زُمُرُّذٌ
Root: زمرذ
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زُمُرُّذٌ
and زُمُرَّذٌ, and accord. to some زُمُرُّدٌ, with the unpointed د or, accord. to IKt, this is a mistranscription, and As says that it is correctly written with the pointed ذ [The emerald: accord. to some] i. q.
زَبَرْجَدٌ; but Et-Teyfáshee [rightly] says that the زبرجد is a different kind of stone: [see this word:] and Ibn-Sá'id El-Ansáree says that the mine of the زبرجد is said to be near to that of the زمّرذ: several authors say that the
زمّرذ
differs from the
زبرجد
in being more green: it is an arabicized word [from the Pers. زُمْرُدْ]: [a coll. gen. n.:] n. un. with ة.
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