bezoar

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.

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

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: be‧zoar

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.

• “bezoar”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• “Bezoar” at Language Log

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

bezoar m (invariable)

1. bezoar

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

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 form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by besoar

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

• IPA^(key): /bɛzˈɔ.ar/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔar
• Syllabification: bez‧o‧ar

bezoar m inan

1. bezoar

• bezoar in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• benzoar

• Hyphenation: be‧zo‧ar

bezoar m (plural bezoares)

1. bezoar (mass of undigested matter)

Borrowed from French bézoard.

bezoar n (plural bezoare)

1. bezoar

• bezoar in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

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

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

bezoar m (plural bezoares)

1. bezoar

• “bezoar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024