adj
Meaning 1
Of a dull bluish green colour.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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Standard Lemma guide
beryl
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈbɛɹ.əl/
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name
Meaning 2
A female given name from English derived from the gem beryl.
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name
Meaning 3
A male given name from Yiddish, meaning “little bear”.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare
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name
Meaning 4
A locality in the Mid-Western council area, eastern New South Wales, Australia.
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noun
Meaning 5
A mineral of pegmatite deposits, often used as a gemstone (molecular formula Be3Al2Si6O18).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: chemistry, geography, geology, mineralogy, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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noun
Meaning 6
An example (a stone) of the mineral beryl.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
Examples
- The crown was set with six beryls of excellent size and color.
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noun
Meaning 7
A dull blueish green color.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
Meaning 8
the chief source of beryllium; colored transparent varieties are valued as gems
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: mineral
Narrower terms: aquamarine, emerald, morganite
History
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English beryl, from Old French beril, from Latin bērillus, bēryllus, from Ancient Greek βήρυλλος (bḗrullos, “beryl”), in turn borrowed from Middle Indic forms like Pali veḷuriya or Prakrit 𑀯𑁂𑀭𑀼𑀮𑀺𑀅 (verulia), from Dravidian, probably named after Velur (modern day Belur) in southern India.
From beryl or an anglicization of Yiddish בערל (berl, literally “little bear”).
Across languages
Translations
64 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Latvian: berils — of a dull bluish green colour
- Latvian: berila krāsas — of a dull bluish green colour
- Swedish: beryllfärgad — of a dull bluish green colour
- Armenian: բյուրեղ (byureġ) — gem
- Bengali: বেরিলো (berilō) — gem
- Bulgarian: берил (beril) — gem
- Catalan: beril — gem
- Cherokee: ᏇᎵ (queli) — gem
- Chinese Mandarin: 綠柱石 /绿柱石 (lǜzhùshí) — gem
- Czech: beryl — gem
- Danish: beryl — gem
- Esperanto: berilo — gem
- Esperanto: berilŝtono — gem
- Estonian: berüll — gem
- Finnish: berylli — gem
- French: béryl — gem
- Galician: berilo — gem
- German: Beryll — gem
- Greek: βήρυλλος (víryllos) — gem
- Ancient Greek: βήρυλλος (bḗrullos) — gem
- Hindi: विडूर (viḍūr) — gem
- Hindi: वैडूर्य (vaiḍūrya) — gem
- Hindi: वैदूर्य (vaidūrya) — gem
- Hungarian: berill — gem
- Italian: berillo — gem
- Japanese: 緑柱石 (ryokuchūseki) — gem
- Kabuverdianu: beril' — gem
- Kabuverdianu: berilu — gem
- Kabuverdianu: berilu — gem
- Kabuverdianu: beril' — gem
- Kazakh: сутас (sutas) — gem
- Latin: beryllus — gem
- Latvian: berils — gem
- Lithuanian: berilas — gem
- Low German: Beryll — gem
- Māori: perira — gem
- Middle English: beryl — gem
- Mongolian: биндэръяа (binderʺjaa) — gem
- Norwegian Bokmål: beryll — gem
- Norwegian Nynorsk: beryll — gem
- Old Church Slavonic: воурилъ (vurilŭ) — gem
- Polish: beryl — gem
- Portuguese: berilo — gem
- Romanian: beril — gem
- Russian: бери́лл (beríll) — gem
- Serbo-Croatian: берил — gem
- Serbo-Croatian: beril — gem
- Sicilian: birillu — gem
- Slovak: beryl — gem
- Spanish: berilo — gem
- Sundanese: béril — gem
- Swahili: zabarajadi — gem
- Swedish: beryll — gem
- Tagalog: berilyo — gem
- Thai: เบริล (bee rin) — gem
- Turkish: beril — gem
- Ukrainian: берил (beryl) — gem
- Welsh: beryl — gem
- Wolof: beril — gem
- Cherokee: ᏇᎵ-ᏌᎪᏂᎨᎢ (queli-sagonigei) — colour
- Latvian: berila krāsa — colour
- Spanish: berilio — colour
- Swahili: rangi ya zabarajadi — colour
- Swedish: beryllfärg — colour
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