إرزيز

See also: ارزیز

Arabic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʔir.ziːz/

Etymology 1

Root
ر ز ز (r-z-z)

Noun

إِرْزِيز • (ʔirzīz) m

1. piercing, sticking, stabbing
2. hail or small hail like snow
   • a. 525, Aš-Šanfara, أقيموا بني أمي صدور مطيكم (first line)‎^[1]:

     وَلَيْلَةِ نَحْسٍ يَصْطَلِيَ القَوْسَ رَبُّهَا … وَأَقْطُعَهُ ٱللَّاتِي بِهَا يَتَنَبَّلُ
     دَعَسْتُ عَلَى غَطَشٍ وَبَغْشٍ وَصُحْبَتِي … سُعَارٌ وَإِرْزِيزٌ وَوَجْرٌ وَأَفْكُلُ

     wa-laylati naḥsin yaṣṭaliya l-qawsa rabbu-hā … wa-ʔaqṭuʕa-hū l-lātī bi-hā yatanabbalu
     daʕastu ʕalā ḡaṭašin wabaḡšin wa-ṣuḥbatī … suʕārun wa-ʔirzīzun wa-wajrun wa-ʔafkulu

     And the ill-fated night when the master warmed up his bow, … and his arrowtips, in the handling of which he had trow
     I trod upon darkness and rain-shower and my following … was the heat of night and snowy hail and timid gulps and shivering

Declension

Declension of noun إِرْزِيز (ʔirzīz)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	إِرْزِيز ʔirzīz	الْإِرْزِيز al-ʔirzīz	إِرْزِيز ʔirzīz
Nominative	إِرْزِيزٌ ʔirzīzun	الْإِرْزِيزُ al-ʔirzīzu	إِرْزِيزُ ʔirzīzu
Accusative	إِرْزِيزًا ʔirzīzan	الْإِرْزِيزَ al-ʔirzīza	إِرْزِيزَ ʔirzīza
Genitive	إِرْزِيزٍ ʔirzīzin	الْإِرْزِيزِ al-ʔirzīzi	إِرْزِيزِ ʔirzīzi

Etymology 2

Of onomatopoeic origin from a ringing telephone, as أَرَزَّ (ʔarazza, “to telephone”). Displaced by هَاتِف (hātif) and تِلِفُون (tilifūn).

Noun

إِرْزِيز • (ʔirzīz) m

1. (obsolete by the 1950s, Egypt) telephone

Declension

Declension of noun إِرْزِيز (ʔirzīz)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	إِرْزِيز ʔirzīz	الْإِرْزِيز al-ʔirzīz	إِرْزِيز ʔirzīz
Nominative	إِرْزِيزٌ ʔirzīzun	الْإِرْزِيزُ al-ʔirzīzu	إِرْزِيزُ ʔirzīzu
Accusative	إِرْزِيزًا ʔirzīzan	الْإِرْزِيزَ al-ʔirzīza	إِرْزِيزَ ʔirzīza
Genitive	إِرْزِيزٍ ʔirzīzin	الْإِرْزِيزِ al-ʔirzīzi	إِرْزِيزِ ʔirzīzi