אבזקה

Hebrew

Alternative forms

• אַבְזָקָא (avzaká)

Pronunciation

• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /(ʔ)avzaˈka/

Noun

אַבְזָקָה • (avzaká) f (singular construct אַבְזָקַת־)

1. breaking, crumbling, corrosion
2. a foot disease in animals believed to arise from vermin in consequence of a stroke of lightning
3. moth-eaten condition of garments

See also

• בזק

References

• Jastrow, Marcus (1903) A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature, London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons