Translation for 'precious stone' from English to Dutch

precious stone

edelsteen {de}

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precious

kostbaar {adj}

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precious stones

edelstenen {mv}

precious metal <PM>

edelmetaal {het}

stone

steen {de}

stenen {adj}

kei {de}

kidney stone

niersteen {de} [Calculus renalis]genees.

stone desert

steenwoestijn {de}geogr.geol.

lucky stone

gelukssteen {de}esot.

natural stone

unverified natuursteen {de}

tonsil stone

amandelsteen {de}genees.

plum stone

pruimenpit {de}bot.

to stone [to pit]

ontpitten

memorial (stone)

gedenksteen {de}

stone cold

steenkoud {adj}

stone marten

fluwijn {het} [Martes foina]zoöl.T

steenmarter {de} [Martes foina]zoöl.T

Stone Age

steentijd {de}gesch.

Middle Stone Age

mesolithicum {het}archeo.gesch.

Swiss (stone) pine

alpenden {de} [Pinus cembra]bot.T

• This view was possibly promoted by the fact that during Khafre's lifetime the authority to give permission for the creation of oversized statues made of precious stone and for their display in open places in public was restricted to the king only.
• Suryavarman II sent a mission to the Chola dynasty of south India and presented a precious stone to the Chola emperor Kulottunga Chola I in 1114.
• The most famous two sculptures carved in semi-precious stone are the Phra Keo (The Emerald Buddha) and the Phra Phuttha Butsavarat.
• Among Lepper and SO's undertakings in parliament were such incidents as the use of their own loudspeakers in the Sejm and claims that Robert Smoktunowicz of the liberal Civic Platform ("Platforma Obywatelska") engaged in the precious-stone trade doing business with the Afghan Taliban.
• Breccia was regarded by the Romans as an especially precious stone and was often used in high-profile public buildings.

• USS "Carnelian" (PY-19) was a converted yacht that patrolled with the United States Navy in World War II. She was named for carnelian (a semi-precious stone).
• It is a mixed farming and small-scale coal- and precious-stone-mining community.
• Probably associated with these is the tradition of carving much smaller boulders of jade or some other semi-precious stone into the shape of a mountain, including tiny figures of monks or sages.
• The Brazilian chief who was presented to King Henry VIII in 1532 wore small bones hung from his cheeks and from the lower lip a semi-precious stone the size of a pea.
• Due to the deep green color of the gem, they are sometimes referred to as Siberian emeralds, although they are on a gemological level completely unrelated, emerald being a precious stone and diopside being a semi-precious stone.

• In other stories, it has a magical precious stone on its head that shines like the sun.
• The museum received the precious stone collection of Jeptha Wade II, after his death in 1926.
• The area was, and continues to be, an important source of pounamu greenstone or jade. This precious stone is used for making Maori tools, weapons, and jewelry.
• In general usage no precious stone is considered to outrank the diamond.
• The town takes its name from the emerald and other precious stone deposits in the area and from the pastoral run Emerald Downs, a name chosen circa 1860 by pastoralist Peter Fitzallan Macdonald.

• The name Maguelone is a variation of Latin "margarita" (pearl), from Persian "margaritis" - in modern French the "marguerite" (daisy) took its name from the precious stone.
• Her name is that of a precious stone, in sharp contrast to the contempt in which she is held.
• Professor Brown added that Eadfrith "knew about lapis lazuli semi-precious stone with a blue tint from the Himalayas but could not get hold of it, so made his own [...]".
• Lehmann was spared the worst by Augustus the Strong; he was only granted back the grace of his patron after sacrificing a precious stone to him.
• ... onyx) for the precious stone known in Hebrew as "bareḳet" in [...].