The story
- Persian · derived fromلاجورد
- Arabic · derived fromلَازُوَرْد“lapis lazuli, azure”
- Middle English · inherited fromlapis lazuli
- English todaylapis lazuli
From Middle English lapis lazuli, from Medieval Latin lapis (“stone”) + lazulī, genitive singular of lazulum (“lapis lazuli, azure, the sky”), from Arabic لَازُوَرْد (lāzuward, “lapis lazuli, azure”), from Persian لاجورد (lâjvard). Compare azure, of the same origin.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.