tanzanite

Etymology


From, , a vice president of the American jeweler  when it first marketed the gem in 1968:  see the October 3, 1968, quotation.

Noun

 * 1) A trichroic violet-blue variety of the mineral zoisite mined in Tanzania, used as a gemstone.

Translations

 * Arabic: تنزانيت
 * Armenian: տանզանիտ
 * Bulgarian: танзанит
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 丹泉石, 坦桑寶石, 坦桑石
 * Dutch: tanzaniet
 * Esperanto: tanzanito
 * Estonian: tansaniit
 * Finnish: tansaniitti
 * French:
 * Galician: tanzanita
 * German: Tansanit
 * Greek: τανζανίτης
 * Hebrew: טנזניט
 * Italian: tanzanite
 * Japanese: タンザナイト
 * Korean: 탄자나이트
 * Lithuanian: tanzanitas
 * Macedonian: танзани́т
 * Malay: tanzanit
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: tanzanitt
 * Nynorsk: tanzanitt
 * Pashto: تانزانيت
 * Persian: تانزانیت
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: tanzanite
 * Romanian: tanzanit
 * Russian:
 * Slovene: tanzanit
 * Spanish: tanzanita
 * Swahili: tanzanaiti
 * Swedish: tanzanit
 * Tamil: தன்சானைற்று
 * Ukrainian: танзаніт
 * Vietnamese: tanzanit

Etymology
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Etymology
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