Azara

== Translingual == === Etymology === Borrowed from Spanish de Azara (surname of Nicolas de Azara), from Azara (a municipality in Huesca, Spain), borrowed from Arabic الصَّخْرَة (aṣ-ṣaḵra, “the rock”), definite inflection of صَخْرَة (ṣaḵra, “boulder, rock”), the singulative of صَخْر (ṣaḵr, “rock, stone”), from the root ص خ ر (ṣ ḵ r), which relates to rock or stone. Coined by Spanish botanist Hipólito Ruiz López and Spanish botanist José Antonio Pavón in 1794. === Proper noun === Azara f A taxonomic genus within the family Salicaceae – the azaras. ==== Descendants ==== Arabic: → عَظْر (ʕaẓr), → أَزَارَة (ʔazāra) → Egyptian Arabic: عَظْر → English: azara → Greek: αζάρα (azára) → Persian: آزارا (transliteration) === Further reading === Azara (plant) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Azara on Wikispecies.Wikispecies Category:Azara on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons == English == === Proper noun === Azara A surname.