onyx

Etymology
From (c. 1300), earlier  (c. 1250), from  or, from , from. .

Noun

 * 1)  A banded variety of chalcedony, a cryptocrystalline form of quartz.
 * 2) A jet-black color, named after the gemstone.
 * 3) Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genus.
 * 1) Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genus.
 * 1) Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genus.

Derived terms

 * onyx marble



Translations

 * Arabic: جَزْع
 * Armenian: ոնիքս
 * Basque: onize
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian: оникс
 * Catalan: ònix
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: onyks
 * Dutch:
 * Emilian:
 * Estonian: oonüks
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian:
 * Galician: ónix
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: सुलैमानी पत्थर
 * Ido:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: オニキス, オニックス
 * Korean: 오닉스
 * Latin: onyx
 * Latvian: onikss
 * Ligurian:
 * Lithuanian: oniksas
 * Lombard:
 * Maori: onika
 * Marathi: ऑनिक्स
 * Norwegian: onyx
 * Occitan: onix
 * Odia: or
 * Persian: عقیق سلیمانی
 * Piedmontese:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romagnol:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: оникс
 * Roman:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swahili: sardoniki
 * Tagalog: oniks
 * Thai: โอนิกซ์
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: о́нікс
 * Urdu: سلیمانی پتھر
 * Welsh: onics

Adjective

 * 1) jet-black
 * , Genesis, 2:12
 * And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) onyx, yellow marble
 * 2) A yellowish precious stone
 * 3) The female of a mussel of the scallop species