مازو

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• مازی (mazı)

Etymology

From Persian مازو (mâzu).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɑˈzu/, /mɑˈzɯ/

Noun

مازو • (mazu, mazı)

1. gall nut, oak apple, oak gall, gall apple, Aleppo gall
2. (usually مازو میشه‌سی (mazı meşesi) or مازو آغاجی (mazı ağacı)) gall oak, Aleppo oak (Quercus infectoria)
3. arbor vitae, thuja (Thuja spp.)

Derived terms

• مازی طوزی (mazı tozu, “gallic acid; tannic acid”)

Descendants

• Turkish: mazı
• → Armenian: մազի (mazi)

References

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مازو”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[1], Vienna, column 4237
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مازو”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1656

Persian

Alternative forms

• مازوج (mâzuj), ماز (mâz), ماجو (mâju)

Etymology

Akin to Central Kurdish مازوو (mazû), Northern Kurdish mazî, Southern Kurdish مازێ (mazê), and Gurani مازوو (mâzû), and Chinese 沒食子／没食子 (mòshízǐ), a Middle Iranian borrowing, all meaning the oak apple.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [mɑː.ˈzuː]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mɑː.zúː]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mɑː.zúː]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [mɑː.zúː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [mɔː.zú]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [mɒː.zúː]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [mɔ.zú]

Readings
Classical reading?	māzū
Dari reading?	māzū
Iranian reading?	mâzu
Tajik reading?	mozu

Noun

مازو • (mâzu)

1. gall nut, oak apple, oak gall, gall apple, Aleppo gall
2. (usually دار مازو (dâr mâzu)) gall oak, Aleppo oak (Quercus infectoria)

Derived terms

• مازریون (mâzaryun, “mezereon”)

Descendants

• → Hindi: माजूफल (mājūphal)
• → Urdu: ماجو (mājū), مازو (māzū), ماجوپهل (mājūphal)
• → Ottoman Turkish: مازو (mazu, mazı), مازی (mazı)
  • Turkish: mazı
  • → Armenian: մազի (mazi)

References

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “مازو”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul, page 1140