عزیز

Borrowed from Arabic عَزِيز (ʕazīz, “powerful, mighty; holy”).

عزیز • (ʼazîz)

1. glorious, great, exhibiting attributes, qualities, or acts that are worthy of or receive glory and admiration

   Synonym: شانلی (şanlı)

2. precious, dear, valuable, worthy, regarded with love or tenderness, deserving admiration and honour

   Synonym: دكرلو (değerli)

3. holy, sacred, godly, characterized by solemn religious ceremony or dedicated to a religious purpose

   Synonyms: شریف (şerif), مبارك (mübârek), مقدس (mukaddes)

عزیز • (ʼazîz) (feminine عزیزه (ʼazîze), definite accusative عزیزی (ʼazîzi), plural عزاز (ʼizâz))

1. (Islam) saint, hallow, wali, a deceased person officially recognised as especially holy or godly by Muslims

   Synonyms: اولیا (evliya), ولی (veli)

• Turkish: aziz

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “aziz”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 405
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “azîz”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 73
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “عزیز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 846
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Sanctus”, 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 1507
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “عزیز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3260
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “aziz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “عزیز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1299

Borrowed from Arabic عَزِيز (ʕazīz).

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عزیز • ('aziz) (comparative عزیزتَر, superlative عزیزتَرین)

1. dear
2. worthy
3. valuable
4. precious
5. honored
6. beloved
7. excellent
8. rare
9. magnificent

عزیز • ('aziz) (plural عزیزان ('azizân))

1. dear one, darling
2. friend
3. saint

• عزیزم ('azizam)

عزیز • ('aziz)

1. a male given name, Aziz

• Judeo-Tat: ⱨəziz
• → Bengali: আজিজ (ajij)
• → Gujarati: અજીજ (ajīj), અઝીઝ (ajhījh)
• → Old Hindi: आजीज (ājīja)
  • → Hindustani:

    Hindi: अज़ीज़ (azīz)

    Urdu: عَزِیز ('azīz)

• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਅਜ਼ੀਜ਼ (azīz)

  Shahmukhi script: عَزیِز (ʻazīiz)

• → Sindhi:

  Arabic script: عَزِيزُ

  Devanagari script: अज़ीज़ु

Borrowed from Classical Persian عزیز ('azīz), from Arabic عَزِيز (ʕazīz).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ə.ziːz/
• Rhymes: -iːz

عَزِیز • (azīz) (Hindi spelling अज़ीज़)

1. dear, loved

   Synonym: پیارا (pyārā)

عَزِیز • (azīz) m (Hindi spelling अज़ीज़)

1. a loved one, dear one

عَزِیز • (azīz) m (Hindi spelling अज़ीज़)

1. a male given name, Aziz

• “عزیز”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “عزیز”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “عزيز”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “عزيز”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.