گز

See also: کژ, کر, گر, کز, and كز

Chagatai

Etymology

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Noun

گز (gez)

1. time (occurrence)

Ottoman Turkish

گزلر

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *keŕ (“nock, notch of an arrow”); cognate with Azerbaijani gəz, Bashkir: гиз (giz), Kazakh кез (kez), Tatar [script needed] (kirtü) and Tuvan кес (kes).

Noun

گز • (gez)

1. nock, the notch at the rearmost end of an arrow that fits on the bowstring

   Synonym: سوفار (sufar)

2. plummet, plumb line, a cord with a weight attached, used to produce a vertical line

   Synonyms: اسقندیل (iskandil), سونده (sonda), شاقول (şakul), مطمار (mıtmar)

Derived terms

• گز اورمق (gez urmak, “to put the plummet to”)
• گزلتمك (gezletmek, “to make or let be notched”)
• گزلمك (gezlemek, “to notch an arrow”)
• گزلو (gezli, “notched, provided with nocks”)

 

Related terms

• كرتمك (kertmek, “to notch”)

Descendants

• Gagauz: keez
• Turkish: gez

Further reading

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• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “gez2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1697
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “گز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1024
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “gez”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “گز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1543

Etymology 2

Of Proto-Turkic origin. Cognate with Chagatai گز (gez) and Kazakh кез (kez).

Noun

گز • (gez)

1. time, an instance or repetition of something happening

   Synonyms: دفعه (defʾa), كره (kerre)

Derived terms

• بوگز (bugez, “this time”)
• هرگز (hergez, “always”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: kez

Further reading

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• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kez1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2587
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “گز”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[3], Vienna: F. Beck, page 389a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “گز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[4], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1024
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Vicis”, 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^[5], Vienna, column 1753
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “گز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[6], Vienna, column 3938
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “gez”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “گز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[7], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1543

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Italian ghis, itself from Dutch giek.

Alternative forms

• گیز (giz)

Noun

گز • (giz)

1. a main boom, a diagonal beam on which a sail is attached, gaff

   Synonym: پیك (pik)

Descendants

• Turkish: giz

Etymology 4

From Persian گز (gaz).

Noun

گز • (gez)

1. tamarisk (Tamarix spp.)

   Synonym: ایلغین (ılğın)

2. manna ash (Fraxinus ornus)

Descendants

• Turkish: gez
• → Crimean Tatar: gez

References

• Kahane, Henry R., Kahane, Renée, Tietze, Andreas (1958) The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois, page 250 Nr. 329
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “گز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[8], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1024a
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “گز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[9], Vienna, columns 3938–3939

Persian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡæz/

Etymology 1

From Middle Persian [script needed] (gc /⁠gaz⁠/, “tamarisk”). Compare Old Armenian գազ (gaz, “milkvetch”), an Iranian borrowing.

Noun

گز • (gaz)

1. tamarisk (Tamarix spp.)
2. tamarisk gum
3. milkvetch (Astragalus spp.)
4. gum tragacanth, tragacanth
5. a kind of confectionary which is a speciality of Isfahan and is similar to nougat, gaz – made from tragacanth and other gums of various manna trees
6. manna ash (Fraxinus ornus)

Descendants

• → Middle Armenian: գազ (gaz), կազ (kaz)
• → Azerbaijani: gəz
• → Ottoman Turkish: گز (gez)
  • Turkish: gez
  • → Crimean Tatar: gez

Etymology 2

From Middle Persian [script needed] (gt' /⁠gad⁠/, “rod, club”), from Proto-Iranian *gádaH, Proto-Indo-Iranian *gadaH (“club”).

Noun

گز • (gaz)

1. cubit, yard

Derived terms

• گز کردن (gaz kardan, “to measure in cubits”)
• خرگز (xar-gaz, “a rod to drive an ass or cattle”)

Descendants

• → Ashkun: gë́s
• → Armenian: գազ (gaz)
• → Gujarati: ગજ (gaj)
• → Hindustani:
  • Hindi: गज़ (gaz)
  • Urdu: گز (gaz)
  • → English: guz
  • → Burmese: ကိုက် (kuik)
• → Kamkata-viri: géć
• → Malay: gaz
  • Indonesian: gaz
• → Prasuni: gaz

References

• Monchi-Zadeh, Davoud (1990) Wörter aus Xurāsān und ihre Herkunft (Acta Iranica; 29)‎^[10] (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 195 Nr. 573