Rhazes

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A Persian polymath and physician of the eighth and ninth centuries; Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakariyyā al-Rāzī.

Etymology

From Latin Rhazes, from Arabic اَلرَّازِي (ar-rāzī), from Persian رازی (râzi), a surname meaning from Ray.

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