and ḍiʾb,
“seed pearls”
and qaṣab,
“any elongated gemstones… pearls of the first water or peridot of the first water studded with rubies”
and yashab,
[“jasper”] “a stone too well known to require definition”
and baht,
[“aetites, eagle stone”] “a stone too well known to require definition”
and kibrīt,
“red rubies, or gold, or gemstones whose source is beyond al-Tubbat, in the Valley of the Ants”; under t-b-t [in the Qāmūs], “Tubbat [sic] is a land in the east from which comes the finest musk”
and yāqūt,
[“rubies”] “too well known to require definition”
and dahnaj,
“a gemstone like emerald”
and zibrij,
gems, or an ornament with figures
and zabardaj,
“the same as zabarjad [‘peridot’]”
2.16.9
and ṣalījah,
“a purified silver ingot”
and murjān,
[“coral”] too well known to require definition; defined in the Qāmūs as meaning “small pearls”
and kharāʾid,
“the kharīdah is the pearl, unbored”
and farīd,
“a bead made as a spacer between pearls and gold [on a necklace], plural farāʾid; also any precious stone, or pearls”
and judhādh,
“gold nuggets”
and ballawr,
[“crystal”] “a gemstone too well known to require definition”
and tibr,
“gold and silver, or small pieces of either before being worked; once worked, they are known as dhahab (‘gold’) and fiḍḍah (‘silver’); or what is extracted from the rock before being worked, or broken glass, or any decorative beads of copper or brass that may be used”
and sayrāʾ,
“pure gold”
and shadhr,
“pieces of gold extracted from ore without smelting, or beads used as spacers on necklaces, or small pearls”
and shammūr,
“diamonds”
2.16.10
and ʿamrah,
“beads used as spacers on necklaces”
and nuḍār,
“gemstones free of impurities”
and kharaz,
“gemstones, or anything that is strung as a necklace”
and filizz,
“white copper… any of the gemstones of the earth, or anything that the bellows extracts from any such minerals as have been smelted”
and hibrizī,
“pure gold”
and tarāmis,
“pearls”
and ḥuṣṣ,
“pearl”; synonym khūḍah
and khilāṣ,
“whatever gold or silver one may have purified”
and dalīṣ,
“gold lacquer”
and khaḍaḍ,
“small white beads worn by children”
2.16.11
and thaʿthaʿ,
“pearls, or mother-of-pearl”
and jazaʿ,
“Chinese beads from Yemen”
and zaylaʿ,
“a kind of seashell”
and yanaʿ,
“a kind of carnelian”
and zukhruf,
“gold, or the perfection of the beauty of something”
and ṣarīf,
“pure silver”
and safāʾiq,
“the safīqah [singular] is a long thin spill of gold and silver or the like”
and ʿaqīq,
[“carnelian”] “too well known to require definition”
and khaḍl,
“pearls, or pure pearls, or a certain kind of bead, too well known to require definition”
and ḥūmah,
“crystal”
and jumān,
“pearls, or little things with the appearance of pearls made of silver, or beads made white with silver lacquer”
and mīnāʾ,
“pure glass”
and mahw,
“pearls, or white pebbles”; also “mahāh means crystal”
and nihāʾ.
“glass (also occurs as nihā), or glass vessels, or a white stone softer than marble… or a kind of bead”
2.16.12
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including the buʾbuʾ,
“lid of a kohl-pot”
and the urbah,
“a necklace”
and arnab,
“ornaments”
and the miʿqab,
“earrings”; synonym raʿthah, plural riʿāth
and the ḥijjah,
“a bead or pearl hung in the ear”
and the dumluj,
[“beaded armlet”] “too well known to require definition”
and yāraj,
“women’s bracelets”
and the jāniḥ,
“the jāniḥ is made of pearls, strung to be displayed, or anything one arranges in order”
and dāḥ,
“a bracelet with multiple strands”
and sanīḥ,
“pearls, or the thread before they are strung on it, or any jewelry”
2.16.13
and wishāḥ,
“two strings of alternating pearls and gemstones with a spacer between each and one string above the other, or a broad piece of leather studded with gems that a woman hangs over her shoulders and that falls to her hips”