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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.

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.

mass of undigested matter

  • “bezoar”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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 form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by besoar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): /bɛˈzɔ.ar/
  • Rhymes: -ɔar
  • Syllabification: be‧zo‧ar

bezoar m inan

  1. bezoar
  • bezoar in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Hyphenation: be‧zo‧ar

bezoar m (plural bezoares)

  1. bezoar (mass of undigested matter)

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

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

bezoar m (plural bezoares)

  1. bezoar