آز

Old Anatolian Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *āŕ.

Adjective

آزْ (az, āz)

1. low in number, few, little, short.

Descendants

• Azerbaijani: az
• Gagauz: az, aaz
• Ottoman Turkish: آز (az)
  • Turkish: az

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish آزْ (az, āz), from Proto-Turkic *āŕ (“few, a little”).

Determiner

آز • (az)

1. few, a little
2. insignificant, paltry, of little account
3. seldom

Antonyms

• پك (pek)
• چوق (çok)
• دلم (delim)
• كی (key)

Derived terms

• آزاجق (azacık)
• آزالمق (azalmak)
• آزجه (azca)
• آزلق (azlık)
• آزمسامق (azımsamak)

Descendants

• Turkish: az

Further reading

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 77
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[3], Constantinople: Mihran, page 15

Persian

Etymology

Possibly from a Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- (“greed, competition”), and compared with Proto-Germanic *akaną (“to ache”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ˈɑːz]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ˈɑːz]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ˈɑːz]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ˈɑːz]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ˈɔːz]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ˈɒːz]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ˈɔz]

Readings
Classical reading?	āz
Dari reading?	āz
Iranian reading?	âz
Tajik reading?	oz

Noun

Dari	آز
Iranian Persian
Tajik	оз

آز • (âz)

1. 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.

Further reading

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “آز”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim