آز
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Ottoman Turkish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Turkic *āŕ (“few, a little”).
Determiner[edit]
آز • (az)
Antonyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Turkish: az
Further reading[edit]
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 77
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 15
Persian[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [ˈɑːz]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [ˈɒːz]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [ˈɔz]
Readings | |
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Classical reading? | āz |
Dari reading? | āz |
Iranian reading? | âz |
Tajik reading? | oz |
Noun[edit]
Dari | آز |
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Iranian Persian | |
Tajik | оз |
آز • (âz)
- greed, avidity, covetousness
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 3484:
- لیک صیقل کردهاند آن سینهها
پاک از آز و حرص و بخل و کینهها- lêk sayqal karda-and ân sina-hâ
pâk az âz u hirs u buxl u kina-hâ - But they have burnished their breasts
(and made them) pure from greed and cupidity and avarice and hatreds.
- lêk sayqal karda-and ân sina-hâ
References[edit]
Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “آز”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim