kaz

kaz

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Kazakh.

kaz

1. instrumental indefinite of ka
2. instrumental singular of ka

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːs/

kaz m (plural kizier)

1. alternative spelling of kazh

   cat, tomcat

g=m

• kazez

• IPA^(key): [ˈkas]
• Rhymes: -as
• Homophone: kas

Deverbal from kazit.

kaz m inan

1. flaw
2. (dentistry) caries

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

kaz

1. second-person singular imperative of kazit

• “kaz”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “kaz”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “kaz”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

From French case (“hut”). Compare Mauritian Creole lakaz, Saint Dominican Creole French caze.

kaz

1. a house

From French case (“hut”).

• IPA^(key): /kaz/

kaz

1. hut

From Proto-Turkic *kāŕ. Cognate to Crimean Tatar qaz, Karachay-Balkar къаз (qaz), Kumyk къаз (qaz), etc.

kaz

1. goose

• N. A. Baskakov, S.M. Šapšala, editor (1973), “kaz”, in Karaimsko-Russko-Polʹskij Slovarʹ [Karaim-Russian-Polish Dictionary], Moscow: Moskva, →ISBN

From kaj +‎ -ż.

• (Lesser Poland):
  • (Kielce) IPA^(key): /ˈkas/
  • (Western Lublin) IPA^(key): [ˈkas]
  • (Eastern Lublin) IPA^(key): [ˈkas]

kaz (not comparable)

1. (Kielce, Western Lublin, Eastern Lublin, Lublin Voivodeship, emphatic) synonym of kaj (“where”)

   Kaześ mi podziała? (Kielce) ― Where have you gone off to on me?

• Zygmunt Wasilewski (1895) “kaz”, in “Słowniczek wyrazów ludowych we wsi Jaksicach”, in Prace Filologiczne (in Polish), volume 5, Warsaw: skł. gł. w Księgarni E. Wende i Ska, page 92
• Hieronim Łopaciński (1892) “kaz”, in “Przyczynki do nowego słownika języka polskiego (słownik wyrazów ludowych z Lubelskiego i innych okolic Królestwa Polskiego”, in Prace Filologiczne (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw: skł. gł. w Księgarni E. Wende i Ska, page 205

• IPA^(key): [ˈkʰɑz̟]
• Rhymes: -ɑz

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From Ottoman Turkish قاز (kaz, “goose”), from Proto-Turkic *kāŕ (“goose”).

kaz (definite accusative kazı, plural kazlar)

1. (ornithology) goose

• kaz kafalı

From Ottoman Turkish قز (kazz, kaz, “silk, raw silk”), from Arabic قَزّ (qazz, “silk; silkware”).

kaz (definite accusative kazı, plural kazlar)

1. silk, but especially raw silk

kaz

1. second-person singular imperative of kazmak

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kaz”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2504

• IPA^(key): [kʰàz]

-kaz (inalienable)

1. corn stalk, mescal stalk

   bikaz ― its stalk