A noun meaning “gold”, the only Adûnaic word defined in The Lord of the Rings (LotR/1114).
Conceptual Development: This noun also appears in “Lowdham’s Report on the Adunaic Language” from the 1940s (SD/426).
Adûnaic
pharaz
noun. sea
Changes
pharaz→ azar “sea” ✧ SD/305Element in
- Ad.
Pharazîr“Sea-lover” ✧ SD/305 (Pharazîr*)Variations
pharaz✧ SD/305 (pharaz)
pharaz
noun. gold
Element in
- Ad. Pharazôn “Golden” ✧ LotR/1114
azra
noun. sea
The Adûnaic word for “sea” (SD/429), appearing as azar in some early texts (SD/305). It is fully declined on SD/431.
Element in
- Ad. azra-zâin “sea-lands, maritime regions” ✧ SD/429; SD/435
- Ad. azrîya du-phursâ akhâsada “that [the] seas should gush into [the] chasm” ✧ SD/247
- Ad. azrē nai {phurusam >>} phurrusim akhās-ada “seas might-flow Chasm-into” ✧ SD/311
- Ad. Azrubêl “Sea-lover, Friend of the Sea” ✧ PM/373; SD/305; SD/429
Variations
- azar ✧ PM/373; SD/305
A draft word for “sea”, deleted and replaced with azar (SD/305), which later become azra. This word reappeared later with a different meaning: pharaz “gold”.