محار

Meaning

1. (collective) oyster
2. (collective) mother-of-pearl, nacre

Concepts

oyster

🦪

oysters

mother-of-pearl

maze

puzzle

shellfish

Oyster

Translations

huître

🦪

Auster

🦪

ostra

🦪

στρείδι

ostra

🦪

ostrica

🦪

ostra

🦪

oester

🦪

stiridye

huitre

sot-l’y-laisse

ostriche

Pfaffenschnittchen

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ma.ħaːr/

Etymology

From the root ح و ر (ḥ w r), or perhaps from a lost Aramaic term from the cognate root related to “whiteness”, as حَوَر (ḥawar, “poplar”).