آغاز

See also: آغار and أعار

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian (âġâz).

Noun

آغاز • (agaz, ağaz)

start, beginning
Synonyms: باشلانغج (başlangıc), باشلامه (başlama), ابتدا (ibtidaʼ, iptidaʼ), مقدمه (mukaddime, mukaddeme), افتتاح (iftitah)

Persian

Etymology

From Sogdian [script needed] (ʾʾγʾz /⁠āγāz⁠/), from Proto-Iranian *ā- (“ad-”) + *gaHz- (“to run, start”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ed- (“at”) + *g⁽ʷʰ⁾eh₂ģʰ- (“to wade”). Cognate with Sanskrit गाह् (gāh, “to dive into, wade”), Slovene gáziti (“to wade”).^[1]^[2]

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ʔaː.ˈɣaːz/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɑː.ˈɣɑːz]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔɑː.ˈɣɑːz]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔɔː.ˈɣɔːz]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɒː.ˈɢɒːz]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɔ.ˈʁɔz]

Readings
Classical reading^?	āġāz
Dari reading^?	āġāz
Iranian reading^?	âġâz
Tajik reading^?	oġoz

Noun


Iranian Persian	آغاز
Dari	آغاز
Tajik	оғоз

آغاز • (âġâz) (plural آغاز‌ها (âġâz-hâ))^[3]

beginning, start
Synonyms: شروع (šoru'), ابتدا (ebtedâ)

Antonyms: انتها (entehâ), پایان (pâyân)
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 2319:
  شکر دانستیم آغاز ترا
  انبیا گفتند آن راز ترا
  šukr dānistēm āġāz-i turā
  anbiyā guftand ān rāz-i turā
  Thanks [to God], we have come to know thy beginning: the prophets have told that secret of thine.
- 1599, Bahman-i Kay Kubād, قصه سنجان [Qissa-i Sanjan]:
  آغاز داستان بهدینان فارس که از ولایت ایران به هندوستان آمده‌اند
  āġāz-i dāstān-i bihdīnān-i fārs ki az vilāyat-i ērān ba hindustān āmada-and
  The beginning of the story of the People of Good Faith [Zoroastrians] of Fars, who came to Hindustan from the land of Iran

Derived terms

آغاز شدن (âġâz šodan)
آغاز کردن (âġâz kardan)
آغازه (âġâze)
آغازیدن (âġâzîdan)

Descendants

→ Bengali: আগাজ (agaz)
→ Gujarati: આગાઝ (āgājh), આઘાઝ (āghājh)
→ Hindustani:
Hindi: आग़ाज़ (āġāz)

Urdu: آغاز (āġāz)
→ Punjabi:
Gurmukhi script: ਆਗਾਜ਼ (āgāz)

Shahmukhi script: آغاز (āġāz)
→ Ottoman Turkish: آغاز (agaz, ağaz)

References

^ Rastorgujeva, V. S., Edelʹman, D. I. (2007) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 3, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 261
^ Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 96
^ Henning, W. B. (1939) “Sogdian Loan-Words in New Persian”, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies‎^[1], volume 10, number 1, page 98

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian (āġāz).

Pronunciation

(Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɑː.ɣɑːz/

Noun

آغاز • (āġāz) m (Hindi spelling आग़ाज़)

start
beginning
commencement
Synonyms: اِبْتِدا (ibtidā), شُرُوع (śurū'), آرَمْبھ (ārambh)

[1] Rastorgujeva, V. S., Edelʹman, D. I. (2007) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 3, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 261

[2] Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 96

[3] Henning, W. B. (1939) “Sogdian Loan-Words in New Persian”, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies‎^[1], volume 10, number 1, page 98

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