔāliʔ)
- Armenian: սադափ (hy) (sadapʻ)
- Azerbaijani: sədəf
- Bashkir: мәрүәт (mərwət)
- Belarusian: перламу́тр m (pjerlamútr), пэрляму́тар m (perljamútar)
- Bengali: মৌক্তিক (mōuktik)
- Bulgarian: седе́ф m (sedéf)
- Burmese: မုတ်ခွံ (my) (muthkwam), ကနုကမာ (my) (ka.nu.ka.ma)
- Buryat: эржэн (eržen), тана (tana)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 珍珠母 (zhēnzhūmǔ), 珧 (zh) (yáo)
- Czech: perleť f
- Danish: perlemor (da) n
- Dutch: parelmoer (nl) n
- Estonian: pärlmutter
- Finnish: helmiäinen (fi)
- French: nacre (fr) f
- Georgian: სადაფი (sadapi)
- German: Perlmutter (de) f or n, Perlmutt (de) n
- Greek: φίλντισι (el) n (fílntisi)
- Ancient: πινάριον n (pinárion)
- Hebrew: דַּר (he) m (dar)
- Hindi: सीप (hi) m (sīp)
- Hungarian: gyöngyház (hu)
- Icelandic: perlumóðir f
- Italian: madreperla (it) f
- Japanese: 真珠層 (しんじゅそう, shinjusō), 真珠母 (しんじゅぼ, shinjubo)
- Kalmyk: тан (tan)
- Kazakh: седеп (sedep), тана (tana)
- Korean: 진주층 (jinjucheung), 진주모 (jinjumo)
- Kyrgyz: седеп (ky) (sedep)
- Latvian: perlamutrs m
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- Lithuanian: perlamutras m
- Macedonian: седеф m (sedef)
- Mongolian: тана (mn) (tana)
- Navajo: diichiłí
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: perlemor (no) m or n
- Nynorsk: perlemor n
- Pashto: صدف (ps) m (sadáf)
- Persian: صدف (fa) (sadaf)
- Polish: masa perłowa (pl) f, macica perłowa (pl) f
- Portuguese: madrepérola f, nácar (pt) m
- Romanian: sidef (ro) n
- Russian: перламу́тр (ru) m (perlamútr)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: сѐдеф m
- Roman: sèdef (sh) m
- Slovak: perleť f
- Slovene: sedef m
- Spanish: nácar (es) m
- Swedish: pärlemor (sv) c
- Tagalog: nakar, inamperlas, binga
- Tajik: садаф (sadaf)
- Tatar: пәрәмәч (tt) (pärämäç)
- Telugu: ముత్యపుచిప్ప (mutyapucippa)
- Turkish: sedef (tr)
- Turkmen: sadap
- Ukrainian: перламу́тр m (perlamútr)
- Urdu: سیپ m (sīp), صدف (sadaf)
- Uyghur: سەدەپ (sedep)
- Uzbek: sadaf (uz)
- Vietnamese: xà cừ (vi)
- Welsh: nacr m, cregynwisg f
- Yiddish: פּערל־מוטער (perl-muter)
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Adjective
mother-of-pearl (not comparable)
- Made from or looking like mother-of-pearl; iridescent or pearly.
See also
References
- “mother-of-pearl”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
- “mother-of-pearl”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- "mother-of-pearl" in On-line Medical Dictionary, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1997–2005.
- "mother-of-pearl" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.