bizz- {} biʒʒ-: 'teat, breast'

Root

Language	Form	Sources	Note
Arabic	bizz-, buzz- 'nipple, tip of the breast; breast, nipple' [Dozy 1 80]. Cf. bazaⁿ 'an infirmity consisting in the chest being prominent and presenting a hump, while the back is sunken in, or else in the belly being too prominent and the chest sunken in, or else in the lower back and buttocks being too prominent' [BK 1 123]	Dozy 1 80; BK 1 123
Ugaritic	bz [DULAT 251]	DULAT 251	gloss withheld
Modern Arabic	bizz- 'breast, bosom' [BK 1 120]	BK 1 120
Judaic Aramaic	bizzā (also biztā) [Ja 159]; bz (det. byzh) [DJPA 89a apud CAL]	Ja 159; DJPA 89a; CAL	gloss withheld
Syrian Aramaic	bezzā 'breast, nipple' [Brock 64]; bezzōnā 'small nipple' [ibid.]	Brock 64
Aramaic	OFF bz [HJ 149]	HJ 149	gloss withheld

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Updated 22 October 2026