A precious or semiprecious stone incorporated into a piece of jewelry
English: jewel, gem, precious stone
permataBahasa Indonesia
gem, jewel, stone, gemstone, precious stone
Less common
#5,052 of the corpus · 17.8 per million words · 75,879 occurrences
From mata (per-) · very common, #263
Noun
A crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry
English: gem, gemstone, stone
A person who is as brilliant and precious as a piece of jewelry
English: jewel, gem
Bahasa: jauhari
1 more noun senses
Building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose
English: stone
Bahasa: batu
Less certain link between this word and this sense.