آز

Old Anatolian Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *āŕ.

Adjective

آزْ • (az, āz)

  1. low in number, few, little, short.

Descendants

  • Azerbaijani: az
  • Gagauz: az, aaz
  • Ottoman Turkish: آز (az)
    • Turkish: az

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish آزْ (az, āz), from Proto-Turkic *āŕ (few, a little).

Determiner

آز • (az)

  1. few, a little
  2. insignificant, paltry, of little account
  3. seldom

Antonyms

Derived terms

  • آزاجق (azacık)
  • آزالمق (azalmak)
  • آزجه (azca)
  • آزلق (azlık)
  • آزمسامق (azımsamak)

Descendants

  • Turkish: az

Further reading

Persian

Etymology

Possibly from a Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- (greed, competition), and compared with Proto-Germanic *akaną (to ache).[1]

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? āz
Dari reading? āz
Iranian reading? âz
Tajik reading? oz

Noun

Dari آز
Iranian Persian
Tajik оз

آز • (âz)

  1. greed, avidity, covetousness

References

  1. ^ 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