مزد

See also: مرد

Egyptian Arabic

Noun

مزد • (mizd, mazd) m

  1. alternative form of مز (mizz, mazz)

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (mzd, myzd /⁠mizd⁠/),[1] from Old Persian, from Proto-Iranian *miždám, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *miždʰám, from Proto-Indo-European *misdʰós.[2] Cognate with Northern Kurdish mûçe, Talysh مژد (məžd), Ossetian мызд (myzd), Avestan 𐬨𐬍𐬲𐬛𐬀 (mīžda), and further with Ancient Greek μισθός (misthós), German Miete.

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? muzd
Dari reading? muzd
Iranian reading? mozd
Tajik reading? muzd

Noun

مزد • (muzd / mozd) (Tajik spelling музд)

  1. wage, pay
    • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 576:
      چیست مزد کار من دیدار یار
      گر چه خود بو بکر بخشد چل هزار
      čīst muzd-i kār-i man dīdār-i yār
      gar či xwad bū bakr baxšad čil hazār
      What are the wages for my work? The sight of the Friend (God),
      even though Abú Bakr give me forty thousand (dirhems).
      (Classical Persian Romanization)
  2. reward
  3. hire

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 56
  2. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “mizdhó-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 746
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