درزی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Persian (darzi).

Noun

درزی • (derzi)

alternative form of ترزی (terzi)

Etymology 2

From Arabic دَرْزِيّ (darziyy), from the same Persian word as the previous sense.

Noun

درزی • (Dürzi)

Druze

Descendants

Turkish: Dürzi

References

Kélékian, Diran (1911) “درزی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 569

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (dlcyk' /⁠darzīg⁠/, “tailor”). Ultimately from Proto-Iranian *darz- (“to attach, fasten; to load; to sew”). Cognate with Talysh (dešten, “to sew”) (present stem: (derz)) (in Shaft).

Also from Iranian: Old Armenian դերձակ (derjak), post-classical դերձիկ (derjik), դերզիկ (derzik), Classical Syriac ܕܪܙܝܩܐ (darzīqā).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /daɾ.ˈziː/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪äɾ.ziː]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [d̪äɾ.ziː]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [d̪äɾ.zi]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪æɹ.ziː]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪äɾ.zi]

Readings
Classical reading^?	darzī
Dari reading^?	darzī
Iranian reading^?	darzi
Tajik reading^?	darzi

Noun


Iranian Persian	درزی
Dari	درزی
Tajik	дарзӣ

درزی • (darzi) (plural درزی‌ها)

tailor, seamster
Synonyms: درزیگر (darzigar), خیاط (xayyât)

Derived terms

درزیگر (darzigar)
درزیگری (darzigari)

Descendants

→ Arabic: دَرْزِيّ (darziyy)
→ Armenian: դարզի (darzi)
→ Azerbaijani: dərzi / درزی
→ Bengali: দর্জি (dorji)
→ Hindustani:
Hindi: दर्ज़ी (darzī)

Urdu: درزی (darzī)
→ Pashto: درزي (darzi)
→ Punjabi:
Gurmukhi script: ਦਰਜ਼ੀ (darzī), ਦਰਜੀ (darjī)

Shahmukhi script: درزی (darzī)
→ Ottoman Turkish: ترزی (terzi), درزی (derzi)
- Turkish: terzi
- → Albanian: terzi
- → Arabic: تَرْزِيّ (tarziyy)
- → Armenian: թարզի (tʻarzi), թերզի (tʻerzi)
- → Bulgarian: терзи́я (terzíja)
- → Georgian: თერძი (terʒi)
- → Macedonian: терзија (terzija)
- → Romanian: terziu
- → Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: терзија
  Latin script: terzija

References

Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “درزی+darzī”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
ʿAmīd, Ḥasan (1985) “درزی”, in Farhang-e Fārsī-e ʿAmīd (in Persian), Tehrān: Amīrkabīr
Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “դերձակ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, pages 656–657
Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 62ff

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian (darzī).

Pronunciation

(Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d̪əɾ.ziː/
Rhymes: -iː
Hyphenation: دَر‧زی

Noun

دَرْزی • (darzī) f (Hindi spelling दर्ज़ी)

tailor; seamster

Declension

Declension of **درزی**
	singular	plural
direct	درزی (darzī)	درزِیاں (darziyā̃)
oblique	درزی (darzī)	درزِیوں (darziyō̃)
vocative	درزی (darzī)	درزِیو (darziyō)

References

“درزی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
“درزی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.