Noun: zebech
Gender: m
Sample Sentences
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DEl quarto grado del ſigno de capricornio es la piedra aque llaman zebech. Dura es. ⁊ de color mui negro. ⁊ liuiana de peſo. (Of the fourth degree of the sign of Capricorn is the stone they call jet. It is hard, and of a very black color, and light in weight.) [c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 76v:]
Nouns inflected like zebech
sennor,
sastre,
estrellero,
arçobispado,
guarnimiento,
bezahar,
bezerro,
ysmael,
lenguage,
ivierno,
culuebro,
peligro,
culantro,
sacerdot,
mercader,
zebech,
blancor,
palafre,
ponient,
poderio, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic, from Arabic سَبَج (sabaj, “jet”).
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