mother-of-pearl

Etymology
, with the first element perhaps connected in popular imagination with obsolete. Possibly referring to the fact that the nacre-lined shells are the belly (“mother”) in which pearls are produced.

Noun

 * 1) The hard pearly inner layer of certain mollusk shells; nacre.
 * 2) A butterfly of the genus Salamis.
 * 1) A butterfly of the genus Salamis.

Translations

 * Abkhaz: амыркылд
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: عِرْق اللُّؤْلُؤ, صَدَف, أُمّ اللَّآلِئ
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: sədəf
 * Bashkir: мәрүәт
 * Belarusian: перламу́тр, пэрляму́тар
 * Bengali: মৌক্তিক
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: ,
 * Buryat: эржэн, тана
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 珍珠母,
 * Czech: perleť
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: pärlmutter
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: mariperle
 * Georgian: სადაფი
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: πινάριον
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: perlumóðir
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Irish: néamhann
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 真珠層, 真珠母
 * Kalmyk: тан
 * Kazakh: седеп, тана
 * Korean: 진주층, 진주모
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Latvian: perlamutrs
 * Lithuanian: perlamutras
 * Macedonian: седеф
 * Maranao: lageng
 * Mongolian:
 * Navajo: diichiłí
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: ,
 * Nynorsk: perlemor
 * Pashto:
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: madrepérola,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: сѐдеф
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: perleť
 * Slovene: sedef
 * Southern Altai: тана
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: nakar, inamperlas, binga
 * Tajik: садаф
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu: ముత్యపుచిప్ప
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: sadap
 * Ukrainian: перламу́тр
 * Urdu: سیپ, صدف
 * Uyghur: سەدەپ
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh: nacr, cregynwisg
 * Yakan: tipey
 * Yiddish: פּערל־מוטער


 * Finnish:

Adjective

 * 1) Made from or looking like mother-of-pearl; iridescent or pearly.