طوز

See also: طور

Ottoman Turkish

طوز

Alternative forms

• توز (tuz)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tūŕ (“salt”); cognate with Azerbaijani duz, Bashkir тоҙ (toź), Chuvash тӑвар (tăvar), Kazakh тұз (tūz), Kyrgyz туз (tuz), Turkmen duz, Tuvan дус (dus), Uzbek tuz and Yakut туус (tuus).

Noun

طوز • (tuz)

1. salt, a common substance chemically consisting of sodium chloride

   Synonyms: ملح (milh), نمك (nemek)

2. (chemistry) salt in the chemical sense, -ate, salt of an acid or the acid itself

Derived terms

• طوز روحی (tuz ruhu, “hydrochloric acid”)
• طوزجی (tuzcu, “seller of salt”)
• طوزلاق (tuzlak, “land impregnated with salt”)
• طوزلامه (tuzlama, “salted”)
• طوزلانمق (tuzlanmak, “to be salted”)
• طوزلق (tuzluk, “salt-box”)
• طوزله (tuzla, “saltern”)
• طوزلو (tuzlu, “salty”)
• قیا طوزی (kaya tuzu, “rock salt”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: tuz
• → Armenian: թուզ (tʻuz), տուզ (tuz)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tuz1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4929
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “طوز”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 317a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “طوز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 817a
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Sal”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1502
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “طوز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3144
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tuz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طوز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1255