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бисер

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic бисьръ (bisĭrŭ, “pearls”), from Bulgar, from Arabic بُسْر (busr, “unripe dates”) from the root ب س ر (b s r) related to things being early, so applied to pearls because unripe dates can have some tactile and optical properties similar to pearls.

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c. 750 CEArabic

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