أبزار

See also: فوة

Arabic

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (ʾp̄zʾl), [Book Pahlavi needed] (ʾp̄cʾl /⁠abzār, abčār⁠/, “instrument, tool; spice”), in Classical Persian افزار (afzâr), اوزار (avzâr), ابزار (abzâr, “tool”), also in the sense of a marinade آچار (âčâr), which serves another borrowing into the Arabic culinary regiolects as أَچَار (ačār) ~ عُشَّار (ʕuššār, “pickles”).
Conflated with بِزْر (bizr, “seed”), as if denoting seeds used for seasoning.

Noun

أَبْزَار • (ʔabzār) m

  1. spice, seasoning, condiment
    Synonyms: تَابِل (tābil), بَهَار (bahār), أَفَاوِيه (ʔafāwīh)

Declension
Declension of noun أَبْزَار (ʔabzār)
Singular basic singular triptote
Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal أَبْزَار
ʔabzār		 الْأَبْزَار
al-ʔabzār		 أَبْزَار
ʔabzār
Nominative أَبْزَارٌ
ʔabzārun		 الْأَبْزَارُ
al-ʔabzāru		 أَبْزَارُ
ʔabzāru
Accusative أَبْزَارًا
ʔabzāran		 الْأَبْزَارَ
al-ʔabzāra		 أَبْزَارَ
ʔabzāra
Genitive أَبْزَارٍ
ʔabzārin		 الْأَبْزَارِ
al-ʔabzāri		 أَبْزَارِ
ʔabzāri

Descendants
  • Libyan Arabic: بزار (bzār)
  • Maltese: bżar
  • Moroccan Arabic: بزار (bzār), إبزار (ʔibzār)
  • Omani Arabic: بزار (bzār)

References
  • Behnstedt, Peter, Woidich, Manfred (2012) Wortatlas der arabischen Dialekte – Band II: Materielle Kultur (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 100/II) (in German), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 259–261
  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “أبزار”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎ (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 81
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 138
  • Freytag, Georg (1830) “أبزار”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 117
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “أبزار”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 199
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “أبزار”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 86
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