Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• μάραγδος ‎(máragdos)

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /zmáraɣðos/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /zmáraɣðos/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /zmáɾaɣðos/

Noun

σμάραγδος • ‎(smáragdos) f ‎(genitive σμαράγδου); second declension

1. emerald

Inflection

Descendants

• Arabic: زمرد ‎(zumúrrud)
• Azeri: zümrüd
• Bulgarian: изумруд ‎(izumrud)
• Catalan: maragda f, esmaragda f
• Chinese:
  • Traditional Chinese: 祖母綠
  • Simplified Chinese: 祖母绿
  • Mandarin: zǔmǔlǜ
• Czech: smaragd m
• Danish: smaragd
• Dutch: smaragd m
• English: emerald
• Esperanto: smeraldo
• Estonian: smaragd
• Finnish: smaragdi
• French: émeraude f
• German: Smaragd m
• Greek: σμαράγδι n ‎(smarágdi)
• Hebrew: אזמרגד ‎(izmaragd)
• Hungarian: smaragd
• Icelandic: smaragður m
• Indonesian: zamrud
• Interlingua: esmeraldo
• Italian: smeraldo
• Japanese: エメラルド ‎(emerarudo)
• Korean: 에메랄드 ‎(emeraldeu)
• Latin: smaragdus m, smaraudus m, esmeraldus m, esmeralda f
• Lithuanian: smaragdas m
• Macedonian: смарагд m ‎(smaragd)
• Persian: زمرد ‎(zomorrod)
• Polish: szmaragd m
• Portuguese: esmeralda f
• Romanian: smarald n, smarand n, smaragd n
• Russian: изумруд m ‎(izumrud)
• Spanish: esmeralda f
• Swahili: zumaridi
• Swedish: smaragd c
• Thai: มรกต ‎(morrágòt)
• Turkish: zümrüt

References

• σμάραγδος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• «σμάραγδος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “G4665”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 268