Etymology

lazurite

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Today it means: A mineral of metamorphosed limestones. Lazurite forms the gemstone lapis lazuli, and crushed lazurite provided the ultramarine color in artists' paint of the Old Masters. Sodalite and lazurite form the sodalite group of silicate minerals. Chemical composition: Sodium aluminum silicate with sulphur, Na₄₋₅Al₃Si₃O₁₂S. Full definition →

Medieval Latin lazur ← Arabic لَازَوَرْد ← Persian لاژورد
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The story

  1. Persian · derived fromلاژورد
  2. Arabic · derived fromلَازَوَرْد
  3. Medieval Latin · derived fromlazur“lapis lazuli”
  4. English todaylazurite

From Medieval Latin lazur (“lapis lazuli”) (from Arabic لَازَوَرْد (lāzaward), from Persian لاژورد (lâžvard)) + -ite.

Words from the same roots

Arabicلَازَوَرْد all →

azure

Persianلاژورد all →

azurite

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.