كز

See also: کژ, کر, گر, کز, and گز

Chagatai

Etymology

Compare Tofa кес (“arrow notch”), Tuvan кес (kes, “arrow notch”)

Noun

كز (kez)

1. arrow, or a particular slim type thereof

Ottoman Turkish

گزلر

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *keŕ (“nock, notch of an arrow”); cognate with Azerbaijani gəz, Bashkir: гиз (giz), Kazakh кез (kez), Tatar [script needed] (kirtü) and Tuvan кес (kes).

Noun

گز • (gez)

1. nock, the notch at the rearmost end of an arrow that fits on the bowstring

   Synonym: سوفار (sufar)

2. plummet, plumb line, a cord with a weight attached, used to produce a vertical line

   Synonyms: اسقندیل (iskandil), سونده (sonda), شاقول (şakul), مطمار (mıtmar)

Derived terms

• گز اورمق (gez urmak, “to put the plummet to”)
• گزلتمك (gezletmek, “to make or let be notched”)
• گزلمك (gezlemek, “to notch an arrow”)
• گزلو (gezli, “notched, provided with nocks”)

Related terms

• كرتمك (kertmek, “to notch”)

Descendants

• Gagauz: keez
• Turkish: gez

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “gez2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1697
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1024
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “gez”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1543

Etymology 2

Of Proto-Turkic origin. Cognate with Chagatai گز (gez) and Kazakh кез (kez).

Noun

گز • (gez)

1. time, an instance or repetition of something happening

   Synonyms: دفعه (defʾa), كره (kerre)

Derived terms

• بوگز (bugez, “this time”)
• هرگز (hergez, “always”)

Descendants

• Turkish: kez

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kez1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2587
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “كز”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[3], Vienna: F. Beck, page 389a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[4], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1024
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Vicis”, 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^[5], Vienna, column 1753
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[6], Vienna, column 3938
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “gez”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[7], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1543

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Italian ghis, itself from Dutch giek.

Alternative forms

• گیز (giz)

Noun

گز • (giz)

1. a main boom, a diagonal beam on which a sail is attached, gaff

   Synonym: پیك (pik)

Descendants

• Turkish: giz

Etymology 4

From Persian گز (gaz).

Noun

گز • (gez)

1. tamarisk (Tamarix spp.)

   Synonyms: آج (ac), ایلغین (ılğın)

2. manna ash (Fraxinus ornus)

Descendants

• Turkish: gez
• → Crimean Tatar: gez

References

• Kahane, Henry R., Kahane, Renée, Tietze, Andreas (1958) The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois, page 250 Nr. 329
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[8], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1024a
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[9], Vienna, columns 3938–3939