ترکتاز
Persian
editEtymology
editترک (tork, “Turk”) + تاز (tâz, present stem of تاختن (tâxtan, “to gallop, to assault, to raid”)): "Turkish raid."
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [tuɾk.ˈtɑːz]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [t̪ʰoɹkʲ.t̪ʰɒ́ːz]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [t̪ʰuɾk.t̪ʰɔ́z]
Readings | |
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Classical reading? | turktāz |
Dari reading? | turktāz |
Iranian reading? | torktâz |
Tajik reading? | turktoz |
Noun
editترکتاز • (torktâz)
- plundering expedition, chevauchee
- c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 78:
- جایی که ترکتاز ستم آرد از عتاب
آنجا بگرد ظلم رود صد هزار عدل- jāyē ki turktāz-i sitam ārad az itāb
ānjā ba-gird-i zulm rawad sad hazār adl - At the place where she brings forth a chevauchee of oppression from her rebukes,
Justice goes around tyranny there a hundred thousand-fold.
- jāyē ki turktāz-i sitam ārad az itāb
Further reading
edit- Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “ترکتاز”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim