# بزر
## Arabic
### Etymology

Borrowed from Aramaic בִּזְרָא (bizrā) / ܒܙܪܐ (bazrā, “seed”), from בַר זַרְעָא / ܒܪ ܙܪܥܐ (bar zarʿāʾ, “seed”), from בַר / ܒܪ (bar, “son of”) + זַרְעָא / ܙܪܥܐ (zarʿāʾ, “a seed”). The vocalization with /i/ is deemed more classical in Arabic.

### Noun

بِزْر or بَزْر • (bizr or bazr) m (collective, singulative بِزْرَة f (bizra) or بَزْرَة (bazra), plural بُزُور (buzūr))
* seed, what is sown

#### Descendants

* → Ottoman Turkish: بزر (bezr, bezir), بذر (bezr, bezir)
** Turkish: bezir
** → Armenian: պէզիր (pēzir)

### References

* Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “بزر”, 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) “بزر”, 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) “بزر”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 199
* Nöldeke, Theodor (1875) Mandäische Grammatik‎ (in German), Halle: Verlag der Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses, page 55
* Růžička, Rudolf (1909) “Konsonantische Dissimilation in den semitischen Sprachen”, in Beiträge zur Assyriologie und semitischen Sprachwissenschaft‎ (in German), volume VI, number 4, Leipzig · Baltimore: J.C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung · The Johns Hopkins Press, page 6
* Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “بزر”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 86

## Hijazi Arabic

* Root
* ب ز ر
* 1 term

### Etymology

From Arabic بِزْر (bizr).

### Pronunciation 1

* IPA: /bi.zir/

#### Noun

بزر • (bizir) m (collective, singulative بزرة f (bizra), plural بزور (buzūr))
* seed

### Pronunciation 2

* IPA: /ba.zir/, /ba.zur/

#### Noun

بَزِر or بَزُر • (bazir or bazur) m (construct state بَزْر (bazr), plural بزورة (buzūra))
* kid
    Synonyms: وَلَد (walad), (formal) طِفِل (ṭifil)

## Ottoman Turkish
### Alternative forms

* بذر (bezr, bezir)

### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic بَزْر (bazr, “seed, what is sown”), itself from Aramaic בִּזְרָא (bizrā, “seed”).

### Noun

بزر • (bezr or bezir) (definite accusative بزری (bezri, beziri), plural بزور (buzur))
* (botany) seed, a fertilized and ripened ovule inclosed in a coat, containing an embryonic plant
    Synonym: تخم (tuhm, tohum)
* (in particular) linseed, flaxseed, the seed of the flax plant, which yields linseed oil whend dried
    Synonym: بزر الكتان (bezrüʼl-kettan)
* linseed oil, an oil extracted from dried linseed used as a drying agent in paints, varnishes, etc.
    Synonym: بزر یاغی (bezir yağı)

#### Derived terms

* بزر البنج (bezrüʼl-benc, “henbane seed”)
* بزر الخراسانیه (bezrüʼl-horasaniye, “wormseed”)
* بزر الكتان (bezrüʼl-kettan, “linseed”)
* بزر قطونا (bezr kutuna, “fleaseed”)
* بزر یاغی (bezir yağı, “linseed oil”)
* بزرجی (bezirci, “dealer in linseed oil”)
* بزرخانه (bezirhâne, “linseed oil press”)
* بزركر (bezrger, “farmer”)
* قاینامش بزر (kaynamış bezir, “decoction of linseed”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: bezir
* → Armenian: պէզիր (pēzir)

### Further reading

* Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “بزر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 299
* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bezir”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 579
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “بزر”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 117a
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بزر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 264
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Semen”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 1535
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بزر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 807
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “bezir”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بزر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 362