Balas ruby
Balas ruby ({not transcribed})
[Old English bales, balais, French balais, Late Latin balascus, from Arabic balakhsh, so called from Badakhshan, Balashan, or Balaxiam, a place in the neighborhood of Samarkand, where this ruby is found.]
(Mineralogy) A variety of spinel ruby, of a pale rose red, or inclining to orange. See Spinel.