琉璃
Meanings
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- 1.colored glaze used in traditional Chinese architecture
- 2.colored or clear glass art object
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Wiktionary
- 1.a kind of blue and translucent natural precious stone, probably lapis lazuli
- 2.coloured glaze similar to this kind of stone
- 3.synonym of 玻璃 (“glass”)
- 4.lamp made from glass
- 5.any translucent object
- 6.dragonfly
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Etymology
From an unidentified language in the Western Regions, perhaps a Middle Indo-Aryan language, e.g. Gandhari 𐨬𐨅𐨜𐨂𐨪𐨁𐨩 (veḍuriya), a form attested in as a component in a proper noun. Compare Pali veḷuriya (“precious stone, maybe lapis lazuli”), Sanskrit वैडूर्य (vaiḍūrya, “cat's-eye, beryl”), whence Chinese 吠瑠璃 (fèiliúlí). The Middle Chinese reflex may have been subjected to hyperthesis with the ḍ- and r- syllables exchanged, with further ḍ > l (Ji, 1998v4).
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Components
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