Old Hindi edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Classical Persian عزیز ('azīz), from Arabic عَزِيز (ʕazīz).

Noun edit

आजीज (ājīja)

  1. beloved, friend, relative

Descendants edit

  • Hindustani: azīz
    Hindi: अज़ीज़
    Urdu: عَزِیز ('azīz)

Further reading edit

  • Jaroslav Strnad (2013) Morphology and Syntax of Old Hindī : Edition and Analysis of One Hundred Kabīr Vānī Poems From Rājasthān (Brill's Indological Library; 45), Leiden, →OCLC, page 517