Adventures in the Arabic Dictionary

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tabalwūr

تَبَلْوُر (tabalwūr) n. verbal: to crystallize, to be covered with crystals

Though delightful for being so literal, the latter definition is vanishingly rare. The figurative prosaic sense appears largely to have won out: The Arabic Corpus gives far more references to the crystallization of political movements or thought than to objects bedecked with actual crystals. What a pity.