مزه
Ottoman Turkish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Persian مزه (maze).
Noun edit
مزه • (meze)
- pleasant taste, flavour, smack or relish
- any good-flavoured thing eaten to increase the appetite
- (figuratively) pleasantry, jocose saying or remark
Descendants edit
- Turkish: meze
- → Arabic: مَزَّة (mazza)
- → Armenian: մեզե (meze), մա̈զա̈ (mäzä)
- → Albanian: meze
- → Aromanian: mize
- → Bulgarian: мезе́ (mezé)
- → Greek: μεζές (mezés)
- → English: meze
- → Macedonian: мезе (meze)
- → Romanian: meze
- → Serbo-Croatian: mèze / мѐзе
Further reading edit
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “meze1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3191
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مزه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1156
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Gustus”, 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[2], Vienna, column 677
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مزه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[3], Vienna, column 4602
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “meze”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مزه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1826
Persian edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Persian [script needed] (myck', m(y)ck' /mizag/, “taste”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [ma.za], [maz.za]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [mæ.ze], [mæz.ze]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [mä.zä], [mäz.zä]
Readings | |
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Classical reading? | maza, mazza |
Dari reading? | maza, mazza |
Iranian reading? | maza, mazze |
Tajik reading? | maza, mazza |
Noun edit
Dari | مزه |
---|---|
Iranian Persian | |
Tajik | маза, мазза |
مزه • (maze) (plural مزهها (maze-hâ))
- taste, flavour, smack, relish
- .مزهی این سیب ترش است
- maze-ye in sib torš ast.
- This apple tastes sour.
- (literally, “The flavor of this apple is sour”)
- joy, pleasure
- a snack; a morsel taken after drinking liquor.
Synonyms edit
Derived terms edit
- خوشمزه (xoš-maze)
- بدمزه (bad-maze)
- مزهدار (maze-dâr)
- بیمزه (bê-maze)
- بامزه (bâ-maze)
- مزه دادن (maze dâdan)
- مزه کردن (maze kardan)
- مزه دهن (maze-ye dahan)
Descendants edit
- → Assamese: মজা (moza)
- → Azerbaijani: məzə
- → Bengali: মজা (moja)
- → Gujarati: મજા (majā)
- → Hindustani:
- → Kazakh: маза (maza)
- → Marathi: मजा (majā)
- → Middle Armenian: մազայ (mazay)
- → Middle Georgian: მაზა (maza)
- → Ottoman Turkish: مزه (meze)
- → Punjabi: ਮਜਾ (majā)
References edit
- Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “مزه”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
- MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “mizag”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press