آیاز

See also: ايار, أيار, and اياز

Old Anatolian Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ayaŕ.

Adjective

آیَازْ (ayaz)

1. clear, bright (sky)
2. freezing (weather)

Noun

آیَازْ (ayaz)

1. frost

Descendants

• Azerbaijani: ayaz
• Gagauz: ayaz, ayoz
• Ottoman Turkish: آیاز (ayaz)
  • Turkish: ayaz
  • → Armenian: այազ (ayaz)
  • → Greek: αγιάζι (agiázi)
  • → Laz: აჲაზი (ayazi)

Further reading

• Boeschoten, Hendrik (2022) “ayaz”, in A Dictionary of Early Middle Turkic (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.169), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 46

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish آیَازْ (ayaz), from Proto-Turkic *ayaŕ (“clear sky; frost”). Cognate with Azerbaijani ayaz, Bashkir аяҙ (ayaź), Chuvash уяр (ujar), Kazakh аяз (aäz), Kyrgyz аяз (ayaz), Turkmen aýaz, Uyghur ئاياز (ayaz) and Uzbek ayoz.

Noun

آیاز • (ayaz) (definite accusative آیازی (ayazı), plural آیازلر (ayazlar))

1. frost, the cold weather that causes ice crystals to form, especially on a clear night

   Synonym: سرما (sermâ)

Derived terms

• آی آیازی (ay ayazı, “frosty night with a clear moon”)
• آیاز اولمق (ayaz olmak, “for a night, to be frosty”)
• آیازده یاتمق (ayazda yatmak, “to sleep in the open air”)
• آیازلامق (ayazlamak, “to spend the night out in the cold”)
• آیازلانمق (ayazlanmak, “to become clear and frosty”)
• آیازلق (ayazlık, “special to a frosty night”)

Descendants

• Turkish: ayaz
• → Armenian: այազ (ayaz)
• → Greek: αγιάζι (agiázi)
• → Laz: აჲაზი (ayazi)

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “آیاز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 212
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ayaz”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 379
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “آیاز”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 90b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آیاز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 42
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Nox serena”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 1154
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “آیاز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 576
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ayaz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آیاز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 283