كزاز

Arabic

Root
ك ز ز (k-z-z)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ku.zaːz/ or IPA^(key): /kuz.zaːz/

Noun

كُزَاز or كُزَّاز • (kuzāz or kuzzāz) ?

1. tetanus

Descendants

• → Ottoman Turkish: كزاز (küzaz)
  • Turkish: küzaz
• → Persian: کزاز (kozâz)

References

Wehr, Hans (1979) “كزاز”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic كُزَاز (kuzāz, “tetanus”).

Noun

كزاز • (küzaz)

1. (pathology) tetanus, a disease caused by the infection of an open wound with the anaerobic bacterium Clostridium tetani

Derived terms

• كزازی (küzazı, “tetanic”)

Descendants

• Turkish: küzaz

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “küzaz”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2915
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “küzâz”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 642
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كزاز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1024
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Rigor”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 1486
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كزاز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3939
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كزاز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1544