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sappir
Hebrew · ancient
"a blue precious stone"
possibly referring to lapis lazuli, an ancient blue stone
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saphir
Old French · medieval
"a blue precious gemstone"
carried through Greek and Latin into French gemstone vocabulary
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sapphire
English · 1200s
"a deep blue precious gemstone"
settled as the English word for the deep blue gemstone
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