bezoar

bezoar

See also: bezoár

English

Etymology

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

• (General American) enPR: bēʹzōr, IPA^(key): /ˈbi.zɔɹ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbiː.zɔː/
• Hyphenation: be‧zoar

Noun

bezoar (plural bezoars)

1. A mass, usually of hair or undigested vegetable matter, found in a human or animal's intestines, similar to a hairball.
2. An enterolith.

Synonyms

• bezoar stone

 

Derived terms

Derived terms

• bezoar antelope
• bezoardic
• bezoar goat
• bezoar ibex
• bezoar mineral
• diospyrobezoar
• pharmacobezoar
• phytobezoar
• pseudobezoar
• trichobezoar

Translations

mass of undigested matter

Arabic: بازهر‎ m Chinese: Mandarin: 胃石 (zh) (wèishí), 牛黃／牛黄 (zh) (niúhuáng) (of cattle), 馬寶／马宝 (zh) (mǎbǎo) (of a horse) Czech: bezoár (cs) m Danish: bezoarsten Esperanto: bezoaro Estonian: besoaar, pulstik Finnish: besoaari French: bézoard (fr) m German: Bezoar (de) m Greek: πεντζέχρι (el) n (pentzéchri) Hebrew: בזואר‎ Hindi: बेज़ार (bezār), पजहर (hi) m (pajhar), ज़हर-मोहरा m (zahar-mohrā) Ido: bezoaro (io) Italian: bezoario m Pashto: جړمری‎ (ps) m Persian: پادزهر‎ (fa) (pâdzahr) Polish: bezoar (pl) m Portuguese: bezoar (pt) m Russian: безоа́р (ru) m (bezoár) Sindhi: بازھر‎ Spanish: bezoar m Swedish: besoar, bezoar Ukrainian: безоар m (bezoar) Uzbek: bezoarlar

References

• bezoar at OneLook Dictionary Search

Further reading

• “Bezoar” at Language Log

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French bézoard, from Arabic بَازَهْر‎ (bāzahr), from Middle Persian pʾtzhl (pādzahr, “bezoar, antidote”).

Noun

bezoar m (invariable)

1. bezoar

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

bezoar m (definite singular bezoaren, indefinite plural bezoarer, definite plural bezoarene)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by besoar

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish bezoar, based on Arabic بَازَهْر‎ (bāzahr), from Middle Persian pʾtzhl (pādzahr, “bezoar, antidote”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɛˈzɔ.ar/

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• Rhymes: -ɔar
• Syllabification: be‧zo‧ar

Noun

bezoar m inan

1. bezoar

Declension

Declension of bezoar

	singular	plural
nominative	bezoar	bezoary
genitive	bezoaru	bezoarów
dative	bezoarowi	bezoarom
accusative	bezoar	bezoary
instrumental	bezoarem	bezoarami
locative	bezoarze	bezoarach
vocative	bezoarze	bezoary

Derived terms

adjective

• bezoarowy

 

Further reading

• bezoar in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• bezoar in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• benzoar

Noun

bezoar m (plural bezoares)

1. bezoar (mass of undigested matter)

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Spanish

Etymology

From French bézoard, from Arabic بَازَهْر‎ (bāzahr), superseding native bezaar, from the same source.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /beθoˈaɾ/ [be.θoˈaɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /besoˈaɾ/ [be.soˈaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: be‧zo‧ar

Noun

bezoar m (plural bezoares)

1. bezoar

Derived terms

• bezoárico

Further reading

• “bezoar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014