# smaragd
## English
### Etymology

From Latin smaragdus, from Ancient Greek σμάραγδος (smáragdos), μάραγδος (máragdos), from a Semitic language.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsmæɹæɡd/, /sməˈɹæɡd/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -æɡd

### Noun

smaragd (plural smaragds)
* (obsolete) An emerald.
** 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:These following bodies do not draw: smaragd, achates, corneolus, pearl, jaspis, chalcedonius, alabaster, porphyry, coral, marble, touchstone, haematites, or bloodstone […]
** 1880, Richard Francis Burton, Os Lusíadas, volume II, page 389:Nor far they steppèd when on culm'inant height / where stretcht a gem-enamel'd mead they stood; / Smaragd and Ruby-strewn, so rich the sight / presumed 'twas Paradisial floor they trod.

#### Synonyms

* emerald

#### Related terms

* smaragdine

### Anagrams

* dagmars

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈsmarakt]

### Noun

smaragd m inan
* emerald

#### Derived terms

* smaragdový

### Further reading

* “smaragd”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “smaragd”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

## Danish
### Etymology

From late Old Norse smaragdr, from Latin smaragdus, from Ancient Greek σμάραγδος (smáragdos), μάραγδος (máragdos), from a Semitic language.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /smaravd/, [smɑˈʁɑwˀd̥]

### Noun

smaragd c (singular definite smaragden, plural indefinite smaragder)
* emerald

#### Declension
### References

* “smaragd” in Den Danske Ordbog

## Dutch
### Etymology

From Middle Dutch smaragd, from Latin smaragdus, from Ancient Greek σμάραγδος (smáragdos), μάραγδος (máragdos), from a Semitic language.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /smaːˈrɑxt/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: sma‧ragd
* Rhymes: -ɑxt

### Noun

smaragd m (plural smaragden, diminutive smaragdje n)
* emerald

#### Derived terms

* Gordel van Smaragd
* smaragden
* smaragdpurperkoet

#### Descendants

* Afrikaans: smarag

### References

* “smaragd” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

## Estonian
### Noun

smaragd (genitive smaragdi, partitive smaragdi)
* (mineralogy) emerald

#### Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

### Further reading

* “smaragd”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

## Faroese
### Noun

smaragd
* accusative singular of smaragdur

## Hungarian
### Etymology

From Latin smaragdus, from Ancient Greek σμάραγδος (smáragdos), μάραγδος (máragdos), from a Semitic language.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈʃmɒrɒɡd]
* Hyphenation: sma‧ragd
* Rhymes: -ɒɡd

### Noun

smaragd (plural smaragdok)
* emerald

#### Derived terms

* smaragdgyűrű
* smaragdvaránusz
* smaragdzöld

### Further reading

* smaragd in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Latin smaragdus, from Ancient Greek σμάραγδος (smáragdos), μάραγδος (máragdos), from a Semitic language.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sma.ˈraɡd/, [smɑ.ˈɾɑɡd]

### Noun

smaragd m (definite singular smaragden, indefinite plural smaragder, definite plural smaragdene)
* (an) emerald (gemstone)

#### Derived terms

* smaragdgrønn

### References

* “smaragd” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Latin smaragdus, from Ancient Greek σμάραγδος (smáragdos), μάραγδος (máragdos), from a Semitic language.

### Noun

smaragd m (definite singular smaragden, indefinite plural smaragdar, definite plural smaragdane)
* (an) emerald (gemstone)

#### Derived terms

* smaragdgrøn

### References

* “smaragd” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Romanian
### Alternative forms

* smarald, smarand — regional

### Etymology

Borrowed from Greek σμαράγδι (smarágdi). Compare the variant smarald.

### Noun

smaragd n (plural smaragde)
* Alternative form of smarald (“emerald”)

#### Declension
## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

From German Smaragd, from Ancient Greek σμάραγδος (smáragdos), from a Semitic language.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /smǎraɡd/
* Hyphenation: sma‧ragd

### Noun

smàragd m (Cyrillic spelling сма̀рагд)
* emerald

#### Declension
### References

* “smaragd”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

## Swedish
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Swedish smaragd, from Latin smaragdus, from Ancient Greek σμάραγδος (smáragdos).

### Noun

smaragd c
* emerald (gemstone)

#### Declension

| | | nominative | genitive |
| singular | indefinite | smaragd | smaragds |
| singular | definite | smaragden | smaragdens |
| plural | indefinite | smaragder | smaragders |
| plural | definite | smaragderna | smaragdernas |

#### Derived terms

* smaragdgrön (“emerald green”)

### References

* smaragd in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* smaragd in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* smaragd in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
* smaragd in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)