amethyst

Etymology
From, from (🇨🇬), from , from  + , from. The Greeks believed that the amethyst prevented intoxication.

Noun

 * 1) A transparent purple to violet variety of quartz with traces of manganese, used as a gemstone.
 * 2)  A purple colour.
 * 3)  The tincture purpure, when blazoning by precious stones.
 * 4) * 1906 (printed), The Beetham Repository, 1770 (eds. William Hutton, John Rawlinson Ford), page 115:
 * 1st & 4th grand Quarter alike viz. Field Pearl, on a bend Sapphire 3 Buckheads, coup'd topaz for Stanley. The 2d Quarter, Field Sapphire with an inverted Chief, amethyst. The 3d, A Checque topaz & Amethyst, this seems prior to Bosworth field, to have belong'd to Sr Robt Goushill whose Dr a Stanley married [...]
 * 1) * 1906 (printed), The Beetham Repository, 1770 (eds. William Hutton, John Rawlinson Ford), page 115:
 * 1st & 4th grand Quarter alike viz. Field Pearl, on a bend Sapphire 3 Buckheads, coup'd topaz for Stanley. The 2d Quarter, Field Sapphire with an inverted Chief, amethyst. The 3d, A Checque topaz & Amethyst, this seems prior to Bosworth field, to have belong'd to Sr Robt Goushill whose Dr a Stanley married [...]
 * 1) * 1906 (printed), The Beetham Repository, 1770 (eds. William Hutton, John Rawlinson Ford), page 115:
 * 1st & 4th grand Quarter alike viz. Field Pearl, on a bend Sapphire 3 Buckheads, coup'd topaz for Stanley. The 2d Quarter, Field Sapphire with an inverted Chief, amethyst. The 3d, A Checque topaz & Amethyst, this seems prior to Bosworth field, to have belong'd to Sr Robt Goushill whose Dr a Stanley married [...]

Translations

 * Afrikaans: ametis
 * Arabic: جمشت
 * Armenian: ,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: သီဟိုဠ်နီလာ
 * Catalan:
 * Cherokee: ᎠᎻᏘᏏ
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 紫水晶
 * Hakka: 紫水晶
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: ametisto
 * Estonian: ametüst
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἀμέθυστος
 * Gujarati: એમિથિસ્ટ
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: अमेथिस्ट, एमिथिस्ट
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ametýst
 * Irish: aimitis
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kannada:
 * Kazakh: күлгінтас, аметист
 * Korean:
 * Latin: amethystus
 * Latvian: ametists
 * Malay: ametis, batu kecubung
 * Malayalam: അമീഥിസ്റ്റ്
 * Maltese: ametist
 * Maori: ametihita
 * Occitan:
 * Persian: آمتیست,, کرکهان, کرکهن
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: ametisti
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian:
 * Volapük: maetüt
 * Welsh: amethyst
 * West Frisian: ametist
 * Zazaki: ametist


 * Catalan:
 * Cherokee: ᎠᎻᏘᏏ-ᏕᎭᎷᎨᎢ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Estonian: ametüst
 * Finnish: ametistinvioletti
 * Georgian: ამეთვისტოსფერი
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: aimitis
 * Japanese:
 * Malay: kecubung
 * Russian: амети́стовый цвет, фиоле́товый цвет
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: rangi ya amethisto
 * Zazaki: ametistane


 * Lithuanian: (1);  (2)

Adjective

 * 1) Having a colour similar to that of the gemstone

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 紫色的
 * Finnish: ametistinvioletti
 * German:
 * Irish: aimitise
 * Polish: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Volapük: maetütakölik

Etymology
From.