Jazz

See also: jazz

English

Etymology

A fanciful spelling variant of Jaz and Jas.

Proper noun

Jazz

1. A diminutive of the male given name James.
   • 2001, Ian Rankin, Resurrection Men, Orion, page 4:

     His real name was James, but those who knew him seemed never to call him that. He was Jamesy, or more often Jazz.

2. A diminutive of the female given name Jasmine.
   • 2012? Madeleine Oh, At Long Last, in The Mammoth Book of Erotica: Volume 4, Constable and Robinson Ltd (2012), →ISBN:

     "He calls you Jazzikins." He would. He had. Couldn't call me Jazz or Jasmine the way everyone else did.

German

Etymology

Borrowed from English jazz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɛ(ː)s/, (dated, now mostly humorous) /jat͡s/

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• Rhymes: -ɛs, -ɛːs, -ats

Noun

Jazz m (strong, genitive Jazz, no plural)

1. jazz (musical art form)

Declension

Declension of Jazz [sg-only, masculine, strong]

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Jazz
genitive	eines	des	Jazz
dative	einem	dem	Jazz
accusative	einen	den	Jazz

Further reading

• “Jazz” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Jazz” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Jazz” in Duden online
• Jazz on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de