آز
Ottoman Turkish
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Turkic *āŕ (“few, a little”).
Determiner
editآز • (az)
Antonyms
editDerived terms
editDescendants
edit- Turkish: az
Further reading
edit- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 77
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 15
Persian
editPronunciation
edit- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [ˈɑːz]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [ˈɒːz]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [ˈɔz]
Readings | |
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Classical reading? | āz |
Dari reading? | āz |
Iranian reading? | âz |
Tajik reading? | oz |
Noun
editDari | آز |
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Iranian Persian | |
Tajik | оз |
آز • (âz)
- greed, avidity, covetousness
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 3484:
- لیک صیقل کردهاند آن سینهها
پاک از آز و حرص و بخل و کینهها- lêk sayqal karda-and ân sina-hâ
pâk az âz u hirs u buxl u kina-hâ - But they have burnished their breasts
(and made them) pure from greed and cupidity and avarice and hatreds.
- lêk sayqal karda-and ân sina-hâ
References
editHayyim, Sulayman (1934) “آز”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim