نشخوار

Persian

Alternative forms

نشخور‎ (nešxūr)
نشخار‎ (nešxār)

Etymology

Akin to Old Armenian նշխար (nšxar), an Iranian borrowing.

Noun

نشخوار • (nešxâr, nešxvār, nošxâr)

chewing the cud, rumination
cud
remnants of animal fodder

References

Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “نشخوار”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul

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