bezoar
Portuguese, noun/be.zoˈa(ʁ)/
bezoar is spelled B-E-Z-O-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 46 million words in written Portuguese, the 191,310th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bezoar is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “bezoar (mass of undigested matter)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “concreção que se forma nos intestinos e que era considerada um poderoso antídoto até o fim da idade média”.
What does bezoar mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebezoar (mass of undigested matter)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. concreção que se forma nos intestinos e que era considerada um poderoso antídoto até o fim da idade média 2. pedra preciosa própria para fazer magia, encontrada nos intestinos de alguns animais
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of bezoar
- bezoares plural
- benzoar alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bezoar?
- Brazil /be.zoˈa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [be.zoˈa(h)]
- /be.zoˈa(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to bezoar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bezoar in Portuguese?
bezoar appears about once in every 46 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).