English
Mizar
Mizar comes from Arabic مِئْزَر ‘loincloth, overall, apron’, and goes back to إِزَار ‘an item of menswear made up of a piece of…’.
- Arabicc. 500–presentإِزَار‘an item of menswear made up of a piece of cloth that is wrapped around the lower body’
- Arabic, derivedc. 500–presentمِئْزَر‘loincloth, overall, apron’
- EnglishtodayMizar
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Arabicc. 500–presentإِزَار‘an item of menswear made up of a piece of cloth that is wrapped around the lower body’
- Arabic, derivedc. 500–presentمِئْزَر‘loincloth, overall, apron’
- EnglishtodayMizar
Every English word from Arabic إِزَار
Today it means
name A binary star in the constellation Ursa Major; Zeta (ζ) Ursae Majoris.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Arabic إِزَار / Mizar