Bezoar in Hindi
Meaning, Devanagari spelling and pronunciation
The meaning of “bezoar” in Hindi is विष नाशक, pronounced patthari (peT, yakaRat, gurde athava mutrashay men) — it is a noun. Copy the Devanagari word above, hear how it is pronounced, and use it anywhere. To type words like this yourself, try our Hindi typing tool, or explore more words in the vocabulary sets.
A mass, usually of hair or undigested vegetable matter, found in a human or animal's intestines, similar to a hairball.
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.
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