bezoar
English edit
Etymology edit
From Spanish bezoar and/or French bézoard, based on Arabic بَازَهْر (bāzahr), from Middle Persian pʾtzhl (pādzahr, “bezoar, antidote”), from a compound of words meaning “to protect” and “poison” (literally “killing thing”), thus a bezoar was “that which protects against poison”. In ancient times, bezoars from animals were ground up and ingested as remedies for various maladies and as antidotes to poisons.
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) enPR: bēʹzōr, IPA(key): /ˈbi.zɔɹ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbiː.zɔː/
- Hyphenation: be‧zoar
Noun edit
bezoar (plural bezoars)
- A mass, usually of hair or undigested vegetable matter, found in a human or animal's intestines, similar to a hairball.
- An enterolith.
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References edit
- “bezoar”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Further reading edit
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French bézoard, from Arabic بَازَهْر (bāzahr), from Middle Persian pʾtzhl (pādzahr, “bezoar, antidote”).
Noun edit
bezoar m (invariable)
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Noun edit
bezoar m (definite singular bezoaren, indefinite plural bezoarer, definite plural bezoarene)
- form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by besoar
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish bezoar, based on Arabic بَازَهْر (bāzahr), from Middle Persian pʾtzhl (pādzahr, “bezoar, antidote”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bezoar m inan
Declension edit
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- bezoar in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese edit
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: be‧zo‧ar
Noun edit
bezoar m (plural bezoares)
- bezoar (mass of undigested matter)
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French bézoard, from Arabic بَازَهْر (bāzahr), superseding native bezaar, from the same source.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (Spain) /beθoˈaɾ/ [be.θoˈaɾ]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /besoˈaɾ/ [be.soˈaɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: be‧zo‧ar
Noun edit
bezoar m (plural bezoares)
- bezoar
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “bezoar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014