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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
saphir (countable and uncountable, plural saphirs)
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
saphir (invariable)
- sapphire (color)
Noun[edit]
saphir m (plural saphirs)
- sapphire (gemstone)
Descendants[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “saphir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- safeer, safere, saffer, saffir, saffre, saffyre, safier, safir, safre, sapher, saphier, saphijr, saphire, saphyre
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Old French saphir, saffre, from Latin sapphir, sappir, sapphīrus, from Ancient Greek σάπφειρος (sáppheiros).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
saphir (plural saphirs)
- sapphire (blue gemstone)
- (figurative) A worthy individual
Descendants[edit]
- English: sapphire
References[edit]
- “saphīr(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Adjective[edit]
saphir
- sapphire (colour)
Descendants[edit]
- English: sapphire
References[edit]
- “saphīr(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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