Noun: safir
Gender: m
Sample Sentences
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Et eſta piedra es cardena en ſu color aſſi q̃ ſemeia al ſafir en la cardenor mas nõ en la luz. ca a eſta nõ traspaſſa el uiso como al ſafir faze ca la su color es mucho espeſſa ⁊ turuia (And this stone is purple in color, so that it resembles the sapphire in purpleness; but not in light, for sight cannot see through it like it does through sapphire, for its color is too thick and murky.) [c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 2v:]
Nouns inflected like safir
sennor,
sastre,
estrellero,
arçobispado,
guarnimiento,
bezahar,
bezerro,
ysmael,
lenguage,
ivierno,
culuebro,
peligro,
culantro,
sacerdot,
mercader,
zebech,
blancor,
palafre,
ponient,
poderio, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old French saphir, from Latin sapphīrus, from Ancient Greek σάπφειρος (sáppheiros), or an apocopic form of safiro. See: Latin Nouns '
sapphīrus', Ancient Greek Nouns '
σάπφειρος'.
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