bézoard
See also: bezoard
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic بَازَهْر (bāzahr, “bezoar”), ultimately from Middle Persian pʾtzhl (pādzahr, “antidote, bezoar”).
Pronunciation
Noun
bézoard m (plural bézoards)
Descendants
- → English: bezoar, bezoard (or through Spanish)
- → Italian: bezoar
- → Norwegian:
- → Romanian: bezoar
- → Spanish: bezoar, bezoár
- → Swedish: besoar, bezoar
Further reading
- “bézoard”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012