بیضه
See also: بيضة
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic بَيْضَة (bayḍa).
Noun
بیضه • (beyza) (plural بیضات (beyzat))
- egg, an organic vessel grown by birds, reptiles, insects, and other animals
- testicle, the male sex and endocrine gland, found in some types of animals
- kind of helmet made of iron, used to protect the head during a fight or battle
- (by extension) headache, cephalalgia, a pain or ache in the head
- Synonym: باش آغریسی (baş ağrısı)
- (figuratively) the midst, heart, or body of a people or country, like a metropolis
Derived terms
- بیضهباز (beyzabaz, “one who plays at eggbreaking”)
Descendants
- Turkish: beyza, beyze, beyzi
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “beyzi”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 576
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “beyze”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 122
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بیضه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 301
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Ovum”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum[3], Vienna, column 1230
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بیضه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 996
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “beyzi”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بیضه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 421
Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic بَيْضَة (bayḍa).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): /baj.ˈza/
- (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [bäj.zä]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [bej.ze]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [bäj.zä]
Readings | |
---|---|
Classical reading? | bayza |
Dari reading? | bayza |
Iranian reading? | beyze |
Tajik reading? | bayza |
Noun
بیضه • (beyze) (plural بیضهها)