rez

See also: réz, reż, rež, řez, řež, and reż.

English

Pronunciation

• Audio (General Australian):

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Noun

rez (plural rezes or rezzes)

1. (US, slang) Clipping of reservation (“tract of land set apart for native people”).
   • 2016, Kalina Newmark, Nacole Walker, James Stanford, ‘The rez accent knows no borders’: Native American ethnic identity expressed through English prosody, Cambridge University Press, Published online.
2. (Canada, slang) Clipping of reserve.
3. (Canada, slang) Clipping of residence; dormitory.
4. Clipping of resonance.
5. (roleplaying games) Clipping of resurrection.
6. Clipping of resolution.

Synonyms

• rezzy (reservation)
• res (Indian reserve or reservation)

Verb

rez (third-person singular simple present rezzes, present participle rezzing, simple past and past participle rezzed)

1. (roleplaying games) Clipping of resurrect.
   • 1999 March 7, Phaedra, “My review of the EQ beta. (Very Long ;-)”, in alt.games.everquest‎^[1] (Usenet):

     When you die during the first 3 levels, you rez with food and water.

2. (video games) To spawn or load into the game.

   Don't rez some enormous prop: it'll lag the server!

Anagrams

• Ezr.

Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech rzě, from Proto-Slavic *rъďa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈrɛs]

Noun

rez f or m inan (relational adjective rezavý or rezivý or rezovatý or rezovitý or rezatý)

1. rust

Declension

when feminine:

Declension of rez (mixed i-stem [type 'noc'] feminine reducible)

	singular	plural
nominative	rez	rzi
genitive	rzi	rzí
dative	rzi	rzím
accusative	rez	rzi
vocative	rzi	rzi
locative	rzi	rzích
instrumental	rzí	rzemi

when masculine:

Declension of rez (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	rez	rezy
genitive	rezu	rezů
dative	rezu	rezům
accusative	rez	rezy
vocative	reze	rezy
locative	rezu	rezech
instrumental	rezem	rezy

Related terms

(adjectives):

• rezatý
• rezavý
• rezivý
• rezovatý
• rezovitý
• rezový
• rzavý
• rzivý
• zrzavý

(nouns):

• nerez
• zrzek
• zrzka

(verbs):

• rezivět
• reznout

Further reading

• “rez”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “rez”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “rez”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French res, from Latin rāsus (“scraped”). Doublet of ras.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁe/

• Audio (Paris):

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Noun

rez m (plural rez)

1. ground floor

Derived terms

• rez-de-chaussée
• rez-de-cour
• rez-de-jardin

Further reading

• “rez”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

Compare Persian رز (raz).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rɛz/

Noun

Central Kurdish	ڕه‌ز (rez)
Zazaki	rez

rez m (Arabic spelling ڕه‌ز)

1. vineyard

Alternative forms

• raz

Derived terms

• rezdar
• rezdarî
• rezik
• rezistan
• rezrûvîk
• rezvan
• rezvantî
• rezvanî
• rezvanîtî
• rezî

Anagrams

• zêr

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Deverbal from rezati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rêːz/

Noun

rȇz m (Cyrillic spelling ре̑з)

1. cut
2. incision

Declension

Declension of rez

	singular	plural
nominative	rez	rezovi
genitive	reza	rezova
dative	rezu	rezovima
accusative	rez	rezove
vocative	rezu	rezovi
locative	rezu	rezovima
instrumental	rezom	rezovima

Related terms

(nouns):

• nerez
• rezanac

(verbs):

• rȅzati

Further reading

• “rez”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025