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آغاز

See also: آغار and أعار

Ottoman Turkish edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Persian آغاز (âğâz).

Noun edit

آغاز • (agaz, ağaz)

  1. start, beginning
    Synonyms: باشلانغج (başlangıc), باشلامه (başlama), ابتدا (ibtidaʼ, iptidaʼ), مقدمه (mukaddime, mukaddeme), افتتاح (iftitah)

Persian edit

Etymology edit

From Sogdian [script needed] (ʾʾγʾz /⁠āγāz⁠/), from Proto-Iranian *ā- (“ad-”) + *gaHz- (“to run, start”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ed- (“at”) + *g⁽ʷʰ⁾eh₂ģʰ- (“to wade”). Cognate with Sanskrit गाह् (gāh, “to dive into, wade”), Slovene gáziti (“to wade”).[1][2]

Pronunciation edit

 

Readings
Classical reading? āğāz
Dari reading? āğāz
Iranian reading? âğâz
Tajik reading? oġoz

Noun edit

Dari آغاز
Iranian Persian
Tajik оғоз

آغاز • (âğâz) (plural آغاز‌ها (âğâz-hâ))[3]

  1. beginning, start
    Synonyms: شروع (šoru'), ابتدا (ebtedâ)
    Antonyms: انتها (entehâ), پایان (pâyân)
    • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 2319:
      شکر دانستیم آغاز ترا
      انبیا گفتند آن راز ترا
      šokr dâneštim âğâz-e to-râ
      anbiyâ goftand ân râz-e to-râ
      Thanks [to God], we have come to know thy beginning: the prophets have told that secret of thine.
    • 1599, Bahman Kaikobad, قصه سنجان [Qissa-i Sanjan]:
      آغاز داستان بهدینان فارس که از ولایت ایران به هندوستان آمده‌اند
      âğâz-e dâstân-e behdinân-e fârs ke az velâyat-e irân be hendustân âmade-and
      The beginning of the story of the People of Good Faith [Zoroastrians] of Fars, who came to Hindustan from the land of Iran

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References edit

  1. ^ Rastorgujeva, V. S., Edelʹman, D. I. (2007) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 3, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 261
  2. ^ Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 96
  3. ^ Henning, W. B. (1939) “Sogdian Loan-Words in New Persian”, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies‎[1], volume 10, number 1, page 98

Urdu edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Persian آغاز.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

آغاز • (āġāz) m (Hindi spelling आग़ाज़)

  1. start
  2. beginning
  3. commencement
    Synonyms: اِبْتِدا (ibtidā), شُرُوع (śurū'), آرَمْبھ (ārambh)
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