تازی

See also: باری, بازی, بارى, باري, and تازى

Ottoman Turkish

تازی

Alternative forms

• طازی (tazı)

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian تازی (tâzi, “a dog breed”), itself from Middle Persian tʾcyk' (tāzīg, “swift, fast”).

Noun

تازی • (tazı) (definite accusative تازیی (tazıyı), plural تازیلر (tazılar))

1. greyhound, a lean breed of dog which has been bred for coursing, racing and hunting

Derived terms

• تازیلاتمق (tazılatmak, “to make or let become as thin as a greyhound”)
• تازیلامق (tazılamak, “to become as thin as a greyhound”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: tazı

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “تازی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 432
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tazı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4655
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “تازی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 143a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تازی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 336
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Canis leporarius”, 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 142
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “تازی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1039
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tazı”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تازی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 476

Persian

Dari	تازی
Iranian Persian
Tajik	тозӣ

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [tɑː.ˈziː]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰɑː.zíː]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰɑː.zíː]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰɑː.zíː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰɔː.zí]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰɒː.zíː]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰɔ.zí]

Readings
Classical reading?	tāzī
Dari reading?	tāzī
Iranian reading?	tâzi
Tajik reading?	tozi

Etymology 1

From Middle Persian tʾcyk' (Tāzīg, “Arab”), from Arabic طَيِّء (ṭayyiʔ, “name of an Arab clan”). Compare Classical Syriac ܛܝܝܐ (Ṭayyāyāʾ, “Arab”).

Noun

تازی • (tâzi) (plural تازیان (tâziân) or تازی‌ها (tâzi-hâ))

1. (derogatory, ethnic slur) Arab
2. (archaic) Arabian horse

Adjective

تازی • (tâzi)

1. Arab
   • 1957, Zarrinkub, Do Qarn Sokut. p. 125.

     نهضت خون‌آلود و گرم و سوزان او که بیش از هفتاد روز طول نکشید برای کسانیکه پس از او برضد ستمکاران تازی قیام کردند سرمشق زنده‌یی بود.

     Nahzat-e xun-âlud o garm o suzân-e u ke biš az haftâd ruz tul nakešid barâye kasânike pas az u bar-zedde setamkârân-e Tâzi qiyâm kardand sar-e-mašq-e zene-yi bud.
     His [Sinbad the Magus] bloody, heart-rending movement, which didn't last more than seventy days, was a good role model for those who rose up against the Arab oppressors after him.

2. Arabic

Usage notes

The term may be offensive to Arabs.

Synonyms

• (Arab): عرب ('arab)
• (Arabic): عربی ('arabi)

Derived terms

• تازیکاندن (tâzikândan)
• اسب تازی (asb-e tâzi)

Related terms

• تازیک (tâzik)
• تازک (tâzek)
• تاجیک (tâjik)
• تاژیک (tâžik)
• تات (tât)

Etymology 2

From Middle Persian tʾcyk' (tāzīg, “swift, fast”).

Noun

تازی • (tâzi) (plural تازیان (tâziân) or تازی‌ها (tâzi-hâ))

1. a dog breed

Descendants

• → Middle Armenian: թազի (tʻazi)
  • Armenian: թազի (tʻazi), թա̈զի (tʻäzi), թա̈րզի (tʻärzi)
• → Ottoman Turkish: تازی (tazı), طازی (tazı)
  • Turkish: tazı

Etymology 3

From تاز (tâz) +‎ ـی (i).

Noun

تازی • (tâzi) (plural تازیان (tâziân) or تازی‌ها (tâzi-hâ))

1. invader

References

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “تازی”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “tāzīg”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press
• B.G. Franger. "Tādjīk", Encyclopedia of Islam. vol. X. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2000. →ISBN.