bezar
See also: bezár
Ladino
Etymology
From Old Spanish, from Latin bāsiāre.
Verb
bezar
- to kiss
- 1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development (overall work in English), page 377:
- Pur la tu puer-ta yo pa-si la tu-pi in-se-ra-da, la ya vi-du-ra yo bi-zi cu-mo bi-zar tus ca-ras
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Related terms
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /beˈθaɾ/ [beˈθaɾ] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
- IPA(key): /beˈsaɾ/ [beˈsaɾ] (Latin America, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: be‧zar
Noun
bezar m (plural bezares)
- alternative form of bezaar
- 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 312:
- La piedra bezar es un remedio excelente para la melancolía y las afecciones intestinales.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading
- “bezaar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025