Qabid m ArabicIn the context of the 99 Names of Allah, "Al-Qabid" (الْقَابِضُ) means "The Restrainer" or "The Withholder,"
Ulexite m &
f EnglishFrom the gemstone, which is named after the German chemist Georg Ludwig Ulex + the suffix
-ite.
Zircon m EnglishFrom the name of the gemstone, which is from German
zirkon, borrowed from French
zircon which is formed by Arabic
زَرْقُون (
zarqūn). Doublet of
jargoon.
Tanzanite m &
f EnglishFrom the purple gemstone which comes from the place name
Tanzania (French:
Tanzanie) combined with the suffix
-ite which denotes a mineral.