Onyx

Etymology
Before 1300 as onix, in about 1250 as oneche, from Old French oniche or onix, or from Latin onyx, from Greek ὄνυξ (onyx).

Noun

 * 1)  A banded variety of chalcedony, a cryptocrystalline form of quartz.

Translations

 * Arabic: جزع
 * Basque: onize
 * Bosnian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 縞瑪瑙, 缟玛瑙
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: onyks
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Hebrew: שוהם
 * Hindi: सुलैमानी पत्थर
 * Ido:
 * Latvian: onikss


 * Lithuanian: oniksas
 * Norwegian:
 * Oriya: kwaja pathara
 * Persian: عقیق سلیمانی
 * Polish: onyks
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: onix
 * Russian:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman:
 * Spanish:, ónice, ónique
 * Swahili: sardoniki
 * Tagalog: onise
 * Turkish:
 * Urdu: سلیمانی پتھر

Adjective

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