# بلور
## Arabic
### Etymology 1.1

Borrowed from Classical Persian بِلّور (billōr).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bil.lawr/

#### Noun

بِلَّوْر • (billawr) m (collective, singulative بِلَّوْرَة f (billawra))
* crystal
* rock crystal, quartz (originally)

##### Descendants

* Egyptian Arabic: بلور (ballūr), بنور (bannūr)
* Moroccan Arabic: بلار (ballār)
* → Amharic: በሉር (bälur)
* → Middle Armenian: պլօր (plōr), պիլօր (pilōr)
* → Galician: abelorio
* → Ge'ez: ብሉር (bəlur)
* → Gujarati: બિલોર (bilor)
* → Hindi: बिल्लौर (billaur)
* → Ottoman Turkish: بلور (billur)
** Turkish: billur
** → Bulgarian: билю́р (biljúr)
** → Serbo-Croatian: bìljūr / бѝљӯр
** → Crimean Tatar: billur
* → Punjabi: ਬਲੌਰ (balaur)
* → Portuguese: avelório
* → Spanish: abalorio
* → Swahili: bilauri
* → Tigre: በሉር (bälur), በኑር (bänur)
* → Uzbek: billur

### Etymology 1.2

Denominal verb of بِلَّوْر (billawr).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bal.wa.ra/

#### Verb

بَلْوَرَ • (balwara) Iq (non-past يُبَلْوِرُ (yubalwiru), verbal noun بَلْوَرَة (balwara)) (transitive)
* to clarify, to outline, to illustrate
* to crystallize

##### Conjugation
## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

From Arabic بِلُّور (billūr).

### Pronunciation

* (15th–17th century) IPA: [bɯˈɫːuɾ], [bɯˈɫuɾ]
* (18th–20th century) IPA: [biˈɫːuɾ]

### Noun

بلور • (bıllur, billur)
* crystal

#### Descendants

* Turkish: billur
* → Bulgarian: билю́р (biljúr)
* → Serbo-Croatian: bìljūr / бѝљӯр
* → Crimean Tatar: billur

### References

* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بلور”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 884

## Persian
### Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (bylwl /⁠*bēlūr⁠/, “crystal”), from Pali veḷuriya. Compare Parthian [Term?] (byrwl /⁠*bērūl⁠/, “crystal”) and Ancient Greek βήρυλλος (bḗrullos, “beryl”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [bi.ˈloːɾ], [bal.ˈloːɾ], [bil.ˈlawɾ], [bu.ˈluːɾ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [bɪ.lǽwɾ], [bʊ.lóːɾ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [bɪ.lǽwɾ], [bʊ.lóːɾ]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [bɪ.lǽwɾ], [bʊ.lóːɾ]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [bi.lǽwɾ], [bu.lʊ́ːɾ]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [bo.lúːɹ]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [bu.lɵ́ɾ]
* Audio (Iran):(file)

### Noun

بلور • (bolur)
* crystal

#### Derived terms

* بلورنگاری (bolur-negâri)

#### Related terms

* بلورین (bolurin)

#### Descendants

* → Arabic: بِلَّوْر (billawr)
** Egyptian Arabic: بلور (ballūr), بنور (bannūr)
** Moroccan Arabic: بلار (ballār)
** → Amharic: በሉር (bälur)
** → Middle Armenian: պլօր (plōr), պիլօր (pilōr)
** → Galician: abelorio
** → Ge'ez: ብሉር (bəlur)
** → Gujarati: બિલોર (bilor)
** → Hindi: बिल्लौर (billaur)
** → Ottoman Turkish: بلور (billur)
*** Turkish: billur
*** → Bulgarian: билю́р (biljúr)
*** → Serbo-Croatian: bìljūr / бѝљӯр
*** → Crimean Tatar: billur
** → Punjabi: ਬਲੌਰ (balaur)
** → Portuguese: avelório
** → Spanish: abalorio
** → Swahili: bilauri
** → Tigre: በሉር (bälur), በኑር (bänur)
** → Uzbek: billur
* → Malay: balur
** Indonesian: balur

### References

* MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “bēlūr”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 19
* Franke, Otto (1893) “Beziehungen der Inder zum Westen”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎, volume 47, page 600
* Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “بلور”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul