yashb

jasper

يَشْب

Word

Noun · pattern فَعْل

Root

ي ش ب

In the library

وقيلَ: معناهُ: يُشَوِّقُ بَعْضُهَا إِلَى بعْضٍ بتحْسينها وتسْويلها وقيلَ: يُشْبهُ بعضُها بَعْضاً.

Riyad al-Salihin, page 217 →

Lane's Lexicon

Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 1 entry
  • يَشْبٌ A well known stone
    A well known stone; [jasper; peenliarly a whitish kind thereof, found in Mount Imaus: (Golius, from Et-Teyfáshee:)] an arabicized word, from [the Persian] يَشْم, q. v. (K.)

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