آز
Old Anatolian Turkish
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *āŕ.
Adjective
آزْ • (az, āz)
Descendants
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish آزْ (az, āz), from Proto-Turkic *āŕ (“few, a little”).
Determiner
آز • (az)
Antonyms
Derived terms
- آزاجق (azacık)
- آزالمق (azalmak)
- آزجه (azca)
- آزلق (azlık)
- آزمسامق (azımsamak)
Descendants
- Turkish: az
Further reading
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 77
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[3] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 15
Persian
Etymology
Possibly from a Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- (“greed, competition”), and compared with Proto-Germanic *akaną (“to ache”).[1]
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): /ˈaːz/
- (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [ɑ́ːz]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [ɒ́ːz]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [ɔ́z]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | āz |
| Dari reading? | āz |
| Iranian reading? | âz |
| Tajik reading? | oz |
Noun
| Dari | آز |
|---|---|
| Iranian Persian | |
| Tajik | оз |
آز • (âz)
- greed, avidity, covetousness
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 3484:
- لیک صیقل کردهاند آن سینهها
پاک از آز و حرص و بخل و کینهها- lêk sayqal karda-and ân sina-hâ
pâk az âz u hirs u buxl u kina-hâ - But they have burnished their breasts
(and made them) pure from greed and cupidity and avarice and hatreds.
- lêk sayqal karda-and ân sina-hâ
References
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*akan- 2”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 18
Further reading
- Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “آز”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim