# lapis lazuli
## English
### Etymology

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.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˌlap.ɪs ˈlaz.jʊ.laɪ/, /ˈlaz.jʊ.li/
* (General American) enPR: lăp'ĭs lăzʹ(y)ə-lē, lăzʹ(y)ə-lī, lăzhʹə-lē, lăzhʹə-lī, IPA: /ˌlæp.ɪs ˈlæz.(j)ə.li/, /ˈlæz.(j)ə.laɪ/, /ˈlæʒ.ə.li/, /ˈlæʒ.ə.laɪ/, /ləˈzu.li/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Hyphenation: la‧pis la‧zu‧li

### Noun

lapis lazuli (countable and uncountable, plural lapides lazuli or lapis lazulis)
* (mineralogy) A deep-blue stone, used in making jewelry, and traditionally used to make the pigment ultramarine.
    Synonyms: lapis, lazuli, lazurite
** 1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833, The Talisman, page 66:He saw the amber silk curtains wave to and fro: the middle window was open; in it stood a pillar of lapis lazuli, which supported an alabaster figure, Canova's Dansatrice.
* A deep, bright blue, like that of the stone.
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#### Translations

Arabic: لَازَوَرْد (ar) (lāzaward)
Armenian: լաջվարդ (hy) (laǰvard)
Azerbaijani: lacivərd
Catalan: lapislàtzuli (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 青金石 (zh) (qīngjīnshí)
Czech: lazurit m
Dutch: lapis lazuli (nl) m, lazuriet (nl) n
Egyptian: (ḫsbḏ)
Esperanto: lazurito
Finnish: lapis lazuli (fi), lapislatsuli (fi)
French: lapis-lazuli (fr) m
Galician: asur
Georgian: ლაჟვარდი (ka) (lažvardi)
German: Lapislazuli (de) m, Lapis Lazuli m, Lasurstein m, Lazurit n
Greek: λαζουρίτης (el) m (lazourítis)
Hindi: लाजवर्द (hi) m (lājvard), रावटी (hi) f (rāvṭī), वैडूर्य (hi) m (vaiḍūrya), वैदूर्य (hi) m (vaidūrya)
Hungarian: lapis lazuli (hu), lazúrkő (hu)
Ido: lapislazulo (io)
Indonesian: lazuardi (id)
Irish: lapis lazuli
Italian: lapislazzuli (it) m
Japanese: 瑠璃 (ja) (るり, ruri), 琉璃 (るり, ruri), 青金石 (せいきんせき, seikinseki), ラピスラズリ (ja) (rapisu razuri)
Korean: 청금석(青金石) (cheonggeumseok)
Latin: sappīrus f (Classical), lapis lazuli m (Medieval)
Malay: lazuardi (ms)
Old Uyghur: 𐽾𐽴𐽰𐽱𐽾𐾀 (razavart)
Ottoman Turkish: لاجورد (laciverd)
Pali: veḷuriya n
Persian: لاجورد (fa) (lâjvard)
Polish: lapis lazuli (pl) m, lapis-lazuli m, lazuryt (pl) m
Portuguese: lápis-lazúli m
Punjabi: ਲਾਜਵਰਦ m (lājvarad)
Romanian: lapislazuli (ro) n, lazurit (ro) n
Russian: лазури́т (ru) m (lazurít), ля́пис-лазу́рь (ru) f (ljápis-lazúrʹ)
Sanskrit: वैडूर्य (sa) (vaiḍūrya), राजावर्त (sa) (rājāvarta)
Scottish Gaelic: clach-chopair f
Spanish: lapislázuli (es) m
Swedish: lapis lazuli (sv), lasursten c
Thai: แลพิสแลซูลี (lɛɛ-pí-lɛɛ-sui-lîi)
Turkish: lazur taşı
Ugaritic: 𐎛𐎖𐎐𐎜 (ỉqnủ)
Ukrainian: лазури́т m (lazurýt), ля́піс-лазу́р f (ljápis-lazúr)
Urdu: لاجورد m (lājvard)
Uyghur: لاجىۋەرد (lajiwerd)
Uzbek: lojuvard (uz)
Vietnamese: đá da trời, ngọc lưu ly
Welsh: asur m :

### Adjective

lapis lazuli
* Of a deep, bright blue, like that of the stone.
** 1997, David Foster Wallace, “A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Kindle edition, Little, Brown Book Group:I cannot convey to you the sheer and surreal scale of everything: the towering ship, the ropes, the ties, the anchor, the pier, the vast lapis lazuli dome of the sky.

#### Related terms

* azure
* lazurite

### See also

* Alice blue
* aqua
* aquamarine
* azure
* baby blue
* beryl
* bice
* bice blue
* blueberry
* blue green
* blue violet
* cadet blue
* Cambridge blue
* cerulean
* cobalt blue
* Copenhagen blue
* cornflower
* cornflower blue
* cyan
* dark blue
* Dodger blue
* duck-egg blue
* eggshell blue
* electric blue
* gentian blue
* ice blue
* lapis lazuli
* light blue
* lovat
* mazarine
* midnight blue
* navy
* Nile blue
* Oxford blue
* peacock blue
* petrol blue
* powder blue
* Prussian blue
* robin's-egg blue
* royal blue
* sapphire
* saxe blue
* sky blue
* slate blue
* teal
* turquoise
* ultramarine
* Wedgwood blue
* zaffre
* sodium aluminum sulfosilicate
* ultramarine

### Further reading

* lapis lazuli on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from English lapis lazuli, from Medieval Latin lapis (“stone”) and lazulī (“of the heavens”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlaː.pɪs laːˈzu.li/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: la‧pis la‧zu‧li

### Noun

lapis lazuli m (uncountable)
* (mineralogy) lapis lazuli
    Synonyms: azuursteen, lazuursteen

## Latin
### Etymology

Compound of lapis (“stone”) +‎ lazulum (“heaven”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈla.pis ˈlaz.zu.liː/, [ˈɫ̪äpɪs̠ ˈɫ̪äz̪d̪͡z̪ʊlʲiː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈla.pis ˈlad.d͡zu.li/, [ˈläːpis ˈläd̪ː͡z̪uli]

### Noun

lapis lazulī m (genitive lapidis lazulī); third declension
* lapis lazuli

#### Declension

Third-declension noun with an indeclinable portion.

#### Related terms

* lapidārius
* lapidātiō
* lapidātor

### References

* “lazuli lapis lazuli”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “lazuli lapis lazuli”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* "lapis lazuli", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* lazuli lapis lazuli in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* “lapis lazuli”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
* Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 678

## Polish
### Alternative forms

* lapis-lazuli

### Etymology

Internationalism; compare English lapis lazuli, French lapis-lazuli, German Lapislazuli.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈla.pis laˈzu.li/
* Audio:(file)
* Syllabification: la‧pis la‧zu‧li

### Noun

lapis lazuli m inan (indeclinable)
* lapis lazuli, lazurite
    Synonym: lazuryt

### Further reading

* lapis lazuli in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* lapis lazuli in Polish dictionaries at PWN
* lapis lazuli in PWN's encyclopedia