أبزار
See also: فوة
Arabic
Alternative forms
- أَبَازِير (ʾabāzīr)
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (ʾp̄zʾl), [Book Pahlavi needed] (ʾp̄cʾl /abzār, abčār/, “instrument, tool; spice”), in Classical Persian افزار (afzâr), اوزار (avzâr), ابزار (abzâr, “tool”), also in the sense of a marinade آچار (âčâr), which serves another borrowing into the Arabic culinary regiolects as أَچَار (ačār) ~ عُشَّار (ʿuššār, “pickles”).
Conflated with بِزْر (bizr, “seed”), as if denoting seeds used for seasoning.
Noun
أَبْزَار • (ʾabzār) m
- spice, seasoning, condiment
- Synonyms: تَابِل (tābil), بَهَار (bahār), أَفَاوِيه (ʾafāwīh)
Declension
Declension of noun أَبْزَار (ʾabzār)
| Singular | basic singular triptote | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Definite | Construct | |
| Informal | أَبْزَار ʾabzār | الْأَبْزَار al-ʾabzār | أَبْزَار ʾabzār |
| Nominative | أَبْزَارٌ ʾabzārun | الْأَبْزَارُ al-ʾabzāru | أَبْزَارُ ʾabzāru |
| Accusative | أَبْزَارًا ʾabzāran | الْأَبْزَارَ al-ʾabzāra | أَبْزَارَ ʾabzāra |
| Genitive | أَبْزَارٍ ʾabzārin | الْأَبْزَارِ al-ʾabzāri | أَبْزَارِ ʾabzāri |
Descendants
- Libyan Arabic: بزار (bzār)
- Maltese: bżar
- Moroccan Arabic: بزار (bzār), إبزار (ʔibzār)
- Omani Arabic: بزار (bzār)
- → Swahili: bizari
References
- Behnstedt, Peter; Woidich, Manfred (2012) Wortatlas der arabischen Dialekte – Band II: Materielle Kultur (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 100/II) (in German), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, DOI:, →ISBN, pages 259–261
- Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “أبزار”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 81
- Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 138
- Freytag, Georg (1830), “أبزار”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 117
- Lane, Edward William (1863), “أبزار”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 199
- Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “أبزار”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 86