diz

• IPA^(key): /dɪz/
• Rhymes: -ɪz

Probably from dizen, dize (“to dress with flax for spinning”), equivalent to the first element of distaff.^[1][2]

diz (plural dizzes)

1. A tool, often a flat circle, with one or more holes for passing wool through to form roving of a specified thickness.
   • 2014, Beth Smith, The Spinner's Book of Fleece, page 118:

     A diz is a tool that helps you remove fiber from a comb and create a nice length of top that is a consistent thickness and ready to spin. Many dizzes have holes of varying sizes, so that you can choose the size most appropriate for the yarn you intend to spin: a large hole for bulky yarn, a smaller hole for finer yarn.

diz (third-person singular simple present dizzes, present participle dizzing, simple past and past participle dizzed)

1. To pass wool through a diz.

diz

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of de
2. third-person singular simple present indicative of dee

• Bill Griffiths, editor (2004), “diz”, in A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear: Northumbria University Press, →ISBN.
• Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
• “Diz”, in Palgrave’s Word List: Durham & Tyneside Dialect Group‎^[3], archived from the original on 5 September 2024, from F[rancis] M[ilnes] T[emple] Palgrave, A List of Words and Phrases in Everyday Use by the Natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham […] (Publications of the English Dialect Society; 74), London: Published for the English Dialect Society by Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1896, →OCLC.

From Proto-Turkic *tīŕ, *tǖŕ (“knee”). Cognate with Turkish diz (“knee”).

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diz (definite accusative dizi, plural dizlər)

1. knee

   diz çökmək (intransitive) ― to kneel

   diz çökdürmək (transitive) ― to cause to kneel

diz

1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of dizer:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• dić (Eastern Kata-viri, Kamviri)

From Proto-Nuristani *didzwā, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *diȷ́ʰwáH, from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s.

• IPA^(key): /ˈd̪iz/

diz f (Western Kata-viri)^[1]

1. tongue

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish دیز (diz, “knee”).

diz m (Hebrew spelling דיז)^[1]

1. (anatomy) knee (in humans, the joint or the region of the joint in the middle part of the leg between the thigh and the shank)

   Synonyms: djinoyo, rodiya

   • 2013 November 30, Jacobo Sefamí, Miriam Moscona, Por mi boka: Textos de la diáspora sefardí en ladino‎^[4], Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial México, →ISBN, page 216:

     I kero ke este djigante entre i kayga en diz delantre de mi dulse amante […]

     And I want this giant to enter and fall to his knees before my sweet lover.

Inherited from French dix (“ten”).

• IPA^(key): /diz/
• Rhymes: -iz

diz

1. ten

• Precedes vowel-initial words. See usage notes at dis.

diz

1. pile of trash and debris or driftwood accumulated in a stream by the whirling water

Related to Persian دزد (dozd).

diz m or f

1. thief

diz m

1. inflection of dit:
   1. oblique plural
   2. nominative singular

from Proto-Germanic *þitt

diz

1. nominative/accusative neuter singular of dese

diz

1. nominative/accusative neuter singular of dese

• Lander, Eric T. The History of the Reinforced Demonstrative in Nordic Regional Variation and Reconstruction, 65.

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -is, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -iʃ
• Hyphenation: diz

diz

1. inflection of dizer:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• dyiz

Borrowed from Iranian.

diz f (nominative plural dizǎ)

1. town, city
2. castle

• Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “diz”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 74
• Marcel Courthiade (2009) “i/e diz¹, -ǎ- ʒ. -ǎ, -ěn-”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 128

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish دیز (diz, “knee”), from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (diz, “knee”), from Proto-Turkic *tīŕ, *tǖŕ (“knee”).^[1] Compare Hungarian térd (“knee”), a Turkic borrowing. See also dirsek (“elbow”), a derivation from the same root.^[2]

diz (definite accusative dizi, plural dizler)

1. (anatomy) knee

• dirsek

diz

1. second-person singular imperative of dizmek