yoz

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish یوز (yoz), from Old Anatolian Turkish یوز (yoz), from Proto-Turkic *yōd-. Nişanyan speculates a relation with yavuz, however, this is unfounded.

• IPA^(key): /ˈjoz/

yoz

1. (of soil) unsown, unplanted

   Synonym: çorak

2. crass, rude, coarse, obscene, vulgar

   Synonyms: kaba, bayağı

3. degenerate

   Synonyms: yozlaşmış, dejenere, soysuz

4. (dialectal) sterile, fruitless

   Synonym: kısır

• “yoz”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010) “yoz”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yoz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Eren, Hasan (1999) “yoz”, in Türk Dilinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü [Etymological Dictionary of the Turkish Language]‎^[1] (in Turkish), Ankara: Bizim Büro Basım Evi
• “yoz”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963–1982

Inherited from Chagatai یاز (/⁠yāz⁠/, “summer”), from Proto-Common Turkic *yāz (“summer; spring”), from Proto-Turkic *yāŕ (“summer; spring”). Cognate with Uyghur ياز / yaz / яз (“summer”); Turkmen ýāz (“spring”), Azerbaijani یاز / јаз / yaz (“spring”), Turkish yaz (“summer”)

• (Uzbekistani standard) IPA^(key): /jɒz/, [jɒ̽z]
• (Oghuz dialect of Khorazm) IPA^(key): /jɑːz/
• Hyphenation: yoz

yoz (plural yozlar)

1. summer