topaz

See also: Topaz

English

the mineral topaz

Facet cut topaz gemstones in various colors

Etymology

From Old French topace (compare French topaze), from the Ancient Greek proper noun Τοπάζιος (Topázios), ancient name of St. John's Island, Egypt, in the Red Sea, believed to be the first discovered source of the mineral τοπάζιον (topázion, “peridot”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtəʊpæz/
• IPA^(key): /ˈtoʊpæz/

Noun

topaz (usually uncountable, plural topazes)

1. A silicate mineral of aluminium and fluorine, usually tinted by impurities.
2. An often clear, yellowish-brown gemstone cut from this.
   • 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.

3. A yellowish-brown color, like that of the gemstone.

   topaz:  

4. (historical, British India) A black Catholic soldier in the British Army.

Descendants

• → Welsh: topas

Translations

mineral

• Dutch: topaas (nl) n
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Irish: afast m, tópás m

gem

• Arabic: تُوبَاز m (tūbāz)
• Armenian: տոպազ (hy) (topaz)
• Basque: topazio
• Belarusian: тапа́з m (tapáz)
• Bengali: পোখরাজ (pōkhoraj)
• Bulgarian: топаз m (topaz)
• Burmese: ဥဿဖရား (my) (u.ssa.hpa.ra:)
• Catalan: topazi m
• Cherokee: ᏙᏆᏏ (doquasi)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 黄玉 (zh) (huángyù)

• Czech: topaz (cs) m
• Danish: topas c
• Dutch: topaas (nl) m
• Esperanto: topazo
• Estonian: topaas
• Finnish: topaasi (fi)
• French: topaze (fr) f
• Galician: topacio m
• Georgian: ტოპაზი (ṭoṗazi)
• German: Topas (de) m
• Greek: τοπάζιο n (topázio)

  Ancient: τοπάζιον n (topázion)

• Gujarati: પોખરાજ m (pokhrāj)
• Hindi: पुखराज (hi) m (pukhrāj)
• Hungarian: topáz (hu)
• Icelandic: tópas m
• Ido: topazo (io)
• Irish: tópás m, afast m
• Italian: topazio (it) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: トパーズ (topāzu), 黄玉 (おうぎょく, ōgyoku)
• Korean: 황옥 (ko) (hwang'ok)
• Latvian: topāzs m
• Lithuanian: topazas m
• Maori: topaha
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: topas (no) m

  Nynorsk: topas m

• Persian: زبرجد هندی (zebarǰad-e-hendī), توپاز (fa) (topâz)
• Polish: topaz (pl) m
• Portuguese: topázio (pt) m
• Romanian: topaz (ro) n
• Russian: топа́з (ru) m (topáz)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: топаз m

  Roman: topaz (sh) m

• Slovak: topás m
• Slovene: topaz (sl) m
• Spanish: topacio m
• Swahili: topazi, yakuti manjano
• Swedish: topas (sv)
• Tagalog: topasyo (tl)
• Thai: บุษย์น้ำทอง (bùt-náam-tɔɔng), บุษราคัม (bùt-sà-raa-kam)
• Ukrainian: топа́з m (topáz)
• Welsh: topas m

colour

• Cherokee: ᏙᏆᏏ-ᏓᎶᏂᎨᎢ (doquasi-dalonigei)
• French: topaze (fr) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Swahili: rangi ya topazi

Adjective

topaz

1. Of a yellowish-brown color, like that of the gemstone.

Translations

colour

• French: topaze (fr)
• German: topasen (de)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Irish: órbhuí
• Polish: topazowy (pl)

Derived terms

Derived terms

• blue topaz
• Colorado topaz
• false topaz

• rose topaz
• topazolite

See also

• Appendix:Colors
• Killiecrankie diamond

Further reading

• David Barthelmy (1997–2024) “Topaz”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
• “topaz”, in Mindat.org‎^[2], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2024.

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Czech

Noun

1. topaz (clear, yellowish-brown gemstone)

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɔ.pas/

Noun

topaz m inan

1. topaz (gem)

Declension

Declension of topaz

	singular	plural
nominative	topaz	topazy
genitive	topazu	topazów
dative	topazowi	topazom
accusative	topaz	topazy
instrumental	topazem	topazami
locative	topazie	topazach
vocative	topazie	topazy

Derived terms

• topazowy

Further reading

• Template:R:PWN

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Serbo-Croatian

Noun

topaz f (Cyrillic spelling топаз)

1. topaz (gemstone)