{"id":14,"date":"2015-01-15T10:23:06","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T10:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"\/wpblog\/english\/?p=14"},"modified":"2017-02-13T11:59:50","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T11:59:50","slug":"janvier-le-grenat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemfrance.com\/wpblog\/english\/janvier-le-grenat\/","title":{"rendered":"The January birthstone: the garnet"},"content":{"rendered":"

For each<\/span> month<\/span> there is traditionally<\/span> a\u00a0birth<\/span>stone<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The birthstone<\/span> of January is the<\/span> garnet.<\/span> Garnet<\/span> (English),<\/span> Granat<\/span> (<\/span>German) Granate<\/span> (<\/span>Spanish), Granato<\/span> (Italian)<\/span>, Granat<\/span> (Turkish)<\/span>, \u0433\u0440\u0430\u043d\u0430\u0442\u0430<\/span> (<\/span>Russian) \u03b3\u03c1\u03b1\u03bd\u03ac\u03c4\u03b7\u03c2<\/span> (Greek)<\/span>, \u77f3\u69b4\u77f3<\/span> (Chinese<\/span>) \u30ac \u30fc \u30cd \u30c3 \u30c8<\/span> (Japanese)<\/span>, \u0e2a\u0e35 \u0e41\u0e14\u0e07 \u0e40\u0e02\u0e49\u0e21<\/span> (<\/span>Thai)<\/span>, \u05e0\u05d5\u05b9\u05e4\u05b6\u05da<\/span> (Hebrew)<\/span>, \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0642\u064a\u0642<\/span> (Arabic)<\/span><\/p>\n

The name \"<\/span>garnet\" comes from the Latin \"<\/span>granatus\" which means seed.<\/span>
\nIn the Middle Ages<\/span>, garnet was called \"<\/span>carbuncle\", from the Latin \"<\/span>carbunculus\" small<\/span> embers.<\/span><\/p>\n

You will find on<\/span> Gemfrance<\/span> a lot of varieties of<\/span> garnet for sale.<\/span>
\nThe most usual are<\/span> red<\/span> garnets\u00a0from Mozambique. The rarest is the green garnet demantoid from Ural - Russia.<\/span>
\nWhen describing<\/span> the<\/span> \"<\/span>garnet color\"<\/span> is generally<\/span> imagine<\/span> red color.<\/span> But we find<\/span> garnets in\u00a0all the colors.<\/span><\/p>\n