برجار

Arabic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bir.d͡ʒaːr/

Noun

بِرْجار (birjār) m

  1. (hapax) obsolete form of بِرْكَار (birkār).
    • a. 1050, مروان بن جناح‎ [Marwān ibn Janāḥ], Gerrit Bos, Fabian Käs, editors, كتاب التلخيص [kitāb at-talḵīṣ] [On the Nomenclature of Medicinal Drugs], Leiden: Brill, published 2020, →DOI, →ISBN, 173 (fol. 17r,4–6), page 362:
      البركار بالراء هو الضابط عن أبي الفتوح، قرأتُ في إصلاح المنطق للدينوري: والبرجار يقال إنّه البركار.
      Birkār with r is pair of compasses after Abū al-Futūḥ, and I have read in the Improvement of Speech [a now lost work] of Ad-Dīnawarī that birjār is birkār.

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