balas

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A type of rose-coloured spinel once thought to be a form of ruby (now usually used attributively: balas-ruby)
a pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel

Related Terms

balas-ruby
A rose-coloured variety of ruby

In shape it is a tiny square box of silver, studded outside with eight small balas-rubies.

balas ruby
A variety of spinel ruby, of a pale rose red, or inclining to orange
Turkish - English
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balas

    Hyphenation

    bal·as

    Turkish pronunciation

    bälıs

    Pronunciation

    /ˈbaləs/ /ˈbæləs/

    Etymology

    [ 'ba-l&s ] (noun.) 15th century. From Old French balais, from Arabic بلخش (balakhsh), from Persian بدخشان (badakhshān, “Badakhshan”), the region where they are found.
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