Dictionary of Gems and Gemology

2009 Edition
| Editors: Mohsen Manutchehr-Danai

tarmalah

Reference work entry
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72816-0_21388

a Farsi term that literarily means impure or despised; it may be derived from damalah for cabochon, turquoises furrowed by other stones, which are used as decoration.  Turquoise classification in Nishabur,  Iran.

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