مغز
See also: معز
Ottoman Turkish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Persian مغز (mağz).
Noun edit
مغز • (mağz)
- brain, the organ which controls the central nervous system
- kernel, marrow, pith, core, essence of a thing
- (by extension) mind, sense, understanding, intellect
Further reading edit
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “mağz”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3010
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مغز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1199
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Cerebrum”, 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[2], Vienna, column 170
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مغز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[3], Vienna, column 4795
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مغز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1924
Persian edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (mzg /mazg/, “brain, marrow”), from Proto-Iranian *mazgáh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *mazgʰás, from Proto-Indo-European *mosgʰos. Cognate of English marrow.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [maɣz]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [mæɢz]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [mäʁz]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | mağz |
| Dari reading? | mağz |
| Iranian reading? | mağz |
| Tajik reading? | maġz |
Audio (Iran) (file)
Noun edit
| Dari | مغز |
|---|---|
| Iranian Persian | |
| Tajik | мағз |
مغز • (mağz) (plural مغزها (mağz-hâ))
Derived terms edit
- بیمغز (bê-mağz)
- فرار مغزها (farâr-e mağz-hâ)
- مغز پسته (mağz-e peste)
- مغزپستهای (mağz-e-peste-'i)
Descendants edit
- → Gujarati: મગજ (magaj)