gem

Etymology
,, , , from , from and , both from. .

Noun

 * 1) A precious stone, usually of substantial monetary value or prized for its beauty or shine.
 * 2)  Any precious or highly valued thing or person.
 * 3) Anything of small size, or expressed within brief limits, which is regarded as a gem on account of its beauty or value, such as a small picture, a verse of poetry, or an epigram.
 * 4)  A gemma or leaf-bud.
 * 5) * c. 1668, (translator), Of Old Age by, Part 3, in Poems and Translations, with The Sophy, London: H. Herringman, 4th edition, 1773, p.35,
 * Then from the Joynts of thy prolifick Stemm
 * A swelling Knot is raised (call’d a Gemm)
 * 1) * 1803, John Browne Cutting, “A Succinct History of Jamaica” in, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, p.xcii,
 * In about twelve days the sprouts from the gems of the planted cane are seen
 * 1) A geometrid moth of species.
 * 2)  A package containing programs or libraries for the Ruby programming language.
 * 3)  A size of type between brilliant (4-point) and diamond (4½-point), running 222 lines to the foot.
 * Then from the Joynts of thy prolifick Stemm
 * A swelling Knot is raised (call’d a Gemm)
 * 1) * 1803, John Browne Cutting, “A Succinct History of Jamaica” in, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, p.xcii,
 * In about twelve days the sprouts from the gems of the planted cane are seen
 * 1) A geometrid moth of species.
 * 2)  A package containing programs or libraries for the Ruby programming language.
 * 3)  A size of type between brilliant (4-point) and diamond (4½-point), running 222 lines to the foot.
 * 1)  A size of type between brilliant (4-point) and diamond (4½-point), running 222 lines to the foot.

Synonyms

 * ,, precious stone; see also Thesaurus:gemstone

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Arabic:, جَوْهَرَة
 * Egyptian Arabic: جوهرة, ماسة, فص, حجر كريم
 * Armenian: թանկարժեք քար, ,
 * Old Armenian:
 * Basque: harribitxi
 * Belarusian: кашто́ўны ка́мень, самацве́т
 * Bulgarian: скъпоце́нен ка́мък
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: klenot,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: juvelo
 * Faroese: gimsteinur
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ძვირფასი ქვა, ფერადი ქვა, პატიოსანი თვალი
 * German:, ,
 * Greek: πολύτιμος λίθος,
 * Ancient: λίθος πολυτελής
 * Hebrew: אֶבֶן יְקָרָה
 * Hindi:, ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Iranun:
 * Irish: seoid
 * Italian:, pietra preziosa
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer: ,
 * Korean:
 * Lao: ພອຍ, ມະນີ, ຣະຕະນະ
 * Latin: gemma
 * Latvian: dārgakmens
 * Lithuanian: brangakmenis
 * Lombard: gema
 * Macedonian: скапоцен камен
 * Maguindanao: imu na babay
 * Malay:, jauhar
 * Maranao: montiaq
 * Marathi: रत्न
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: ,
 * Nynorsk: edelstein
 * Old English: ġimm
 * Ottoman Turkish: جوهر
 * Pashto:
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Sanskrit: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: neamhnaid
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: драгуљ
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: klenot, drahokam
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:, , ,
 * Swahili: johari
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tajik: гавҳар
 * Tausug: bidduri, palmata
 * Thai:, จินดา,
 * Tibetan: ཕྲ
 * Tocharian B: wamer, naumiye, prāp
 * Turkish:
 * Ugaritic: 𐎑𐎅𐎗
 * Ukrainian: дорогоці́нний ка́мінь, кошто́вний ка́мінь, самоцві́т
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese: đá quý
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: אבֿן־טובֿ


 * Bulgarian:
 * Danish: perle
 * French: ,
 * Georgian:, , ძვირფასეულობა
 * Greek: ,
 * Italian:, ,
 * Pashto:
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: neamhnaid
 * Swahili: johari
 * Swedish:

Verb

 * 1)  To adorn with, or as if with, gems.

Etymology
Together with gemb, a phonetic variant of gjemb.

Noun

 * 1) branch

Etymology
From, from , from , from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, obsolete 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)  to give

Noun

 * 1) body

Etymology
, from, , , from , from , from , from + ; or alternatively from  + a root from.

Noun

 * 1)  game

Etymology 1
From.

Noun

 * 1) jam (sweet mixture of fruit boiled with sugar)

Etymology 1
The paper clip's most common design was originally thought to be made by The Gem Manufacturing Company in Britain in the 1870s. More at paper clip.

Noun

 * 1) a paper clip

Etymology 2
.

Etymology
, from.

Noun

 * 1) rein

Etymology
Perhaps borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) sibling