bezoar
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bezoar
- /ˈbi.zɔɹ/ US
- /ˈbiː.zɔː/ UK
Where it comes from
Borrowed 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.
noun bezoars · bezoard
- A mass, usually of hair or undigested vegetable matter, found in a human or animal's intestines, similar to a hairball.
- An enterolith.
Similar: bezoar stone
Thesaurus
noun
Similar: bezoar stone
Translations
Every language
noun mass of undigested matter
| Español | bezoar |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 牛黄 goō |
| 中文 | 胃石 wèishí, 牛黃 /牛黄 niúhuáng, 馬寶 /马宝 mǎbǎo |
| हिन्दी | बेज़ार bezār, पादज़हर pādazhar, पाज़हर pāzhar, ज़हर-मोहरा zahar-mohrā |
| Português | bezoar |
| Français | bézoard |
| Deutsch | Bezoar |
| Italiano | bezoario |
| Ελληνικά | πεντζέχρι pentzéchri |
| Русский | безоа́р bezoár |
| العربية | بازهر |
| עברית | בזואר |
Talk about this word "bezoar." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/bezoar. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. bezoar. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/bezoar "bezoar." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/bezoar.Cite this
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title = {bezoar},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/bezoar},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
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