Azara

See also: azara

Translingual

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish de Azara (surname of Nicolas de Azara), from Azara (a municipality in Huesca, Spain), borrowed from Arabic الصَّخْرَة (aṣ-ṣaḵra, “the rock”), definite inflection of صَخْرَة (ṣaḵra, “boulder, rock”), the singulative of صَخْر (ṣaḵr, “rock, stone”), from the root ص خ ر (ṣ ḵ r), which relates to rock or stone.

Coined by Spanish botanist Hipólito Ruiz López and Spanish botanist José Antonio Pavón in 1794.

Proper noun

Azara f

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Salicaceae – the azaras.

Descendants

  • Arabic: → عَظْر (ʕaẓr), → أَزَارَة (ʔazāra)
    • → Egyptian Arabic: عَظْر
  • → English: azara
  • → Greek: αζάρα (azára)
  • → Persian: آزارا (transliteration)

Further reading

English

Proper noun

Azara

  1. A surname.
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