أبزار

See also: فوة

Arabic

Alternative forms

• أَبَازِير (ʔabāzīr)

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)
  • → Swahili: bizari

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^[1] (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^[2] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 117
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “أبزار”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[3], London: Williams & Norgate, page 199
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “أبزار”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[4] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 86