bedústar
Andalusian Arabic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Persian بیدستر (bidastar).
Noun
[edit]bedústar ?
- beaver (Castor fiber)
- 1505, Pedro de Alcalá, Vocabulista arauigo en letra castellana, page 54v:
- Caſtor aſſi. Bedǔſtar:
- Beaver [is said] like this: bedústar.
References
[edit]- Corriente, F. (1997) A Dictionary of Andalusi Arabic (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East; 29)[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 40