Arabic

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Root
ج و ز (j w z)
15 terms

    Etymology 1

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    Compare جَوَّزَ (jawwaza, to allow), جَازَ (jāza, to pass).

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    جَوَاز (jawāzm (plural جَوَازَات (jawāzāt) or أَجْوِزَة (ʔajwiza))

    1. verbal noun of جَازَ (jāza) (form I)
    2. lawfulness
    3. allowableness
    4. passage
    5. transit
    6. passport
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    Etymology 2

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    جِوَاز (jiwāzm

    1. verbal noun of جَاوَزَ (jāwaza) (form III)
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    Egyptian Arabic

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    Etymology

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    From Arabic زَوَاج (zawāj), with metathesis.

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    جواز (gawāzm (plural جوازات (gawazāt))

    1. marriage
    2. wedding
      Synonym: عرس (ʕurs)
      • 2009, w:Ghada Abdel Aal, chapter 1, in عايزة أتجوز[2], دار الشروق.:
        خلينا نتفق الأول ان موضوع الجواز و العرسان و تأخر الجواز ده موضوع حساس جدا.
        Let's first agree that the topic of wedding, grooms and wedding delays is a very sensitive one.

    Hijazi Arabic

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    Etymology 1

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    Learned borrowing from Arabic جَوَاز (jawāz).

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    جواز (jawāzm (plural جوازات (jawāzāt))

    1. passport
      Synonym: جَوَاز سَفَر (jawāz safar)

    Etymology 2

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    From Arabic زَوَاج (zawāj), with metathesis.

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    جواز (jawāzm (plural جوازات (jawāzāt))

    1. (uncommon) marriage
    2. (uncommon) wedding
      Synonym: زواج (zawāj)

    Urdu

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    Etymology

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    Borrowed from Classical Persian جَوَاز (jawāz), from Arabic جَوَاز (jawāz).

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    جَوَاز (javāzm (Hindi spelling जवाज़)

    1. justification (ie. lawfulness)
      • 1995, حسرت کاسگنجوی [Ḥasrat Kāsganjvī], شگوفے: انشائيے, →OCLC, page 144:
        اور جو بات نہیں ماننی ہوتی اس کے لیے کوئی جواز پیش کر دیتے ہیں دراصل یہ جواز جھوٹ پر مبنی ہوتا ہے۔
        aur jo bāt nahī̃ mānnī hotī us ke lie koī javāz peś kar dete ha͠i dar asl ye javāz jhūṭ par mabnī hotā hai.
        And he gives a justification for whatever he does not wish to accept, but in actual fact that justification is based on lies.

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    Declension of جواز
    singular plural
    direct جَوَاز (javāz) جَوَاز (javāz)
    oblique جَوَاز (javāz) جَوَازوں (javāzõ)
    vocative جَوَاز (javāz) جَوَازو (javāzo)

    Further reading

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    • جواز”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
    • جواز”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
    • Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “جواز”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]