azeviche

== Portuguese == === Etymology === Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese azaveche, borrowed from Andalusian Arabic سبج (sabáj), from Arabic سَبَج (sabaj), borrowed from Middle Persian špk' (/⁠šabag⁠/), from šp (/⁠šab⁠/), from Old Persian 𐎧𐏁𐎱 (x-š-p /⁠xšapa⁠/), from Proto-Iranian *xšáfš, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kšáps, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷséps. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: (Brazil) -iʃi, (Portugal) -iʃɨ Hyphenation: a‧ze‧vi‧che === Noun === azeviche m (plural azeviches) jet (gemstone) === Further reading === “azeviche”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “azeviche”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026