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
• Catalan: betzoar 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”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Further reading

• “Bezoar” at Language Log

Italian

Etymology

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

Noun

bezoar m (invariable)

1. bezoar

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 form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by besoar

Polish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɛzˈɔ.ar/

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• Rhymes: -ɔar
• Syllabification: bez‧o‧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 Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• benzoar

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /be.zoˈa(ʁ)/ [be.zoˈa(h)]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /be.zoˈa(ʁ)/ [be.zoˈa(h)]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /be.zoˈa(ɾ)/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /be.zoˈa(ʁ)/ [be.zoˈa(χ)]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /be.zoˈa(ɻ)/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɨˈzwaɾ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɨˈzwaɾ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɨˈzwa.ɾi/

• Hyphenation: be‧zo‧ar

Noun

bezoar m (plural bezoares)

1. bezoar (mass of undigested matter)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed 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, Philippines) /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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10