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Certain: The standard etymology in the RAE dictionary and in Corriente; no serious doubt.Clothes & colour · Common

azabache

jet — a shiny black stone used in jewelrypiedra negra y brillante usada en joyería

Comes from Arabic

السَّبَج

as-sabaj

“jet”«el azabache»

Arabic today says

سَبَج

sabaj

And it still does

The article

Spanish kept the Arabic article al- glued to the word.

Arabic itself had taken it from Persian.

The story

From Persian shabah. The jet amulets of Santiago de Compostela unknowingly bear an Arabic name. Negro azabache ("jet black") is the deepest black.Del persa shabah. Los amuletos de azabache de Santiago de Compostela llevan, sin saberlo, nombre árabe. «Negro azabache» es el negro más intenso.

In a sentence

Tenía el pelo negro azabache.

She had jet-black hair.

كَانَ شَعْرُهَا أَسْوَدَ فَاحِمًا.

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