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 Translation for 'lapis' from English to Hungarian
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lazurit {noun}
lapis lazuli
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Translation for 'lapis' from English to Hungarian

lapis lazuli
lazurit {noun}ásv.
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Usage Examples English
  • The Sar-i Sang lapis lazuli mine probably dates from proto-historic times.
  • The phrase is also given as "Musco lapis volutus haud obducitur", and in some cases as "Musco lapis volutus haud "obvolvitur".
  • The Sarawak layer cake, known as kek lapis Sarawak (meaning "Sarawak layer cake") or kek lapis moden Sarawak in Malay, is a layered cake from the state of Sarawak in Malaysia.
  • The term cadmia was formerly applied to the mineral cadmium, or "lapis calaminaris".
  • It may be confused with lazurite, lapis lazuli or azurite.

  • Two mantelpieces clad with lapis-lazuli and decorated with gilded bronze ornaments.
  • Pliny the Elder wrote that lapis lazuli is “opaque and sprinkled with specks of gold”.
  • The first noted use of "lapis lazuli" as a pigment can be seen in the 6th and 7th-century AD cave paintings in Afghanistani Zoroastrian and Buddhist temples, near the most famous source of the mineral.
  • In Akkadian, the cognate word "takiltu" is written using the word sign also used for lapis lazuli, suggesting they have similar colors.
  • "Persian blue" is a representation of the color of the mineral lapis lazuli which comes from Persia and Afghanistan.

  • The art historian Ghidiglia Quintavalle theorised that the work was a late Parmigianino self-portrait, identifying it with "a coloured painting finished "di lapis" showing a self-portrait of the Parmesanino, 0.5 high by 4 tall", a work mentioned in a posthumous inventory of his studio.
  • The color azure ultimately takes its name from the intense blue mineral lapis lazuli.
  • In January 2019, Alison Beach was a coauthor of the article "Medieval women’s early involvement in manuscript production suggested by lapis lazuli identification in dental calculus", which appeared in Science Advances.
  • Although somewhat similar to lazurite and lapis lazuli, sodalite rarely contains pyrite (a common inclusion in lapis) and its blue color is more like traditional royal blue rather than ultramarine.
  • In Sumerian lore, "(Nisaba) continually gets advice from a tablet of lapis lazuli.

  • Kuntasi was similar to Lothal, another port town of IVC, though on a smaller scale. Lapis Lazuli was found in unusual large quantity in this settlement, indicating that it was exported to Mesopotamia, as lapis lazuli was known to have been an important export item from IVC to Mesopotamia.
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