جنازه

See also: جنازة

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed either directly from Arabic جَنَازَة (janāza, funeral; bier) or through Persian جنازه (janâze, jenâze), both ultimately from a Ge'ez word related to Ge'ez ገነዘ (gänäzä, to wrap, to prepare a body for funeral).

Noun

جنازه • (cenâze or cinâze) (definite accusative جنازه‌یی (cenâzeyi), plural جنائز (cenâʼiz) or جنازه‌لر (cenâzeler))

  1. funeral, a ceremony to honor and remember a deceased person, with the attendant observances
  2. bier, a litter, stand, or frame on which a corpse is placed to lie in state or to be carried to the grave
  3. (by extension) corpse, cadaver, a dead body, especially that of a human as opposed to an animal
    Synonyms: جثه (cüsse), میت (meyt), نعش (naʼaş)

Derived terms

  • جانلو جنازه (canlı cenâze, skin and bones, literally alive corpse)
  • جنازه آلایی (cenâze alayı, funeral procession)

Descendants

  • Turkish: cenaze
  • Albanian: xhenaze
  • Crimean Tatar: cenaze
  • Macedonian: џеназа (dženaza)
  • Serbo-Croatian: dženáza / џена́за
  • Ubykh: џанаса (dẑanasa)

Further reading

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic جَنَازَة (janāza).

Pronunciation

 
  • (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [d͡ʒæ.nɒː.ze], [d͡ʒe.nɒː.ze]

Readings
Classical reading? janāza
Dari reading? janāza
Iranian reading? janâza, jenâze
Tajik reading? janoza

Noun

Dari جنازه
Iranian Persian
Tajik ҷаноза

جنازه • (janâze, jenâze)

  1. funeral
    • c. 1599, Bahāʾ al‐Dīn ʿĀmilī, “Section 4, Part 1”, in کشکول[6]:
      گدایی همی‌رفت و کودکش در پیش روان بود. کودک صدای زنی بشنید که در پی جنازه‌ای همی‌گفت: ای مرد، تو را به جایی برند که نه در آن عطایی بود نه فراشی، نه چاشتی و نه شامی. کودک گفت: پدر، جنازه را به خانه‌ی ما همی‌برند.
      gedâyi hamiraft o kudakaš dar piš ravân bud. kudak sedâ-ye zani bešenid ke dar pey-e jenâze‌'i hamigoft: ey mard, to râ be jayi barand ke na dar ân atâyi bovad na farrâši, na čâšti o na šâmi. kudak goft: pedar, jenâze râ be xâne-ye mâ hamibarand.
      A beggar was walking with his child in front of him. The child overheard a woman following a funeral procession say: "O' man, they are bringing you to a place where there are neither gifts nor servants, neither lunch nor dinner." The child said: "Father, they are bringing the corpse to our house."
  2. bier, with a corpse on it
  3. corpse (dead body)

Descendants