bedústar
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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